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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1913
Page
8
Uhlan the world champion trotter lowered the state mark at Hamline Minnesota by racing a mile in 1 59 8 4 at the Great Western races yesterday. Poor track conditions prevented a new world record.
Associated Press reports Lee Simms, a Black man, was executed in Little Rock for the July 28 assault on a white woman in Prairie county. He is the first person put to death under Arkansas new electrocution law amid state-issued media restrictions.
George Reed former manager of the Pacific Mining and Shelting Company in Chihuahua reached Douglas Arizona after being captured by Mexican bandits who hanged him to a tree and demanded $2000 for release He paid and survived the ordeal according to a Herald special from El Paso Texas.
Starting Monday September 1 the dispensary at the Medical College will operate 2 to 4 pm daily. It will be closed in the forenoon. Entrance is on Lawrence at the corner of St Anthony Streets.
In Chico California on September 6 a diamond ring setting valued at 200 dollars lost by Mrs. N T Enloe was found in the gizzard of a spring chicken killed for a Sunday dinner. The gem came from her engagment ring as a last bird yielded the prize.
On the testimony of Dan Burden a man confined for liquor sales without license Peter A Venturini a retail liquor dealer at Virginia and Mary's Lane in Maysville has been cited to appear before the Mobile excise commission on September 11 to show cause why he should not be punished for violating the rules of that body Burden testified he was selling liquor for Venturini.
Eugene H. Decker and Clarence E. Decker, father and son, faced horse theft charges in district court. Eugene pleaded guilty to absolve his father of complicity while Clarence was acquitted. The Decker family and their wide riding reputation were noted as context. The horse belonged to Ira H. Olmstead.
In Dayton in a quirky tale, Louis Motzel and Florence Igou faced repeated call interruptions as a telephone wedding attempt finally concluded when Squire Koehne completed the ceremony. The piece notes additional office mishaps with two clerks involved in earlier events.
Judge Chamberlain in the inferior criminal court fined trespassers on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad property. Deputies and Fitzpatrick Agency detectives arrested them Wednesday night. Fines were 100 dollars or 30 days. Julius Locket, 500 dollars or 140 days for possessing a concealed gun. Defendants John Banks John Lockett W L Crawford and John McCurdy faced no counsel. Two rifles were admitted as evidence.
One hundred five native men women and children drowned while crossing the Beas River in Hoshiarpur district Punjab on the way to a fair. A sudden heavy flow from the mountains swept them away as the river widened at that point.
In Seattle on September 6 deputy Sheriff George H. Webber, escorting Mrs. Bertha Johnson home from insanity proceedings near Tolt, connected with a random Scandinavian passenger who turned out to be her long lost brother. The man, later identified as Mr. Rude, declared, This is my sister I have not seen her for twelve years.
Mrs Mary Everhart of Sharon Pennsylvania appeared dead after heart disease tests showed no life. An undertaker prepared her body for embalming but she woke, asking what was happening as her children learned she was alive. She fainted and remains in critical condition.
John Broad of Lansing, a longtime G A R figure, is listed as dead by war records. He says he is alive after fifty years of trying to correct Washington. The department maintains Broad was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia.
International News Service reports Mr and Mrs Charles Carnell of Alton were forced to abandon their Illinois river cottage after a copperhead was found in the parlor. The next day three more copperheads appeared in the bedroom, prompting them to leave for safety.
George M. Reynolds of Chicago told the Senate Banking Committee that making treasury notes legal tender and part of national bank reserves could trigger violent inflation of credits. He said the bill would help mobilize reserves but warned it does not go far enough.
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