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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
4
United States soldiers crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico late today chasing bandits who raided the Brite ranch on Christmas morning and killed the mail carrier and two Mexican passengers. One American soldier and an unknown number of Mexicans were said to be killed in a running fight.
Eight pandits were killed when ranchers and American cavalrymen fired on raiders after they killed Michael Welch the U S mail carrier and his two Mexican passengers and looted the Brite store at Candelaria. Reports from the river front describe ongoing fighting with scattered bands of bandits as Texas Rangers and state troops pursue them.
Maiden Missouri December 24 town marshal St Clair is dead and his slayer Wissman of Havana Illinois is said to be dying after a demonstration following alleged disloyal remarks by Wissman. Witnesses say Wissman shot and wounded St Clair, then fired again fatally. Posses captured Wissman and brought him to Maiden amid a crowd and gunfire.
Forty white workers leaving the Federal Lead Company plant in Alton Illinois were halted by five armed black men who robbed them of sums from 60 cents to $40. The attackers hid along a narrow pathway and ordered each man to a fence out of sight. A black worker was allowed to pass.
In Minneapolis on December 21 three masked men robbed the Peoples State Bank in a busy downtown block. They locked President J. P. Einster and two employees in the vault, took 5500 dollars, and fled in a waiting automobile as two officers chatted nearby.
A. R. Tenney, 54 concession man with the Evans Platt Carnival Shows, was shot and killed Monday evening at the Spring carnival grounds in Houston. J. H. Sullivan, with the show about two weeks, was charged with murder in a complaint filed with Justice of the Peace Leon Lusk.
London reports Mannheim on the Rhine bombarded by a British air squadron early Monday. An official statement says a ton of explosives were dropped and several fires started with all but one British aircraft returning. Also noted is a procurement listing for cotton seed cake and meal and bakery products arriving at Cameron on 16 AUG.
More than 200 American youths who served as volunteer ambulance drivers for the American Field Service Norton-Harjes and Red Cross have been sent back to the United States via the Provost Marshal and Military Police in Paris. The order to swap uniforms for civilian clothes and depart France immediately caused financial hardship for some. Most had come to France after compulsory military service laws passed in the US. Col. Grayson M. P. Murphy later took over the ambulance units and warned drivers to enlist. those who refused and completed three month terms then left Paris, with the Provost Marshal aiming to repatriate those who avoided US service.
Ferguson urges political leaders to cease partisan revelry in Austin and aid western citizens with food and clothing, appealing for aid to the Red Cross and neighbor in need.
A French Red Cross report describes a wounded moment at a canteen where a veteran man, with three sons killed in combat and a wife shot by Germans, seeks solace. He declines staying with relatives, choosing to return to the front with dignity.
A Red Cross message urges aid and care for those in need saying rescue the perishing and join the effort to care for the dying. The note emphasizes charitable action and humanitarian duty.
Two gunmen fled to Chicago after robbing a saloon keeper and a porter. The guards were killed by a shotgun blast and a lead pipe struck another man as the bandits seized $10700 from the cashing of steel oil payrolls.
Washington December 26 says labor troubles delayed shipbuilding during wartime. Raymond B Stevens vice president Shipping Board testifies before the Senate Commerce Commission that strikes and disputes totaled 536 992 working days since the U S entered the war. He notes this amount equals the output of 20 000 men for a month and adds efforts are underway to adjust differences.
A brief notice lists prices for cold pressed seeds and directs readers to call E Mil Riley for particulars. The message notes prices apply by January 1st and provides the contact.
A columnist urges the Texas legislature to suspend taxes and land interest in West Texas amid drought and cattle losses. He criticizes a powerful Austin committee for misusing public funds and urges swift bond-led relief to fund feed and next year’s crop, arguing troops and war effort depend on agricultural production.
Bart Vanlandingham, 23, and his 3 year old nephew James Shaw were hurt when a home made toy cannon exploded at 717 Morales Street. Vanlandingham suffered severe hand and leg wounds and may lose fingers while James was treated and released. Grover Cleveland Shaw tamped the powder under a hammer, leading to the blast.
A boy found forty eight sticks of high explosive dynamite beneath the Choctaw Bridge over Post Oak Creek. Police recovered the items and an investigation is underway after the father reported the discovery this morning.
Public notice commands Sheriff to summon Peter Novian by weekly publication for four weeks before January 28 1918 in Gillespie County to answer a petition filed December 5 1917 in case No 692 where John P Burg sues for one hundred ninety one dollars and ten cents for goods merchandise and advances owed and delivered to the defendant by special request.
Notice in Gillespie County Texas that August Cameron and gerhans filed an application for probate of Charlotte Langerhans deceased. The County Court of Gillespie will hear the matter in Fredericksburg at the courthouse in January with letters testamentary requested. Interested parties may appear and contest the application. You must publish this notice weekly in a general circulation newspaper for at least one year prior to the hearing.
Washington reports Michigan fuel supplies are dangerously low. Administrator W. K. Prudden asks manufacturers to suspend nonessential industrial plant operations from midnight tomorrow to midnight December 29, with exemptions for war munitions factories.
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