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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1914
Page
3
St Louis prepares to open the baseball season with an intracity series. The National League team of 28 arrived from St Augustine, Florida, and the American League squad is expected tomorrow. The opener will be played at the American League park torn up by winter football and soccer.
Superintendent Charles M Erdman Deputy Superintendent Charles T Duncan and a group of Metropolitan Life Insurance agents will depart tonight at midnight for Montgomery to attend the company convention opening Saturday at noon. Attending agents include P J Burns Geo C Westcott Moses Barton Geo Lest Turner R A Levinsohn Jas B Rawls Frank Fisher D P Burns W R Hinton John L A Peahs and Jos Boylan.
At a special Mobile city commission meeting the vacancy left by the late B B Boone was filled by Robert H Smith of the firm R H & R M Smith. The salary was cut from 3600 to 2100 and the appointee may not devote all his time to city work. Other applicants included Carl Mc Mahon D B Dobbs and R P Roach.
Seeberg Steamship Line president H. F. Kerr announced bananas will enter Mobile after April 1 starting with the steamer Cratheus sailing to Jamaica and Haiti. Cratheus will return about 30 000 banana bunches from Guatemala and Honduras. The move adds a fourth company and may expand other vessels itineraries to include Honduras.
A decree pro confesso was handed down by Federal Judge Toulmin in the United States district court Thursday against all defendants in the United States vs Hieronymus Lumber Company et al. Charged with illegal floating of logs on sack rafts the practice deemed a nuisance by the government.
Iberville Historical Society discussed a memorial to the late T. C. DeLeon and appointed a five member committee to arrange it. The meeting noted the death of Alice Fortier of Tulane University, an orator at Mobile’s 200th anniversary celebration. A plan for annual excursions to local historical sites was proposed.
Mo bile county state senate hopeful Harry T. Hartwell says if elected he will push legislation to deed land in Mobile bay to the city of Mobile for terminal facilities below Choctaw Point. Hartwell, vice president of Turner Hartwell Docks Co, has supported the move for years.
Report notes a musician rumored to let his hair run wild when unable to play a tune. Observers speculate on style choices and stage persona influencing public perception.
A notice filed in Atlanta on March 27 announces an extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, awaiting execution for Mary Phagan's murder. The filing, dated April 16, claims new favorable evidence since conviction, including affidavits challenging trial testimony, alibi claims, and questions about the location of notes. If denied, an appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court is expected.
A site at the head of Bay John on the Little Lagoon near Bon Secour was chosen for the Y M C A camp for 1914 1915 and 1916 with a three year lease. Palmetto Beach was considered but the Little Lagoon location was favored for a permanent camp with a large spring and grounds to be cleared for baseball and other activities. A joint Pensacola Y M C A camp plan was dropped to allow equipment to stay year round. After the membership drive a meeting will set plans for the 1914 camp.
Charles Balzir, a well known Seventh ward resident, was bruised after tripping on an obstruction set in the sidewalk near Davis' drug store on Davis Avenue. He was thrown to the ground and suffered a badly bruised eye, near loss of the eye. Police seek information about the unknown parties responsible.
William Washington was sentenced to death by hanging for an assault with a pistol. The sentence followed a Friday city court proceeding and included hard labor requirements on the county road before imprisonment in the county jail. He also received a forty day term for nonpayment of labor duties.
Andrew Jackson Sheridan a 74 year old reputedly wealthy writer of verse drowned yesterday in the Kansas River near Kansas City Kan friends believe the accident occurred while he was near the stream seeking inspiration from the water headlines said the body was not recovered by press time
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