Ten Year Verdict Affirmed in Newsom Case
The court of appeals affirms the ten year sentence for T. J. Newsom former justice of the peace of Decatur in the Hatchett killing on Church Street March 10, 1915. The case details recount legal wrangling from preliminary hearings to habeas corpus and eventual conviction in the law and equity court. Newsom remains stoic, noting his conscience is clear and deferring comment to his lawyers.
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T. J. Newsom
Decatur
Montgomery
Bia Rheys
Newsom
C. B. Hatchett
Church Street
Decaturs Daily
North Alabama
Morgan County
Quewcom
Hastile
Thomas Jefferson
T. J
Justice Brown
News
Hatchett
Justice Newsom
Forman
Decaturs
Ferris
Irons
Raney
Thomas W. Wert
Gaw County Law and Equity Court
Wert
Supreme Court
Law and Equity Court
Court of Appeals
Villa Bandit 15 Now Marching On
Advices from interior Mexico report Gulio Acosta, a Villa lieutenant, moving with about 250 men toward Gen. Pershing's southern detachment. Acosta has allied with the de facto government forces and moves through Carranza territory with little hindrance.
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Villa Bandit
International News Service
Columbus
N. M
Interior of
Mexico
Gulio Acosta
Villa
Ants
Acosta
Carranza
Platt Now Comptroller of Entire Southern System
Washington May 31 Special The jurisdiction of A H Platt comptroller of the Southern railway will be extended June 1 over the lines of the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific railways and Alabama Great Southern railway Announcement of his appointment as comptroller of these companies vice M F Molloy deceased was authorized here today by President Fairfax Harrison.
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Washington
A. H. Platt
The
Southern Railway
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Texas Pacific Railways
Alabama Great Southern Railway
M. F. Molloy
Fairfax Harrison
Austria Gains Marked as Forces Surround Arsiero
Vienna May 31 Austro Hungarian troops surround the Italian city of Arsiero. An official war office statement says Austro Hungarians crossed the Pozino river on the western bank and occupied southern heights. Italian counter attacks were repulsed.
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Arsiero
Pozino
Coun
195 Neutral Ships Seized By Germans Reported
London May 31. The house of commons announced that 195 neutral ships bound from Scandinavian ports to England have been captured by the Germans since the war began.
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London
England
House of Commons
British casualties in May total 32,237 in war theaters
London reports May British losses in all theatres total 1,767 officers and 28,470 men. The month’s toll is higher than March and April, reflecting intensified fighting.
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International News Service
London
Roosevelt Flays Hyphen In Strong St Louis Speech
In St Louis May 31 Theodore Roosevelt denounced German American hyphenated allegiance and urged Americans to act as one nation. He cited German descent figures from Franz Sigel to Carl Schurz and warned against dual loyalties harming American interests and patriotism.
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Roosevelt
ST. Louis
Theodore Roosevelt
Trish Granted a Parliament Excludes Ulster
A truce aimed at lasting peace in Ireland is arranged with mediation by David Lloyd George. The Herald notes a separate Irish parliament will be established, but Ulster or the northern province will be excluded from the greater parliament.
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Trish
Ulster
Glasgow
Ireland
Herald
David Lloyd George
Training Camp Offers Loving Cup to City Sending Most Recruits
Secretary John F. Keys of the Southern military training camp at Fort Oglethorpe Ga offers a silver loving cup to the city or local commerce group that furnishes the most recruits to the June encampment. The award pro rates by population and rewards smaller cities. Recruits are not bound to serve after camp. those trained may seek commissions in wartime.
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John F. Keys
Fort Oglethorpe
Mr. Keys
Keys
Plot to Shoot Colonel Roosevelt Warned in Kansas City
International News Service reports Kansas City police were warned last Sunday of an alleged plan to shoot Col Roosevelt during his visit. The threat came from Leavenworth where the man who made it is an inmate at the soldier's home. He had previously confided his intent to a confidant and had attempted a similar act years ago in Montana but was stopped before Roosevelt's arrival.
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Roosevelt
United States
Germany
Arredondo
International News Service
Carranza
Mexico
Wilson
Glen Springs
Presbyterian Board to Move its Offices
The board of education of the United Presbyterian church will move from Monmouth Illinois to Chicago. The fifty seventh general assembly last night chose Boston as next year’s meeting place. Rev W B Anderson of Philadelphia was named secretary of the board of home missions and R D Kyle of Monmouth was named secretary of the board of education.
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Chicago
Fifty-Seventh
General Assembly
Boston
W. B. Anderson
D.D
Philadelphia
Board of Home Missions
R. D. Kyle
Monmouth
Ill
Board of Education
More Ground is Lost by French
Paris reports a retreat of French troops west of the Meuse after fierce German attacks. French forces abandoned ground east of Hill No. 304 and fell back to Chattencourt station as German offensives in the Dead Man's Hill area and along the Meuse left bank pushed forward in fog. A French counterattack later pushed Germans back toward Cumieres.
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Paris
Meuse
French War Office
Chattencourt
Dead Man's Hill
Courettes Wood
Teutons
Verdun
Chattoncourt Wood
Chattoncourt
Avecourt
Cumieres
Alabama Man Calls Muscle Shoals Best Site for Plant
In Tuscaloosa May 31 W P G Harding Birmingham member of the federal reserve board declared Muscle Shoals superior for nitrate manufacture farming and explosives and for electricity generation He urged Alabama people to work or have never worked before for locating the great plant at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee river
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama
W. P
Efficiency And Industrial Preparedness Speech Notes
A Tuscaloosa commemorative address discusses wartime preparedness from commercial and industrial angles. It highlights America’s shift from isolation to active readiness, praising President Wilson and noting wartime orders boosting U S commerce despite initial economic disruption.
Delayed Note Demands U S Troop Withdrawals From Mexico
Carranza's latest note delivered to the State Department by Ambassador Arredondo demands the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico and cites U S failures in border patrols. Arredondo declined comment, deferring to Mary Lansing for statements. Officials say the note sharpens the Mexican stance and tests U S resolve.
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Washington
Carranga
United States
Americas
Mexico
Arredondo
Arrendondo
Mary Lansing
State and War Departments
Carranza
Ranza
Cervantes
Villa
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