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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Oct 03, 1913

Page

4

Academic delegates attend open event in New Jersey

Delegates from UK and French universities visit New Jersey for a formal opening ceremony. Professors Shipley, Codley, Boutreux, and others will deliver congratulatory addresses and lectures as part of the academic celebrations.

N. J Openneeton Hus Shipley Ege University of Olds Reicl Geheimret Irat University of Red Dennis Codley N. A Magdalen College University of Oxford Emil Boutreux University of Paris Thiers French Academy Élegates

Whipperpoorwill Invades Congressional Hall

A whippoorwill wandered into the U S House of Representatives chamber on October 3. Doorkeepers and pages attempted to remove it for an hour before a page opened a light, allowing the bird to fly out safely.

Whipperpoorwill Congressional Hall Associated Press House of Representatives

Baseball Writers Association to Meet in New York

The Baseball Writers Association of America announced a special meeting to be held at its New York headquarters next Monday afternoon.

Associated Press Philadelphia The Baseball Writers’ Assoion of America New York

Fire Threatens Gallatin Business District

Fire in a Gallatin restaurant last night caused about 40 000 in losses and threatened to destroy the city business district. Nashville sent aid after flames spread rapidly and delay hampered local firefighting. Ernest Jones' stable burned. a man presumed intoxicated is missing. Horses and several stables suffered heavy losses, with Union Hotel and Gallatin Machine Company among insured properties.

Associated Press Nashville Tenn Gallatin Flamea Fie Enine Ernest Jones Tom Bradley Briggance & Caldwell Marnest

Heirs Cannot Recover Money Paid Treasury

Inventory of the estate of Lester Jacobs shows $2,000 stolen from the Treasury vaults during the 1906 quake and fire. Jacobs covered the loss privately and his heirs’ claim for reimbursement is deemed of no value. Guards and confusion noted. the loss had been publicly known.

San Francisco Lester Jacobs United States Jacobs Sub-Treasury Yesterdday

Keep Children Off Streets In New York

The National Highways Protective Society urged teachers and clergy to warn parents after its September report shows many children killed or injured in street accidents. Secretary Edward S. Cornell said to forbid children from using streets as playgrounds as wheel traffic claimed young lives in 1913.

Associated Press New York National Highways Protective Society Edwards Cornell

Judge Warns Attorneys Ahead of Possible Impeachment Call

In Des Moines on October 3, Judge Smith McPherson of Red Oak Iowa exposed a threat of impeachment from Hugh J. O'Brien Rochester New York. O'Brien demanded reopening of the Sydney Company bankruptcy case of Ottumwa Iowa and pledged to go before the House judiciary committee over a $572.58 payment dispute involving a New York receiver.

Associated Press Des Moines Iowa Smith McPherson Red Oak United States McArthur Hugh J. O’brien Rochester N. Y Sydney Company Ottumwa New York McPherson Lomis Judiciary Committee House of Representatives

Even horse dealer unable to unravel marriage tangle

A. O. Jacobs, a Kansas City horse dealer, faces a complex bigamy case with five claimed marriages. The trial hinges on whether divorces and prior marriages were legal, as Jacobs admits he cannot recall all the details amid disputed unions with Mrs. Mary Paul Jacobs and others.

Associated Press Kansas City Kas A. O. Jacobs Jacobs Heraed Biga Jacobe Mary Paul Jacobs Ora Andrew Jacobs Kansas Merle Maher Jacobs Fort Scott Katie D. Lamaster Jacobs Jonesboro Ark

Citizens Savings and Trust Company Closed in Milwaukee

State Bank Examiner A B Koult announced Citizens Savings and Trust Company liabilities exceed 1 million dollars. The bank had been in precarious shape for years as officers engaged in unbusinesslike practices since 1909 with false entries and diversion of funds. A B Gellfuss was placed in charge after officers were dismissed.

Associated Press Milwaukee Wis State Bank Examiner A. BE. Kouit Citizens Savings and Trust Company Koult A. B. Gellfuss Trust Company

Four Trainmen Killed in Engine Collision Near Stephens

Four trainmen died and another was fatally injured when a locomotive pulling a pile driver and a freight engine of the St Louis Southwestern crashed near Stephens Arkansas late last night. The deceased were H C Davis engineer Mimo Missouri Arthur Young fireman Pine Bluff Ark Aubrey Fields fireman Thornton Ark Charles Cheek bridgeman and William McCabe engineer of the freight train believed fatally hurt. Several others were injured but not seriously.

Associated Press Stephens Ark St. Louis Southwestern Railroad H. C. Davis Mimo Missouri Arthur Young Pine Bluff Aubrey Fields Thornton Charles Cheek William McCabe

Sons of deputy offer to help hang path killers

Jose and Alberto Ortiz, sons of Deputy Sheriff Candelario Ortiz, seek to be executioners if death sentences are given to the thirteen Mexicans and one American accused in the murder trial in Pearsall Texas. Sheriff Hess agrees to allow their assistance. The Serrato trial was delayed by motions as the case went to the jury.

Associated Press Pearsall Texas Jose and Alberto Ortiz Candelario Ortiz Dimmitt County Hess Jose Serrato

Women Puts First Woman Taxi Driver in New York

The Women’s Political Union enters taxi business with Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch signing partnership papers with Mrs. Olive Schultz. Schultz will drive a five passenger touring car from October 7 in front of the union HQ on West Forty second Street. She will be New York’s first woman taxi driver. She notes a meter makes the car a taxi and will share profits with the union which will gift a ribbon and goodwill. Schultz previously scouted for General Rosalie Jones on suffrage pilgrimages.

Associated Press New York Women's Political Union Harriet Stanton Blatch Olive Schultz West Forty-second Street

Two Men Injured By Collision Near Attica Switch

Two men loading brick from a freight train were probably injured when Wabash Railroad passenger train No 4 known as the Continental Limited from St Louis to Buffalo ran into an open switch two miles east of New. Passengers unharmed and equipment undamaged.

Associated Press Attica Ind Aielio Wabash St. Louis Buffalo N.Y Neve

English singer Marie Lloyd and jockey to be deported

Marie Lloyd, English music hall star, and Bernard Dillon, English jockey, arrived as Mr and Mrs B Dillon and were ordered deported yesterday. Lloyd admitted she and Dillon were not legally married but said she had lived with him for five years as his wife.

Associated Press New York

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