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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1915
Page
2
A dispatch from Athens reports the Greek ministry has resigned after a crown council meeting on the war stance. If the council chose intervention, mobilization was expected. otherwise Venizelos and his cabinet would resign, signaling Greece's neutrality for the moment.
General Francis V. Greene warns that an invading force could land on Long Island City and destroy East River bridges, levy a five billion dollar indemnity, and that inadequate defense makes such a fate plausible, noting steam and electricity erase the ocean barrier.
Saturday events include Sarah Bernhardt’s condition described as very satisfactory. Silk firm Heminway & Bartlett of Watertown led by Buell Heminway dies in Atlantic City. Warrensburg Normal School loses nearly all buildings in a fire. 2000 students affected. An explosion at Du Pont’s Haskell plant kills four, injures one. William Deering’s estate tallies at over 15 million after debts. Various political and legal notes follow, including rural credits chair selection, bomb-plot arraignments, and Texas woman suffrage defeat. Snow across north Texas endangers blossoms. federal banks report a near four million rise in loans and discounts.
Grady Anderson, a YMCA night watchman at the Lucas Moore Stave Co. plant near Three mile creek and Conception street road, was shot and slightly wounded by an unknown assailant after midnight Saturday. Police, including Sergeant Lincoln, investigated. Anderson, a young unmarried man, suffered a facial wound and tooth loss.
Paris March 6 Jules Bois French dramatist poet and journalist and author of La Furie sailed today from Havre on the Rochambeau for New York on a special mission to the United States. He will go to Washington to deliver credentials to Ambassador Jusser and be presented to Secretary Bryan and President Wilson.
The Arkansas River flood, looming for days, escalated to dangerous levels as appeals for aid from farmers and residents along the stream poured in. People in Argentina across the river from Little Rock began moving out today amid the rising water.
Chicago report says Joe Tinker and the North Shore whales left for Shreveport Louisiana tonight. The opening workout is scheduled for Monday morning with a first session to set the tone of the camp.
Six men are dead and many injured after Monroe Philips a money lender in a Brunswick Ga office spree. He killed banker Harry Dunwoody motorman George Asbell undertaker William Hackett and officer Rex Deaver among others before dying from a chest wound. He leaves a wife and seven children.
Senator Irank S. White and family return to Birmingham from Washington and plan resume of law practice after rest. Rumors say Captain White may run in 1918 to succeed Senator John H. Bankhead while Oscar W. Underwood and wife prepare a Florida rest before returning to Birmingham.
Special to The Item in Pensacola Florida reports five more witnesses were examined in the United States district court case against four suspended First National Bank officials. Court adjourned at noon, jury taken on a day trip, with evidence expected to finish mid next week. No sensational findings so far. one spectator was placed under rule. It is believed the case will result in a mistrial.
Bridgeport Connecticut March 6 The trial of Mrs Helen M Angle of Stamford on a man slaughter charge resumes Tuesday morning The defense expects Mrs Angle to testify Wednesday or Thursday about the night of June 23 when Walso R Ballot a wealthy politician was killed as he left her apartments in the Rippowan building The defense is described as short and the verdict may come by Saturday
March 6 report from Washington says no reply from Carranza worsens tensions. State Department notes possible mass departure of the diplomatic corps, while Vera Cruz dispatch offers slight encouragement. Epidemic smallpox in Tampico and battles near Valles and Las Palmas compound foreign risk in the capital.
In Jacksonville on March 6 Bradley Brothers who run the Beach Club in Palm Beach were arrested for operating a Monte Carlo of America. Seventeen men including prominent figures have subpoenas to testify as witnesses. A society detective posed as a French count to gather evidence. Governor Trammell ordered the probe months ago. Names listed include Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston and executives from Philadelphia New York and other cities.
London reports England anticipates possession of Constantinople around March 20 as allied fleets aim to seize Smyrna after occupying the Turkish capital. Ocean liners shift to transport duties for the expeditionary army, reducing shipping for New York service.
Mrs Laura Nelson Kirkwood and her husband arrived in Kansas City from San Antonio on a special train after a record-breaking run to beat death to the bedside of her father Colonel W F Nelson owner of the Kansas City Star. Colonel Nelson 74 has been seriously ill since December and on Friday worsened, with fears he may not survive.
An official announcement states an expeditionary force will concentrate in North Africa and cross the Mediterranean once Constantinople falls, now seen as imminent. The plan signals rapid action pending the Ottoman capital's collapse.
A cablegram from the national headquarters of the WC. T. U. in Evans ton thanks the czar for suppressing the liquor traffic in Russia. Anna A. Gordon signs the message as president, saying the move benefits the United States and the world.
The Alabama Power Company merges with subsidiary public service holdings in Anniston Decatur Huntsville Attalla and Pell City to inject several millions in fresh capital. A $2 million outlay with up to $3 million more is planned funded by bondholders of the holding company, Alabama Traction Light and Power. James Mitchell becomes president. Frank S. Washturn chairs the board.
Harley McQuaig twenty was shot and killed by his sixteen year old brother Lee three miles north of Waycross at their father's place. Police expect no arrest as Lee mistook him for a burglar and fled into shock after the fatal shot near the wagon shed. The haunted reputation of the McQuaig home is noted in the report from Waycross dated March 6.
Wireless dispatches report the French liner La Touraine is safe after a fire 700 miles west of Livest. The Holland-American liner Rotterdam reached her and escorts to an English port while a British cruiser speeds to assist. Other vessels told not to proceed.
Health officer Dr A Mohr urges universal vaccination as no city smallpox cases exist but risk remains. He warns every unvaccinated or not recently vaccinated person to get inoculated, saying prevention outweighs cure and noting mild but dangerous current statewide monkeypox cases.
Miss May Lewis twenty year old clay modeler employed by Dr R D Brown has drawn the attention of painter Roderick T D McKenzie who will critique and offer advanced instruction. Her life studies and bust modeling from life have earned praise from critics at the Home Products Show where an amateur bust of herself is on exhibit at R Harris Grocery Company.
In the inferior criminal court on Saturday Judge Chamberlain sentenced Henry Johnson Walter Lewis and Dave Page to ten days in the county jail for gaming. John Hill received thirty days hard labor on the county road for assault and battery.
Paris reports details of the Stanislau engagement with twenty Russian batteries on heights. Austrian infantry advanced in four lines but Russian masked guns opened fire, Cossacks swept the front, and Russian quickfirers cut down assaulting ranks. Austrians retreat, clinging to heights above the Iukina valley as losses mount.
J G Driver a 30 year old foreman at Goodridge limber mills was assassinated last night in Anderson Spur Arkansas. He was shot in the back of the head through a window as he prepared to retire. James Brewer, once employed to lay a logging road for Driver, has been arrested. Judge J W Driver, his brother, left Paragould for the scene on a special train. Police and bloodhounds from Osceola were sent to investigate.
Laredo Texas March 6 reports say the telegraph line to Monterey has been cut leaving the town without communication with the rest of Mexico. Between Nuevo Laredo and Monterey trains are irregular and only one train ran from Nuevo Laredo to Villaldama during the past week, worsening food access for poorer residents.
Testimony before a joint legislative committee urged immediate examination of books by C Homer Billingsley former pure food and drug clerk. W H Seymour reported $800 discrepancy between express and cash books for August and September and noted missing office books.
In Birmingham Alabama Judge Miller indicated he would sustain demurrers and grant dissolution of injunction against H R Delaye news dealer from selling periodicals with liquor advertisements. The suit by W H Falkner asserts ad bans but court said liquor selling not prohibited in Jefferson County yet. appeal possible after ruling.
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