Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-13
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| Lexington, ky.-Warren H. Mid
dleton, of Paducah, a student at
the University of Kentucky here,
is held on the charge of the muir
der of Joseph Self, university night'
Waterman, slain on the campus ear
lIy Sunday morning. Middleton was
wounded three times and is in seri-
Gus condition. A party of students
in an automobile was halted on the
campus by the Waterman and
pistol battle followed.
Gainesville, Ga.-Plans for
great plant for extracting fannie
acid from chestnut and oak trees
are revealed by the announcement
that Col. H, H. Dean has sold his
summer home and 100 acres of
| land at Helen to the Smithport Elk
tract company of Virginia and that
the Morse Bros. Lumber company
has sold a 40-0O0-acre tract to the
same company.
| LOndOn.-President Cosgrave, OF
the dali eireann, in a statement in
| the Daily Mail, declares he is ready
to agree that Eamonn de Valera
should advise his followers to sur.
render their arms on the condition
that the question of a republic or
the free state should be left to the
electors.
jackson, Gas. H. Mays, former
representative and state senator,
died at his home near here Sunday
at the age of rs. He was Con-
| federate veteran and during recon-
struction days was sentenced to
death for interference with federal
| troops. but escaped through the aid
of his mother
| Washington-A shipping board
urvey shows that foreign commerce
of the United States increased more
than 100000 tons in 1922 over 1921
but that less than one-third of the
tonnage was carried under the Amer
| lean flag.
ROme.-Pope Plus appointed Mon
signor John A. Floersh, of Nashville,
| Tenn, as titular bishop Of Lycopols
and co-odjutor bishop of the Right
Rev. Denis O'Donaghue, bishop OF
Louisville, Ky.
! Berlin.-Two organizations COM
prising all medical societies and as
sociations in Germany issue a pub
! lie appeal to their members tore
fuse to treat Belgians or French I'M
| til the Ruhr is evacuated.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS persons are
killed when one of three cars, driven
in an automobile race in which the
drivers were blindfolded, runs into
a crowd of spectators.
Hubben, w. Va.-The Huntington
Gas and Development pump house
is destroyed with 100000 loss when,
a gas engine explodes, setting fire to
| the building.
Buenos Aires.-Dispatches from
Port Allegro assert that state troops
in Rio Grande de Sui were defeated
by rebels in a battle at Nonchay,
suffering 200 casualties.
Los AngeIes-Pacific coast mar
cotic chief in report to Washington
says drug conditions in Los Angeles
land Hollywood motion picture col
only have been exaggerated.
| Chicage.-Abraham Lincoln's IA
Their has been done a great injustice
Ibv historians, president of the
American Flag Day association, de-
clares.
observation-disclosures by dropping
Observation-Disclosures grains of sand,
!, can cause rain and scatter clouds and
| fog. tests show at McCook flying
field.
Atlanta - Many panic-stricken
adults and children are rescued by
) firemen from flames that destroy
the Byron apartments early Sun
day morning.
Washington - Memorial services
: are held by the house for the late
Senator Thomas E. Watson and
,, Representative Samuel M. Brlnson'
. of North Carolina.
Dublin, Ga.-The body OF the
white youth found near here FIJI
} dav has not yet been identified. The
> bow had been dead for ten days.
l London.-Turks in new ultimatum
\ give allied warships three days to
e leave Smyrna harbor, New Agency
Y dispatch says.
o Paris.-General deGoutte declares
s French troops will stay in the Ruhr
e until Germany has made adequate
settlement for wrongs inflicted upon
l. France.