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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
7
Spot cotton in New Orleans closed quiet with Middling at 15.50 and December futures rising to 16.33. Liverpool futures stayed barely steady with September to May contract points around 9.30 to 9.34, reflecting modest demand and steady trading.
This year and last year receipts at U. ports for 13 days are 129 448 and 67 307. Exports to Great Britain amount to 19 007 and 13 044. Exports to the Continent total 5 758 and 10 769. Stock this day 528 131 and 718 033 Keeps U. ports since Aug 1 1 502 518 and 200 436.
In New Orleans the cotton market fell 29 to 33 points from selling pressure and bearish ginning returns before fresh demand appeared as growers withdrew cotton from the market. At noon near months traded 15 to 17 points under yesterday, with steadying late in the day. In New York the market opened weak on hedge selling and Wall Street liquidation, with declines of 3 to 18 points, then rallied modestly as covering occurred and buyers returned amid continued selling by Southern producers.
Stock market opened higher after yesterday gains with United States Steel offering 8500 shares and many issues advancing 1 to 2 points. Reading Crucible Steel and Mexican Petroleum led early strength as market steadied in the afternoon amid lighter volume. a police notice ended with a fugitive escape from Chattanooga recaptured.
Hughes in Hampton Beach argues the Adamson act is a wage law, not eight hours. He says failure to settle disputes peacefully risks abdication of government, urges arbitration in labor matters and warns against surrendering democratic freedoms.
Charles E. Hughes arrived in Boston for a brief stop en route to Maine. He will visit several cities there Friday and Saturday and return to Boston on Sunday.
Representatives of the Mobile Bar and Bay Pilots Association will appear before a state harbor board committee on Friday at 4 pm to submit an agreement to settle long standing differences within the pilots association. The harbor board directed the pilots to resolve internal disputes and report back. It is understood a plan satisfactory to all members has been agreed upon.
Carleton Hamilton, a negro, attacked George Thomas with a razor at the Post Office Garage on St. Michael and St. Joseph streets. Hamilton was refused bond and the case was postponed to October 2. Thomas lies in the city hospital with serious wounds but is expected to recover. The city ambulance delay claim is denied by hospital officials.
The fire department received a flexible suction pipe for the new automobile fire unit through Commissioner Schwarz. The unit already has similar gear, but the flexible pipe is needed to operate effectively in confined or awkward spaces.
ATLANTA Ga Sept 7 C D Wayne superintendent of the South eastern Passenger Association was shot and seriously wounded after grappling with a burglar in his bedroom The intruder fired three times Wayne was hit in the groin left arm and over the eye but remained in the struggle burning powder set his night clothes afire His 11 year old son William aided before neighbors tracked the burglar by blood stains and pursued him several hundred feet It is believed the arm wound may have killed the burglar or led to his escape
Reports say hospital farm on the Somme front yielded no success and German forces were dispersed with heavy losses. In Eastern Galicia the Russians reportedly captured 5 600 more prisoners yesterday.
Petrograd dispatch reports the Turkish offensive along the Euphrates west of Erzingan repulsed. In the nott region stubborn fighting continues as Russian forces push the Turks from their mountain strongholds.
Romanian troops report capturing Gyergye Diro Orsova pass on the north and northwest frontier. Seventeen guns and machine guns plus food stores seized from Austro Hungarians. German and Bulgarian forces press a violent assault on the fortress of Turtul with heavy losses on both sides.
London Sept 7 A German attempt to regain Leuse wood on the Somme front last night led to hand to hand fighting with the British. The war office announced that the Germans were beaten back.
London reports on September 7 an Allied statement from Macedonia details patrol raids on enemy trenches near Saloniki and the Struma front with some prisoners taken. The Royal Navy sheltered a battalion opposite Neochari in Eastern Macedonia near Orfan, while on the Doiran front artillery activity was heavy and an enemy aircraft was shot down over Lake Doiran.
The Mobile Tourist Welcome Club filed incorporation papers in probate court. It has no capital stock and is supported by sustaining associate members. 42 active, 105 associate, and 12 sustaining members. The club aims to advertise Mobile area advantages and beauty. Officers: H. W. Taylor president, C. B. Hervey vice president, S. H. Peck second vice president and treasurer, W H. Kemp secretary.
Attorney General Martin says he used personal funds for Girard liquor seizure related expenses and filed detailed accounts in his office. He notes he deposited personal notes in a Montgomery bank, with gubernatorial approval and bank audits showing $408.48 repaid from his own treasury for interest exchange and other items not deemed legitimate state charges.
The attorney general argued the expenses were not extravagant as he listed costs tied to enforcing law and order in Russell county. He said the state must assert sovereignty promptly when its laws are held in contempt, even if it raises costs.
The British steamship Newlands of the Mallory line reached the harbor Wednesday from Huelva Spain carrying 6 900 tons of iron pyrites. She will discharge at Pier 2 of the Mobile and Ohio and then load general cargo for Scottish ports under Mobile Liners Inc.
The British schooner Edna YV Pickles arrived yesterday carrying 980 bales of Mexican sisal from Campeche, Mexico.
The Norwegian bark Nordsgerd now in port will sail to New Orleans early next week to load at that port. The announcement was made yesterday by Louis Donald, agent for the vessel.
The American schooner Henry W. Cramp cleared Wednesday for Genoa Italy carrying 1 055 044 superficial feet of pitch pine lumber and 34 231 deals as its cargo.
The American steamship Munsomo, recently launched at Sparrow's Point in Delaware for Munson line local trade, arrived at the harbor Thursday morning.
The Norwegian steamship Agnella of the United Fruit Company arrived from Puerto Barrios and docked Wednesday with fourteen thousand boxes of bananas aboard.
The American steamship Alamo of the Mallory line arrives Sunday from New York via Key West and Tampa. She will carry freight and passengers and is expected to sail back on Tuesday morning.
The Ward liner steamship Manzanillo is due back Saturday from Progreso, Mexico carrying a cargo of sisal.
Florida Apalachicola Bay St George Light to be relit on August 31 after extinguishment. Summary cites Co and G H chart 183 Highflat Atlantic coast 1916 p 312 No 1761 buoy list 9th district 1914 p 12 coast pilot part VIII 1909 pp 14 177. By order of commissioner of lighthouses Borrey inspector of South lighthouse district.
The Norwegian steamship Rilda, 313 tons gross, was sunk near Rotterdam. The crew were saved. The vessel, built at Preston in 1983, is reported sunk after the incident dated September 7 via London transmissions.
In port at various docks and piers ships and vessels including Henna Munson Line Carmela Grace Harvard Norstjerne Elizabeth T Doyle Ova Rio Lady Shea and Avenger engage in loading repairs and conversions. Ports mentioned include South America Cuba Brazil Honduras and Italy with several firms such as Hunter Benn Lumber Company United Fruit Company and L and N involved at Turner Terminal docks and Pier 6 to Pier 8.
The record lists multiple vessels and their duties including San Cristobal in Puerto Mexico to rebuild on dry docks, Dorothy bound for lumber cargo from eastern ports, Edna V. Pickles sailing to Cuban ports for lumber, Henry S. Little loading lumber at Cuban ports, Perceler to Havana for Bahamas Timber Company, Deveron awaiting repairs in Rouen, J. E. Du Bignon afoul in Pensacola for repairs, Avio derelict in Pensacola for repairs, and Banan bound to Tela Honduras for United Fruit Company lumber cargo due Friday.
The case of Alice Lancashire vs Leslie Lancashire in Mobile Alabama Chancery requires the defendant to plead answer or demur by October 9, 1916. As he is a non-resident in Louisiana, notice is published weekly for four consecutive weeks in a Mobile County newspaper.
Glenn L. Aunspaugh died in Birmingham Alabama on Wednesday morning September 6 1916. Friends of the family are requested to attend his funeral from the residence of his brother Frank Aunspaugh 15 Common Street this Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Interment Magnolia Cemetery.
Dr. W. C. Roycroft, veterinarian, announces location in Médicile at Hospital 106 St. Michael St. and offers both phones, 824. County residents invited to schedule care.
Joe Woods was sentenced to twenty days hard labor by Judge Chamberlain after Willie Bradford testified Woods stole a coat valued at $2. In the same session Morant received a one cent fine on a charge of abuse. Manuel McGowin faced affray charges, with a penalty of $2.50 or three days in jail.
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