Villa withdraws after four desperate rushes on Agua Prieta
Villa ends a night of heavy bombardment and fierce assaults on Agua Prieta as American troops report wounds on both sides. Calles claims 45 killed and 75 wounded with higher unofficial counts. refugees flood nearby camps while Villa plans new attempts with reinforcements and ammunition supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas
Ariz
Agua Prieta
Carranza
Francisco Villa
Villa
Calles
United States Army
United States Customs House
Louis F. Taylor
Harry Jones
Company C
Eleventh Infantry
Army Field Hospital
James Tank
Customs House
Agua Prista
Pirtleville
J. J. P. Armstrong
German Crown Prince Dead Declared by Diplomat
Turin reports Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany has died. A Rome dispatch to Gazetta dei Popolo, cited by a Vatican diplomat, says the papal nuncio at Vienna sent a cipher message to the secretary of state confirming the death. The diplomat provided no further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turin
Paris
Frederick William
Germany
Rome
Gazetta Dei Popolo
Vatican
Vienna
Mgr
Scahinneli
Building in 31 Planned During Negro Day at Fair
Twelve negroes led by David Patton pledge $500 to build a Negro Building for the Gulf Coast Exposition of 1916. The crowd heard reports of mobile colored schools exhibits and demonstrations in handiwork cookery and canning. The dedication site was set, attendance opened to whites, and fireworks planned for the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Patton
Mobile County
Gulf Coast
Plateau
Whistler
Prichard
Owens School
Mobile
Plateau Institute Club
Nightingale Singing Club
Plateau Institute
W. F. Knight
Directors urged to call Chamber membership meeting
Meeting called for November by President Walsh to consider revising by laws. Ways and Means committee to send a by laws committee to present proposed changes for member consideration. No other business scheduled for the directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Comcede T
Walsh
Ways and Means Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Ways
Seizure of American Steamer Hocking Questioned
Secretary Lansing cables Ambassador Page to seek grounds for the seizure of the American steamer Hocking taken at Halifax by a British prize crew. Consul General Young reports the Hocking lies in the Halifax prize court custody with no official reason given for seizure and questions over registry transfer. The vessel, once Granland, belonged to Copenhagen coal merchant Albert Jensen and was registered after a prolonged investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lansing
Ambassador Page
London
Hocking
Halifax
State Department
Young
Albert Jensen
Copenhagen
Denmark
Wagner
Government Stung in Aiding Refugees
New York report lists 552 war loan delinquents claimed as New York City residents. Investigators found many used fictitious names and addresses, with some absent from hotels and apartments, others in Paris or never in Europe. Some promised payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Europe
Sub-Treasury Office
Secretary of the Treasury
New York City
Sub-Treasury
Paris
City Detectives Raid Two Tigers Tuesday Morning
City detectives raided the Kaiserhof Hotel at 8 South Conception Street and John Adams stand at No 10 adjoining at 10 o clock Tuesday morning. Seven cases of beer were found at the Kaiserhof and proprietor P H Hamel was docketed for violating the prohibition law. In Adams place five half pints were found on Peter Serda who was arrested along with Adams for violating the prohibition law. All arrested awaited appearance before the recorder Wednesday morning. The raid was led by Chief E T Rondtall with Detectives Murphy Lacy Burch Pearson Bauer and Newbern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiserhof
South Conception Street
John Adams
P. H. Hamel
Adams
Peter Serda
Serda
Recorder
E. T. Rondtall
Murphy
Lacy
Burch
Pearson
Bauer
Newbern
Selma Woman Ends Life in Waters of Alabama
Mrs. Hattie Thomas Campbell aged 40 wife of U S Commissioner W K Campbell ended her life by leaping into the Alabama river near her West Selma home after a period of illness and mental depression. A note indicated she chose the river route and a drag party searched the river for her remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SELMA
Alabama
Ala
Hattie Thomas Campbell
United States
W. K. Campbell
Campbell
Willard to Defend Title in New Orleans March Bout
World heavyweight champion Jess Willard and manager Tom Jones announced a contract agreement with Dominick Tortorich and Tommy Burns for a two round defense in New Orleans during the first week of March.
Submarine delivery delays as winds halt three F class boats
High winds and heavy seas delayed the progress of three F class submarines due in San Francisco, communications show the Maryland cruiser reported. The brief also notes railway leadership changes in Kentucky Division of Illinois Central and a Tennessean killer captured in Norton Virginia, plus a powder plant explosion injuring seventeen in Carney's Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
San Francisco
Maryland
New Orleans
Tl. A. Downs
Kentucky
Louisville
Ohio River
Norton
Dederick Seguines
George Campbell
Johnson City
Tenn
Knox County
Tennessee
Wilmington
Del
Carney’s Point
City Commission In Brief Session In Mobile
The Mobile city commission approved 19512.50 to retire paving bonds Series D and F as of November 1 1915 and directed checks for semi annual interest shares to Peoples Bank of Mobile and American Exchange National Bank. Petition to repeal meat pedaling ordinance laid over. Soft drink license transfer to southeast Pine and Congress streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyons
Board of Commissioners
City of
Mobile
Peoples
Bank of Mobile
American Exchange National Bank of
New York City
Prichard
F. W. Williams
Gulf Coast Fair Grounds
Pine and
Congress Streets
Tobacco growers petition move of U S tobacco to neutral ports
Virginia and Tennessee growers told Secretary Lansing that British restrictions keep nearly all of the 1914 crop and much of 1913 in warehouses. They urged special representations to Great Britain to permit free movement of U S tobacco to neutral ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Virginia
Tennessee
Lansing
Great Britain
United States
Weather forecast for Alabama Mississippi and Mobile area
Mobile forecasts fair tonight and Wednesday with cooler conditions. Winds light and variable. Washington reports cooler air spreading across Alabama and Mississippi with a mix of fair and chilly spells tonight and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Washington
Alabama
RUSSIAN EXPEDITION REPORTED LANDING AT VARNA BULGARIA
Balkans developments slow in news as Varna is cited as a landing for Russian troops. Reports from London and Paris note British and French forces near Avala Kavala and rising tensions with Romania in war forecasts.
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Varna
Bulgaria
Amsterdam
Balkans
Tageblatt
Sofia
Avala
Greece
Kavala
Aegean
Saloniki
Roumania
London
Asquith
House of Commons
Roumatia
Paris
Vienna
Austria
Lower Danube
Sucharest
Nish
Vardar
Athens
Riga
Russia
Bucharest
Asduith
Rotary wedding at far proves a brilliant event
Mobile's Rotary Club staged a mock wedding at the Gulf Coast Fair drawing thousands. Miss Ila Packer Blacksher appeared as the bride with Gen Prosperity as groom, under President Palmer Pillans, amid lavish stage decor and a formal ceremony led via megaphone to reach the vast crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mader Studo Mobile Society
Gulf Coast Fair
Fair
Ella P. Blacksher
Henry Bethea
Mobile
Rotary Club
Mobile Society
Drago
Helen Terrill
Helen Broadwood
Toxey Haas
Austin Wilson
Celia Webb
Annie Moore Provost
Dick Crawford
Walter Boyles
Margaret Blackshiel
Margaret Horn
Austin Pharr
Sledge
Cottrill
Miss Pryor
Carroll Fox
Carl McMahon
Ila Packer Blacksher
Rotary
Palmer Pillans
Henry Wade du Bose
Tuscaloosa Man Shot in Quarrel Over Debt
In Tuscaloosa Alabama W C Hancock a grocer fatally wounded J W Barnett yesterday in front of W H Alston store. The men quarreled over a small debt. Hancock allegedly stepped on Barnett s neck and aimed at bystanders after the shooting. Hancock is in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
W. C. Hancock
J. W. Barnett
W. H. Alston
Barnett
Hancock
Harrisburg Orphanage Fire Sparks Rescue
Harrisburg Pa November 2 Sylvan Heights Orphanage a Catholic institution burned today but its 103 children who were at mass in the chapel when flames were found were led to safety. The building stood on a hilltop and flames shot high as detectives blame wiring defects and a sister found the phone line too hot to touch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Sylvan Heights
Editor Calls Honest Returns for Gulf Coast Lands
Thomas Ewing Dabney editor of the Ocean Springs News advocates fair advertising for gulf coast lands. He denounces inflated land yield claims and urges truthful figures, noting orange trees yielding high profits and suggesting 8 to 12 percent average dividends with investment, plus cattle to bolster orchard profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Thomas Ewing Dabney
Ocean Springs News
New York Women Debate Prohibition Action
A New York women’s group discusses action on Prohibition era policies. The report highlights civic engagement and social reform debates among local women activists.
Don’ts for Women Watchers at Polls Issued in New York
The Woman's Political Union and the Woman Suffrage party issued a list of polling do nots for watchers. The guidance advises observers to be calm and dignified, avoid exuberance or flashy attire, and not disrupt inspectors. It cautions watchers to stay quiet and attentive, not to argue, and to focus on their duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Woman's Political Union
Woman Suffrage Party
Election day heats up woman suffrage across ten states
Voters in New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania and other states considered woman suffrage as the main issue with proposed constitutions and gubernatorial contests. Weather remained fair as early voting rolled in, with attention also on New Jersey Ohio Mississippi Kentucky and Virginia ballots and local races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Mary
Kentucky
Ohio
New Jersey
Mississippi
Gan
Virginia
New York State
New York City
Pennesylvania
Sun
Philadelphia
Six Thousand Women at New York Polls for Suffrage Vote
In New York six thousand women began polling duties before daylight as voters prepared for a statewide ballot on a separate suffrage referendum and a new constitution. Other issues included taxation, reapportionment, and 27 million dollars in barge canal bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New
Funeral notices for Joseph B. Pidalz posted in 1915
Pidalz Joseph B. entered into rest in November 1915 at 5 15 p m Funeral services from the residence of his son in law George W hit Monroe street tomorrow Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock Interment in Pinecrest cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pidal
Joseph B. Pidatz
George W
Monroe Street
Pinecrest Cemetery
Lost items advertised in brief notices
A Waterman fountain pen and a lady's purse with a man's watch were lost with return prompts to DeSha Niplon and B S Aldridge at Van Antwerp's. A Masonic watch fob and locket with pictures are offered for recovery at Burke's Cigar Store on Royal Street, with a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeSha Niplon
Dauphin Amnck Frankin
B. S. Aldridge
van Antwerp
Burke's
Phin Ani Royal Streety
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N. G
England
Berlin
Cacak
Serbia
Kraguyevatz
Gibraltar
Empire State
Prohibition
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