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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1913
Page
3
Cleveland on April 16. Frank Mashek, 15, was shot and killed by Henry Bendome, 41, who says the boy and others annoyed him at his work. Bendome fired a revolver to drive them away and killed Mashek. Police hold Bendome on homicide charge.
John Miller and his brother Lawrence aged eleven and seven found their father's old shotgun and stuck a lit firecracker in the muzzle. The blast fired an old charge, wounding Lawrence who died within minutes.
M G Wheeler operates a peanut butter factory at 118 South Commerce Street Mobile. He plans to shell peanuts locally, boosting a Mobile market to replace Suffolk Virginia shipments. The Escambia Truck Growers Association may install a thresher and plant fifty acres of peanuts this season to supply the factory.
Frederick A. Treppard aged 90 longtime Nashville resident and Davidson county's oldest citizen died yesterday. A tinner by trade he made lead lining for Andrew Jackson s coffin and later copper lining. as a local military member he fired a grave salute over Jackson s grave and sealed the coffin, the last to see the ex president s face.
Mobile chamber directors plan a Saturday night vaudeville smoker in the Battle House auditorium with both Cawthon and Battle House orchestras donating services. Prominent publicity efforts involve the Southern Commercial Congress and a mobile port gateway to Latin America, plus plans for national and international exposure at the Mobile meeting.
Several black men were arrested on charges of aiding three inmates to escape from the county jail Sunday night. Sheriff Hood may dismiss jail staff for alleged neglect of duty. Walter Lawhorn, one arrestee, is said to have had outside accomplices who smuggled him two new saws. The case ties to Lawhorn’s prior assault of a white woman near Clanton and to Governor O Neal's visit to Lock No. 12 on the Coosa River in Chilton County.
Supreme court orders new trial for Marx Smith after a slight error in the court charge to the jury on sanity. Smith, a white Etowah county man, was sentenced to forty years for murdering Turner Lewis. The error involved a juror instruction about reasonable doubt of sanity and not guilty by reason of insanity. Also includes a medical ad for Bucklen's Arnica Salve, claiming quick cure for burns and skin ailments.
A wireless message from the pilot boat New York reports the rescue of the captain and six crewmen from the 300 ton lumber schooner Lottie R Russell wrecked near Sandy Hook. The crew were picked up by the steamship Georgian Prince bound Progresso to Providence. The Lottie R Russell, owner Bridgeton New Jersey, left Charleston on April 11.
Ralph M. Jacoby, an investment broker, was found guilty of using the mails to defraud in a scheme involving certain worthless securities. Government charged he made $250,000 in the fraud.
Atlanta police commissioners halted the scheduled ten round bout between Abe Attell former featherweight champ and Benny Kauffmann of Philadelphia in the seventh round calling the fight no fight. Kauffmann defended after the first round as Attell pressed and the stoppage followed.
A fire discovered after midnight in the Arnett business block on Church street partially destroyed that building and nearby residences. High winds endangered the entire business district before crews brought the flames under control by 2 AM.
Antonio Gonzalez Lanuza, late leader of the Conservatives, was elected president of the Cuban house of representatives by a small majority after a conference between President-elect Menocal and General Albert, indicating doubts about the administration's control of congress.
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