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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1913
Page
9
William Lartigue a dairyman on Cadar Point Road was arrested Wednesday morning by Assistant Milk Inspector George W Fordney on a charge of carrying garbage in a wagon used to deliver milk. The case is set for recorder's court Thursday morning.
E. H. Gottschalk of 257 South Franklin Street and F. G. Adams of 67 Government Street were arrested Wednesday by Patrolman J. A. Kinnamon and charged with throwing bills and advertising matter in yards. They face arraignment before the recorder Thursday morning.
Detectives said the leak of electrical wiring plans for the dreadnought Pennsylvania will likely hinder the investigation. Officials noted no foreign connection and that the missing papers were duplicates and not military secrets. The losses, possibly due to clerical errors, prompted tighter handling of war documents.
At the 19th Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration in Mohonk Lake New York Dr Lyman Abbott chairing opened by calling disarmament an Utopian dream He warned that force will persist until a greater power than armed men can protect innocence from injustice His speech came after his split with the American Peace Society and was seen as a response to that break.
In Montgomery on May 14 Governor O Neal paroled seven white boys aged 15 to 18 who had been sentenced to 34 days hard labor in Lee county for unlawfully riding trains. A black detainee from Lee county also freed. The group, en route to Jefferson County mines, pledged to be good men after a governor's lecture.
Christine Kunz as guardian for minors Christine Dominick and John Kunz will sell at public outcry for cash in front of Mobile County Court House on May 19 1913 at noon. The property spans several tracts totaling about 15 acres in Mobile County described by section township and range, including five acres in the SW quarter of the NW quarter of Section 31 and other five acre parcels in Section 36, plus an additional five acre tract in Section 31 referenced by metes and bounds. Auctioneer is R J Doyle under the court decree issued April 21 1913.
Alabama farmers report boll weevils in the western end of Monroe County. Commissioner R F Kolb confirms the pest eating corn and reducing cotton stands, with seed scarce and the mild winter blamed for the early invasion.
In Sparta Wisconsin on May 14 William Hogue aged 70 killed his wife with a poker fatally shot his daughter Mrs Guy Wilson wounded his son in law Wilson and then took his own life by cutting his throat He attacked the Wilsons in their home half a mile away after killing his wife and returned to his dead spouse to end his life
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