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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1915
Page
7
President Spencer Ball of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce visited Mobile en route to southern Florida. He praised Mobile's beauty and substantial buildings and business people. Ball said he plans to return next winter for an extended stay.
The department fought seven fires on Monday with sparks causing each blaze. The worst damage occurred at 954 Palmetto Street a two story frame house owned by D R Burgess and occupied by S S Murphy. Neighbors reported it at 11 35 a m. Box 67 sent the alarm. Other fires affected dwellings at 651 North Hamilton Street 156 Davis Avenue 216 North Royal Street 305 South Marine Street and 107 Rapier Avenue plus a gasoline fire injuring an automobile in front of 207 North Broad street.
In the Equity side court presided by Hon. Safford Berney, cases heard include Claudia I. Bixler ex. rel. vs. W. A. Gaynor with judgment for the plaintiff for lands and $3 detention, Gunston Hall vs. J. J. Blacksher non-suit denied, security for costs set at $25, Dan Brooks vs. Pensacola St. Andrew & Gulf RR Co. new trial denied, August Buerger vs. Sarah Mabry plea actions sustained, Naylor Lumber Co. vs. American Tie & Timber Co. security for costs by March 16, 1815. Tuesday calls include Strauss-Pritz Co. vs. Charles Schimpf, German Trust & Savings Bank vs. E. V. Pickley, G. M. Rosengrant vs. Anton Troha.
Hugh Caffey Jr and G L and H sue Joseph Durham against the Roe Company for 2335 81 dollars claiming a judgment was previously recovered from W T McGowin in the same court after stock of McGowin in the defendant company was levied on.
Opened with a small 4 point rise as buyers and shorts offered resistance, later pulling months 1 to 6 points below Saturday's close. Spot cotton held steady with demand for 875 bales on spot and 2,485 bales for future delivery. Middling spot price listed at 8.00 as the market closed with a slight net advance.
New York March 8 cotton opened steady to a decline of four points with scattered realizing and local selling. Investors renewed buying pressure as months sold near prior close. Southwest acreage rumors suggest minor reductions but most cables forecast steady Southern spot. Liverpool under tone yet demand remains. Spot middling uplands 8.76 with 1,800 bales sold.
Liverpool cotton market reports firm spot prices for good middling at 5.41 and middling at 5.09 with low middling 4.69. Sales reach 48 000 bales while speculation and export stand at 2 500 bales and receipts at 4 960 bales. Futures trade barely steady with May-June 4.95 and October- November 5 2012.
In early dealings on March 38 in New York the market showed a firmer tone despite London’s discouraging session. Local leaders advanced fractionally with New Haven Interborough and Maxwell Motors rising over a point. New Haven gains stemmed from stronger January results while steel activity appeared in reports from several centers. American Tobacco and California Petroleum preferred shares were among heavy issues advancing.
A compiled list of current stock prices across major rail, steel, oil, and tobacco firms. Entries include Amalgamated Copper, American Can, American Tobacco, U S Steel, Union Pacific, Bethlehem Steel, and others with bid prices and fractional changes displayed.
Stanley Dixon a former deputy sheriff faces trial on charges of assault to murder in the case of Henry J Quinsey of Prichard. The incident occurred on Christmas Eve 1914 when Dixon shot Quinsey in front of his home after an altercation over alleged language. Dixon claims self defense claiming Quinsey threatened him with a pistol.
Harry R. C. Hanson of Chicago, guest at Silver Hill Baldwin County, visits Mobile and plans to attend the Mobile Aerie F. O. E. meeting. He is past president of the Chicago general lodge of Eagles and praises the mild Mobile climate for his health.
John T. Donovan of Spring Hill avenue near Owen's lane died Monday at 12 10 p m after a six week illness. A well known Mobile resident with many friends, his death will be read with deep regret.
In city court Monday Sher wood Pickens was found not guilty of larceny of several whiskey bottles from J. B. Webster's wholesale house on Government street near Royal. Arthur Walker faced assault and battery charges. case reset for March 22. Tuesday’s docket lists Ollie Barney in two horse stealing cases and Jesse Cunningham for assault to murder.
In Savannah dated March 8 a Turpen tine firm shows sales 9 and receipts 250 casks while Rosin firm records receipts 574 barrels. Bid prices listed across several grades from 2.95 to 5.55 dollars with multiple letter grades including B D F G K M N WG WW and more.
Marriage licenses were issued by the probate court on Monday to Otto Friablom and Emma Howell, Edward Gaines Cowart and Lervenla A. Dees.
Walter Jackson and Frank Hill were arraigned before Judge Henry Chamberlain on Saturday and fined $1 or ten days on the charge of vagrancy in the inferior criminal court.
The Supreme Court annulled North Dakota lignite coal rate limits and West Virginia two cent passenger rates as applied to specific lines. It held states cannot force profits below reasonable returns, even if other articles could yield higher gains. Justice Hughes stated states have broad railroad powers but no ownership rights.
The Johnson Willard heavyweight title bout is slated for Havana Cuba in the first week of April, announced by Willard manager. Willard in Los Angeles said he will leave soon for Havana to fight Jack Johnson after a brief stay in the city.
The American schooner James W. Paul Jr. left port Sunday with flour grain and general merchandise for Progreso Mexico. An order for 2000 barrels flour and 2000 sacks corn and grain was filled by M Porchheimer Grocery Co and Alabama Corn Mills Co by 10 PM Saturday. William Whitlich bought the cargo and left for New Orleans.
Special to The Item. Birmingham reports a fire in Wetumpka Alabama destroyed 2500 bales of cotton and a residence. Loss estimated between 75000 and 100000 dollars with about 75000 dollars insured. The cotton was stored in the Central warehouse.
The state of Alabama versus Mobile Item Company was reset to March 15 in the law and equity court by Judge Safford Berney after attorneys were detained in other cases. State Solicitor N R Clarke and Attorney General W L Martin attended the hearing.
In Machias Maine on March 8 Werner Horn the German who tried to blow up the Vanceboro international bridge was moved to Bangor for arraignment on a federal indictment charging illegal interstate transportation of explosives. United States Marshal Wilson handcuffed Horn to a deputy as he protested and wept during shackling after serving a county jail sentence for aging property.
In Anniston Alabama on March 8 the bodies of J A Cooper his wife and their son L A Cooper were found in the Cooper home. The son appears to have shot his parents in bed then killed himself with a shotgun found beside his body. J A Cooper formerly edited the Monticello Times in Georgia.
Taken up Sunday February 28 1915 at 8 30 am on Jefferson and St Anthony Streets six goats white black brown gray will be sold at city pound Wednesday March 12 at 12 noon redeemed by owner James Curran Impounding Officer Rheumatism Yields Quickly to Stat is an ad line about Sloan's liniment promising quick relief for rheumatism colds and similar pains
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