Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-17
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contracted the white plague that
caused the death of her mother, Mrs.
Jacques Bradley Swift, month ago,
was the actuatne cause for bringing
the child from Washington to Allan
ia, according to Mondays dispatches
from the National Capital. The little
girl was brought to Atlanta by her
grandmother, Mrs. Lena Swift Hunt
ley, after lung specialist is said to
have declared that the baby could
not live in the winter climate of
Washington.
SAVANNAH, GA, Feb. 16.--The
people of Statesboro have sent tele-
graphic Endorsement of J. Randolph
Anderson, president of the Georgia
Senate, to Governor Slaton, asking
that he be appointed for the unex-
pired term of Senator Bacon. Mr..
Anderson said: at is very gratifying
to me. Several of my friends have
spoken to me about it. do not, of
course, know what will be DONE"
CAPE HAITtEN, Feb. 16.-Gov-
eminent troops to-day continued their
advance on this port. The rebels I'M
der the leadership Of General DaviI-
mar Theodore have suffered two de-
|
at Port De Paix. The forces sent
north by President Zamor are rapidly
overwhelming the revoIutionists.
BOSTON, Feb. 16.-News reached
Boston to-day by wireless Of the
laundering of the three -masted Bos-
North Atlantic, and the rescue of her
crew of eight men by the freight
steamer Coamo, bound from New York
to Porto Rico.
TRlNIDADD, COLO, Feb. 16.-A
breaking off of friendly relations be-
tween the Congressional subcommt-
tee which began investigating the coal
strike conditions here and the mill
tary authorities of Colorado was
threatened to-day when &. P. Costi-
gan representing the striking miners,
demanded that tho committee sum
mon IN other" Jones from San Rafael
Hospital to testify in behalf of the
miners. Major Bouehton, judge. ad.
vooate of the Colorado National
Guard, declared the military authori-
ties would resist any attempt to COM
pei them to surrender her.
ASHTABULA, OHIO, Feb. 49,
| Thirty two men are in peril aboard
tho Marquette Bessemer No. car
ferry, which is fast in the ice two
miles off this port. The big ship has
been stuck since Saturday afternoon,
and at noon to day had not been re-
leased despite the use Of large guam
titles of dynamite in an effort to
| break tho ice.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16.-The
crew of the Old Dominion liner Mon
roe had been on the vessel only five
weeks and had held only two per-
| functory boat drills between Decem,
Der %, the day they were shipped, and
| January 80, when the Nantucket sank
the Monroe off the Virginia capes, 40
persons being druv ned, and the crew
had never lowered the lifeb oats to the
water. These facts were brought GU.
at to- days session of the government
| investig alton of the collision.
PROCTOR, ARK, Feb. 16.-Armed
guards were day placed around the
county jail at Merton, Ark, to prevent
the threatened lync';ins of a negro
mined w. L. Campbell, lumber
Maokey, a lumber buyer from Spring
field, Mo. Mackey's body was found
in a pool of blood about midnight
Saturday. Six hours later blood
hounds trailed Campbell two miles in d.
to the country, where he was found in
bed with four others. The dogs
picked him out of the crowd.
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA, Feb. 16.-
information was received to-day that
St. Louis Cardinals will leave Satur-
day for ST. Augustine for spring train
ina. President Britain, of the club,
plans to spend $4,000 on the spring
practice of his team.