Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-19
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Three were burned to death and five
others are missing in fire that
started shortly after | O'Clock this
afternoon in the plant of the Haugh-
ton Detroit Elevator Company and
the Wilson Manufacturing Company,
adjoining the Brush street station of
the Grand Trunk Railroad. One man
escaped from the flames by breaking
cut the glass of a window on the
second floor and leaping to the
ground. He was badly injured. Four
of the missing are girls.
NEW YORK, March 19.-Mrs. Ava
Willing stor, first wife of the late
Col. John Jacob Aston, arrived here
to day on board the steamship I'M
perator to attend the wedding of her
son, Vincent, and Miss Helen Dens-
", on April 30. Mrs. Aston says she
will spend part of the coming sum
mer in Newport.
NEW YORK, March 1s.-E. Burton
Holmes, lecturer, of Chicago, took out
license to wed Margaret Elise Oil
marriage ceremony will be performed
here next Saturday.
NEWARK, N. j., March ia pro-
posal to ask President Wilson to
make the Methodist Church the
church of state in this country was
sheived in the Newark Conference of
Methodist Episcopal pastors to-day
without being submitted to a vote.
The proposal was made by the Rev.
T. n. Landon, who called attention to
the fact that the President and his
Cabinet recently attended Roman
Catholic mass.
SEATTLE, WASH, March 49,
United States submarine IA was
launched here to-day and christened
by Mrs. j. p. oIdring, wife of the
navy lieutenant who will command
the vessel.
WASHINGTON, March 1s.-With
nett bill was favorably reported to
the Senate to day. Important amend
rents barring immigrants of natural
psychopathc inferioritv and all vic
Tins of chronic alcoholism have been
added to the bill. In other respects
the bill is practically the same as the
one which was vetoed by President
Taft.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-Sena-
tor Pondexter, of Washington, pre-
scented resolutions from his State to
the Senate to-day opposing the re-
peal of the exemption clause Of the
Panama Canal act and gave notice
that he would speak to -morrow in
support of his resolution calling on
President Wilson to explain what he
meant by the phrase: IN alters Of
even greater delicacy and nearer con-
sequence" in his recent message to
the Congress on the tolls concession.
NEW YORK, March 1s.--Miss Ma
rie Wagner, of New York, success.
fully defended her title as national
woman indoor tennis champion to-
day when she defeated Mrs. c. N.
Beard, of Chicago, in the final round
by scores of 81, 6-2, e-2.
DECATUR, ILL, March 19.-Ed-
ward Phipps, Wabash engineer, shot
and probably fatally wounded Rich
ard Roderck, a Wabash conductor,
here to-day. Phipps charges Rod
erick with alternating his wife's az
fections. Roderck was shot twice in
tho arm and twice in the neck.
NEW YORK, March 1s.-Distriet
Attorney Whitman's plans for the
second trial of former Lieutenant Of
Police Charles Becker received
sharp setback to-day when the Prose-
cutor was notified that Samuel
Schepps, whose testimony was the
chief instrument in convicting the
forpner noIiee offieiaI of the yr,tIrder az
Herman Rosenthal, would not testify
again. Sehepps' decision was brought
to Whitman by Samuel Greenbaum,
in Buenos Ayres. Without Schepps to
aid the State, it is possible that Beck
err will never be brought to trial.
CHICAGO, March 1e.-There are
10000 cocaine fiends in Chicago and
the number is rapidly increasing, &C
cording to a statement made by e.
ton Lower, a member of the City
Civil Service Commission, before that
body to-day. He urged that State.
Federal and city authorities take
concerted action to end the traffic in
the drug.
CHICAGO, March 1o.-The Ameri-
can Railway Engineering Assoeia-
tion to- day elected the following d.
reetors for tbs next three years: Earl
Stimson. Baltimore; Curtis Douaher-
ty, Cincinnati, and n. j. Ray, Hobo
ken, N. j. G. II. Bramner and E. n.
Friteh, both of Chicago, were elected
treasurer and secretary, respectively.