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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1911
Page
7
Tim Sheehan, thought dead from July heart problem, reappears in South Boston home. His wife, who collected his life insurance and funded a funeral, faces exposure of the ruse. He explains he was jailed for drunkenness under a fictitious name during the hot term.
Aug. 16 Winnipeg report notes crops ripening well and grain maturing, aiding the government campaign. Farmers anticipate a new market and higher prices as campaigns move toward full line up of candidates in the region.
Captain Charles Schreiner of Kerrville urges cooperation to build a highway from San Antonio to Kerrville and Beeville across 18 miles Boerne to Comfort. He says the route is mostly in good condition and could be upgraded with modest cost to boost tourism and commerce. Schreiner supports a Gulf roadway to raise Kerrville’s prestige.
State department officials praise the class entering the foreign service via competitive exams. Efforts target nationwide interest, especially in underrepresented southern states, to build a well equipped, non partisan service. The next diplomatic service exam begins December 4 in Washington, with consular tests next spring.
Boston fishing interests organize a fleet of three schooners and a new vessel to circumnavigate the Horn for halibut fishing against Pacific coast states. The Athena Floras Nickerson and a third boat are readied, with a $250,000 capitalization. The trip aims as the longest ever by a Boston fleet and is set to start in October.
At Fort Sam Houston a Tuesday night show in the Gift chapel featured Annie Halliday, seven, delivering a piano solo. Soldiers cheered as her performance sparked nostalgia for home. The Enlisted Men's club thrives as a cherished barracks institution.
In southwestern Nova Scotia six or more villages faced severe damage or threat as forest fires burned for two days near Halifax. Dozens of passengers on a Halifax to Yarmouth train fainted when it encountered flames, with windows scorched as the train halted safely. crew remained at their posts to avert disaster.
In Guthrie Oklahoma on August 16 John L Faris vice president of Ripley National Bank and merchant Frank Leman drowned after attempting a river rescue near Ripley. Both men were swept under by the current. Rieles Undertaking Co. provides auto ambulance service. 221 BE Com. Phone 341.
Dr. E. W. Hall of St. Louis advertises a remedy for kidney and nerve ailments including rheumatism gravel diabetes neuralgia and weak backing. The copy claims one bottle cures and urges readers to write for testimonials while noting sale through druggists.
In Rome on August 16 the ailing Pope Pius X allowed several callers for the first time since his illness. Doctors approved the chat to lift spirits as his condition remains largely unchanged with gout and kidney troubles near the same level. He received Monsignor Cali Scapinelli Cardinal Del Val Monsignor Bisselletti and his sisters who are always at hand.
Washington D C Aug 16 The Vicksburg National Military Park plans a spring dedication for a 202 foot granite obelisk honoring the Union Navy with four bronze statues Farragut Porter Foote and Davis during the Civil War The $200000 project may see a April 16 ceremony chosen to align with river conditions and wartime events A congress proposal also suggests a Confederate Navy monument in the same park.
Work consolidating the Bankers' Trust company and the Texas Trust company continues in Houston and is expected to be concluded within the next few days.
Bruno Dziernowski suffered a deep hand laceration while tending gin stands at the Polander gin about four miles from Lockhart. The accident occurred this morning. He received treatment for the injury.
George A. Clark a well known Basalt Colorado ranchman died at the Barber hotel Bay City Texas after a four days illness following a stroke of appaplexy. He was eighty and his body was shipped to Colorado accompanied by his daughter and grandson who arrived shortly before his death.
A subpoena from Austin sought Col. Jake Walters for testimony before Austin investigators. Walters is reported to be in New York with no announced return date.
A jury convicted several poultry commission men from Washington market on charges of conspiracy to create a monopoly and restrain trade by cornering the live poultry market of New York. They were committed to the Tombs for sentencing tomorrow. four others were acquitted. The offense carries up to one year in prison and a $500 fine or both.
The House yesterday endorsed a proposed January exposition at Key West Florida to celebrate the Florida East Coast Railway completion. A resolution by Representative Heflin of Alabama asked the president to invite participation and to mobilize the fleet for the event.
Major David Castleman son of Gen John B Castleman of Kentucky died in a Los Angeles hospital from heart troubles with no diseases listed He earned his title in service with the first Kentucky regiment to end Ameri le taken to service and died yesterday in this city
Chicago leaders including lawyer Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch announce a one week self denial campaign to aid California suffrage efforts. Women will forgo new hats gowns and amusements to raise several hundred dollars for the cause and express daily commitment to the movement.
A damaged ad promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children with colic and diarrhea claiming it as a harmless remedy. It urges buyers to ask for the product by name and warns against other kinds, priced at twenty five cents.
A dispatch from Kars, Trans Caucasia, reports that during a careless cannon demonstration a grape shot was fired, killing four soldiers and wounding fourteen in the company.
Roscoe Caruso killed his wife Anna aged 14 in their New York home after four weeks of wedlock then killed himself. The tragedy followed a petty quarrel about an incident at the couple’s residence last night.
The fifth annual convention of the railway gardening association opened in Chicago. Landscape gardener R W Hutchinson urged replacing right of way fences with flowering hedges and won endorsement from the gathering.
The Portuguese consul at Orente, Spain reports many monarchists daily practicing armed maneuvers openly. Spain has informed Lisbon that it expelled 200 monarchists amid strict censorship and rising political friction.
New York Aug 16 George Leslie a familiar stage and screen comedian in i ll productions for thirty years died of cancer of the stomach after a long illness He was 4 years old at his death and had long been a fixture in the entertainment world.
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