Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-06

CHICAGO, March 5.-The jury in
the case of William Cheney Ellis, Of
Cincinnati, on trial for the murder Of
his wife, returned a verdict late this
afternoon of guilty of murder in the
first degree and fixed his punishment
at fifteen years in the penitentlary.
NEW YORK, March 5.-The
Weather Bureau sent out storm
warning to day covering the cost from
Wilmington, N, c., to New York. II
says the disturbance now over Ala
bama is moving northeast rapidly and
will increase in intensity.
CHICAGO, March 5.--Rodney n.
Brandon, secretary Of Mooseheart and
acting national secretary of the Loyal
Order of Moose, received telegram
to-day from General Francisco Villa,
of the Mexican rebels, saying that
Villa had complied With the request
of the Chicago Moose and released
v. {. Goodman, Of this city, from the
jaiiat juarez, Mexico.
CAMDEN, N. j., March Shine
towns in Burlington County are still
bottled up as the result Of the blz-
zard early in the week. The tescuers
werewithin one mile of Wriahtstown,
a village Of 300 inhabitants, to-day.
The other villages snowbound are all
in the vicinity of that place.
\RIRMINGHAM, ALA, March S.
The Southern Shoe Dealers Associa-
ton ended three days session here
this afternoon, selecting Memphis,
Tenn, as the next meeting place. Al
fliation with the National Shoe Deal
ers' Association was the only i'm
portant action taken by the conven-
ton.
CAPE GIRARpEAU, MO-, March 5.
Tho First National Bank was closed
by National examiners o-day. Bad
paper to the extent of $4,000 was
given as the cause.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, March S.
William A. Huffman, found guilty of
permitting ballots to leave his posses
sion when he served as election inspec-
tor, this afternoon was sentenced 10
from three TO ten years in States
prison an sfranchised for ten years.
MEMPHIS, March 5.--Bernie Stiles,
keeper of a gambling house, was shot
five times this afternoon by John
Mahan, business man. Mahan, who
surrendered to the police, says Stiles
cheated him in a gambling game.
stiles can not live.
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, March S.
With the arrival Of news from Juarez
that the long expected shipment of
arms for the Constitutionalist forces
had reached there, 10 was intimatee
at General Villas headquarters to-
day that the attack upon Torreon
would begin to- morrow or Saturday.
Under the rebel leaders direction, the
artillery division of his army spent
nearly all of to-day in trying out the
new field pieces that just arrived
here.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-The
combined police forces of Oakland
and Berkeley and more than score
of deputy sheriffs to-day surrounded
tho camp of more than 500 unempIoy-
ed men near EmeryVilie to day.
While a special detail of 100 police
men, mounted and carrying rifles,
stood guard, the jobless followers of
William Thorne, Industrial Workers
of thee World leader, were put on
special street cars and sent outside
the limits of the county. The "army"
under Thorne had started on a hike
to Washington.
EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASS, March
5.-Mrs. Lois Burnett Rantou to day
lost her divorce suit against Edward
L. RantodI. Judge Hardy dismissed
Mrs. RantouPs divorce libel. The
courts decision was complete vic
tory for the husband. The trial was
the most sensational in the divorce
annals of East Cambridge and lasted
nearly two weeks.
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