Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
LATEST NEWS

WASHINGTON, Feb. e.-Davitmar
Theodore has been named President
Of Haiti, ii was reported to the State
Department to-day, and he has APP
pointed a cabinet. A number OF Hal
tien exiles, including MonpIaisir, a
claimant to the presidency, have land
ed at Cape Haitien.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-Secretary
Of the Navy Daniels to-day selected
Medical Inspector William C. BREASTED
succeeding Medical Director Charles
F. Stokes, whose term Of four years
expired to-day.
NEW YORK Feb, 6-The vanguard
of New Works 100000 unemployed
men called on Mayor Mitchell this aft
ernoon and pleaded for jobs. The
Mayor was greatly puzzled when the
delegation Of $50 men trooped into his
office, marshaled by BENZ min c..
Marsh, Of the committee on eonses
ton of population, and Or. j. c. Hal
lmond, Of the Bowery Mission. ~ am
sorry that ! can not give work to you
men," Mitchell said. "lf some one oan
suggest to me way in which work
can be created for the unemployed of
TIC CITY, ! Sndii De SlaC TO give " my
immediate and full consideration"
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Feb. g.
Charles {Gahby) Street, former bat
terry mate of Walter Johnson, signed
a 1914 contract with the Chattanooga
club this afternoon.
CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-Toronto will
be dropped from the Federal League
circuit, according to reports which
reached Chicago this afternoon and
which we're partly verified by Presi-
dent Charles n. Weeehman. Presi-
dent Gilmore of the league has been
in Toronto for several days and is
said to have talked with Weeghman
last night over the long distance tele-
phone and reported conditions there
to be unfavorabIe. The franchise will
probably go to Cincinnati, although
II is said Cleveland lie making a strong
bid for a representation in the new
league.
NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 6.-NichoIas
Fericola died to-day from the effects
Of being struck on the head by a
baseball nearly q year ago while a
member of the baseball squad of the
University of Pennsylvania. The in
Jury caused a brain abscess. Feri-
cola was a student in the medical de-
partment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The inter
locking directorate bill, now under
consideration by the House judiciary
Committee, should be so amended as
to allow a director in a bank in one
part of a country to be a director
also In a bank in distant and nom
competing field, said Samuel Inter
rnyer, of New York, at the hearing
before the committee day. Inter
myer declared that the tentative bill
was altogether too sweeping In it's
prohibition of the holding Of director
ships, in that it was weak in it's fail
ure to provide against interlockine
stock control.
CHICAGO, Feb. 6--Joe Tinker,
manager of the Chicago Federal
League club. to-day said that he had
obtained legal advice to the effect
that the actions OF the New York
Americans in taking Pitcher "king"
Cole from the Federals justifies the
Federal League in holding claims on
Catcher Agnew, Pitcher Baumgard-
ner and Outfieder Williams, all OF
the ST. Louis Browns. "The Ameri-
can League has insisted that the
agreement with Cole was the Same as
a contract with the New York team"
said Tinker. I'VE had agreements
with these thres St. Louis players
and we will hold them to that agree
n,ent even il we have to go into court
over it."