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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1912
Page
11
A late night blaze gutted the Hull and Canal streets plant of the Manchester Board and Paper Company in Richmond. The main factory and outbuildings were razed with all paper stock lost. losses are put at 75,000 dollars with insurance. One fireman and a spectator suffered minor injuries.
The jury in a United States district court in St. Louis reported it found E. G. Lewis not guilty on three mail fraud counts and could not agree on the remaining eight counts. The jury was discharged.
Reverend Marshall Hall Lane a noted Baptist minister and educator died in Atlanta at 67. He formerly led Central Baptist Church Nashville and preached in multiple Georgia towns. Lane served six years as president of Horn Institute at Cave Springs and recently suffered a stroke.
Rescue Lodge No 24 Knights of Pythias plans to confer the rank of knight on three candidates from Rescue and Red Cross lodges at tonight’s regular meeting. The ampli fied team has rehearsed to present the work in first class shape with refreshments to follow and a good crowd expected.
Governor C B Colquitt rejected claims the state textbook board sought to remove Lincoln’s picture from history texts. He said he would resign before his children study books without Lincoln, noting his Confederate soldier father. He denied any board member proposed removing Lincoln’s image.
Brief note seeking several violin pupils with attention to each reasonable. Call Belle at the listed phone number by 11:18.
In Mobile Alabama a law and equity court attachment was issued September 24 1912 in Eugene Latady vs W L Moore for 402.50. Property described includes furniture art equipment and various camera goods seized by the Mobile County Sheriff. Moore must appear at the current term to defend. November 4 1912. Attest Ss H Smith Ex-Officio Clerk.
Rochester police claim George H. Stearns of Boston matches the murderer description of Joseph Josephs the Syrian boy from Lackawanna. Stearns was arrested on a separate maltreatment charge. Handwriting specimens will be sent to Buffalo for comparison with postal card samples as authorities pursue identification.
Atlanta pamphlet argues railway mail pay is unjustly low. Committee on railway mail pay claims 214 275 miles of railways across 268 companies support the view that operating costs exceed payments, leaving no return on property value. The group represents 92 percent of U S mail routes and urges congressional and public understanding.
Dr. F. Hale begins a health lecture series at the Y M C A gym tonight at 8 15 p m on the structure of the human body health and disease. The talk will last about fifteen minutes and will not interfere with regular classes. The public is invited.
Vienna reports the Austro-Servian rift worsened by Serb press denunciation of Austria and alleged abuse of Austrian consuls in Albanian towns. Consuls claim they were blocked from leaving posts to avoid exposure of Serb conduct toward Albanian inhabitants. Public opinion calls for a clear resolution.
Belle Sommers, once a famed madam, will run a new refuge for fallen women in Atlanta within days. She has donated 2500 dollars toward the home, which Marion Jackson of the Men and Religion Forward Movement says needs 10000 more to establish the facility named Pietemics of Martha's Home.
In Pensacola Florida on Sunday November 1 a historic county court session convened under Judge Leggs to receive the second degree murder trial verdict for Wil Feaward. The jury, after twenty four hours out, returned a mistrial and the court adjourned after only a few minutes.
George Newton aged 70 was killed in Raleigh when a falling casket display case crushed him as he visited the undertaker to buy a coffin for his wife who had died in a local hospital hours earlier.
In St. Louis on November 18 Al Whitfield a Negro ex convict killed Patrolman Arthur N Huddieson and wounded three officers after midnight prompting a $100 reward for his capture dead or alive Chief of Police William Young announced He shot Patrolman Huddieson then wounded Patrolman Kelly and escaped He was later cornered in his home but fled again wounding watchman Henry K Larhorat and Patrolman Fred Duntaan before final pursuit.
Dr. Thomas M. Owen announced plans for a fireproof archives and history building on the capitol grounds in Montgomery. The project would cost about one hundred thousand dollars with no state expense, awaiting legislative machinery to accept a gift and to be ready for the 1913 trustees meeting.
Roos of 10 North Jackson street reports David Blackburn missing since November 6 after visiting Roos on November 5 to borrow a ladder for wallpapering. Blackburn, about 60, 5 feet 6, sparse build with black hair and moustache, was last seen in the southern city area.
New York police report Charlotte Westland a young widow, after a quarrel with her fiancé, leapt 150 feet from the Manhattan Bridge into the Hudson River. Thomas De Jackemo credited with preventing an earlier jump by a subway, but no body was found.
The Spring Hill College Juniors travel to Mobile to face Jesuit High School of New Orleans on Saturday November 23. Both teams are evenly matched and eager, with Captain Morere predicting a Spring Hill victory for the Purple and White defense.
In Merryville Louisiana 1300 workers are on strike at the American Lumber Company plant. The plant will start week with non union labor under Santa Fe Railroad Company direction. Officials fear trouble if union workers are used as tensions rise among workers and sympathizers. Forest fires disrupted communications yesterday, but reports say they have ended and company militia has left.
Pensacola, Fla with a second division of the Atlantic fleet due to arrive from New Orleans morning. The four battleships part from the fleet and will spend a few days at each port including New Orleans and Galveston before possibly returning to Pensacola. A torpedo flotilla of twenty five vessels may join later with a month stay possible.
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