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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1913
Page
3
Controversy over Major McIvers disbursing over $3000 and related military report remains unsettled. Friends of McIver anticipate further developments before his tilt, while the governor denies knowledge of the observers interview and keeps the board report confidential.
Montgomery Ala Dec 30 Special to The Item the mill department of the assignments regular army sergeants to Alabama to instruct the guard Sergeant Ernest G Shepard appointed property of the military department met Bert Moore who recently reentered service after completing service Arby Fronn Iy of the Nineteenth Infantry Tex and Lewisi R Morgan Twenty second Infantry Texas will report to Adju General J B Scully for duty
Report from San Luis Potosi describes a passenger train attack by rebels. Several killed and eighteen wounded or missing as passengers scattered. some survivors returned to San Luis Potosi while others hid in the hills. Details remain incomplete with circumstances of the assault unclear.
The Right Reverend Christian Bang, bishop and prelate of the Norwegian church, died yesterday in Christiania. Born in 1840, Bang served as secretary to the Oscars of Sweden during the union of North Sweden, marking a notable ecclesiastical career.
A $25,000,000 mortgage on the South and North Alabama Railroad was filed in Montgomery, to be issued by Louisville and Nashville. The state tax on the instrument was set at $25,000. Bonds of $13,000,000 will be issued immediately, with $12,000,000 more to be sold in 1936. Proceeds fund extensions, additions, betterments, equipment and track.
The Mobile area hosts a parade of travelers and relatives from across the region and country. Captain J H Daughdrill Jr of Houston departs after a relatives visit en route to north Alabama on business. Others include Miss Hazel Winans Selby leaving for New Orleans and many from Cincinnati, Denver, Chicago, Saint Louis, and Boston registering at local hotels, with brief stays near the Cawthon and Battle House hotels.
Due to rules noncompliance or yields under fifty bushels per acre, the state corn contest prizes will not be awarded in sixteen Alabama counties. Barbour Choctaw Colbert Franklin Henry Jackson Lauderdale Lee Lowndes Macon Marengo Morgan Perry Russell and Tuscaloosa are affected. Each county prize is 25 dollars. Remaining counties’ contestants lists are being finalized with announcements expected today.
Attorney General Brickell files for rehearing with the Alabama Supreme Court in Percy Brooks’s assault case from Huntsville. Brooks, sentenced to twenty years after a trial that the Court of Appeals affirmed, saw the High Court reverse and send for a new trial due to two refused charges.
Warden Coleman of the state convict farm on Lower Wetumpka road was attacked by a Negro convict while cutting wood. The warden’s thumb was chewed to a pulp, an arm injured, and a scalp wound. Guards shot the convict in the leg. Coleman is recovering. The inmate is believed demented.
The ad touts Dr Hobson’s Eczema Ointment as a remedy for itchy eczema and skin eruptions. A Mendota Illinois man claims lasting relief after one box, with a guarantee refund if not helped. Sold by Pfeiffer Chemical Co. and druggists for 16 cents by mail.
In the chancery division Judge Thomas H. Smith presided. Listings include reports of sale for January 12 in Lyon v Cunningham and Ardoyne v Ardoyne, referents read and laid over, decretal actions, and motions set for December 31 or January 5. Various society, building association and company cases noted with submissions and decrees pro confesso or reference.
The funeral for Rudolph P. Priester was held Monday at 3 o clock from 955 Church Street with large attendance. Rev E A Donnelly of Government Street Methodist Church led the service. Attending groups included the Raphael Semmes Camp U C and a delegation from the Mobile Light Railroad Benevolent Association. Interment followed at Magnolia Cemetery. The list of mourners included Theodore Warner and Henry.
Rebels under General Villa threaten to exterminate opponents as 4200 advance from Chihuahua toward La Mula Pass and Ojinaga. Federal defense falters amid pay disputes and desertion, forcing river crossings and disordered retreat. Eleven generals at Ojinaga include former Chihuahua governor Salvador Mercado and Castro, amid warnings of a fragile Huerta foothold in the north.
James P. Kelly alias Oakland Sammy is brought back from South Carolina to Montgomery to answer a federal indictment for burglarizing the Marion post office. He condemns South Carolina prison conditions and denies burning a Florida jail, while claiming he never tried to burn any jail. A jig saw and a small bottle of fluid were found on him at the Montgomery jail, marking him as a dangerous yeggman.
Mabron Smith aged 13 was arrested on a murder charge in Chattanooga Tenn and held on a $1,000 bond for juvenile court. He and the eight year old son of F L Rider quarrelled two weeks ago when Smith struck the boy in the back with a stone. The Rider boy died Tuesday with the physician attributing death to the blow.
Rome reports Duke Francesco of Campobello claims to have been disinherited by the late Cardinal Rampollo and asks authorities to inventory the entire estate of the deceased prelate.
At the 20th annual Jewish Chautauqua Society assembly in Philadelphia discussions centered on differences between Orthodox and Reformed Hebrews. Speakers urged guarding sacred observance while balancing education for Hebrew children about ancient rites and ceremonies. A final unrelated line notes a federal general vowing to remain before rebels arrived.
Army dispatch from Presidio reports ongoing clashes between rebels and federals near Ojinaga and surrounding areas since sundown. A village battle erupted near San Francisco with another fight six miles away. General Rodriguez leads about two thousand rebels at Mulata as observers believe the rebels are closing in.
Mrs Lillie Devereaux Blake a pioneer suffragist died in a sanitarium at Englewood New Jersey aged 80. Born in 1833 in Raleigh she moved from novel writing to advocacy for women's rights including school suffrage reforms and lectured across the United States and before Congress and state legislatures.
President Wilson, under the care of Dr Cary T Grayson, left his rest to play 18 holes at the Mississippi Ent ry Club. After lunch he walked with Grayson and took a motor ride with his family as part of his day.
Ad promises that Ely's Cream Balm clears stuffed noses and head congestion in minutes. It alleges instant relief from dull headache and catarrh and claims morning recovery from cold symptoms with a small bottle available at any drug store.
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