Porte Rejects Balkan Armistice Terms Amid War Tensions
Constantinople reports Nazim Pasha ordered to resume operations after the Porte rejects Bulgaria’s armistice conditions. In Sofia Bulgarian reports claim the Turkish cruiser Hamlidieh was blown up by Bulgarian torpedo boats near Varna, though unconfirmed by the war office.
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Nazim Pasha
Bulgaria
Porte
Sofia
Hamlidieh
Varna
Black Sea
War Office
Bulgarian torpedo boats sunk in Black Sea clash
News from Constantinople reports two Bulgarian torpedo boats sunk and two more badly damaged in an action against the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh in the Black Sea. The Hamidieh is said to have escaped with little or no damage.
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Porte
Constantinople
Hamidieh
Black Sea
France warns Porte rs to Christians in the Orient
France notified the Turkish government it would hold Turkey responsible for violence against Christians and urged rigid measures to prevent outbreaks. Paris cites duty as protector of Christians in the Orient amid reports of possible massacres in the Ottoman empire.
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France
Turkey
Orient
Ottoman Empire
Paris
Cotton Ginning Speed Up in Fifth Period Output
Washington November 21 The census bureau reports cotton ginned in the Nov 1 14 fifth period rose about 5000 bales per working day from 1913 to 1914 for a total of 1422299 bales. Cumulative ginnings to Nov 14 reached 8869222 bales with 119291 bales per day on average. Ginning by state lists counts for several states and island ginnings.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Weranba
Arkansare
Seceesetberse
Florida
Ceupaveeewaae
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Saba Maes
North Carolina
Seers
Oklahoma
le Ope Lane
South Carolina
Sieebevathesas Basaee
Fennessee
Texas
Eure
Fiopios
Sam Schepps Freed From Custody In Rosenthal Case
New York November 21 Sam Schepps one of four informers whose testimony helped convict Charles Becker and the four gunmen in the Herman Rosenthal murder is discharged from custody. He had been held on a technical charge of vagrancy. Schepps refused to divulge future plans. Webber Watson and Rose, the other informers, were expected to be freed today.
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New York
Sam Schepps
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Schepps
Webber
Watson
Rose
New Gulf Steamship Line Opens Mobile Office
The Gulf Steamship Company opened offices in Mobile to link Mobile firms with Mexican ports such as Progreso. General Manager I de la Miyar coordinates with wholesalers to build a merchandise trade, with bananas as a later cargo and sisal to follow. The first vessel, American, arrives mid month from New York carrying general goods and lumber to Progreso.
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Mobile
Gulf Steamship Line
Progreso
Mexican
Campannia Naviera del Golfo
Gulf Steamship Company
Cecilia Farley weakens own murder defense in trial
In Columbus on November 21 Cecilia Farley the stenographer on trial for murder admitted intimate relations with her fiancé Jerome Quigley and said she lied to police to help Quigley. Prosecutors pressed her about alleged confessions and she testified she did not shoot Zollinger and acted to prevent Quigley from being shot.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cecilia Farley
Alvin B. Zollinger
Jerome Quigley
Miss Farley
Quigley
Zollinger
Mr. Quigley
Turner
Mr. Zollinger
Turks unlikely to damage as Bulgarians near city
Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, in Constantinople, reports Bulgarians closing on the city and says Turkish forces will have little time to inflict damage if they advance. He notes Bulgarian threat, Red Cross women in the colony stay put, and Russian battleships hovering at the Bosphorus entrance.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Adams Gibbons
Roberts” Colteze
Constantinople
Red Cross
Clayton Case Set for December Trial
Frank Clayton a former cab driver faces trial for the August killing of fellow cabman Alexander Mershall. The city court reset the case to December 13 due to missing state witnesses. An important witness Alonzo Harris was absent and had left the county for Birmingham.
Gulf City Guards Hold Large Military Ball at Armory
Following a battalion muster last night at the armory the Gulf City Guards hosted a festive military ball. Attendance was very large with decorations attractive and refreshments served late into the evening.
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Gulf City
Movement to buy Jeffersons Monticello home faces swift action
Mobile mayor plans to circulate a petition after a letter from Mrs. Martin W. Littleton of the Jefferson Monticello Memorial Association asks for congressional support to purchase Monticello in Charlottesville Virginia. The group urges federal purchase and public maintenance similar to Mount Vernon.
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Senate
Monticello Association
Martin W. Littleton
Washington
Uriah P. Levy
Death sentence not a just one resolves in Alabama ruling
Alabama Supreme Court reversed a Clarke county murder verdict finding Tom Jackson not guilty due to lack of evidence. The court stated there was no guilt evidence and the trial court erred in denying an affirmative charge. The decision suggests potential clearing on new trial if the state offers stronger evidence. Also cases from Wilcox and Geneva circuits were decided.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Tom Jackson
Munson Jackson
Clarke County
Chalmers Coats
Clarke
Ben Jackson
Coats
Neal
Supreme Court
Justice McClellan
South Alabama
J. Hinton Curtis
A. B. Curtis
Wilcox Chancery Court
Elmore, Quillian & Co
Henderson-Mizell Mercantil Company
Geneva Circuit Court
Country wide hunt for Koetters in Kraft murder case
Police across the nation search for John B. Koetters 26 in connection with the Cincinnati widow Mrs Emma Kraft murder in a downtown Chicago hotel He came to wed Kraft who had six thousand dollars Koetters is sought after Kraft was beaten and died three days later Identification of Kraft was provided by her Cincinnati niece Mrs Anna Kloker and her daughter Florence four years old
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Chicago
John B. Koetters
Emma Kraft
Cincinnati
Koetters
Kraft
Anna Kloker
Florence
New Haven Railways Sells 40 Million Refunding Notes
New York November 20 announcement states the New York New Haven and Hartford Railway Company sold 40 000 000 one year five percent notes to a banking syndicate led by J P Morgan & Company. The issue funds a refunding operation as the New Haven has 30 000 000 of one year four percent notes maturing early in 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Company
New Haven
American ranch sacked near Durango by rebels
Reports from Durango Mexico cite 100 revolutionists sacking the American owned Maguey ranch sixty miles west of Durango with buildings burned yesterday. A detachment of Mexican federal cavalry pursued the rebels.
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Washington
Durango
Mex
State Department
Maguey Ranch
Sen Isidor Rayner In Critical Semi Coma State
Washington November 21 Senator Isidor Rayner remained critically ill in a semi coma by late afternoon with his condition practically unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Isidor Rayner
Panama trade conference urged for Mobile leaders and rail lines
Resolutions circulated at the Mobile Chamber of Commerce meeting call for a Panama trade conference in Mobile. The event would invite freight and passenger traffic managers, railroad executives from across the region, and steamship line representatives engaged in Central and South American trade, with Alabama city commercial bodies joining to back Mobile as the state’s sea port.
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Panama
Mobile
Alabama
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Battle House
N. F. Thompson
Muemeritate Hand Congress
Panama Canal
Allegheny Mountains
Great Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Young Man Held on Charge of Forgery
A 19 year old who gave the name R H Hall from Bluefields West Virginia was jailed after offering a forged 45 dollar check to L Hammel Dry Goods Co. The check bore the forged name Albert S Towle former city engineer. Hall claimed he received the check from another, but his statements conflicted.
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R. H. Hall
Bluefields
W Va
Albert 8. Towle
Hall
L. Hammel Dry Goods Company
Weather Forecast For Mobile Vicinity And Mississippi
Forecast calls for generally fair conditions through Friday with light to moderate northeast winds. Temperatures will be colder in northern sections and coastal shipments face 20 degree protection for 36 hours with moderate temps to the east.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Injunction Sought Against City Over Stable Ordinance
A petition filed in chancery court seeks a writ to restrain Pat J. Lyons, Laz Schwarz, Harry Pillans, and City Health Officer A. Mohr from enforcing the ordinance regulating stables for two or more horses or cattle. The suit argues the cement floor requirement is unconstitutional under the fourteenth amendment and would impose unnecessary costs while denying equal protection and sanitary distinctions.
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Pat J. Lyons
Laz Schwarz
Harry Pillans
A. Mohr
G. L
Hi. T. Smith
Wade Vrr
North Royal Street
Chancery Court
Li. T. Smith
Crowds Fill Baptist Revival Across City
A Thursday revival meeting led by Dr. Bruner drew large crowds with a noon shop rally by Evangelist Treadway and an enthusiastic class on personal work at 9:30. J B DeGarmo spoke on giving when he cited Acts 3 1 1. Night services move to Calvary Baptist with Evangelist Low delivering the Wage Question.
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Bruner
Wright
J. B. DeGarmo
Mississippi
Evangelist Treadway
Evangelist John Low
N. M
Mr. Low
Calvary Baptist Church
Drn Bailey
Photograph used in Gibson murder trial
Goeden New York November 21 The state rested its case against Burton W. Gibson charged with the murder of Mrs Rosa Menachik Szabo. Dr Otto A Schultze testified Szabo died July 16 at Greenwood Lake by strangulation not drowning. He supported two earlier physicians and showed a photo of throat organs to illustrate strangulation by force.
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Goeden
N. Y
Burton W. Gibson
New York
Rosa Menachik Szabo
Otto A. Schultze
Szabo
Greenwood Lake
Dr Schultze
Entitled to Prize as the Hard Luck Man
Martin O'Brien of Steubenville claimed the hard luck championship as a cascade of family calamities struck him. His brothers John and Mathew were injured in train accidents, his wife and five year old child hospitalized and died respectively, and his brother-in-law Leo McGinnis suffered a severe fall. O'Brien is a cripple from an earlier railroad accident in which he lost an arm.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Martin O'Brien
O'Brien
John
Mathew
Leo McGinnis
cyBrien
Trial of Schrank Set for Friday in Roosevelt Attempt Case
Milwaukee Wis Nov 21 The trial of John Schrank charged with attempting to kill Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will proceed tomorrow morning Judge Backus announced. The commission examining Schrank's mental condition is expected to be ready to report.
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Milwaukee, Wis
John Schrank
Theodore Roosevelt
Backus
Cnnaishe
Schrank
City seeks rent for wharf lease by Mobile Fish and Oyster Co
City Attorney B B Boone files suit in Mobile City Court seeking 700 dollars plus interest as rent for the wharf at Eslava Street from August 1 1910 to December 1912 under a 1910 lease. The city only discovered the lease recently after a treasurer office error. The Mobile Fish and Oyster Co is named as defendant with M Canizas as general manager.
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City of
Mobile
Eslava Street
B. B. Boone
Mobile Fish and Oyster Company
Boone
Accdent
M. Canizas
German bomb maker Carl Riedelbach puzzles police and alienists
Carl Riedelbach, accused of copying dynamite to blow a city block, challenged alienists with grandiose claims. He declared he is second only to Lincoln in importance and spoke of wanting a wife and a home. Authorities weigh commitment to an asylum as the likely outcome.
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Los Angeles
Carl Riedelbach
Lincoln
Riedelbach
GE official visits Alabama Port amid dredging progress
Mr M S Westover secretary of the General Electric Company touring Alabama Port with Secretary Schwentker of the Alabama Port Company. Henry Horstmeyer, a retired merchant and Schwentker’s uncle, accompanies. Visits by GE officials suggest plans to develop Alabama Port into a deep sea coaling point as dredges dig a channel to deep water.
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M. S. Westover
General Electric Company
Alabama
Schwentker
Henry Horstmeyer
Westover
Big Electric Corporation
Alabama Port Company
Alabama Port
Russian Crown Prince Suffering Tuberculosis and Hemophilia
Berlin dispatch reports the Russian crown prince has hip joint tuberculosis and hemophilia, with no hope of full restoration to health. The claim comes from a Vossische Zeitung St. Petersburg correspondent citing an authentic source.
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Berlin
St. Petersburg
Vossische Zeitung
Federation Delegates Argue Over Gompers Record
In Rochester on November 21 delegates at the AFL session clashed over the president's report on the recent campaign. Conservative and radical wings debated Gompers attitude as Max S. Hayes opposed the report, signaling division within the federation.
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Rochester
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Max S. Hayes
Francis Joseph Praises Bulgarian Army Amid War Frictions
Vienna reports Francis Joseph commended Bulgarian troops for their conduct in war but questioned why Bulgars suffered. He warned against Servian atrocities in Albania, citing Red Cross accounts of Albanian civilians killed and Turkish notables slain by Serb forces near Nish and Kumanovo. tensions flare over reports and consular actions.
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Vienna
Turkey
Balkan
Sofia
Francis Joseph
Prisa
Reichspost
Wagner
Nish
Zivkovitch
Stenitza
Kumanovo
Servian
Velisovitz
Team for Alabama in Interstate Shoot
Montgomery Alabama November d jutant general J B Scully announced the personnel of the Alabama team to represent the state at the Thanksgiving shoot of the South Interstate Rifle Association to be held at Birmingham November 27 and 28. The team includes one captain eight marksmen and two alternates with Lt Col W I Weiss as captain and sergeants and lieutenants from Montgomery Dothan and Selma among the marksmen and alternates.
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Montgomery
Ala
Djutant
J. B. Scully
Alabama
South Interstate Rifle Association
Birmingham
Coloné W. I. Weiss
Second Infantry
Atgomery
E. H
C. B. Teat
Kugh Mvans
R. B
The
Montgomery Blues
Ca Morris
Ceca
Dothan
T. C. Locke
M. BD. Smith
Ordnance Department
J. €. O’connell
Fourth Infantry
W. C. Doster
Selma
Finley asserts law fully complied with Mississippi suit
President Finley of the Southern Railway Company and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company issued a statement regarding the Mississippi anti trust suit. They say the attorney general’s view confirms the facts, that the railroads acted within law, and that the action was conducted in accordance with the arrangements agreed with state officials.
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Finley
Southern Railway Company
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company
Mississippi
Missippi
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NEW Mexican Steamer Line
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Movement
Jefferson
Mayor Schwarz
Congress
Schwarz
Sen. Rayner
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N, O
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CITY
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Federation
Albania
Finley Claims Law
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