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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1916
Page
6
Officials report increasing apprehension over renewed raids in the border area. Three raiders were killed and three captured near the Coleman ranch, while attacks on vacant consulates and American property were noted. Details remain unrevealed as authorities assess a possible serious motive behind the incidents.
Poem laments Kitchener, reflecting on wartime leadership and national sacrifice. Lines praise his toil and miracle that condensed a decade of labor into one outcome. The ode honors him and notes his ship’s fate near the Orkneys at sunset.
Secretary Baker announced that ten Coast Artillery Companies and a battalion of engineers would join General Funston on the border patrol to fill gaps such as the Laredo area. The artillery will come from forts between Portland and Sandy Hook and engineers from local barracks.
General Mann reports that near Hachita on June 10 a patrol of three cavalrymen was fired on. Private W. L. Saunders of Troop K 12th Cavalry was slightly wounded while two mounted Mexicans fled. National Guard regiments were deployed for border duty.
Captain Burrage of the battleship Nebraska reports considerable unrest in Vera Cruz linked to currency problems. Carranza troops move inland while anti American outbreaks spread. consuls warn of potential danger and many Americans remain abroad. The State Department awaits Lansing's reply to Carranza demanding withdrawal of forces.
The British foreign office says delays in mail examination have been corrected due to administrative faults. It notes that American complaints stem from the principle used rather than disagreement on allies' right to inspect mail. The office works with the French cabinet in preparing a reply to the American note.
Enthusiastic supporters pack a meeting as Reeves Electric 00, Inc. seeks backing for a local project. The crowd chants slogans and urges officials to approve the plan, citing jobs and community benefits.
New York June 18 to avert a threatened rupture over wage adjustments the railroads submitted a tentative counter proposition this morning. Employee representatives agreed to discuss it. Elisha Lee said the yard stick method was not a final answer and H A Wheeler of Chicago sought permission to attend with questions. The Chamber of Commerce seeks to avert disagreement until the Interstate Commerce Commission acts.
E C Orpet testifies his son Will did not sleep at home February 8 and 9 the nights before Marian Lambert's body was found. He says a month before Miss Lambert's death he instructed an assistant to discard gardening poison, which prosecutors say caused the death.
Governor Manning issued an executive order directing South Carolina infantry companies and naval militia divisions to prepare for active service as a precaution ahead of a likely National Guard mobilization. He insisted on prompt and earnest preparations to strengthen the state commands.
John M. Parker, Progressive VP nominee, returns to New Orleans from the Chi convention and says the party must await the Progressive national committee’s decision in Chicago on the national ticket if Colonel Roosevelt declines to run.
James J. Abbott, a railway mail clerk, is ordered released after the U.S. Supreme Court reverses a lower court ruling. His embezzlement conviction in 1912, later set aside, involved multiple trials and subpoenas before the high court ruled the district judge had authority to grant a new trial that vacated the first verdict.
A 1910s advertisement urges sufferers of pulmonary troubles to improve diet living conditions rest and fresh air. It touts Eckman’s Alterative described as easily assimilated, widely used, and potentially beneficial for pneumonia and severe lung afflictions. It notes the product contains no habit forming medicines and lists R. J. Braswell as a leading laboratory source.
Rome reports continued Italian progress in the Arsa Valley Passubio sector and along the Pasina Astico line in the southern Tyrol in tonight's official war office statement.
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce ways and means committee decided to pursue bringing the Alabama Pharmaceutical Association convention to Mobile. The meeting outlined fundraising plans to sustain summer band concerts and added J. D. Sutton and J. B. Curlee to the music committee.
The Lake Chamber of Commerce case against Alabama and Vicksburg railroad firms led to a court order requiring a joint shipment rate not exceeding twenty one cents per hundred pounds for lots shipping from Leeds Alabama to La Fayette.
Mrs. Rowley- Klinge offered to assist in an entertainment for the concert fund. The matter was referred to the committee. At the Mobile Public Library Association request, President E B Bailey announced a bay ride under the association on Wednesday night. Proceeds to the library association.
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