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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
3
London reports the suffragette movement weakened as the cat and mouse law forces hunger strikers back to prison after short releases. Finances are low with subscriptions cited as suppressed and leadership reduced to a few disabled figures.
The Birmingham Tuscaloosa Railway and Utilities Company filed in Tuscaloosa county probate court a 5 million dollar mortgage to secure bonds underwritten by eastern financiers. Fidelity Trust Company of Philadelphia holds the mortgage as bond trustee. The filing completes financing for a planned electric street railway network in Tuscaloosa and suburbs, gas and power plants, and an electric line to Birmingham.
In Champaign on July 7 two men died and two were wounded in a confrontation between police and alleged illicit liquor sellers. Officer Thomas Dodsworth and Ray Williams were killed. Chief Albert Keller and Oliver Harding wounded. Keller later shot Williams at Williams home during the arrest attempt.
Gettysburg Pa July 7 The last breakfast and final train departure marked the closing of the fiftieth anniversary commemoration. Fewer than 300 veterans remained in camp for the final night as tents came down. State police likely to depart soon. The students military camp will open today to train cadets from about forty colleges.
Henry Sanders was shot and killed and his father Matthew Sanders fatally stabbed at Dykes chapel five miles south of Tahlequah Oklahoma, after a dispute over a Sunday school class. The Johnsons fled as the congregation followed to the scene.
The body of Agnes Firth MacDuff of Cambridge Massachusetts, who died by her own hand near Meudon Paris after taking poison on June 19 and dying July 4, has been identified. Miss MacDuff had lived briefly in Cambridge two years ago and planned to study aviation abroad.
A mob lynched an unknown black man near Milton 20 miles from Pensacola after a farmer’s six year old daughter was assaulted near Bonifay. The victim lies near death as sheriff efforts to transfer the prisoner failed and the body was left hanging from a telegraph pole.
Chinese forces clashed with Tibetan defenders at Hsiang Chen in Sze Chuan province. Tibetans killed their women and children before battle to prevent capture, while the Chinese shortage of ammunition allowed Tibetan forces to gain the upper hand with heavy losses. One hundred Chinese drowned while fording a river in the engagement.
The United States Marshal prepares a sale of the wrecked steamer James T Staples to the highest bidder near Secession Landing in front of the custom house on Wednesday at noon. Proceeds will satisfy claims of explosion injuries and unpaid salaries.
Survivors recount a ten hour battle after a hurricane struck a thirty foot yacht on Lake Ontario. Four Rochester men perished: Frank Salzer Edward Keele Alexander T Lemmon and Frank A McCullough. Two men, Peter A Blattner and Cornelius Coughlin, swam to shore and reported the tragedy.
Two sisters Julia and Gertrude Delaney die and Katherine Delaney dies of brain concussion after a Detroit Monroe Toledo Traction car strikes their auto. Brother James Delaney and driver Fred Lahey are seriously injured as five passengers are hurled 76 feet. Doctors fear further fatalities.
Mrs. Vencental Palacio challenged her husband Samuel Palacio to a trial by battle in Denver Colorado. The two fought with knives until neighbors called police who intervened. Both sustained multiple wounds but none serious. The combat aimed to prove the accusation of unfaithfulness.
Two men died and between twenty and thirty injured in a rear end collision of two trains on a roller coaster at Palisades Park New Jersey across from New York. Arthur Olson of Bronx died after rescue and Frank Leclaire of Manhattan died in hospital. One injured person not expected to live and many with broken bones and internal injuries. The first train stalled after the incline and a second train hit it when the cable failed causing a panic in the park.
Special to The Tem Gadeden Ala July 7 Etowah County High School Attalla new superintendent J R Kimbrough orders end to affectionate scenes at school. He blames sweethearting for teacher trouble and disrupts dormitory living for boys. Pupils previously neglected studies to pursue romance.
Southern growers protest before the senate finance committee against a provision taxing cotton exchange deals at one half of one percent. They argue the levy would end cotton futures trading and hurt exchanges, favoring New York and Liverpool markets and Egyptian cotton competition.
Severe wind and brief squall hit Selma Alabama causing a sign at the Tepper store on Broad and Alabama streets to crash through a plate glass window. Rain damaged fabrics on display as trees felled limbs narrowly missing residents.
Rochester, July 7. Insurgent Elks seek to break the regulars’ hold at the forty-ninth annual convention with a contest for grand exalted ruler Edward Leach of New York facing J Cookman Boyd of Baltimore on a liberal platform. Other races include grand treasurer Charles A White of Chicago vs W A Evans of Missouri and secretary Robinson vs Thomas J Darling. Western and Southern delegates back insurgents as bids for the 1914 convention come from Denver and New Orleans.
Mr and Mrs John Knautt and A le Blanc American citizens were admitted without examination Monday by U S Immigration Inspector Henry C Brownlow arriving from Puerto Cortez Honduras as passengers on the Norwegian fruit steamship Dictator.
A high mass led by Bishop Edward P. Allen celebrated in Cullman with 50 priests assisting. The cornerstone for a grand white stone Gothic church was laid in the afternoon with over 1,500 attendees from Birmingham Decatur and statewide Catholics. Work on the church will be rushed to completion.
Major W. J. Cameron, member of Jefferson county Board of Revenue and former Montgomery resident, lies in serious condition at his Birmingham home on July 7 due to heart trouble with two physicians attending.
Advertises Hay's Hair Health claiming natural color restoration for grey or faded hair and dandruff removal. Promises harmless use, non dye, money back guarantee, and a sales offer via local druggists with bundled Harfina Soup. Mentions select drugstores and wholesalers.
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