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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1911
Page
12
Granville Steward, 58, a steamboat mate, mistook his wife’s location and fired a shotgun in their Fort Thomas Kentucky home killing her instantly. The incident happened last night and Riete Undertaking Co. provided the funeral service.
The article argues that the U S artillery is underdeveloped and underutilized compared to infantry and cavalry. It emphasizes that artillery requires highly trained crews, a dedicated reserve, and longer preparation to reach full effectiveness. It notes six artillery regiments with 24 guns each and warns 144 guns are insufficient for a second class battle. It urges stronger artillery training and reserves to improve national defense.
In Nashville creditors of Knight Yancey & Co. file the heaviest batch of suits in U S court. Twenty four suits target the L & N Railway for two and a half million dollars and eighteen target the Southern for a million and a half, alleging forged bills of lading harmed Decatur Alabama cotton dealers.
Princeton University faces a decision between John W. Finley of the College of the City of New York and John Grier Hibben of Princeton. A trustees committee will meet Wednesday at Princeton to choose a successor to Woodrow Wilson. Finley, 48, is not a Princeton alumnus. Hibben, class of 1882, has headed logic since 1893.
The Supreme Court ruled a Virginian 1904 statute constitutional and upheld a $100 penalty on Western Union for sending a message to Brooklyn instead of Brockton in 1907. Crowe and Crenshaw of Richmond sought a grape carload order, and the mix up led to the ruling.
Luther T. Ellsworth US consul in Ciudad Porfirio Diaz Mexico was granted a divorce from Isabella Gravit Ellsworth on willful absence. The hearing lasted only 15 minutes and Ellsworth plans to return to Mexico.
Knott county grand jury returns eighty seven indictments for vote selling after a six day probe in Hindman Kentucky. Judge Gardner signals continued investigation and plans to indict buyers as well as sellers. The election fraud inquiry will be broadened and pursued thoroughly.
An attractive woman named Mrs. Sarah Blair of Brooklyn is jailed in New York after police recovered from her muff thirteen shirtswaists a silk dress and a costly table cover valued at about 200. She faces grand larceny charges and sobs that she acted as a result of grief after her daughter's death.
Dr Albert W Ferris, head of the state lunacy commission, reports one in 275 New Yorkers is insane. State hospitals hold 32 000 patients, private homes 11 000 more. About 150 new admissions weekly, cost around 200 dollars per patient annually.
A newlywed woman named Lena Massenburg arrived in New York from Kit Trell North Carolina with only 3.75. Unaccompanied and awaiting relatives her husband urged her to meet here. After waiting at the station all day and finding no one she was sent to the almshouse for care until relatives can be located.
A terse note describes a 1365 blue model new phone purchase and mentions antiseptic laundry as a side tag.
Several thousand dollars in damage occurred in Springfield Massachusetts as a pair of explosions struck the new million dollar municipal building under construction. The blasts shattered the base of a 300 foot clock tower and rattled the city for blocks. Police officers on duty heard two consecutive explosions and windows were smashed in the station adjoining the tower.
Sealed proposals will be received in San Antonio until 11:00 a.m. May 1, 1911 for furnishing fuel straw blacksmith coal and mineral oil at posts in the department of Texas for the fiscal year beginning July 1 1911. Information requested on application Col. John L. Clem Chief Quartermaster.
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