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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1913
Page
3
Dr. Laura Muller Brazilian minister of foreign affairs visits Colorado Springs stopping at Garden of the Gods Manitou Pike's Peak cog railroad Seven Falls and other scenic sites before continuing to the Pacific coast.
Fire at the Tennessee Military Institute in Sweetwater, Tennessee caused estimated damage of 8 090 to 10 60 dollars. The blaze confined to the kitchen and dining room area. Origin of the fire is unknown.
Walter Hines Page United States ambassador at London was guest at a luncheon of the American Business Men's Club. Consul General John L Griffiths presided and welcomed the ambassador. The attendance was the largest in the club's history with many prominent English businessmen present.
St Petersburg report cites rapid growth of Russia's aerial forces. The army chief says a flying squad will exist in every corps, with doubled dirigible numbers and airships described as aerial dreadnoughts armed with machine guards, bomb throwers, and wireless telegraphy. The German fleet lags with eleven dirigibles, eight meeting Soviet standards.
William Jacobson once with the New York Giants and then the Mobile club leaves due to illness. He will likely return home to Genese Illinois. Robertson becomes permanent in centerfield and Pensacola may assign Billy McGill to Mobile to cover right field.
A per load of war munitions en route from New York to Venustiano Carranza's camp in Northern Mexico is held in New Orleans awaiting the U S justice department decision on crossing the border. The consignment includes 128 rapid fire guns, ammunition and side arms, part of a donation from relatives of the late President Madero to the Constitutionalist cause. The arms car arrived yesterday and is guarded by justice department agents.
Recorder Edington fined H. H. Smith and R. H. Radcliffe ten dollars or twenty days each for speeding. Gerald Krumple faced two ten-dollar or twenty-day penalties for curbing ordinance violations and appealed. Dairy operators James Kelly Terrell LeGros and L R Pearce faced charges over butter fat and water content with Pearce's case continued to June 28. A robbery and theft incidents were reported including a $390 loss at the St Andrew Hotel and a separate $7.50 purse theft near Jefferson and Montgomery streets. Captain Averyt returned to duty after illness.
Edwards Wicks an 18 year old Negro boy from Cedar Street and Davis Avenue drowned at Three Mile Creek shortly after 1 PM Tuesday. His body was recovered Tuesday afternoon and sent to his parents home.
Manuel Quezon resigns from the Philippine Society executive committee saying the group’s aims seek to preserve American colonial rule in the Philippines rather than independence. He alleges the society plans to rally public opinion for indefinite U S retention and to consolidate efforts to sustain the present regime.
The jury found Matthew Walsh guilty of second degree murder in the December shooting death of T. C. Neely Jr. The court fixed a two year penitentiary sentence and Walsh may appeal to the supreme court with Attorneys Webb and McAlpine filing notice.
The Royal Theatre presents Pathe's Weekly No 26 with a Confederate Reunion and unveiling of the Alabama and Florida monuments at Chickamauga Park in Chattanooga. Feature films include Des Advertising Pay a Wallie Van comedy and Nearly in Mourning plus The Professors Predicament with Lubin. admission five cents.
A petition circulated by Clifton Berney of the Boys Union aims to fund a city club home with dormitory reading rooms and baths open 9 am to 9 pm for working boys. Four subscribers—E Vincent, R F Neville, Horace Turner, and G F Stanard—each pledged $1 monthly. The union has access to the armory hall for indoor baseball and games and shower facilities.
In Montgomery on June 25 Governor O Neal paroled J Max Shivers of Houston County a white man sentenced to six months hard labor for selling liquor. Shivers is totally helpless and cannot feed himself. Also paroled was Will Robinson from Talladega. the judge said he was only technically guilty after a robbery tied to a card game and had suffered sufficiently.
E. D. McGraw the Lafayette and Dauphin grocer recently bought the northwest Cedar and Dauphin corner from Mrs. Maria Crawford for 15000. He will erect a modern one story brick building ready for occupancy November 1. Railroad visitors J Frank Jutz and J B Howe, with Birmingham ties, are in Mobile for several days. Marriage licenses were issued in probate court to Stanton Hicks Vaughan Kennedy Cooper Rediger Atkinson Creswell Smith.
Dr. J. B. McLaughlin of Huntsville Alabama was appointed Temporary Acting Assistant Surgeon at Fort Morgan. He has passed the commission examination and will likely receive his commission in July.
London reports that chemist Edwy Clayton, jailed for 22 months on June 7 for conspiracy with militant suffragist leaders, was released yesterday in a very weak condition following a hunger strike.
Special Correspondence from Tuskegee Alabama reports the fourth annual Negro Summer School opening at Tuskegee Institute with 301 teachers from multiple states. Directors J. KR E Lee and C Roberts oversee instruction across standard and new subjects including agriculture, carpentry, sewing, millinery, and housekeeping as enrollments rise toward 400.
Special to The Item Montgomery report by state prison inspector Dr. W H Oates critiques the Alabama Industrial School at East Lake for dangerous water contamination risk and inadequate sewage disposal described as a cess-pool overflowing into a putrid open ditch. He urges immediate corrective action while noting the institution’s overall fine condition.
Minneapolis June 25 Edgar B Kay of Mobile Ala described the water supply for Mobile at the American Water Works convention in session today.
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