Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-30
PEOPLE TO VOTE ON HOSPITAL BONDS
NEWS

NEW YORK, March 80. - The
United German Societies Of New York
City to day adopted a resolution call
ina upon President Wilson to repea
the free tolls provision of the Panama
Canal administration bill and give the
people an opportunity in the NoVenn-
Der elections to say whether or not
all shipping shall be allowed to pass
through the waterway without charge.
WASHINGTON, March Cocoon.
mander Irwin, of the gunboat New
Orleans, reported that Dr.. Lambert,
an American surgeon who had been
sentenced to death by the Mexican
Constitutionalists because an opera
ton he had performed upon a rebel
general had been unsuccessful, has
been released. Dr.. Lambert was ar
rested last Friday at Los Moehis and
courtmartiaed. Then he was taken
to TopoIobampo for execution.
NEW YORK, March 30.-5ecause
he brought woman not his wife into
this country with him, Count Nikolai
Bratzew, an admiral in the Russian
navy, was ordered deported to day by
special board Of inquiry at lmn1i-
grafton headquarters. The nobleman
took an appeal to Washington and
declared his willingness to marry his
companion at once.
WASHINGTON. March 3o.-Presi-
dent Wilson to day promised Miss
Matte r. Tyler, granddaughter of
President Tyler, that he would in
vestigate her plea to be retained as
postmistress at CORTLAND, Va, be-
fore permitting her to be removed
from the service.
LONDON, March 3o-Sir Edward
Grey, the British Foreign Minister,
made formal denial in the House Of
Commons to- day Of reports that the
English Government had agreed to
assist the United eStstgg-tn- Mexico in
return for toll exemption on the Pan
anna Canal,
CLEVELAND, OHIO, March 3d.
Four hundred Ohio coal mines, en-
pIoying $4,000 miners, will be closed
to morrow night indefinitely as the
result of passages of the anti screen
law and failure of the miners and
operators to reach a wage agreement.
This was the statement to-day of
w. 3. Woodward, president Of the
citation.
NEW YORK, March 3o.-Members
of the medical profession and Of the
| missionary societies in this city were
shocked to- day to learn that Dr.. Ed
gar DeMott Stryker, formerly Of Ba-
ritan, NJ. j., had been assassinated by
crazy Japanese near Holkoi, Corea,
where for five years he has been the
head of q large hospital. During mis-
stay in Corea. Or. Stryker treated
| 1000 persons, meanwhile fighting
against superstition and seeking to
make the modern methods Of the
science Of medicine popular among
the natives,
CHESTER. S. c., March 3o.-Robert
Moore, while tinkerine with pistol
in company with Elijah Champion, a
! few miles from Chester was shot 70
death by an accidental discharge. The
Coroner's jury exonerated Champion.
NEW YORK, March 3o.-The d..
rectors of the ST. Louis Southwestern
Railroad to- day declared a quarterly
dividend Of 2 of per cent, payable
! April IS, TO stockholders of record Of
| April 8, ! hree and SIX months ago tNe
company paid ! per cent.
NEW ORLEANS, March 3o.-Miss
Dora Murff, 21-year-old girl, con-
victed Of manslaushter in killing
James DeIahye, who, she alleged, be
trayed her, must serve a four years
term, the Louisiana Supreme Court
ruled to day This is the first oonVio-
ton of the kind in the South.
CINCINNATI, OHIO. March 30
/ Negotiations we're opened to day FOR
/ the purchase Of the stock of the Chi
cago National Leaeue) baseball
club held by Charles p. Taft. The
purchaser is said to be Herbert S,
/ Mills, of Chicago.
RENO, New, March 3o.-Ptcher
4 Clarence Smith. Of the White Sox,
and formerly Of Birmingham, Ala,
was notified this morning he had
been sold TO the Venice squad Of the
Coast League. He will leave for san
/ Francisco to- night.