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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1913
Page
3
Cordele Georgia October 18 fire consumes Pless Williams livery and sale stables wagons buggies automobiles and adjoining buildings Twenty mules die in the blaze with an estimated loss of fifty thousand dollars and minimal insurance comment notes stock market advice amid the same column.
The fourth division of the Southern Dry Goods Merchants Association met in Montgomery Alabama with eighty four houses represented. Murray Brown of Birmingham presided and spoke on eliminating bad trade and moving heavy jobbing from New York and Eastern points to the South. J H Johnson urged the shift. Delegates were entertained by local jobbers, a banquet followed the forenoon and closing business. The full association will convene in Mobile in May.
Milburn Wright and Toxey Bowen each received five days in jail after a Seattles charge case tied to a thirty five cent matter involving Albert McMurray. The defendants gave notice in court as proceedings moved forward.
Four women died and Edwin Schurz a Hobart M. Cable Piano Company treasurer was seriously injured when his car collided with a Pere Marquette freight train near La Porte Indiana. The dead include Mrs Fannie Heinze Mrs Carlton Schaffer and Mrs William Brace. Mrs Brace survived at first but died later.
In Barboursville Kentucky a slate fall in the Carter Coal Company mine at Warrens killed Thomas Pritchard and brothers Thomas and William Clark. An unidentified man was fatally injured. The accident occurred today as rescue and investigation began.
In Kieff Oct 18 the Beiliss trial heard the entire testimony of today focusing on a $20,000 bribe offered to Vera Cherberyak to confess complicity. No evidence directly addressed Beiliss guilt, while police officers countered Cherberyakk claims of a bribe to implicate others.
The ad promotes Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment as a soothing skin medicine that clears impurities and stops itching. It guarantees speedy healing of eczema rashes ringworm tetter and other eruptions and offers mail order at 60 cents from Pfeiffer Co Philadelphia or St Louis. It also contains a quip about doctors becoming scared.
The Hague October 18 The Dutch government named Chevalier W F L C van Rappard formerly Dutch minister to Morocco to replace Jonkheer J Loudon as Dutch minister in Washington confirming a diplomatic appointment.
Vienna Oct 18 Koloman Kania von Kany chief of the literary bureau of the Austrian foreign office is appointed Austro Hungarian minister to Mexico. The announcement comes as Austria Hungary reshapes its diplomatic staff in Latin America.
In the inferior criminal court on Saturday Tom Rigby Will White A Smith and George Moore were fined one dollar or ten days each for gaming P D Cadliss also punished twenty dollars or ten days as a repeat offender.
Five licenses were issued in the probate court on Saturday. The couples named include Charles Ward Saxon with Eunice M Chappell and William Lewis with Hazel Meyers.
A list of major maritime disasters with ships, dates, and fatalities including the Atlantic, Elbe, La Bourgogne, Norge, General Slocum, Larchmont, Berjp, Yug, Tatsh, Republic,Athenton, Koombana, Asia, Liberte, Tucapel and Titanic. Details show a pattern of catastrophic losses and varying outcomes for passengers.
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