American note to Japan independent of Britain or Russia
White House confirms US representations to Japan over China demands were independent of Britain and Russia actions. Officials note ongoing efforts to influence Japan to soften demands and protect US rights while keeping steps confidential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Britain
Russia
Washington
White House
United States
China
State Department
Tokio
Peking
Japan demands threaten Chinese independence and coasts
London reports the Manchester Guardian prints a complete list of Japan’s demands on China. Editorial notes many terms are omitted or altered, revealing China could lose sovereignty, while Japan seeks leases and exclusive mining rights in key regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Manchester Guardian Today
Japan
China
Peking
Yang Tse
Allies Warn Japan Over Chinese Demands
A Peking dispatch said the Allies warned Japan against pressing demands on China. Washington told Tokyo that some demands violated existing treaties with China. Britain suggested Tokyo confine itself to initial requests to avoid future diplomatic friction with allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Japan
Washington
Tokio
China
Irish Parade Halts Court for St Patrick Day View
Judge Safford Berney paused court to watch the Barrancas artillery band play Tipperary during a St Patrick Day parade. About sixty Cathedral boys from Franklin and Dauphin streets marched in green rosettes and rods, drilled by sisters, drawing applause as they passed the courthouse windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safford Berney
Law and Equity Court
Barrancas
Tipperary
St. Patrick's Day
Cathedral Boys
Franklin and
Dauphin Streets
Bond Reduced and Browne Freed After Peace Bond Review
The peace bond for Ewing Browne, set at 1000 by Recorder D. H. Edington after Browne used abusive language toward the recorder, was reduced to 300. Browne paid a 10 fine, 24 hours in jail, and 50 as days, and was freed after two bondsmen signed the peace bond Monday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewing Browne
D. H. Edington
Browne
Pool Room Owner Granted Grace to Raise Fine
Poolroom proprietor Jack Adreades of Conti and Royal streets was arrested Wednesday morning by Detectives Newbern and Haris. He pled guilty in recorder's court and his case was continued to March 22 to allow accumulation of the license amount. He was advised to bring a little over the sum to cover the fine and court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Adreades
Conti and
Royal Streets
Newbern and
Haris
Recorder’s Court
Adreades
Dog winners corrected for Gulf Coast Kennel Club
The corrected awards list shows Highland Jean as first in the small terrier class, Dorian's Irish Lass as first among Joy Boston terriers, and Dorian's Irish Lass winning top honors in the bull terrier class with Mrs. Evan McDonald and Herbert as owners noted for the Pug Cavet entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Mooge
Highland Jean
Evan McDonald
Dorian
Joy Boston
Pug Cavet
Herbert
Cadets Hold Banquet in Mobile Armory
In the armory hall Wednesday night a banquet of officers of Company A Mobile Cadets was held with about fifty men present. Short talks were made by Captain McMeans Lieutenant Enero and several non commis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armory Hall
Company A
Mobile Cadets
McMeans
Enero
Wilson to attend Methodist General Conference meeting
President Wilson accepted an invitation to join the Methodist Episcopal Church South general conference in Washington next week but will not speak. He also weighs speaking at a Richmond Labor Day event if invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
General Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Washington
Representative Glass
Virginia
Richmond
United Shoe Machinery Corporation
United States District Court
Boston
Bigees
Ponter Thiericwens
R. H.peditor
Sona
de Olden Ps
Virginiean
Anti-Saloon League
Norfolk
Sprague
Pardos Cap
Sylvia C. Hall
New Haven
Cape Lookout Shoals
Cape Lookout
Mexico City
el Paso
Harvard ‘Medical School
American Ambulance Hospital
France
Militia Department
England
William J. Grogan
Grogan
Sebastopol
Budapest
Hungary
Macedonia
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
London Daily Mail
Madrid
California Assembly
Public Morals Commission
Switzerland
Dardanelles
Constantinople
Lloyd Line
Dallas
Peru
Dresden
Ontario
Education Department
St. Helier
Jersey
Charles Edmond Akers
New Hampshire House
Pike County
Kentucky
Henri Leten
Brussels
Vonseeeine
Ireland
Nevada Senate
Vienna
Army transports to carry Philippine exports to the U S
Washington March 18 Secretary Garrison outlined a plan to use army transports to move exports from the Philippine Islands to the United States due to shipping shortages. Each ship offers about 3 000 tons capacity and freight must be contracted through the island government. President Wilson approved the plan and proposals from private shippers will be invited to handle exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Philippine Islands
United States
Garrison
Wilson
Atention
Harrison
Philippines
Daniels
Secretary Garrison
Terrific British Shelling at Neuve Chapelle Dooms Village
An eye witness reports Neuve Chapelle reduced to ruins by heavy British bombardment. German defenders, though outnumbered, offered stubborn resistance and suffered severe losses, with claims of up to 18,000 German casualties. Prisoners praise German discipline amid the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Neuve Chappelle
Neuve-Chapelle
France
Great Britain
Leopold of
Hohenzodllern
Neuve Chapelle
Prince Frederick Leopold of Hohenzollern Cousin of Kaiser
Prince Frederick Leopold of Hohenzollern, born in 1805, is a cousin of Emperor William. He has held a commission as first lieutenant in an infantry regiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
Frederick Leopold of
Hohenzol
Emperor William
Henderson Receives Civil War Letter Relic
Governor Henderson was given a Civil War era letter found on a Virginia battlefield. Written by Alabama soldier W. H. Terence of Loundesboro, it asked for furlough to visit home. The 1863 letter was recovered by a federal soldier and sent via his sister in New York before reaching Henderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Henderson
Virginia
Alabama
Loundesboro
N. B. E. Irvin
Westfield
New York
Irvin
W. H. Terence
Col
R. H. Chilton
Army of
Northern Virginia
Department of Archives and Hisory
Bananas Not Affected By Kew Canadian Tariff
Ottawa reports modifications to the Canadian tariff. seven and a half percent duty on most items on the free list will not apply to bananas and several other goods. The liquor duty applies to the cost before excess charges in origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Weather forecast for Mobile and Alabama
The report notes generally fair conditions with little temperature change tonight and Friday. In Alabama, fair skies prevail with a slight warming trend possible tonight in central areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Alabama
German merchant claims Dervish conquest of Sudan
A German traveler quoted by Vossische Zeitung alleges that the Dervishes control the whole Sudan including Khartoum and parts of Nubia. He cites battles near Fashoda in December where British General Hawley and many officers were killed, and asserts Dervish forces seized railways and posts from Cairo to Alexandria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Egypt
Sudan
Khartoum
Nubia
Vossiche Zeitung
Fashoda
Hawley
Pyramids
Fayum
Cairo-Assuan
Alexandria-Cairo
Damanhur
White Nile
Nabar-el-Asl
Constantinople
North Africa
Alabama Taxation Committee Begins Work At Capitol
The legislative finance and taxation committee met in Montgomery to organize a plan of work for a new state tax system. Members include Rep Weakley chairman and senators Hartwell Key Hall. The panel invites public suggestions during travels to Decatur Dothan Mobile and Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Legislative Committee On
Senate
House
Capitol
Representative Fite
Marion County
L. B. Haley
Birmingham
Decatur
Dothan
Mobile
Weakley
Tax Reform League
John B. Weakley
Tunstall
Hale
Bradshaw
Lauderdale
Yarborough Lee
Fife
Marion
Hartwell
Key
Franklin
Hall
Houston
ONeal Reveals Views On Stolen State Funds
Former Alabama Governor Emmet O Neal testified in executive session to a legislative probing committee about who benefited from the ninety thousand dollars stolen from the state convict department by clerk Theodore Lacey. He said he believed he knew who got the money but would not publicize names due to ongoing trials and penitentiary sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Emmet O'Neal
Alabama
State Convict Department
Theodore Lacey
O’neal
Dock Board Men From New Orleans See Cotton Compress
Visiting dignitaries from New Orleans including A M Lockett Walter Van Benthuysen and T S McChesney toured the Magnolia Compress in Mobile and praised the Standard Cotton Compress as a new epoch in warehousing and shipping of cotton. The group met city officials and engineers from Ford Bacon Davis and noted the first cargo aboard the Albanian bound for Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnolia Compress Company
New Orleans
A. L. Black
Ford, Bacon & Davis
Lucien Voorhees
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Louisville and Nashville
Pillans
Lyons and Schwarz
Worley
Standard Warehouse and Compress Company
J. T. Schley
A. P. Bush
Magnolia Company
Liverpool
All of Evelyn's Crew Safe After Sinking Mine Strike
Five crewmen of the American cotton steamer Evelyn report all hands saved after the vessel hit a mine in the North Sea on February 19. The ship stayed afloat seven hours, two lifeboats were launched, one picked up by a German boat, the other by another craft. The five survivors arrived in New York aboard the Matanzas from Bremerhaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Evelyn
North Sea
Matanzas
Bremerhaven
Governor appoints two to state livestock sanitary board
Montgomery March 18 Governor Henderson announced the appointment of R. J. Goode of Gastonburg and Clarendon Davis of Huntsville to the state livestock sanitary board. The action adds two new members under a law signed today, with the commissioner of agriculture as chairman and other ex officio members from Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Henderson
R. J. Goode
Gastonburg
Clarendon Davis
Huntsville
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Commissioner of Agriculture
College of Veterinary Science
Essor
Rnek
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Dividend Declared by Receiver for the Old Freedmen's Bank
Postmaster J Blocker Thornton reports another dividend has been declared by the receiver of the defunct Freedmen's bank. The bank failed nearly fifty years ago and many local African Americans suffered losses. Thornton did not know the total payout but urged heirs receive what is due, even if small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Blocker Thornton
Freedmen’s Bank
Mr. Thornton
Auto collision suit over bicycle injury seeks 500 dollars
Alex Wildman Jr through Clark Brown & Howard sues Frank H Beaufort in law and equity court for 500 dollars for injuries on March 18 1914 after an auto hit him on Dauphin street as he neared his bicycle. Separate actions filed include Dr Alfred G Ward vs Serio Turpentine Cup Co for 58 dollars and Blacksher Co vs W K Linscott for 100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Wildman, Jr
Clark, Brown & Howard
Law and Equity
Frank H Beaufort
Dauphin Street
H. A. Felberman
Alfred G. Ward
Serio Turpentine Cup Company
Stevens, McCorvey & Mcleod
and Equity Court
Blacksher Company
W. K. Linscott
Jitneys Kill New Car Barn Plan in Mobile
President J H Wilson of Mobile Lights and Railroad Co announced the Spring Hill Avenue car barn project costing 75000 likely will not begin this year due to jitney competition. The plan aimed to start April 1 and provide four months of employment, but bids were cancelled as jitney autos and buses intensified the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
J. H. Wilson
Mobile Lights and Railroad Company
Spring Hill Avenue
Pine
Relief From Cold Wave Expected Within 24 Hours
Washington dispatch reports the weather bureau forecast relief from the Southeast cold wave within twenty four hours as a Texas rainstorm moves eastward. Early indications suggest unsettled, slightly warmer weather across most southeastern states by tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Téxas
Confesses Role in Priest Killing and Police Slaying
Bernard Montvid confessed to aiding the murder of Rev. Joseph Zebris, priest of the Lithuanian Catholic church in New Britain Connecticut, and his housekeeper on February 8. He is held with Peter Krakas for the police murder in Wilmington. The pair are also linked to the Brookline Massachusetts drug clerk slaying on November 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Bernard Montvid
Joseph Zebris
New Britain
Conn
Peter Krakas
Charles J. Merrill
Brookine
Mass
Davis Boys Held In Robbery Case
Charles and Estanley Davis were held on $500 bonds after a robbery at the American Laundry safe. A second suspect, Charles Davis, faces an additional $300 bond as evidence linked the theft to Captain Reed’s watch. Witnesses included the brothers’ relatives and the laundry owner. Captain Reed denied giving the watch to anyone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
D. Hl. Baington
Charles Davis
Capta
Bam Reed
B. Holatrd
Estanley Davis
George A. Potter
W. D. McKinstry
American Laundry
Mattie BB. Davis
New Orleans
C. B. Davis
Captain Reed
Petition for Thaw’s release circulated in hotel lobby
A petition asking that Harry K. Thaw be declared sane and allowed to return to his Pennsylvania home was freely signed at the Cawthon hotel, reaching fifty two signers on Thursday. It is directed to the U S Representatives and Senate and will be forwarded in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Pennsylvania
B. Hervey
Cawthon Hotel
United States House of Representatives
Senate
Mecklin Lumber Co Incorporation Filed in Mount Vernon
Incorporation papers for the Mecklin Lumber Company were filed in the probate court outlining a Mount Vernon Alabama headquarter operation. The firm, capitalized at 20000, will engage in milling and lumber business with W. H. Mecklin as president, Mark H. Mecklin as secretary treasurer, Charles Louterback as vice president, EE. May and Ber Driest as directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mecklin Lumber CO
Mecklin Lumber Company
Mount Vernon
Ala
Ubsiness
W. H. Mecklin
Mark H. Mecklin
Charles Louterback
EE. May
Ber Driest
James Webster Found Guilty of Burglary in City Court
In city court on a late Wednesday afternoon, jurors found James Webster guilty of burglary in a break in at Peter Antoine's Fulton road home. Webster stole two razors and a gun before being remanded to the county jail to await sentencing on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Webster
James Webster
Ebster
Peter Antoine
Fulton Road
Hides Stolen From Flomaton Buttressed by Police Arrests
George Taylor and Ben Sherman were charged with grand larceny after police found four cow hides in their possession last Saturday night. W. H. Merwin of Flomaton identified the hides as stolen from his butcher shop, where the thieves took them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Taylor
Ben Sherman
W. H. Merwin
Flomaton
Ala
Merwin
Fire damages by sparking at multiple addresses
Wednesday fire report lists a one story frame at 1005 Texas Street owned by Mrs. C Burkett with slight damage from sparks at 8 45 am and a two story frame at 53 Dexter Avenue owned by Mrs M R alight with a blaze noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Street
C. Burkett
Dexter
Avenue
M. R
Przemysl Outer Forts Fall as Gzar Forces Advance
Paris dispatches report German forces in Przemyśl and Italian Riviera alerts, with Allied fleets tightening Dardanelles operations. Smyrna suspension allows Turkish batteries to repair while Turkish troops around Constantinople reportedly bolster defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Italian Riviera
Auth
Nice
Dardanelles
Milan
Corriere Della Sera
Canada
Cha Kalessi
Smyrna
Egypt
Havas
Asiatic Turkey
Sea of Marmora
Constantinople
BAC
Athens
Gallipoli
Europ
Turkey
Outer Forts at Przemysl Fall
London reports say the outer forts of Przemysl have fallen to Russian forces, with British observers noting possible German redeployments east of East Prussia and the impact on plans to strike west. Neuve Chapelle victory boosts Allied morale as the army supports heavy costs to advance toward the Dardanelles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Przemysl
London
Londons
Petrograd
East Prusia
Berlin
Tauroggen
Ytzargen
Langszargen
Prusi
Exi Stanislau
Kolomea
Bukowina
East Prussia
Germany
Neuve Chapelle
Peelic
England
Brighton
Dardanelles
Washington Trade Body Promises Constructive Help to Business
The new Federal Trade Commission announces a policy of constructive helpfulness toward business. At a conference with President Wilson the commissioners say they aim to map out ways for interstate corporations to conduct trade in conformity with anti trust laws. They will coordinate with the department and the courts and begin inquiries into common selling practices by foreign corporations to see if similar agencies exist abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Wilson
Department Office
Cies
William M Teague of Montgomery Dead
William M Teague, a former resident of Montgomery and a Confederate veteran, died at age 72. The brief obituary notes his standing as a longtime resident and his service in the Confederacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Teague
Montgomery
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