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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1914
Page
9
Large stockholders attended a public meeting as dissolution of the company proceeds. Directors and officers answered questions on operations for the year ending June 30 and on recent financing while progress of the territory served was discussed. H. W. Miller.
Dr Edwin A Alderman president University of Virginia and Dr John C Kilgo bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South were elected as directors of the Southern Railway Company at a Richmond meeting. Other new directors include John Kerr Branch Robert Jemison and Charlies Steele. Most directors now are Southern men, fulfilling Fairfax Harrisons January Chattanooga address.
Marriage licenses issued Tuesday in Mobile include Dave Watters with Mamie Allen and Jacob Marii with Marion Simon. An ordinance details a franchised right for the Southernway Company to build a freight office depot and platform on Royal Street, 28 feet wide and 466 feet deep, with paving and maintenance responsibilities assigned to the company and city safeguards.
Petrograd reports on October 11 Russian armored cruiser Pallada was torpedoed in the Baltic Sea by a German submarine and sank with 568 crew aboard. Pallada, 443 feet, 7 775 tons, 22 knots, armed with multiple gun types, was part of the Bayan class with Admiral Makarov and Bayan.
Large audiences at Dreamland theatre attend Monday performances of All in a Fog by Gardner Lawson Musical Comedy Company. Blue Ribbon Chorus delivers musical numbers met with repeated applause, leaving patrons satisfied with the new week’s bill.
The comedy and George Gardner on stage spark loud laughter solving the empty seat problem for managers. Dreamland aims to break records this week. Chief Waskanah of the Sioux tribe gives a widely praised nation‑minded lecture with songs. A Wednesday feature awaits. Donations accepted but solicitation is not allowed.
Today at the Empire theater the Unknown Girl two reel special stars Darwin Karr and Naom/Childera with eight other notable players. Also billed is The Way of the Red Man by Belig featuring Tom Mix. Tomorrow Lubin showcases The Girl at the Lock with Edgar Jones and Louise Huff. Wednesday brings George Ade’s The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much for Nellie with Gerda Holmes and Adele McLellan.
In Capetown on October 13 the union government brands Col Maritz a traitor. A telegram offers the Cape Dutch services to Premier Botha and Ons Land denounces the treachery urging loyal support for the government. The move is expected to clarify the Dutch element's attitude toward the empire.
Paris reports German cavalry reached Cassel and hazards to Hazebrouck as the front line sees continued fierce fighting. French and British forces counter German efforts while Russians press westward and the Meuse area remains a major engagement zone. Zurich dispatches note artillery duels near Belfort and large German wounded movements through Aix Chapelle.
A Amsterdam report says Zeppelins were destroyed in the Dusseldorf raid with four persons killed or wounded. A Times dispatch from Ostend notes a man aviator dropped two bombs there but neither exploded, and refugees are arriving as German forces fed at seven o clock Monday morning.
London reports forty four lists of army losses totaling 211000 wounded and missing, excluding Bavarians and Würtemburgers. Tokio notes efforts to spare noncombatants in Tsingtau. Capetown state that a rebel command has proclaimed itself in northwest Cape provinces.
The text declares martial law across the union amid Col Maritz rebellion in the northwest Cape province. It alleges Maritz and officers defected to German forces, prompting measures to quell treachery and defend loyal citizens. It notes Maritz’s Boer War background and prior German connections.
An involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in the United States District Court on Tuesday against Brothers Mercantile Co of Silas, Cescthaw County. T. G. Bush Grocery Company and creditors are listed in the filing.
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