Convict Leasing Controversy Triggers Inquiry in Mobile
Mobile County orders a full probe into the Huxford-Orvin Naval Stores Company and county convicts amid cruelty claims. County Attorney G J Sullivan and Dr Marion Inge tasked to investigate beatings and governance, with a board meeting outlining potential contract annulment and broader review of convict labor in 1914.
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Huxford-Orvin Naval Stores
Romngany
Bile County
Atmore
Ala
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Marion Inge
G. J. Sullivan
Hagan
Gaillard
Edington
Green
John T. Bauer
Charles Green
John D. Hagan
Huxford- Orvin Naval Stores Company
Mobile County
Hon. Commissioners Court of Mobile Co
Mobile
Honorable Commissioners Court
M Huxford-Orvin Naval Stores Company
Huxford-Orvin Naval Stores Co
Inge
Tariff bill from full conference for final action
The conference report on the Underwood Simmons tariff bill is presented to House Republicans with many changes kept from the original House measure. It lowers the general rate about four percent ad valorem and increases the income tax on above 75,000 to seven percent while reducing the exemption to 3,000. Many items join the free list and duties on textiles and paper products are adjusted.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Wilson
Conference
Underwood House
Zulu Prince to Wed Negro Girl and Sail as Missionary
Prince Nadikano Cele Jr of Durban plans to marry Julian Smith, an American Negro student at Hampton Institute, in Danville Virginia on October 20. He will sail November 1 to lead a missionary campaign among the Zuluz, aiming to reform polyandrous customs and spread Christianity.
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Associated Press
New York
America
Nadikano Q. Cele, Jr
Durban
Natal
Southeast Africa
Danville
Julian Smith
Hampton Institute
Zululand
Japan to import record cotton as trade grows
In San Francisco on September 29 Y Nagashima of the Mitsui Company said Japan will become the world's largest buyer of cotton and raw materials. He notes trans Pacific shipping bottlenecks ahead as shipments rise from 370 000 boles last year to 490 000 boles this year.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
United States
Japan
Y. Nagashima
Mitsui Company
Orient
Investment in Mobile's Great Future
Committees begin work across Mobile to solicit the final five thousand dollars for the Panama celebration. The effort aims to fund a major Southern event seen as key to Mobile's future growth and development.
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Panama
Mobile
South
Canal
Murder Probe Focuses on Wayne Woman Case Inquest
In Chicago suburb scene today the inquest into Mrs Mildred Allison Rexroat murder centers on key witnesses W H Allison her former husband and Everett Rexroat her second husband. A warrant calls Rexroat to attend the inquest after the Wayne killing last Friday when she was shot robbed and placed on railroad tracks.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Mildred Allison-Rexroat
W. H. Allison
Everett A. Rexroat
Macomb
Allison
Rexroat
Allison-Rexroat
Wayne
Frank L. Oleson
Wheaton
Spencer
Thaw Struggles With Heavy Cold In Concord Extradition
Friends and associates of Harry K. Thaw worry over his lingering cold after a week of illness. At the extradition hearing before Governor Felker last week Thaw exhibited a deep cough and fragile health. He has been under a local physician care but shows little improvement as his workload with his secretary continues.
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Associated Press
Concord
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan
Felker
Thaw
New State Military Examining Board Replaces Regimental Panels
Alabama adopts a single general state examining board to replace the three infantry regiments boards. Chaired by Captain W. P. Screws with Major T. C. Locke and Major H. Lay, the panel will convene at the capitol for examinations under Adjutant-General Scully.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Scully
W. P. Screws
Twenty-sixth Infantry
T. C. Locke
H. Lay
Medical Corps
Comeisskedo
Capitol
Greer to Report Favorable Findings on Camp Cruelty
Lon F. Greer of the state convict department was appointed by Governor Emmet O Nea and visited the Haxtford Orvin turpentine camp in Mobile County to examine convict G. E. Glover who alleged cruelty. Greer returned to Mobile and said his report would be favorable.
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State Convict Department
Emmet O'Neal
Mobile County
Haxtford-Orvin Turpentine
Mobile
G. E. Glover
Greer
O Neals Urgent Need for Three Million Funds Edge
Special to The Item reports Governor O Neal must make October 1 disbursements from two constitutionally designated funds for public schools and old soldiers pensions totaling nearly three million dollars. Taxes collected in the prior year finance these, with $2 million for schools, $600,000 for pensions, plus $400,000 additional pension funds, all payable quarterly.
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Montgomery
O'Neal
Jelks
Lancastrian Mayor Bowater Elected Lord Mayor of London
Sir Thomas Van Sittart Bowater was elected lord mayor of the City of London today and will assume office in November. He is the first Lancastrian to hold the post and leads a rotation that will include Sir Charles Johnston and Sir Charles Wakefield with Sir William Dunn, natives of Liverpool and Lancashire. Bowater, born 1862 in Manchester, runs a large paper-making firm and has progressed quickly through civic roles.
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Associated Press
London
Thomas van Sittart Bowater
Thomas
Charles Johnston
Charles Wakefield
William Dunn
Liverpool
Lancashire
Thomas Bowater
Manchester
Weather summary and local train updates
Weather forecast covers till 7 p m Tuesday with light variable winds. Alabama and Mississippi expect local rains tonight or Tuesday. Local temperatures recorded at the Royel and Dauphinish corner show highs near 85 to 83 degrees and morning readings around 78 to 80.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Royel and
Dauphinish
Mose Eee
PAM Moe
Death of Deputy Bonner Linked to Accidental Gunfire
Montgomery reports say Deputy James Bonner of Birmingham was killed near Tuscaloosa when his own rifle discharged during a train pursuit of robbers. Two Montgomery deputies say the gun fired as he lifted it from a pile of rifles in the caboose, finding his weapon was the only loaded one.
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Montgomery
Ala
James Bonner
Birmingham
Tuscaloosa
Queen and Crescent
Jd. Cope
Bonner
J. F. Tucker
Cope
Lake Charles Flood Submerges City Infrastructure
Heavy rains flooded Lake Charles Louisiana with Calcasieu River overflow cutting streetcar service and forcing power water plants to shut down. Rail service into Lake Charles was suspended while other lines face disruption as rain continued and high water loomed. Several factories halted operations with no loss of life reported.
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Associated Press
Lake Charles
Calcasieu River
Kansas City Southern
Lake Charlies
Northern
Senate Adjourns After Tariff Conferees Clash
The Senate met at noon and adjourned at 12 33 until Wednesday noon. Conferees agreed to the conference report on the tariff bill with Republican reservations. Samuel Untermyer testified on currency legislation before the banking committee. Democratic Leader Underwood presented the tariff bill report and secured a House meeting for 11 a m Tuesday to debate it.
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Senate
House
Samuel Untermyer
Banking Committee
Case
Underwood
Five Gents, but Big Fortune in His Clothes
Associated Press report from San Francisco notes Edward McDonald found ill in a cheap lodging house with his purse, yet carrying $1,270,000 in negotiable bonds and securities sewn in an inside pocket. The papers include securities of 47 bona fide companies all earning interest. McDonald is in a coma with no explanation for his wealth.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
R Edward McDonald
Chea
Rebels Routed at Barroteran Battle Report
The defeat of the Constitutionalists under General Gonzales at Barroteran by General Haas is confirmed. Rebels retreat to Sabinas and destroy mining properties and a rail bridge at Sabinas Pass. Rumors say Tabasco unrest may renew hostilities as Mazatlan besiegers press surrender by cutting water supplies.
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Associated Preas
Washington
Gonzales
Barroteran
Haas
Sabinas
State Department
Ciudad Porfirio Diaz
Sabinas Pass
Tabasco
Mazatlan
Sweeting Finds No Opposition on Tax Equalization
Walter E. Sweeting of the Manufacturers' Appraisal Company met Mobile citizens and Fairhope visitors to discuss the Somers system of tax assessment equalization. He reports strong local interest and no adverse opinions, with a committee report to be featured at the next ways and means meeting.
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Walter E. Sweeting
Manufacturers’ Appraisal Company
Chamber of Commerce Ways and Means
Sweeting
Fairhope
Ways and Megas
Mobile
Hauser Convicted in Plateau Liquor Case
Jacob J. Hauser was convicted in the inferior criminal court Monday on selling liquor illegally at a Plateau location. He was fined $500 and ordered nine months and twenty days at hard labor, given a bond on appeal. Dan Fisher, arrested with him on the same charge, was acquitted.
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Hauser
Jacob J. Hauser
Inferior Criminal Court
Plateau
Costa
Dan Fisher
Two Negroes Trigger Bloodshed in Harriston Tragedy
In Harriston Mississippi on Sunday two young Negroes started a riot that left ten dead and many injured. Armed whites fought back as guards from Natchez arrived ending the violence. Six victims include Conductor E B Appleby and Sheriff G B Ham.
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Harriston
Miss
ER. B. Appleby
Jones
Natchez
Walter
Ll Jones
Wa Jones
Teo
Iee Will
Peone
G. B. Ham
Jefferson County
Frank Kennesdly
Atken
Teller
Rein Gillis
B. Appleby
Reine A
Willow
William . Keinsttly
Frank
Wilt
W. C. Bond
Grayson
Mother
Are
Fnte
Frank Keinstly
Waiter
Ings Keinstly
William
Page
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Keinstly
E. B. Appleby
Claude Freeman
Fayette
Wild gas well conquered after six years of waste
The famed Wild gas well in the Cando oil field Louisiana, draining vast gas daily, was finally conquered yesterday. M L Alexander, president of the Louisiana conservation commission, reports the successful intervention ended a long sprawl of failed stopping attempts and a new bore cracked the formation, stopping the wasteful flow.
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Louisiana
Associated Press
New Orleans
Cando Oil Field
M. L. Alexande
Louisiana Conservation Commission
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Soppo RA
Nagashima
Rextoat
Lon Greer
Treasury
Sir Thomas Bowater
Sulzer
D. Cady Herrick
High Court
Albany
Herrick
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