Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-25
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Col. w. S. West, of valdosta,
Wednesday afternoon was nam
ed by Governor Slaton as the
emporary appointee to succeed
Senator A. o. Bacon in the upper
house of Congress.
LONDON, Feb. 25.-Manaser John
J. McGraw, who is with he New York
Giants on world tour, was taken
suddenly i'll here o-day and this
evening t was reported that he was
threatened with pneumc MIA. McGraw
was unable to be present at the re-
eeption and luncheon given the visit
ing baseball players at the Savoy no.
tel,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The
body of William S. Benton, the Eng
lishman slain by General Villa, prob
ably will be exhumed o-morrow and
an autopsy performed by a United
States surgeon. Secretary of State
Bryan wired to Consul Edwards at
Juarez this afternoon to make nnme-
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ment Of Renton's body. This action
was taken when Sir Cecil Spring Rice,
the British Ambassador, informed
Secretary Bryan that Great Britain is
satisfied with Villas offer to exhunle
the body but that the United States
| is requs- not to desist in its efforts
to regain it.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The
condition of Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, who is i'll with the grip, was
| much improved to day.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.--lnter-
locking directorates should not be
forbidden among banks and trust com
psnies in towns of less than 100000
population. but they should be aboI-
shed in. larger cities, said Louis D.
Brandeis before the House Judiciary
Committee. He suggested that the
! law against interlocking directorates
should at first apply only to Federal
reserve banks and member banks,
rather than to all financial institu
tions. He would have State banks
brought in later,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-The res
oIution calling for the expulsion from
he x,F panrAA NJ n
mott, of Illinois, for alleged miscon-
duct, as charged in the MulhaI lobby
Investigation, was considered by
sub committee of the House judiciary
Committee. 1t was decided to refer
the matter to the meeting Of the full
committee to be held next week.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-With a
fierce fire raging in her forward hold.
from Leith, Scotland, to Philadelphia,
was reported this afternoon to be
fighting her way up the ice filled Del
aware River to her dock. The ship
passed Breakwater this morning with
| flames visible from land. She does
not carry wireless.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 25.-cap-
tain Berry, of tho steamer Nantucket,
ninion liner Monroe off the Virginia
coast, admitted under cross -examina-
ton at his trial here to day that he
had violated an international sea
safety rule BY running his ship at
full speed when he could see only
quarter of mile ahead in the fog.
ORANGE, N. j., Feb. 25.-Ruined
| by speculation in mining stocks, n.
l.. e
ventor, committed suicide here to day
by shooting himself. HarVey's faith
er was an enventor of the process for
steel hardening known as HarVeyiz-,
ing.
ToULoN. Feb. 25.-The French
cruiser WaIdeek Rousseau, which
went ashore in the Gulf of Juan on
Monday, was in q perilous position
o-dav and her guns and ammunition
may have to he removed before she
can be refioated.
LONDON. Feb. 25.-Miss Mary
Lindsay, the militant suffraeette who
attacked Lord Weardale, a 63-yesr-
old peer, in Euston Railway station a
week ago, vas fined $40 and costs to-
day.
LYNN, MASS, Feb. 25.-stephen
Authes, . crippled watehman en-
pIoyed by the Essex Automobile Com
psny, lost his life in a $15o,00o fire
which burned out the conpany's
three story garage to day. Authes'
body was found near the top of a
steep stairway
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25.-Scareh
is being made to day for a robber who
boarded Southern Pacific train from
Santa Cruz at Burlingame late last
night, robbed the conductor, brake
man and express messenger, wounded
the messenger. then Iesped from the
] n rovina train as il neared this CITY,