Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-20
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Jan. 90
The bodies Of John Taylor, his wife
and two children were found at their
home on the North Side to day. They
had been dead several weeks and had
been poisoned. Taylor worked at
packing house. The cause of the
poisoning is not known.
LA PORTE, IND, Jan. 2o.-Be-
cause Miss Coral Miles, of Fair Oaks,
Ind, accompanied the Rev. r. o.
Wickham to Chicago few days after
the death of his wife and then took
the young woman to ST. Joseph, Mich,
where he married her, the congreea-
ton of his church at Remington, Ind,
last night accepted his resignation.
Mr.. Wickham has filled Christian
church pastorates in Illinois, Michi-
gan and Ohio.
FERNANDO, MISS, Jan. 2o.-The
headess nude body of a white man,
believed to be C. E. Graham, of Mem
phis, was found on the Illinois Gen.
trial tracks to- day. Two bullet holes
in the right side and another in the
left arm indicated murder.
WASHINGTON, Jan. &c Esti-
mates for emergency appropriations
for the fiscal year of 1918 amounting
House day by the Treasury De-
partment Among the larger items
are: Deficiencies in Public Health
Service, $4,000; preventing the
spread of epidemic diseases, 100000;
equipping Bureau and Printing and
Engraving Bureau, $22s,ooo; addi
tionaI land for Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice, $4,000.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20.--James H. Will
kerson, Federal District Attorney, to-
day declared that the persons who
started recent reports and rumors
about Government employees in con-
nection with the Jack johnson and
other Federal cases would be prose-
cuted under the Federal criminal
, code. A Grand Jury investigation of
, the insinuatons against officials of
the Government, he said, will be the
| first step in bringing about the pros
| ecutions. The District Attorney said
| that ne had obtained all of the checks
and vouchers Of Sol Lewisohn, the
| fugitive bondsman, and that he found
| nothing among them to indicate any
| crookedness on the part of any Fed
eral employee.
OTTAWA, ONT, Jan. 20.-The
great state ball, which was to have
been hold to-morrow night, was to-
day postponed until January 20 by the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught, be-
cause of the illness of Lord Strath-
coma in London.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2o.-By unan-
imous vote the House Committee on
Elections to-day rejected the claim
of CIaud S. Carney, Democrat, of
Kalamazoo, Mich, to the seat held by
J. M. c. Smith, Republican. Carney
brought contest on purely technical
grounds, there being no question as
to Smiths plurality in the vote cast
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 2o.-At the
annual stockholders meeting here to-
day the Kentucky Trottng Horse
Breeders Association adopted a res
olution approving the proposed
amendments to the rules whereby
records made in performances against
time shall not be considered a bar to
eligibility to races, and recommend
ing that such amendments shall APP
ply to all horses and records, prior
: 1914, or in the future.
LONDON, Jan. 2o.-Lord Strath-
coma, British High Comm ssoner for
Canada, lapsed into inconsistencies
this afternoon and the attending ply
sicians said that death might come at
any minute.