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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1913
Page
2
On moving day Saturday residents shift to new homes as transfer firms deploy twelve drays. Gas, electric, and water departments gain from service changes, while many renters seek suitable houses after days of searching.
Lloyd D. Batre, 53, a Mobile banker and business leader, died Friday night after a brief illness from heart failure. He helped form Thames and Batre and served as vice president of Merchants Bank since its founding. Survived by his mother, sister Adela, brother Charles in Arizona, and other relatives. Funeral at 3 p.m. Sunday from the family home. Magnolia Cemetery interment.
Rev Murdock Murphy will preach Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the Broad Street Presbyterian church located at Broad and Selma streets. The sermon title is The Supremacy of Christ from Colossians 1 18. All are cordially invited to attend.
Senator O Gorman of New York says he will vote for Judge McCall, the regular Democratic candidate for mayor. The White House reportedly backs Fusion candidate John Purroy Mitchel, while Malone, O Gorman's son in law, spoke for Mitchel in New York.
In Milford Massachusetts Daniel J. Cooper a farmer guided officers by lantern light to a swamp nine miles from town and indicated the grave he said hid the body of Alfred Bradish whom police say he killed with a revolver on October 4 after shadowing him from the farmhouse. Cooper confessed after an all day questioning and was arrested following the body’s discovery. Police say motive remains a mystery and Cooper denies jealousy as a motive.
Captain Corne lius Glenn Collins pretended to represent a British banking house at the Investment Bankers Association sessions in Chicago. Baltimore police sought him on forgery charges after a London cablegram denied any connection and he vanished from the hotel leaving an unpaid bill and a suitcase with one collar.
Louis Modeno, nephew of Emilio Aguinaldo, is on trial in Los Angeles on a murder charge. He allegedly shot Carl Linehardt, a Black man, July 22 in a dispute over a woman. Modeno is defended by Frank Dominguez, who once represented Aguinaldo in Manila.
A Bantam D. man with a four year ulcer on his foot refused amputation and used Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a last resort. He says the salve cured his foot, praising it as the best remedy for burns cuts and bruises. Available 2 cents from druggists or by mail from H E Bucklen & Co Saint Louis.
A Halloween prank with a six foot diameter cable drum rolled down a hill at thirty miles per hour striking a water plug and flooding a street. Four bystanders narrowly escaped as water blew through a saloon door. Police and fire units battled the flood for two hours to restore order.
Associated Press reports two youths died during Halloween pranks in Chicago. Morgan Campbell, 16, touched a charged arc light wire and was instantly electrocuted. Tomaso La Quinto died later in hospital after being struck by a fire department wagon responding to a false alarm set by a prankster.
Walter Lane aged 17 was shot and killed after a Halloween prank on Third avenue Knoxville when a wagon blocked a street car track. The trolley wire was removed, car crew and passengers cleared the wagon, and someone fired a pistol. Motorman and conductor were arrested but deny firing. A pistol was later found in a sandbox inside the car.
In Chicago on Halloween night Mrs Hulda Ewert 52 and her daughter Mrs Alma Stenersen 32 both widows collapsed from heart disease. The daughter died within a half hour at a party as the mother, warned of the illness, tried to join her and then died on a street corner.
James Burke and Frank A Noonan, accused pickpockets, posted 300 bonds each the day of the president visit, failed to appear before Judge Edington, bonds forfeited, alias writ issued, Crenshaw and Edington unable to raise funds. Dempsey, held on grand larceny charge, discharged due to complainant absence. Burke and Noonan comment. $600 collected for non-appearance.
Alexander Sutherland, a Scotch sailor aboard the United States revenue cutter Wi nona, was jailed Friday by order of immigration officials after refusing to pay $5 for naturalization papers. He is not yet a citizen and did not claim naturalization.
Francis Kiernan a notary public and adjutant of Withers and Buchanan Camp UCV died after injuries from a Spring Hill lime car accident. He served in the Fourth Alabama regiment and fought at Mobile Bay. Survived by his wife and a daughter.
Edward Rell aged three was hit by a Cedar street car Friday afternoon while crossing Augusta street Our Alley on his way to school. He was thrown into a ditch and suffered a broken right collar bone and bruises. The motorman stopped only after passengers urged him. The company claims the accident was unavoidable and the boy was taken home by the motorman.
James J. Hill reportedly secured controlling ownership of the Prairie Dubhien and Milwaukee division of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad from Holland capitalists. The Milwaukee road, leased for forty nine years, may expire in 1915 after Hill’s European trips to finalize the deal.
Stephenville Texas Mrs Jay McGee suffered for ten years with headaches back pain and womanly troubles. She tried Cardul the woman's tonic and reports immediate improvement and full cure after completing the treatment. The ad urges other women to try Cardul for relief from pains nervousness and weakness.
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