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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1923
Page
7
An unidentified man is believed dead or missing after a pipeline break near Artesia caused a fire that destroyed several houses and a dairy over a quarter mile by a hundred yards. Firefighters shut off the oil supply to control the blaze. no other residents believed injured.
Austin March 10 Governor Neff issued a proclamation calling the legislature into special session on March 15. The regular session was to adjourn March 14. The session aims to secure funds for public schools and institutions and to address penalties for outlaws selling whiskey. The legislature passed various measures including workmen's compensation, the permanent Eastland district court, and the sulphur tax, while debates over the quo warranto bill and county officer removal continued. Senator Darwin criticized the quo warranto bill as vicious.
The Department of Agriculture reports it has collected 477 in excess profits from the 1918 wool clip and distributed 860,265 to over 100,000 wool growers nationwide. About 825,850 remains to be collected and distributed to growers.
Richard Chamorro, a young South American, carried ether on a Seventh Avenue line train. He said he carried it home for a cold. The can leaked causing about sixty passengers to faint and women to become hysterical. The car was emptied and passengers were taken to a hospital.
Chicago March 10 Petition for rehearing on the wage cut from last December was denied by the United States railroad labor board. The original order affected telegraphers on eight large Middle Western roads and increased the carriers to 12, impacting about 11,000 employees.
Twenty Italians with counsel appeared at police headquarters reporting that Vincenzo Tisbo who runs a bank with $2 90 000 in deposits had disappeared. The delegation was sent to the district attorney. Police said an excited crowd gathered around the bank, patrons mainly Italians.
Clayton G. C. McDaniel aged 20 who took part in the sensors murder trial escaped from a hospital ward in San Antonio Texas. He was recaptured and rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment where physicians call his condition serious but hopeful for recovery. He had been about to be returned to jail to serve a sentence for drunkenness.
A blast at Bill Smith’s home in Fairfax Oklahoma killed two women and injured a man. Bill Smith died, his wife and NeWie Brookshire were also killed. The blast destroyed the residence, with remains scattered over two blocks. Authorities probe a possible incendiary motive linked to a prior killing of Smith’s sister-in-law Anna Brown.
A Negro National Educational Conference at its final session urged unified efforts to provide equal education and all opportunities for both races. The statement calls for enforcing literacy and the right to choose vocations, own homes, vote, and have votes counted. Senator Spencer of Missouri praised progress and predicted greater achievements in the next fifty years.
Raw cotton exports in January totaled 473,436 bales valued at 65,256,000 dollars, according to the department of commerce. January exports last year were 475,910 bales valued at 45,233,000 dollars.
Four unidentified men were found washed ashore on Wakulla County beaches over the past two days. A deputy sheriff reported indications of wholesale foul play tied to the alien smuggling trade.
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