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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1916
Page
2
In Dublin on Sunday a 3,000 strong Sinn Fein procession celebrating a mass clashed with police on Westmoreland Street. A flag carried by a woman and a soldier was seized and later wrested back by Sinn Fein members who marched to Hibernian Hall before dispersing.
Mr and Mrs 8 S F Alston of Tuscaloosa arrive in the city Sunday and win their yacht Mary Frances. Alston is president of the City Bank of Tuscaloosa. Guests include Mr and Mrs John T Cochran and sons and Mr and Mrs Landon Smith. The Alstons plan a fishing trip to Dauphin Island with friends from Tuscaloosa and Montgomery.
The Alabama National Guard reorganizes into three infantry regiments with twelve companies each and supporting units. Mobile contributes its home companies to the First Regiment Staff includes Col Francis Maddox and Lt Col Henry Coleman. Companies A through M list captains and towns from Mobile Bay area, plus machine gun and sanitary units, with Lt Elmo Davison commanding the machine gun company.
The roster lists Battalion Sergeant Major Taswell By and Battalion Sergeant Major Ernest H. Buck. Also named are Battalion Sergeant Major H H Brickell Regimental Color Sean G Stimpson and Regimental Color Sergeant William Henry Bethea.
The list catalogs officers noncommissioned ranks and privates across multiple units including COMPANY A and 1st INFANTRY. It names Captains Lieutenants Sergeants corporals musicians cooks and many privates with scattered racial identifiers noted for cooks. The roster spans several regiments bands and sanitation units with numerous surnames and initials.
News from Buck's Landing twenty miles from Mobile reports Emmett Morgan and two black men wounded in a shooting. Hing Stokes, a black man, fired a buckshot loaded gun. Morgan is seriously injured with shots to the side and left arm nearly shot away. Citizens and deputies are tracing Stokes.
A battalion of the Twenty sixth infantry under Major J F Frazier arrived in Brownsville to reinforce the Fourth infantry at Fort Brown in the upper Rio Grande valley. The report notes the Third Texas area as context.
H S Best told police yesterday he lost two kegs of brass and one keg of babbit metal from his sawmill located north of Three Mile Creek near the Conception Street road. Police have a description of the missing items and are investigating the case.
Two hundred eighteen men of the First and One Hundred and Fifty fourth Coast Artillery arrived in Chicago on June 18 and were routed by the Nickle Plate Railroad to join detachments that departed for San Antonio, Texas via Kansas City.
Gulfport and Hattiesburg begin government mail service by automobile after Gulf and Ship Island Railroad traffic is halted by trainmen strike demanding higher wages shorter hours and union recognition.
Alabama's National Guard mobilization will place Brigadier General Charles R. Brick, of Luverne, in command. The 172 officers and 2,826 enlisted make 2,998 total ready for service, with regiments listed under Madd in Mobile, Weiss in Montgomery, and Graves in Montgomery. Battery units at Birmingham are led by Major L. C. Dorrance.
The series on biblical heaven and hell concluded last night at Oakdale church after several weeks of sermons. Although details are sparse the event marked the end of a two week focus on salvation and afterlife themes.
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