Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
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| WILLING stor, first wife Of the late
Col. John Jacob Astor, arrived here
! to day on board the steamship I'm
| perator to attend the wedding Of her
son, Vincent, and Miss Helen Dens-
more Huntington, in Staatsburs, NJ.
! v, on April 80. Mrs. Astor says she
will spend part Of the coming sum
nner in Newport.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK, March 10
Four companies Of the Ninth United
! States Infantry, numbering 800 pri
Yates and officers, left Fort Logan
H. Root 10 day for Laredo, Texas, to
join the border patrol
NEWARK, N. j., March IA pro
| posal to ask President Wilson to
| make the Methodist Church the
! church Of state in this country was
/ sholved in the Newark Conference OF
Methodist Episcopal pastors TO day
without being submitted to a vote.
| The proposal was made by the Rev.
| 7. n. Iandon, who called attention to
| the fact that the President and his
Cabinet recently attended a Roman
Catholic mass.
| SEATTLE, WASH, March 19--
| United States submarine IA was
! launched here o-day and ehristcned
| by Mrs. j. p. Oldring. wife OF the
navy lieutenant who will command
the vessel.
WASHINGTON, March 1o.-With
the literacy test included, the Bur
nett bill was faVorably reported to
the Senate to day. Important amend
| nents barring immigrants of natural
| psychopathic nferiorltV and all VIC
tins Of chronic alcoholism have been
| added to the bill. In other respects
! the bill is practically the same as the
one which was vetoed by President
Taft.
WASHINGTON, March 1o.-sena-
tor PondeNter. of Washington, pre-
scented resolutions from his State to
the Senate to-day opposing the re-
peal Of the exemption clause of the
Panama Canal act and gave notice
| that he would speak to morrow in
support OF his resolution calling on
President Wilson to explain what he
meant by the phrase: IN alters Of
even greater delicaoy and nearer con-
sequence" in his recent message to
the Congress on the tolls concession.
NEW YORK, March 19.-Miss Ma
RE Wagner, of New York, SUCCESS
| fully defended her title as national
woman indoor tennis champion to-
day when she defeated Mrs. C. NJ.
| Beard, OF Chicago, in the final round
by scores of 81, 60, e-2.
DECATUR, ILL.,, March 1e.LEd-
ward Phipps. Wabash engineer, shot
and probably fatally wounded Rich
ard Roderick, a Wabash conductor,
| erick with alternating his Wife's at
! feetions, Roderiok was shot twice in
the arm and twice in tho neck.
NEW YORK, March 1s.--District
| Attorney Whtman's plans for the
second trial OF former Lieutenant of
Police Charles Booker received a
sharp setback to day when the Prose
cutor was notified that Samuel
Sehepps, whose testimony was the
| chief instrument in oonVictina the
former police official of the murder Of
! Herman Rosenthal, would not testify
again. Sohepps' decision was brought
to Whitman by Samuel Greenbaum,
an importer. Greenbsum saw Schepps
in Buenos Ayres. Without Sohepps TO
/ diQ OtdAOt ~ ~ pS0slbIo NiuN OWN
or will never be brought to trial.
CHICAGO, March t9.--There are
10000 cocaine fisnds in Chicago and
the number is rapidly increasing, &C
cording 20 a statement made by FL
ton Lower. a member of the City
Civil Service Comm ssion, before that
body to- day. He urged that State.
Federal and city authorities take
concerted action to end the traffic in
the drug
CHICAGO. March t9.-The Ameri-
can Railway Engineering Assooia-
ton TO day elected the following di-
reotors for the next three years: Earl
Stimson, Baltimore; Curtis Doueher-
| ~, Cincinnati, and n. ], Ray, Hobo
ken, N. J. G. n. Bramner and E. n.
Friteh both OF Chicago, were elected
treasurer and secretary, respectively.
! PARIS, March ia fierce riot in
which LOCO men and women took
part, growing out Of the assassina-
ton of the journalist, CASTOR CAL
nette, by Madame Henriette CaillauN,
wife OF the former Minister Of FL
nance, took place this afternoon in
front OF the residence of Deputy
Thalamas. The deputy had taken
Mime. CailauN's part in an open let
ter 20 the authorities. Crying Down
with caillaux and Thalamas." the
men and women sursed around the
building, attempting TO get inside. A
strong detachment of policemen and
Republican guards drove off the riot
ers after a hard fight, Twenty ar