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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1916
Page
2
Sheriff investigators seek assailant after Zenobia Morales was stabbed Sunday night near Bem Brickard and died Monday at city hospital. Morales said two Mexican companions were in his wagon when a stranger leaped in and stabbed him. Deputies hold the two Mexicans for questioning.
After the shooting of Sheriff W L Ellis by prisoner Steve Brown, a posse killed Brown and burned his body. The town's black residents boarded today’s train to leave Seymour Texas as the sheriff's funeral was held in the afternoon.
Dr J T Walton Rev I H Kelly and Mrs S H Kelly head a committee raising funds to complete subscriptions for the Negro public health nurse program in San Antonio. Elizabeth Carter arrives to provide nursing services among the Negro community and will work under the program’s supervision.
A substantial addition to the fund was realized Friday evening at a public meeting in the Second Baptist Church. The event aimed to acquaint people with supervisor Mrs. E. Parsons of the Public Health Nurse Association. Refreshments were served and talks supported the work.
Illinois Iowa and Virginia troops patrol Brownsville easing bandit activity across the Rio Grande. Mexican consul Jose Z Garza says guardsmen bolster Carranza garrison influence and point to return to peace as Matamoros cites September 3 as municipal election day.
Lord Robert Cecil told Parliament that repeated inquiries to the American embassy in Constantinople about British prisoners taken at Kut El Amara had yielded no reply from the Porte. He cited the hostile desert crossing after the fall as a cause for serious concern over their fate.
In 1950 a transit rider tired enough to let go caused a momentary incident as a passenger fell from a moving conveyance, sparking headlines about the near-miss and the strange airship reference.
Republican leaders meet in San Antonio as the Texas state executive committee prepares for the state convention with about 800 delegates expected. H. F. MacGregor notes Hughes Club issues and anticipates a strong Republican showing, including a potential challenger to Congressman James L. Slayden.
Turkish forces were lured into an engagement by British mounted troops and, after a late-evening counterattack, pursued at dawn on August 5. The enemy suffered heavy losses with over 2500 unwounded prisoners taken, including Germans, plus four mountain guns and several machine guns. Monitors from the Bay of Tina aided the action.
The war office reported small German attacks east of Pozieres were repulsed with losses. British positions between the Ancre and the Somme faced continued bombardment. A successful raid east of Neuville St Vaast was carried out, while a German raid southeast of Bois Grenier failed.
Berlin reports German troops recaptured trench sections seized by the British near Pozières on the Somme. The release adds gains at Plaik and Deeskowata heights on the Cheremoch river in the Carpathians.
Russian forces announced gains along the Sereth and Graberka rivers in Northern Galicia south of Brody. They captured fortified positions near the villages of Zvyjin Kostiniec and Reniuv in the marked advance north of the front.
Paris reports official statement that German attacks at Thiaumont and in the Vaux and Chapitre woods in the Verdon sector were repulsed. In Cairo six hundred Turkish prisoners arrived, part of the force that attacked British positions at Romani and suffered heavy losses with about 2500 prisoners taken.
El Paso businessman J M Hunter guests at the Menger while Dr McGowan of Houston stays at St Anthony. Dallas visitor J A Payne stops in for business and is a St Anthony guest. Chicago’s W McCollum arrives at the Menger and Detroit’s H L Watson is registered at St Anthony. Various ranchers and businessmen from Gunter Cotulla Del Rio Hillsboro Lockhart Sample and Vermont noted among new arrivals.
Mrs Charles G Starr and her committee urge donations of books magazines and games to aid hospitals in Mexico and on the border. Regular shipping is Wednesday and she asks earlier gifts to be sent to the Menger Hotel with car owners helping collect promised items.
The Army relieves Captain George L. Converse retired from duty at Ohio State University and details him as professor of military science and tactics. Leave of two months granted Captain James E. Willson Coast Artillery Corps upon arrival in the United States. Examinations and transfers to field artillery and cavalry are ordered for several officers with dates and assignments referenced.
At 3 30 Sunday morning Mrs Anna Peters heard her goat Bobby bleat and alerted police. Detectives Ruhnke Guerra and Patrolman Weakley arrived as a man fled past the goat. The burglar dropped his cap as he ran from the Peters home in Nueva Street.
The trial of the state versus K Mura was postponed to Wednesday due to missing witnesses. Japanese and Chinese witnesses testified about the killing but are scattered across the country, outside Judge W S Anderson’s jurisdiction. This is the defendant’s second trial after a 25 year penitentiary verdict was set aside. Mauricio Diaz’s case was also set for Monday but a continuance was filed.
A Rome dispatch reports the pope will protest to Germany over the northern France deportations. The protest, sent by the Bishop of Lille and the Archbishop of Rheims, requests that women and young girls be allowed to return home and warns of public reproach if ignored.
George Norris of Philadelphia was named by President Wilson as farm loan commissioner to head the new federal farm loan bank system. The board will divide the United States into twelve land bank districts and survey 40 cities for possible banks as hearings begin nationwide. Loans through farm loan associations will fund the banks, with stock purchases required and inspections by appraisers to value land. Two die in New York City as humidity soars.
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