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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1914
Page
1
Paris reports General Pau, aide to General Joffre, credited by the French for halting a German breakthrough and beginning a rapid German retreat toward its own borders.
A wreck near Klondyke spur 35 miles north of the city at 3 10 this morning left seven dead and about thirty injured. Among the deceased are MARCELLUS HASSELLE of York Alabama JACK RYAN age 70 and an unidentified white man C T FALLON of Stonewall Mississippi. Also ELISSM SMITH five years old of Gulfport and others are listed as dead or missing. Engineer Will Jones of Birmingham and M M McDonough former Frisco agent at Birmingham died after relief reached Meridian. The injured total about thirty with two in critical condition.
Three Mobile passengers aboard the A. G. & train wreck near Livingston escaped injury. Albert P. Bush vice president of the T. G. Bush Grocery Company and prominent Alabama businessman, Sam Zimmern president of Zimmern's Coal Company, and Miss Harriett Fitts daughter of W. C. Fitts of Birmingham were among those involved but all were unharmed after the last sleeper. Bush’s safety was confirmed by a telegram from the Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railway agent to John T. Cochran and later by a personal message to Robert F. Neville.
Special to The item reports a fatal train crash near Meridian Alabama. Eight people are dead and thirty injured as the Alabama Great Southern train wreck details unfold with responders at the scene.
Five masked robbers raided the Kankakee residence of Mrs Nellie Clark seizing diamonds and jewelry valued at 60000 after forcing the safe open and binding Mrs Clark and her companion Margie Miller. They fled in an automobile as a pursuing posse closed in.
The Public Health Service reports widespread trachoma in eastern Tennessee especially among mountaineers with some cases in northern Georgia. Overcrowded insanitary cabins and irregular health examinations are blamed. It calls for excluding afflicted children from schools and public gatherings until cleared of infection.
German authorities occupying territory around Kalisz in Russian Poland called to the colors all German residents aged sixteen to forty five. Many fled. twenty were caught and hanged, according to a Petrograd dispatch reported by Reuters.
George D. Barnard of St. Louis sent a $190 check to Governor ONeal for buying two bales of cotton as part of the Buy a Bale movement. The stationery maker has sent similar sums to governors of cotton states.
Rome dispatch cites Austria seeking peace amid unrest in Bosnia and Dalmatia. Berlin reports informally proposing U S mediation to obtain terms from Britain France and Russia. Von Bethmann Hollweg conveyed to Ambassador Gerard that Germany seeks peace but must defeat France and also vanquish Britain and Russia.
Allied officials report modest gains along the Oise to Woevre front with German counterattacks repulsed on the left. Center forces show the Germans reinforcing with fortifications while maintaining a defensive stance from Rheims to the Argonne. In Lorraine and the Vosges, German positions remain defensive near the frontier as speculation grows about next moves and potential flanking by Allied forces.
Dispatch from Col Golejewski cites continued Russian pursuit along the front with Sandomir taken, Krozeshow bridge head seized, and the baggage trains and thousands of prisoners captured near Jaworow. Eastern Prussia reports only minor skirmishing. London reports Servians evacuating Serlin and advancing toward Belgrade with Austrian hostages taken during Semlin retreat.
Battery B First Field Artillery Alabama National Guard was mustered out of service by order of Adjutant General Joseph B. Scully following disorderly conduct at the recent Mobile artillery encampment. Major L B Dorrance W B Bailey inspector instructor and Major General Leonard Wood advised the decision. Captain Sam Roswald of Montgomery issued a statement defending his unit.
In Eureka Utah on September 18 a hundred fifty miners work in 15 minute shifts to reach the last 10 of 12 men buried by last night’s cave in. They believe the men are within 50 feet but soft debris requires timbering and slows progress with little chance of survival.
Governor Simeon KE Baldwin was nominated for United States senator at the Democratic state convention in Hartford. He defeated Congressman Bryan F. Mahan of New London by 377 to 225 on a roll call vote. The platform backs President Wilsons foreign policy on Mexico and pledges support for a constitutional amendment granting women the vote in Connecticut.
Washington dispatch reports Republican Leader Mann objected to all business causing four roll calls with no progress after reading the journal. Democratic leaders adjourned the House in despair.
The German consul general in Amsterdam through London declares there is no truth to the claim that Germany has offered King Albert of Belgium separate peace terms.
New York on September 18 reports another steep drop in currency values as cables and demand sterling against London quotes slide to 2 1 4 to 23 4 cents under yesterday's high. The fall partly reflects foreign demand for the new City notes.
Fire at a moving picture theatre in DeQuincy La last midnight destroyed 12 business houses with an aggregate loss of 60000 dollars. The blaze began shortly after midnight and caused extensive property damage in Lake Charles area. Authorities investigation continues to determine the cause.
Governors of nine cotton states meet in Washington to consider a 250 million dollar bond plan to buy and store five million bales of cotton at ten cents a pound. The scheme, tied to the Vreeland Aldrich currency extension, would halve next year’s cotton acreage and hold stock until market recovery.
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