Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-14
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CHICAGO, March 13.--Judqe Car
penter, in the Federal Court, this aft
ernoon appointed II. II. Kohlsaat re
eeiver for The Chicago Inter Ocean
The application was made by TIVE
creditors. Mr.. kohlsaat has beer
editor Of The Inter Ocean since tn,
retirement of George w. Human
College. Marietta, Ohio.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-AppIi.
cations for writs of habess corpus &c
release the 5000 Mexican refugee,
now held by the War Department
have been filed with judge Burns al
Houston, Texas, Secretary OF War
Garrison was informed to day. The
matter has been turned owed to At
torney General McReynolds, who will
handle the interests of the United
States.
WASHINGTON, March ia bill
to repeal specifically the clause Of
the Panama Canal act exemptine
American coastwise shipping from
payment OF canal tolls, was introduo
ed in the Senate to day by Senator
Owen and was referred to the Com
mittee on Inter Oceanic Canals, to
which have been referred other sim
liar bills.
Ell PAso, TEXAS, March 49,
Army officials here received informa-
ton this afternoon from MaIpais,
NJ Mex, that q Federal filibusterers
and 10 rebels were killed in a fight
to day. The dispatch did not state
where the fight took place, The Fed
erals are said to be destroying the
railroad lines.
CHIHUAHUA MEXICO, March 49,.
Constitutionaist soldiers to day melt
ed up and coined into 2-cent pieces a
copper statue Of Enrico Creel, former
Mexican Ambassador to the United
States, which long stood on a marble
pedestal in Plaza Hidalgo.
BOSTON, March 13.-Seventy five
per cent of the House Democrats vot-
ed to-day in favor Of an order pro-
testing against the proposed repeal
Of tho toll exemption clause in the
Panama Canal act, but the order was
defeated by the Republican vote.
BOSTON, March 13-captain John
A. Firth, OF New York, who was con-
victed Of burning his yacht Senta II,
in Edgartown Hsrbor in 1910, was
sentenced to-day to five years in the
Federal prison at Atlanta.
WASHINGTON, March t3.-An-
nouncement of the engagement Of
Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson,
youngest daughter Of the President,
to William G. McAdoo, Secretary OF
the Treasury, is expected to be made
at the White House in the very near
future. Within the past AZ hours all
of social Washington has been ex-
cited over the report and in we'll
informed quarters the engagement
was accepted as fact to day.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The
giving the thanks of Congress to the
mon and officers of the steamship
kronland. who saved eighty nine
lives when the steamer VoIturno
burned at sea, The resolution has
passed the House.
TERRE HAuTE, IND, March t3.-.
Louis Stuper, an Austrian miner
about TO be taken to prison on a ifo
term for murder, attacked William
Jacobs, another miner on trial for
almost disemboWeled him
and cut his throat. The man will die,
Stuper then used the razor on him
self and probably will die.
WASHINGTON. March t3.--Ao-
eording to adviees received to- day
from General Villas headquarters,
the battle OF Torreon will begin with
in the next two days. Outpost skir-
nishes between the two armies were
day.
DUBLIN, March 13.-Haf a dozen
policemen and civilians we're wound
ed to- day in rioting which broke out
at a meeting of unemployed men.
Captain White, who presided al the
meeting, was arrested after being
beaten with a truncheon,
ELIZABETH, NJ. j., March a.
The case Of Mrs. Evlyn Pollard,
charged with sending poison pen"
letters to several prominent residents
OF New Jersey, went to the jury this
afternoon.
Jealous Man Kills
Wife, Her Mother