Deadly Birmingham Crash Toll Rises to Eleven
In Birmingham Alabama a wall collapse toppled two retail buildings injuring many and killing at least six with five more believed inside. Rescue crews recovered several bodies including Ruth Johnson and Amelia Ebinger as the death toll climbs toward eleven amid ongoing search and fire suppression efforts.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ao Ee
Ruth Johnson
Marriee B
Steele-Smith ‘Dry Goods Company
Alex. McLeod
Shore
J. H. Whitlock
Atlanta
A. & P. Tea Company
Mattie Lou Denman
M. T. Martin
John Harrington
George W. Darnell
Miss Ebinger
Amelia Ebinger
Ham
McLeod
A. BE. McLeod
Thomas Trussell
J. E. Ray
Moore
Bruce
Mataline Drennen
Nellie Devine
Louis Friedman
Leonard Kleybecker
Marie Denman
Amelia Fbirger
Sommers Tailoring Company
First Avenue
Fireboat Robbery and Drug Store Break-In
A fireboat moored at the foot of Government street was robbed of a gold watch and 25 cents after midnight. Police have no clues. Early Thursday thieves attempted to break into the Albright & Wood drug store at Government and Royal streets but fled empty handed.
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Henderson
Government Street
Albright & Wood
Government
Royal Streets
Work Fast Proceeds on Kronprinz Wilhelm
Newport News Va April 22 The work of clearing and painting her below the water line is finished ahead of schedule and Kronprinz Wilhelm will be taken out of dry dock at high water this afternoon around 2 30 oclock She will tie up at the pier formerly used by Prinz Eitel Friedrich and interior repairs resume with renewed energy.
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Newport News
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Willis & Percy Jewelry Co. Declared Bankrupt in Error
Willis & Percy Jewelry Company Inc a corporation was adjudicated bankrupt on its voluntary petition filed by Stevens McCorvey and McLeod as attorneys. An earlier line mistakenly named the law firm as bankrupt due to a typesetting error.
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Willis & Percy Jewelry Company, Inc
Stevens, McCorvey & McLeod
Watts & Percy Jewelry Company, Inc
Too Slow 29 More French Generals Put in Discard by Joffre
Paris reports twenty nine more French generals removed to reserve or retirement to make room for younger leaders. The list names eleven brigades and eighteen divisions affected by the reshuffle as the army seeks greater speed and efficiency.
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Joffre
Paris
Anniversary of First Offering at Vera Cruz
Ordinary seaman among the victims of Mexican gunfire in Vera Cruz is mourned in Mobile. The funeral honors included a presidential tribute, a eulogy by former Alabama Governor Emmett O Neall, and a guardsman escort. The city observed a holiday with all businesses closed.
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Motile
Mobile
U. States
Emmett O’neall
Alabama
Fort Morgan
Coast
Alabama National Guard
Leo Frank Seeks Commutation of Death Sentence
Atlanta April 22 Attorneys for Leo M. Frank filed a petition with Governor Slaton and the prison commission asking that his death sentence for the Mary Phagan murder be commuted to life imprisonment He claims innocence and questions the reliability of the trial evidence and asks to present more grounds at the hearing.
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Atlanta
Leo M. Frank
Slaton
Prison Commission
Frank
Mary Phagan
Fulton County
Custom Houses to Close for Confederate Memorial Day
In observance of Confederate Memorial Day next Monday, the custom houses of the Mobile district will be closed.
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Custom House
Mobile District
Ports Warned Against Bubonic Plague Menace
Washington April 22 Dr W C Rucker assistant surgeon general of the public health service warns that no sea port in the United States can claim freedom from bubonic plague without careful rat population surveys He notes plague has appeared in three continental cities and abroad pressures from growing foreign commerce raise the risk He urges fumigation of incoming ships and rat control in all port buildings.
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Washington
United States
W. C. Rucker
The
Public Health Service
American
Texas Ports Get Health Precaution Survey
The Texas Board of Health will conduct a comprehensive port survey with county and city health officers. The plan focuses on bacteriological examination of rats for plague infection as a preventive measure, though no symptoms are currently observed at Texas ports.
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Texas
Galveston
State Board of Health
Public Health Report Finds No Plague in Mobile
Assistant Surgeon General W C Rucker notes plague abroad while city health office reports 1443 rats checked for infection with no plague found. Officials say Mobile has had no plague and rat proofing continues along the river front and aboard vessels from foreign ports.
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W. C. Rucker
Public Health Services
United States
Mobile
I¢R
Hoisted American Flag as Falaba Was Sinking
Newport News April 22 Captain Case of the British steamer Dunedin allegedly raised the American flag and followed admiralty orders to seek protection from a German submarine while the French liner Falaba was torpedoed. He purportedly left passengers and crew to their fate, sending a final S O S and the message God save your souls I cannot help you.
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Newport News
Falaba
Bank Plan to Be Urged Before Mobile Delegation
Arrangements are made to present the Harding land mortgage bank plan to Mobile legislative members meeting next week. Chairman A. J. Parsons of the Chamber of Commerce cattle committee said a hearing would be requested during committee sessions and a tentative bill drafted before then.
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Mobile
Harding Land Mortgage Bank
A. J. Parsons
Chamber of Commerce Cattle Committee
Fair Association Awards Shrub Contract for Gulf Coast Fair Grounds
Griffing Brothers nurserymen of Grand Bay Alabama hold the Lyons Park city contract for shrubs and have now been awarded the ornamental shrubs contract for the Gulf Coast Fair grounds. The expenditure involved runs to several thousand dollars.
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Griffing Brothers
Grand Bay
Ala
Lyons Park
Auction of the launch Picaroon at the custom house
United States Marshal C. C. Gewin will sell at public auction Friday at noon the launch Picaroon formerly owned by Captain George Godbold. The sale includes engines machinery boats apparel furniture and the vessel lies at the foot of Eslava Street.
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United States Custom House
United States
C. C. Gewin
George Godbold
Eslava Street
American answer to Bernstorff note outlined by Wilson
Washington notes clarify that U S policy on exporting food and arming allies should not be discussed with a third party. It defends U S good faith and rejects implications of improper conduct. The message frames duties under wartime neutrality and cites diplomacy constraints.
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Count von Bernstorff
Wilson
United States
Washington
Germany
United Stat
Feria Tates
Roosevelt Notifying Residency Eligibility Questioned
During cross examination in Syracuse, Theodore Roosevelt acknowledged the New York rule requiring five years residency to become governor and said he had declared in a prior affidavit he was or had been a resident of Washington. Records from the Bayne committee report on Albany printing contracts tied to Barnes and the Journal, with claims of padding and duplicate payments. The material cites “machine politics” and “Boss Barnes” in coverage of Albany politics and graft.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
William Ivins
William Barnes
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Bayne Committee
Albany
Albany Journal
Barnes
Journal Company
Argus Company
Cofelee
York
Uot
Boss Barnes
Platt
Supreme Court Rules on Federal Liability Act Dependency
In Montgomery on April 22 the Alabama Supreme Court held damages under the federal liability act may be collected only by those directly dependent on the deceased. The ruling came in the Southern Railway versus Mrs Mary Alice Wessell case, appealed from the Birmingham circuit court.
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Montgomery
Ala
Supreme Court
The
Southern Railway
Mary Alice Wessell
Birmingham Circuit Court
Multiple World Briefs From Around The World
Short wire briefs report weather delays on a submarine lift, liquor tax changes in New York, seamen strike in Glasgow, Villa troops near the Mexican border, a Chickasaw leader’s death in Oklahoma, a mine explosion near Samos, a Vatican representation matter, Toscanini’s rest and return to Italy, front-line flower seed jokes, Ian Hamilton command for Dardanelles, a cannery hours bill in Albany, Alaska legislature on capital punishment, and Marin Lombardi in Portland.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Rosario Hernandez
Carranza
Nuevo Laredo
Villa
Piedras Negras
Ada
Okla
William L. Byrd
Athens
Piraeus
Samos
Aegean Sea
Dardanelles
London
Reuter
Amsterdam
Mgr
Nolens
Rome
Netherlands
Vatican
Mgr. Nolens
New York
Arturo Toscanini
Metropolitan Opera Company
Italy
Berlin
Cairo
The
Times
Sir Ian Hamilton
Alexandria
Albany
N. Y
Bewley
Assembly
Juneau
Alaska
Tower House
Portland, Ore
Marion Lombardi
Impressario
Oftentimes wooed in vain bride on Mount Hamilton summit
Mrs Estelle Darneal widow of Harvey Darneal once attached to a US consulate in China marries Charles Edward Dupee a cotton broker at the summit of Mount Hamilton after prior suitors included a newspaper man George Sterling the poet and Lieutenant Louis Soleliac of the Twelfth US Infantry in San Francisco April 22.
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San Francisco
Estelle Darneal
Harvey Darneal
United States
China
George
Mobile railway crossing case list from Montgomery appeals
A Mobile Alabama report lists several appellate actions from various circuits. Decisions include parts affirmed reversed and remanded. certiorari denied in one ex parte matter. and multiple railroad and commercial appeals from Mobile, Cherokees, Choctaws, Houston and Washington circuits.
Higher court flags right to cross rails in Beauregard case
The Mobile and Birmingham Railroad appeals the Louisville and Nashville cross property dispute in Commerce near Beauregard Street. The high court hints the railroad may cross the L and N track and remand sets damages for the crossing privilege. In a separate case McGowin Lumber & Export Co. wins on appeal over Camp Lumber Co. after breach of contract suit.
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Mobile and Birmingham Railroad
Louisville and Nashville
Mobile Circuit Court
Browne
Tria
Beauregard Street
McGowin Lumber & Export Co
R. J. and
B. F. Camp Lumber Co
Stevens, Mcarvey & Dean
Deformed Children Injured Three Fatally Hit By Street Car
A Cleveland bus carrying eleven crippled children to a school was struck by a street car. The crash sent the wagon flying about thirty feet. Three of the children are believed fatally injured.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Weather Forecast United States Mobile Alabama
Generally fair conditions with little temperature change tonight and Friday. In Washington on April 22 the forecast notes Alabama partly cloudy tonight and Friday with moderate southeast winds.
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Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Mobile Mayor seeks Liberty Bell route through city
Mayor Pillans of Mobile asks Philadelphia to route the Liberty Bell through Mobile on its Panama-Pacific Exposition journey. He plans a South route with Lynchburg Charlotte Atlanta Montgomery New Orleans and Houston, aiming to give children a holiday and view of the relic. The bell last passed Mobile in 1882 en route to New Orleans.
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Mobile
Pittans
R. Blankenburg
Philadelphia
H. Pillans
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Item
Lynchburg
Charlotte
N. C
Atlanta
Montgomery
Ala
New Orleans
Houston
Texas
Jans
Liberty
Bell
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Philadelphia City Council
Arms Made in U S Make Cripples Buy Amer n Limbs
An appeal from Northern France for artificial limbs has reached war relief in New York. The report says American artificial limbs, when produced at full capacity, surpass French devices and should be provided to the injured from the earlier war months.
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U. S
New York
France
Adele Hugo Dies at 85 in Suresnes After Tragic Life
Adele Hugo, Victor Hugo’s youngest daughter, died at his residence in Suresnes aged 85. Kidnapped as a girl in Guernsey, she never fully recovered and led a solitary life, rarely speaking of the past in public appearances.
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Victor Hugo
Paris
Adele Hugo
Suresnes
Guernsey
Europe
Jalee
Agit
New
France
Mile. Hugo
Bitter battle on Hill between German and British forces
Rome reports a four hour discussion among Salandra and ministers on measures to defend the country. In Aberdeen a German submarine shelled the trawler Envoy last night east of the coast. the crew abandoned ship and escaped uninjured.
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Hill
Aberdeen
London
Teutons Called In Recall Across Nations and govts
German and Austrian subjects in Switzerland were recalled by their governments. Italian government halted trans Atlantic traffic with the United States and refunded tickets to travelers. News reached Lugano that Italian steamships were affected as governments acted.
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Teutons
Geneva
Paris
Switzerland
Lugano
United States
Turbulent Dardanelles and Hill No 60 Storm Center
The Athens patch reports Turkish forces along the Gulf of Saros near Enos and Bulair, with paroled encampments near Paes. An allied aeroplane dropped bombs on Thehesme Smyrna, while a British torpedo boat operated from a Turkish fort near Smyrne. Hill No 60 dominates the storm center in the southeast sector, with continued British pressure and French advances toward Mihlel.
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Dardanelles
Paris
Havas
Athens
Gulf of Sarog
Enos
Bulair
Gallipoli
Paes
Bom
Thehesme
Smyrna
Katopanagia
Smyrne
London
Aburi Seuania
Gennega
Mihlel
Boys and Girls Held Must Be Freed
In Charleston West Virginia April boys and girls held in county jails and state reformatories awaiting transfer to asylums or jails are to be released due to lack of money in the state treasury. The last legislature failed to approve funding for transportation and related needs leaving officials in a quandary over insane cases.
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West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Loyal Order of Moose Holds Open Meeting in City
Congressman Oscar L Gray of the First district attended the Loyal Order of Moose open meeting in Mobile Lodge No 321. A J Rent dean of Mooseheart, principal speaker, arrived and was greeted by J C Thompson district deputy and lodge members.
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Oscar L. Gray
Mobile Lodge
A. J. "Rent Thale
Mooseheart
O Pal
J. C. Thompson
Witness Arrest in Inferior Court Case
A witness in the inferior criminal court, Dorsey Richardson, a white man, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Dan Petty as he left the stand in the Fred Lane case. M. W. McCarty, the complainant, alleges Rick faulted and beat him several days earlier.
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Dorsey Richardson
Fred Lane
Dan Petty
M. W. McCarty
Rick
Orleans' Papers Labor Troubles Discussed
New York April 22. Labor matters were discussed at today's session of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. H N Kellogg, chairman of the association's labor committee, read a report on labor conditions as they affected newspapers in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Publisers’ Association
H. N. Kellogg
Labor Commtee
Orleans
Woman collapses in court during suit hearing
In Jersey City New Jersey Mrs. Alice Bunce a plaintiff in a separation suit collapsed in the courtroom while the case was being heard and died shortly after being taken to a hospital. The incident occurred yesterday as the trial progressed.
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Jersey City
N. J
Alice Bunce
Wesfield
Germans Tried to Invade Britain Navy Drove Them Off
Liverpool reports naval writer F Jane claimed Germans attempted to land an expeditionary force in Britain. He said the British navy repelled the invasion and that the Germans underestimated naval power, keeping Britain free from invasion.
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Britain
Liverpool
Jane
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Leo Frank
Fair Association
TRL
Charles E. Dupree
Mobile Railroad Crossing
Alabama Supreme Court
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J. T. Adamsnethi
Lillie M. Daviason
Wilcox Chancery Court
B. F. W. Davis
First National Bank of Blakely
Mayfield
Mayfield—McGowin Lumber & Export Co. Vs. R. J
B. F. Camp Lumber
Jerome Price
Somerville
Mobile and Birmingham Raairoad Co
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co
Mary EH. Kimball
Cunningham Hardware Co. Et al
Mobile Chancery Court
Judge Thomas
I. M. Turner
W. J. Thornton
Washington Circuit Court
R. M. McCrory
B. H. Donald
Ag Trustee
Choctaw Chancery Court
Atlanta and St. Andrews Railway Co
Richard C. Fowler
Houston Circuit Court
Liberty Bell
Kaiser
Mier Salandra
Loyal Order of Moose
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