Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-21

with snow. At Summit there is IS
feet of snow
NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 20.-A pitch
ed battle between policemen and 200
strikers to-day marked the strike of
the garbage collectors. The idle driv-
ers attempted to mog a party of
strikebreakers, when the police inter
tered. Five ringIeaders were arrest
ed.
M lLWAUkEE, Jan. 2o.-The Wis
eonsin eugenic law, which provides
tor. the issuance of marriage licenses
only upon certificate of good health,
including the Wassermann test, from
a physician, was declared unoonstitu-
tional this afternoon by Judge Esch-
weller, of the Circuit Court.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20.-Five hun
dred and twenty Federals and $50
rebels have been killed in battle
throughout Central Mexico during the
past. SO hours, according to dispatches
received here this afternoon. Per-
slstent reports are current that the
portfolio of Foreign Minister has been
offered to Fredeico GAMBIA.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2o.-"charIes
w. Murphy is responsible for the or
The president of the Chicago Nation
al League is to blame for the large
number Of major league baseball
players who are jumping to the out
law organization" These statements
were made to day by Frank Chance,
manager Of the New York American
League club and formerly manager
of the Chicago Cubs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2o.-At a p.
m. Senator Cullom was sinking rap
idly. Physicians at the bedside be-
lieved he can not survive the night.
His ,in-Iaw, William B. Risley,
said: "Mr. Culom is sinking so rap
idly we don't believe he can live more
than few hours. His hears it very
weak. He breathes with great diff
Guilty. He has rallied three times re-
Gently when death seemed near, but
his vitality has been drained and we
don't believe he can rally this time"
NEW YORK, Jan. 2o.-Half of the
estate of Richard D. Landlord, Vice
President of the Southern Railway,
VS. was found dead in his Brooklyn
home from gas asphyxiation last
Thursday, is bequeathed to his fan
Gee, Miss Nellie aPtterson, in the will
The other half is given to his mother.
Although Mr.. Landlord was heputed
to be a millionaire, the will merely
said his estate was worth more than
5,ooo,"
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 a
packing house. The cause of the
poisoning is not known.
LA PORTE, IND, Jan. 2o.-Re-
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 eongresa
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
headIess nude body of white man,
believed to be c. E. Graham, Of Mem
phis, was found on the Illinois Cen
trial tracks o.day. Two bullet holes
in the right side and another in the
left arm Indicated murder.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Esti-
mates for emergency appropriations
for the fiscal year of 1918 amounting
to $3,2o6,o0o were submitted to tho
House to-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;
eeuippine Bureau and Printing and
Engraving Bureau, $223,000; addi-
tionaI land for Birmingham, Ala,
postoffiee, Sts5,0oo.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2o.-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 insinuations against officials of
the Government, he said, will be the
first step in bringing about the pros
ecutions. The District Attorney said
that he 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
eraI employee.
OTTAWA, ONT, Jan. 2o.-The
great state ball, which was to have
been held to- morrow night, was to-
day postponed until January 20 by the
Duke and Duchess of Conneueht, be-
cause of the illness Of Lord Strath-
coma in London.
LONDON, Jan. 2o.--Lord Strath-
coma, British High Commissioner for
Canada, lapsed into inconsistencies
this afternoon and the attending ply
sieans said that death might come at
any minute.
more about the working Of the new
law.
Following is the telegram received
Tuesday from A. B. Simms and Har-