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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1913
Page
4
AP dispatch from El Paso on July 1 describes refugees recounting abuses by Villa’s forces in Casas Grandes. Women fled to the hills to escape insults as soldiers allegedly bound men to witness the excesses, detailing assaults on women and other abuses.
Chicago women celebrating a suffrage victory paraded Michigan Avenue in decorated cars. About 2000 women from numerous societies joined the procession led by the “big five” activists Catherine Waugh McCulloch Grace Wilbur Trout Sherman Booth Antoinette Funk and J Medill McCormick.
Mrs Augustus Ekman confessed slayer of her 12 year old daughter Frances whose body was found in a trunk at Ogden. She was formally charged with murder in the district attorney's office yesterday. Co L Anderson, her first husband, who was with her en route to Michigan, was released from custody.
The Clark amendment to the Underwood tariff bill proposing a one tenth of a cent per pound tax on all cotton futures contracts faces strong opposition from the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and other cotton interests. W. B. Thompson urged President Wilson to veto, calling the levy prohibitive and harmful to hedge protection and the economics of cotton marketing.
Prof. S. L. Gipson, new president of the seventh district agricultural school at Albertville, has nearly completed his faculty list for the executive committee and was at the Department of Education to discuss a catalogue for the next scholastic year. He succeeds Prof. E A. Miller who resigned for a federal agriculture post in Washington.
Italy's king and queen arrived in Berlin en route to Kiel to meet the German emperor and empress. The visit is official in nature with no political significance proclaimed, though observers expect talks on rising Balkan tensions and European political shifts.
Mr Phelan Dorlon a long time Mobile county political figure says Mobile is not excited over the governor race. He visited Montgomery to settle Mobile county taxes with the state and notes hot weather and busy times reduce interest. He predicts Mobile will back a candidate strongly when sentiment crystallizes.
Knoxville July 2 The Tennessee Railway company owning a line from Oneida in Scott county to Anderson county fifty miles distant is placed in the hands of Byrd M. Robinson of New York as receiver. The New River Lumber Company filed the bill with claims against the railroad. The road owed banks at Oneida Harriman and Nashville. Total liabilities beyond heavy bonded debt amount to thirty one thousand dollars.
A brief but sharp earth tremor in Messina on July 2 caused considerable alarm as underground rumblings continued. Many residents fled their homes and gathered in open fields for safety.
The opening day at Henley regatta in Henley England July 2 featured ideal boating weather but weaker attendance due to Wimbledon tennis and the king and queen’s absence. Fifteen races were held though many were minor with the grand event first heat scheduled for tomorrow pitting Leander against the Argonauts of Toronto Canada formerly favorites but recently showing overtraining.
A grand Fourth of July program features a fireworks display and band concert at Monroe Park with free moving pictures shown for attendees.
Federal Judge Hand ruled newspapers may expose a firm’s business methods if motives appear in good faith to protect readers. He denied E A Strout Farm Agency’s injunction against Rural Publishing Company over threats to reveal methods and mail letters to customers. Editors may expose overreaching practices to aid credulous readers.
Lady Sackville testifies denying kin claims that she influenced Sir John Murray Scott to leave them most of his $5,000,000 fortune. She recounts her meeting with Sir John, refutes coercion claims, and describes alleged advances by Walter Scott while detailing reactions of her husband and Sir John.
Kansas City June 2 The Missouri Pacific says minimum freight rates upheld by a supreme court decision will be inaugurated by thirteen railroads by August 1 The railroad group argues the two cent rate is confiscatory and seeks to present financials to the state utilities commission.
Sedentary habits lack of outdoor exercise insufficient mastication constipation a torpid liver worry and anxiety overeating partaking of food and drink not suited to your age and occupation Correct your habits and take Chamberlains Tablets and you will soon be well again For sale by all dealers.
Paris July 2 The government vows to suppress any incitement of active army troops in response to the three year service plan. Twelve secretaries who were treasurers of syndicalist labor groups have been arrested for urging desertion. Officials were seized in St Malo Rouen Mantes Valenciennes and Bourges on sedition charges.
Lexington July 2 Metcalfe and Griffith tobacco growers sue the Burley Tobacco Society over $550000 claimed as remaining proceeds of the 1906 07 pool The suit lists Metcalfe and Griffith and thirty thousand other pool members as plaintiffs against the society which controls White Burley output in Kentucky Indiana and Ohio.
John Henry Mears, a theatrical man, sailed on the Mauretania from New York to begin a 35 day 21 hour 35 minute attempt to beat the 1911 world circumnavigation record. His route includes London Paris Berlin St Peters burg Harbin Vladivostok Yokohama Victoria and Seattle. He plans to return by August 6 traveling for a newspaper. The current record is 39 days 19 hours 48 minutes set by Andre Jaeger-Schmidt.
State Senator C. W. Brown of Jackson County announces candidacy for governor on a county division platform. He would be the fifth candidate with others including B. B. Comer R. F. Kolb Charles Henderson Walter Sev and John H. Wallace Jr. Huntsville figures may join, timing this week.
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