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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1913
Page
7
Vienna reports a transition budget for the first half of 1914 needing nearly 30 million in loans to cover a 312 million dollar six month expenditure. Proceeds will fund the army navy and railways as Baron Engel Von Mainfelden explains the deficit stems from Balkan events.
A reflective line states that life challenges center on gaining self mastery rather than serving or being controlled by others. It emphasizes personal discipline and autonomy over dependency.
The Supreme Court considered whether a British firm, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, is entitled to annual subsidies under the Spanish-America treaty ending 1898. Justice Day led the American delegation that drafted the treaty. Government attorneys argued the US avoided Spanish obligations, yet international law could still imply responsibility.
After thirty years of litigation the American Bell Telephone Company asks the Supreme Court to decide the amount of royalties owed to the Western Union Telegraph Company under the 1879 contract. More than 6 million dollars is involved as Bell pays 20 percent of rentals and 5 percent of stock in licenses. The dispute centers on whether Western Union is entitled to 20 percent of stock acquired. The court may rule within two weeks on reviewing the lower court’s decision in favor of Western Union.
Sylvia Pankhurst was released on license from Holloway jail in London. She appeared feeble after a weeklong hunger strike following her arrest on October 14 during a clash between police and suffragists in the East End.
Rev. John G. Brodt of the Third United Presbyterian church was released in St. Louis after a preliminary hearing. A 16-year-old boy had charged him, but the judge did not believe the boy under oath and barred any defense.
Rev. Edward J. Gleason SJ, professor of philosophy at Loyola University and lecturer on legal ethics, died in Chicago yesterday. He previously served as president of St. Louis University.
Washington report shows Civil War pensioners totaled 462,379 on July 1, with 1,142 Mexican War and 1,066 Indian War cases remaining. The total pension roll stood at 820,200, down 40,094 from last year, while Ohio and Pennsylvania lead states with the most recipients.
Shelbyville Indiana October 23 The trial of Dr Wm B Craig charged with murdering Dr Helene Knabe in Indianapolis October 28 1911 was moved here for venue and set to begin November 28 before Judge Blair A M Ragsdale Indianapolis undertaker indicted with Craig did not join in the plea for change of venue and his hearing date is not yet fixed.
Manila Oct 23 Serious fighting has occurred and continues at Talippa Mindanao between Tribes men and Philippine scouts. Five scouts killed eight wounded Captain Harry McElderry of the Thirtieth company wounded The Thirteenth Sixteenth Twenty first Twenty fourth and Thirty first companies engaged since yesterday morning
Paris, Oct 23. J P Morgan called at the French foreign office with Myron T Herrick, the American ambassador, to thank the foreign minister for military honors to his father's memory as his body traveled through France for burial in America. He also thanked for a gold medal awarded for his role in funding the Leon Blanc hospital at Aix les Bains.
General Venustiano Carranza said he would complete his Constitutionalist cabinet with justice and instruction departments, forming six ones. He orders campaigns against Culiacan and Mazatlan as Obregon prepares to attack Cullacan with 4 000 troops and 20 machine guns. The rebels issue 600000 in Sonora state paper currency to replace hoarded silver. The piece ends with a stray remark about duty and praise and a call to make room for football players.
O Neal appoints Alabama rabbis as delegates to the International Congress of Rov man Jewish Emancipation in Berlin Germany January 23 82 to aid persecuted Jews in Roumania action relief.
Berlin reports Ludwig Goldberger, commercial privy and former president of the permanent Exposition Commission, has been tired from the permanent on grounds of ill health. Born Tarnowitz in 1848, he had opposed German Poating in the Panama project.
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