08 Aug 1914
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1914
Page
1
In Mobile over 600 citizens gathered at the Cawthon hotel to protest the solvent credits tax. They pledged to seek tax relief and reduce burdens, forming a Mobile Tax Reform League under Laz Schwarz and electing a representative committee to press revenue officials.
Brussels reports a French cavalry force moved east of Liege with officials saying French troops are advancing. King Albert is told Liege is to be honored with the Legion of Honor for its defenders. German regiments reportedly donned Belgian cockades to mislead defenders, while 125000 Germans attacked Liege forts and were repelled.
Coroner's jury found Mrs Florence Moore McGowan acted in justifiable homicide in the death of J Leroy Brown. She was released, then re-arrested on murder charges after Brown's sister filed a new warrant. Habeas corpus looms. defense may rely on unwritten law. The shooting followed a dispute over a seduction case and Brown’s alleged role in the girl’s plight.
Tonight and Sunday look unsettled with likely local thundershowers. Gentle to moderate winds from the east to southeast.
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Governor O Neal authorized Texas Governor Colquitt to sign a memorial urging Congress to advance funds to aid Southern cotton growers. The plan treats warehouse receipts as collateral and seeks a governors meeting next week to discuss wartime protections for cotton farmers in the South. The meeting may occur in Montgomery or another southern city.
A severe electrical storm sweeping this region killed Cecil Foster and James Howell Jr. as they rode a dray near the railroad in Andalusia. The horse and vehicle escaped damage and no signs of lightning appeared on the nearby railroad track or telegraph poles.
Mose Johnson who confessed to killing Reese Fitzpatrick, paymaster for Gilchrist Fordney Lumber, will be hanged publicly at Bay Springs on September 2. The Jarper county board of supervisors declared the county jail unfit for an execution and cited public demand for a public hanging.
A Mobile meeting adopted a resolution to unite business leaders against the solvent credit tax and to appoint a committee to press the county board to defer action until the legislature convenes. A second resolution called for a state commission to reform the entire taxing system, modeled on a legal reform commission. A Tax Reform League was organized as the nucleus of a broader state organization to push tax law changes.
A Brussels dispatch reports heavy rains swelling the Meuse delaying German advance and an important engagement between French and Germans in Luxembourg. Belgians reportedly refused a 24 hour armistice at Liege after fording the Meuse, with German cavalry division fording and reportedly annihilated north of Liege.
The Bank of England cut its discount rate from 6 to 5 percent and war risk insurance rates on cargo also fell from 5 to 4.5 percent. In London observers watched Belgian resistance against a German advance as reports hint at a possible British expeditionary force deployment and coordinated French-Belgian efforts on the Liege front. The secrecy surrounding movements remained tight as both sides kept plans hidden.
The Standard Daily Mail and other papers call on Italy to abandon neutrality and aid England and France against the common European foe, urging swift action in a united front amid ongoing conflict.
Lisbon announces support for Great Britain as Germany seeks its intentions. New York reports a flotilla of German torpedo boats attacked British warships in the Humber waterway near Hull, sinking four vessels.
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