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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1909
Page
9
United Press reports in Paris that a federal committee of postal unions ordered a general strike yesterday. Ten thousand postal employees attended the mass meeting, with letter sorters quitting and post offices deserted. Troops surround the Paris post office as fears of violence grow and foreigners depart to Brussels.
Nairobi May 12 Mackakos dispatch reports Roosevelt's hunting party killed two giraffes one leopard and a buffalo in a single day. One giraffe was struck at about 100 feet as it galloped full speed and the shot is hailed as his best yet.
Japanese laborers at the Oahua plantation decided at a meeting to join the sugar workers strike in Honolulu. Reports indicated Ewa plantation laborers were to decide the night before, but results were not learned.
A large blaze is burning in Alexandria just across the river from Washington. It started in a lumber yard and is spreading rapidly threatening riverfront structures. By noon the loss was estimated at half a million dollars and the Washington fire department has requested assistance.
Fifteen hundred students at Tokyo’s Commercial High School held a mass meeting and resolved to quit attending. They lined up before the building, sang, bade farewell, and removed insignia before dispersing amid prior petitions to be raised to university rank. The dispute began over the government’s refusal to upgrade the school and the partial compromise by adding a commercial course at the University of Tokyo’s College of Law, with a fire last week suspected as arson connected to the unrest.
The battleship Mississippi left New Orleans at six this morning heading for Natchez Mississippi in view of ten thousand spectators. She is the first vessel of her class to venture upriver with the lighthouse tender Oleander sounding the depths. The ship is due at Donaldsonville this afternoon for a two day stay.
Paris May 12. Government says postmen telegraphers strike will halt railway and mail service. Auto convoys to operate with soldiers as drivers. Wireless gear being installed on the Eiffel Tower. War vessels in harbors maintained though strikers intermittently interrupt wireless messages.
Isthmian Canal Commission to thoroughly examine a Colon riot where C M Abbott an American electrician and a Negro laborer were killed. Canal policemen, accused of entering the disturbance zone to aid companions arrested on a disturbance charge, are held responsible.
Government began taking testimony in Tulsa before a special grand jury investigating land frauds. Nine witnesses from Danville and Norfolk, Virginia, testify today. government hopes to finish with them this afternoon.
Captain Hains rested easy after conviction of manslaughter in the first degree. New York report notes no concern from the captain about the verdict as defense counsel prepare a motion for a new trial.
Seven former employees of American Sugar and Refining Company were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the government by using false weights to measure imported sugar. They pleaded not guilty today.
Crowded on a gasoline yawl in the Ohio River last night, about forty men were aboard. Five workers are missing and three bodies have been recovered. Authorities fear the death toll will exceed thirty as police and rivermen continue dragging the river.
Lieutenant D A Vaarenen assistant resident administrator of northern Nigeria zone, four Englishmen and thirty five native police were ambushed ninety miles northeast of Zungera. Vaarenen and twelve police were killed. British forces dispatched to punish the natives.
Charles B. Galloway bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Louisiana and a distinguished churchman in the United States died at 5 o'clock this morning in Jackson Mississippi.
Real estate transfers include J G Burr and wife deed to Mrs Edith Merriman for lot No 8 in block No 202 West Day for 1257 dollars. The record notes the filing occurred since noon yesterday.
In the Senate tariff bill debate new Finance Committee members Smoot and Flint lead with rapid, informed defenses of changes from the House and Dingley rates. Fletcher of Florida, newly sworn, speaks boldly to aid leaders Aldrich and Sherman, reshaping proceedings.
A man calling himself Arthur Bailey, later revealed as Arthur Beresford, stayed in Laredo for weeks claiming English noble ties. A sick uncle in England could place Beresford next in line for a large estate and title, prompting rumors of an imminent return to claim the inheritance. Beresford left the city, leaving few friends and unclear knowledge of his supposed family fortune.
James Wright of Spurlock Kentucky claims to feel like a 16 year old after six bottles of Electric Bitters. He cites thirty years of kidney trouble eased by the tonic and urges others to try the remedy as a godsend for weak or old people at 50 cents a bottle.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers described as small gentle and sure liver pills sold by Reed's Drug Store.
Spokane May 12 Hal J Cole register of the U S land office says 175 176 800 acres in western states fall under the 360 acre homestead act, with Washington Oregon Wyoming Utah New Mexico Nevada Arizona Colorado Montana listed. Nearly 40 percent of arid lands are held by individuals via color of title, mainly in Washington and Oregon. If entry possible the region could yield 492 000 homesteads and support up to 100 million people if moisture were provided.
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