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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1915
Page
10
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a speaker Alawon Ford and a discussion about English water rations and Hubasrube. The passage references a hotel confrontation and a request from the New York World, but many words are garbled. No clear event or dates emerge from the readable lines.
Captain Janes F McNeel, 66, longtime South Texas pioneer and former Texas Ranger, died Sunday at his home 1123 West French. Born Brazoria County March 31, 1870, he married May Rmma Flowers of Laynen County. He helped organize a volunteer regiment last April amid plans for U S cross border service. His life spanned Texas independence to Confederate service and ranger leadership, with deep family roots in Texas frontier history.
Within twenty days the City of Memphis Tennessee sold 800000 dollars of ten year bonds at a premium of 14003 dollars and paid no commission. The Memphis sale was cited in a likely erroneous assertion.
Captain McNeel organized the McNeel regiment of cavalry after Vera Cruz, a volunteer unit drawing Rough Riders and Mexican War veterans. The death notice recalls his survivors, including widow and children, and notes his Masonic and church memberships. Funeral services were held at his West French Place home and burial followed at Alaino Mesanie Cemetery with honorary and active pallbearers named.
Four alarms kept the fire department busy as lightning sparked blazes across the city. A San Pedro Loan Company fire at 725 West Commerce street spread to the rear, water damage noted. At 613 San Pedro Avenue a home fire caused minor damage. A roof hole formed at 279 Simpson street when lightning struck the residence of P. Scherer, injuring no one. Wires sparked at the courthouse and a shed behind 401 Perelda Street saw minor damage. Chief Wright suspects lightning as the cause of the blazes.
Senator Cowell and Captain Craddock of the appropriation committee, framing the general appropriation bill, returned from a tour of inspection of the Southwestern Insane asylum at San Antonio and the Southwest Texas State Normal at San Marcos. Representative Wagstaff, absent last week, is expected back this week as the subcommittee works toward readying the bill for legislative convening on April 28.
President Wilson spoke at the opening of the twenty fourth annual Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Delegates election for president general will crest Wednesday. About five thousand delegates from across the country attended. Two factions emerged among supporters of Mrs William Cantmines Storr the incumbent and Mrs George Bakher Guernsey of Kansas.
Charles Hartlett American vice consul at Melbourne travels to Thursday Island as special commissioner for New York surrogate court to examine ailments in the matter of the late Madame Nordica. Nordica drew up a will at Thursday Island in 1814 and died at Batavia Java on May 4 that year. The will is being contested in the United States by Mme Nordica's husband Grote W Young.
Information from Whame reports severe food scarcity in Anouna the chief seaport of VWiingary with bread in short supply and scarce wheat. Bread price at sixteen cents a kilo with potatoes barley and ground maize as main ingredients. very limited wheat noted.
A crowded field forms to succeed Senator Culberson with half a dozen candidates or more. Former Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey is rumored to join, while ex governors Colquitt and Campbell, George W. Hiddin, and Representative Robert Henry are named. Prohibition issues may surface as a campaign theme, with Ferguson, Colquitt, and others potentially backing different slates. Bailey is also invited to address the Legislature in a forthcoming special session.
The steam yacht Dolphin carrying 14 passengers and 2 crew sprang a leak while traveling from Corpus Christi to Aransas Pass on Sunday. Passengers climbed to the cabin top and waved as the Gipsy, traveling from Port Aransas to Corpus Christi, approached, transferred the travelers, and towed the sinking vessel into port.
An old advertise style claims 8 5 8 blood purifier cures impure blood by killing germs and converting them for elimination. It urged readers to contact Britt Specific Co for medical advice and emphasized health guidance and substitutes warnings while promoting the product price and benefits.
A special car carried Mayor Bom M. Roberts and fourteen others to Leavenworth prison after a Terre Haute election conspiracy trial. Sentences ranged from two to six years with fines up to 20,000 dollars. Roberts and his wife seek an appeal bond of 16,000 as eleven names remain on the appeal petition.
Good roads enthusiasts gather in Oklahoma City for the annual Good Roads Federation convention. Key topics include organizing forces, laying out cross-state routes, improving existing travel ways, and electing officers. A joint meeting with the Nunsas Oklahoma Texas Gull Highway Association is noted.
David W. Fisher, charged with killing San Chance at Lich in Hardin County two months earlier, was shot and instantly killed Sunday afternoon. Ralph Chance, son of Sam Chance, surrendered to Deputy Constable Fletcher Tease and was jailed. The incident followed a dispute that left Fisher shot as several bullets struck his body.
Notaries public in Texas numbering about 17,000, appointed during the last days of the thirty fourth legislature and confirmed by the Senate, are exempt from war revenue tax stamps. A Treasury ruling says the bonds need not carry stamps. State Senator A. O. Robbins of Athens underwent appendicitis surgery in Dallas on April 18 and is recovering to resume duties in the coming session.
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