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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
2
District attorney says only circumstantial proof links Lewis to the girl’s death in Pittsburgh. Coroner notes direct evidence lacking. Police seek a former Miss Colbert chauffeur and his wife for questioning on relations with the victim.
Advice favors fresh air and light care over heavy internal medicines for children's colds. Recommends avoiding confinement and indoors always, using Vick's Vap-O-Bub throat remedy for relief.
A Mobile report lists Hadassah organizer Missase Hive from Leon speaking at B nai B rith hall next Sunday. Rev. Thomas J. Lacey visits for a month. Government Street Temple to host Joseph Cycle lectures on Genesis with subject Imagination. Mobile visitors include H F Lattimer and W H Rogers. Robert Jemison and Mrs Jemison in city for church home improvements. A police letter seeks Evans Stout, a missing 14 year old. G H Kruempel becomes notary public.
Leland Rankin led a meeting of vestrymen and rectors at the Battle House to discuss a state wide pension plan for Episcopal clergy. The plan provides retirement at 68 with half salary, widow and children benefits, funded by a $5 million target, with $4 million already in hand and Alabama asked to contribute $35,000. Rankin noted Sewanee Province covers the south, and Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts is president with Mor gen and Morgan listed in leadership.
The Hamburg newspaper Hamburger Nachrichten cites the Westphalen Politische Nachrichten accusing the American embassy in Berlin of hindering American correspondents deemed pro German or not anti German enough. It notes travel limits in Austria Hungary and adds the claims lack immediate proof but is not dismissed.
Athens Ga January 12 Superior Court Judge Charles Hillyer Brand of Athens will represent Georgia’s Eighth district in the U S House for the term starting March 4 with T W Rucker winning the other seat. Unofficial returns show Brand and Rucker about 2000 votes ahead of rivals to fill the vacancy caused by Samuel J Tribble’s death.
The American bark Frances V. Sarveger from Port Ocando Venezuela to Tampico Mexico was abandoned by her crew and ashore on a reef near Aux Cayes. Crew members were transported to the United States aboard the steamship Commeniine.
London reports that two British steamers City of Birmingham and Reapwell were torpedoed without warning by Central Powers submarines on November 27 and 28, 1916. Casualties included a doctor and three men. crews and passengers were rescued by hospital ships and other vessels.
The longest horse railway in the world lies in the Argentine Republic. It runs between Buenos Aires and San Martin, a fifty mile stretch.
Count Adam Tarnowski von Tarnow new Austrian ambassador to the United States departs Berlin for the United States on the first stage of his journey. Entente allies guarantee safe passage for the envoy as he begins his trip via London.
A new steamer of 2 456 tons net was sunk near London today by a shipping agency amid inactivity. The report hints at a maritime accident involving the vessel Sewasaee at Saas with unclear causes.
C. J. Stewart, prominent Florala saw mill superintendent, convicted in Paxton circuit court of assault with intent to murder for shooting Booth during labor troubles at the mills. Jury verdict returned Wednesday afternoon in Paxton Florida.
General Z T Sweeney of Columbus Indiana will lecture Sunday afternoon at the Lyric Theatre under the Mobile Church Federation. The Golden Age will be the subject. He will stay three days, praised nationwide as a lecturer, with the second balcony reserved for colored patrons.
A parliamentary paper from The Hague via London outlines Germany’s reply to the Dutch protest over Belgian deportations. It defends forced labor claims, questions American relief in Belgium, and states Germany will repatriate Belgians if Holland funds their support if they fail to find work. Names of Belgians involved will be supplied to Germany.
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