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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1915
Page
2
A Fort Transfer Company truck involved in a deadly collision on Dog River led to a lawsuit by 718. The driver, a negro, had not been located weeks after the wreck as county officials delayed an inquest. No inquiry has been initiated yet.
Reported shift in war front as Bulgarian forces move toward Serbia and Greece with Allied strategic options and potential regional impact. Dispatches note Russian position improvement but no major changes on the eastern front. British hold lines on the French front amid ongoing engagements.
New dispatch reports Bulgaria mobilizing all men up to age 58 with martial law proclaimed. Citizens under 45 barred from leaving the country. Bulgarian artillery massing along the Dobruja frontier near the Danube, amid Danubian tensions and regional unrest.
London Oct 2 officials say Sir Edward Grey signaled Austro German officers in Bulgaria and Turkey joining the Germanic bloc. Entente planners consider options to aid Balkan states and potential Greek troop landings at Saloniki to counter Bulgarian moves. Romania’s stance remains assumed pro allied, with Serbia and Greece central to defense plans.
Botton condition and ginning reports delayed until next Monday due to southern storm. Newburyport Herald to publish final edition today. it began in 1773 and has never missed. Several minor items note tax and crime actions, a life sentence for a Florida murder, and a Winnipeg arrest over alleged funds in construction. Also mentions the Cotton Exchange closing late and a Belgian court case.
Washington reports outline a shift from submarines to a stronger dreadnought plan while maintaining submersibles. Confidential findings praise nets mines telephones and high speed motor boats in repelling submarines and sustaining a sizeable cruiser navy.
H A Thompson of Greenville and Alabama Democrat secretary visits Mobile to drum up support for a new Montgomery weekly newspaper with $50 000 capital. The Alabama Democrat promises restored Democracy and broad efforts to secure peace and progress for Alabama.
R. G. Cobb presented figures to the Mobile Chamber of Commerce rates committee after review of hundreds of changes in the new cotton schedules. He says Mobile has about 60 percent of the originally demanded rates and that further efforts may seek the remaining 40 percent.
A firsthand narrative describes the New Orleans hurricane's destruction in the business district with flying debris unroofed buildings and citywide darkness. The narrator notes frightened residents, widespread debris, water flooding streets, telegraph lines down, and a protracted delay in leaving the city before escaping by train through Baton Rouge and Meridian to Mobile.
John A. Goeb aged 60 died Friday at a local infirmary after illness. He owned property on Dog River and moved from St. Louis to Mobile County. remains were sent there for interment. Albert Fritz, electrocuted during a Wednesday storm, was laid to rest Friday at Magnolia cemetery with a large cortege. Services were at 254 South Jefferson Street led by Rev Gardiner C Tucker. Pallbearers: William Coster A V Farmer Charles Wasmuth H Oberkircher H A Hudoff.
Funeral services for John Parcell were conducted Friday afternoon at Dixon & McKay parlors with Rev. R A Pearce of St. Pauls Episcopal Church officiating. Interment followed at Magnolia cemetery with Odd Fellows rites by Alabama Lodge No 1. Pallbearers listed.
A chaotic court session notes Doctor Brown narrowly reporting a birth as a number and not a name, a debt collection tale, and a sailor blaming a shipboard incident on general profanity. Police dismiss a traffic arrest, and the Muscovitz case ends with a discharge after domestic dispute and a $10 disagreement.
Barnett Warren of Bay Shell road near South End was arraigned in the inferior criminal court on cruelty to an animal after beating a horse with a heavy wood. Judge Chamberlain fined $10 or 20 days with sentence suspended to October 16. Other cases included Ben Franklin assault $10, Rosa Battles burglary bond $500, Son Monk vagrant to gaming $1, Mayer Mitchell prohibition law case continued to October 4.
Pecan trees are expanding across Mobile County as orchardists plant more this season, outpacing citrus demand. G. B. Green of Irvington notes rising pecan market interest, with per-tree profits highlighted and prices expected to grow. The Irvington citrus exchange lists sixty members with about 25 percent savings on boxes.
City Engineer Wright Smith reports Mobile’s steel shed at Dauphin Street escaped major harm from Thursday’s storm. Only pilings needed minor repairs costing $25. roof remained intact and the $50,000 structure is “as good as new.” He praises the design and cites it as a model for Jacksonville engineers.
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