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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1915
Page
1
Provisional President Gutierrez says negotiations between warring factions have advanced toward pacification per State Department dispatches from Mexico City. No further details were released.
The unfilled tonnage of United States Steel Corporation rose to 2,856,643 tons by December 31, up 512,051 tons from November, according to Associated Press dispatch from New York dated January 9.
Dispatches report a brief Paraguayan revolt lasting twelve hours with rebels seizing the president briefly before quelling the uprising.
C F Stringer Jr junior member of Stringer and Company shot himself in his office today. Immediate suspension of the firm announced at the stock exchange following the tragedy.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo attended the San Diego exposition opening as President Wilson's personal representative and is expected to return to Washington tomorrow.
Minneapolis Minn January 9 The Civic and Commerce Association on northwest development opened a conference today at the Minnesota Agricultural College. Prominent speakers are on the program and representatives of state organizations in the northwest attend. Uniformity in development work exchange of suggestions for future work and cooperation of the northwest are the themes.
Col ly C Stevens Jr, aide to Governor Major and longtime real estate figure, is bound to appear on Monday to answer three indictments. His uncle faces fifteen embezzlement indictments, seventeen false pretenses, and twenty seven grand larceny charges. The case draws statewide interest.
London reports Germany plans 100000 Prussians to aid 500000 Austrians to crush Servia as Russia claims sweeping victories from Bukovina to Hungary. Paris notes Romanian mobilization late January, Russians enter Transylvania, and French gains near Cernay and Argonne while German positions near Soissons and Perthes are pressured.
Western public lands totaling 560 000 acres in Central and Eastern Oregon Montana and New Mexico will be opened to homesteaders starting Monday January 11. Non irrigable tracts may be taken up in 320 acre parcels under the enlarged homestead act.
Kansas City Missouri January term opens with six hundred divorce cases piled for Judge Seehorn. He will try them all but each must first be passed by proctor Walter R. Barnes.
The Census Bureau reports 14,447,628 bales ginned prior to Jan 1, season peak for Texas. State breakdown lists Alabama 1,689,198 and Texas 3,059,299 bales, Sea Island 76,886 bales, with next report due Jan 28.
Atlanta reports ex governor KR B Glenn of North Carolina plans a two speech day campaign ending in Atlanta to oppose saloons. Ex governor M P Patterson of Tennessee starts a six day Georgia tour for stronger liquor laws and national prohibition with Dr Louis Banks joining to five more cities. Glenn then heads to Michigan to continue the prohibition effort.
On January 9 in Chattanooga Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Illinois and Florida governors or their representatives will form a North and South Association to promote the Dixie Highway. The proposed route would run from Chicago to Jacksonville via Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Macon. Southern officials argue north south routes better serve the south than east west plans.
The forecast from the United States Weather Bureau at New Orleans indicates increasing cloudiness tonight. The item appears in The Times via the Telephone Co. each day.
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