Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
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FOND DU LAC, Wis, April g.
Snow fell here for several hours to
day.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April s.-The
official home of the Southern Pacific
Railroad was, changed to-day from
a one-roon bungalow in Beachmont,
Ky, to offices in an insurance build
ing at Anchorage, KY, this being de-
cided at the annual stockholders
meeting. The directors we're all re-
elected.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April s.-That
Kentucky is ION the verge of a panic
as the result Of the fire insurance
companies Withdrawal from the
State because of the new insurance
laws, and leaving property owners
without protection, was the declara-
tion made by many attending the
conference held to- day for the pur-
pose of seeing if some adjustment can
be reached.
WASHINGTON, April s.-Minority
Leader Mann told the House to-day
that the defeat of the Democratic
candidate in the Seventh New Jersey
District yesterday was a direct rebuke
to the. Administration and to the
President on the Panama Canal tolls
question. He inserted in The Record
the Presidents recent letter to the
Democratic candidate saying he
would regard as a judgment of his
administration the vote in the New
Jersey district
WASHINGTON, April S.-Ry vote
aE - n
fused to confirm the nomination of
j. C. McNslly, Of Pittshure, to be
Consul at Nuremberg, Bavaria. Nc
NaIly was charged with having hribed
Chinese officials and with having APP
propriated to himself money claimed
by J. r. Newman, an American prop
erty ownsr in China.
GALLON, OHIO. April s.-The re-
tanning wall of the West reservoir of
the Big Four Railroad broke to- day,
flooding the low lands in this vicinity.
OGDEN, UTAH, April "a slight
earthquake, the duration of which
was about two seconds, was felt here
81 9;o8 this morning. No damage
vas reported.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO-, April g.
Allen P. Richardson, a grain mer-
chant of st. Louis,f sentenced to five
years Imprisonment for forgery, was
paroled by Governor Major to-day.
PHOENIX, ARIZ., April 8.-T. E.
p. Booth, foreman of a ranch near
here, was shot and killed to-day by
Dr. L. E. Virgins, physician of
Shelby County, Texas. Dr.. Virgins
surrendered to the Sheriff. The ply
stefan explained that Booth had
wrecked his home.
NEW YORK, April s.-owen Mo-
ran, English featherweight, has con
tracted tuberculosis and has not long
to live, according to dispatches re-
eeiVed this afternoon from London.
LONDON, April s.-Walter Kin
sella, Of New York, the professional
court tennis player, to-day beat Eus-
/ taee n. Miles, the English amateur,
3 by three straight sets in a match at
Queens Club, the score being Ga,
6-5, 6-5. ........
LONDON, April s.-Francis Oui-
met, the American golf champion,
who has Just arrived in England,
Il completed 10 noieS on tne famous
English links at Sandwich to-day,
4 his excellent score of 70 showing that
his enforced idleness on shipboard
had not affected his plying.
RABET, MOROCCO, April g.
Compelled by disabled motor to land
in the territory of hostile Moors, Cap
tain HerVe, French military aviator,
and lieutenant we're attacked and
chopped to pieces today by the ma
tives. They we're upon reconnoit-
ering tour near Zemmour.
pALHART. TEXAS, April 8.-Win-
ter came back to the Texas PAN
handle to-day with temperature Of
10 above zero. All the fruit in this
section, il is believed, has been killed.
An inch of snow has fallen.
DANVILLE, ILL, April 3.-Wil-
liam Meharry, proprietor Of stores at
covington and Tab, Ind, committed
suicide this afternoon by drinking
carbolic acid at the home of his
brother here. No reason is known.
LAREDO. TEXAS, April s.-All
the available troops in Nuevo Laredo
garrison o-day were rushed to Mon
terev to protect it from a threatened
attack by constitutlonalist troops I'M
der General Villa. strong rebel
host is reported to be advancing on
Monterey.
WASHINGTON, April s-over the
protest OF Senator Lewis, President
Wilson has appointed Matthew N.
Price as postmaster Of Zion City, Ill.,,
upon the recommendation Of Senator
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi.
Postmaster General Burleson said he
exercised his privilege Of choosing the
postmaster without regard to recon-
nnendations.
NEW YORK. April s.-Two boys
were born to- day to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Livingston Gerry. Mrs. Gerry
was CorneIis Hartman, daughter OF
the late {, n. Hartman.
LOS ANGELES, April s.-W A.
Scripps, 80. principal owner Of a
news association and proprietor OF
several newspapers, is believed to be
dying at his palatial home at Alta
dena. Mr.. seripps caught cold two