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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1914
Page
12
Luther Martin shot his wife in law Mrs Albert McKinney and his 8 year old daughter before firing on himself in Centre Georgia. Mrs McKinney was wounded and may not survive while the daughter escaped. Martin reportedly showed signs of insanity prior to the tragedy. A burglar is described as a man about town amid town talk.
Mrs Edna G Montague widow of Horace Montague railroad official murdered in a December El Monte hold up telegraphs Governor Johnson pleading for clemency for Ralph Farriss the condemned Bakersfield bandit. She appeals in the name of her two daughters and herself asking mercy and arguing crime is a disease.
This notice explains bilious attacks bring appetite loss and dullness. Take three Chamberlain's Tablets at first signs to ward off the attack. The remedy is sold by Van Antwerp Drug Corp. and all dealers.
Stevens and Nelson, New Orleans architects hired by Mobile county school board, were told their preliminary plans for three new Mobile schools and remodeling Barton Academy are unsatisfactory. The board directed the superintendent to inform the firm that plans differ from and are inferior to those dated August 1913, with a potential reallocation of funds totaling about 133000 to the listed buildings if acceptable.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, custodian of a $67,500 trust for the 1893 World’s Fair, speeds to Florida as she disputes Harlow Higginbotham’s plan to add $200,000 from the Potter Palmer estate for a women's building. She argues the estate’s will and supreme court rulings forbid using the Lake Front park for such a memorial.
The Lyric vaudeville bill led by Jake Wells delivers top acts and clean variety. The program features a twenty minute skit Into the Night with a dramatic finale, a long laugh sequence at Alfalfa Junction, and a queen of ballet impersonation followed by a revealing twist. Matinee and night shows conclude the engagement with a bicycle finale titled Hippodromé Surprise Night.
AP report from Budapest notes 32 Ruthenians charged with inciting rebellion against Austria Hungary. Father Alexius a Russian monk from Mount Athos led the movement and received four and a half years imprisonment. other defendants got six months to two and a half years, while twenty three were acquitted. The trial suggested Russia aims to absorb a large portion of Hungary.
Lew Rose arrives from New Orleans to headline a Hippodrome bill with Cora Youngblood Carson and ten musicians in vaudeville, plus Frank King’s Winning Girls and new films. The act features a pantomime sketch and Ruby Kenny’s hit song You Have Made a Home Run With Me, drawing strong audience applause. The programs rotate Thursday with equal quality performances.
Seven players entered the national amateur billiards championship in New York with matches set to begin March 9 at the amateur billiard club. Competitors include Eugene L. Wilburn Joseph Mayer M D Brown E W Gardner Charles Heddon Dr W B Offenheimer and J F Hoggenburg.
Mohammed Anif an East Indian deserter from the steamship Boheme was arrested as an alien. Migration authorities on Tuesday allowed him to stay in the country upon paying a $40 head tax after declaring intent to naturalize. He had previously worked as a graduate carpenter.
Alonzo J. Whitman once with the Chicago stock exchange and Edward R Gibbs as Jackson de Forrest were arrested in Hot Springs Arkansas for alleged swindling. Whitman faces a charge of swindling a woman in Zion City Illinois. Gibbs is charged with a draft-fraud scheme. The pair were lodging at different hotels and were arrested upon meeting.
In Birmingham Woodlawn Z A Gabert an electrical engineer ill for years shot himself at home Tuesday His wife heard the shot rushed to the room and found him dead with head raised He leaves a widow and three children Despondency over health cited as cause of death by his own action.
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