Protest to be Made Over Fuel Oil Freight Rise
San Antonio manufacturers plan a Thursday visit to Austin to protest a Railroad Commission tariff hike on fuel oil. The 12 percent rate from Port Aransas to San Antonio would add about 11 cents per barrel, totaling roughly 1100000 extra yearly across the sector. Major users include Cement Works Gas & Electric Company and breweries.
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Gas & Electric Company
San Antonio Sewer Pipe Company
The
Mark F. Postlewaite
Artesian Ice Factory
Tampico
May speed up oil field development and gas prospects
A planned tariff increase on imported oil is expected to boost San Antonio area industry by promoting the Alta Vista field as a nearby fuel source. Local plants could save by using home oil, raising demand beyond current supply. Drilling by C A Larber on the Hamilton Swain tract nine miles south aims to develop industrial gas for the city.
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Ferry Boat Damaged As Coast Guard Evacuates Crew
The Pere Marquette car ferry remains stranded with twenty two crew aboard after coast guards removed sixteen due to cold. Interior damage is severe with broken engines and boiler, but the hull bottom remains intact.
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Local forecast for San Antonio area
Tonight and Thursday expect occasional rain with warmer temperatures across San Antonio and surrounding area.
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Forecasts by The Light City Wise Weather
Forecasts for major cities report temperatures clear skies and varying winds. St Louis 18 with 14 mph south wind and possible snow. Chicago 10 with 12 mph southwest wind. Milwaukee 2 below zero with 14 mph southwest wind. St Paul 2 with 10 mph south wind. Kansas City 20 with 112 mph southeast wind and likely snow. New York 14 with west wind. Washington 18 with light winds and continued cold.
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Belgian relief gifts reach White House from Belgian children
P H Chadbourne of the Belgian Relief Commission delivered to the White House a trunk of gifts for President and Mrs. Wilson including dolls pictures royal family busts and embroidery. The president read messages and expressed deep emotion. Chadbourne said clothing is now the Belgians’ greatest need noting flour bags with holes cut for head and arms are used as shirts for many children.
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P. H. Chadbourne
Belgian Relief Commission
White House
Mayfield Trial Deliberations Continue In Boston Texas
In Boston Texas the jury in the W J Mayfield triple murder trial is still out at noon after being charged last night. Mayfield stands accused of killing his parents and a brother on December 30 with an axe. The case centers on testimony from Mayfield’s young son describing the night’s actions. No defense testimony was offered and the attorney sought a sanity examination but failed to suspend the trial.
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Tex
W. J. Mayfield
Mayfield
Typhus Suspects Held After Ship Arrives in New York
The Greek liner Vasilefs Constantinos docked from Athens with 300 Serbian soldier refugees and families. Upon quarantine twenty Serbians were moved to the quarantine hospital, later identified with vermin carrying typhus and placed under observation.
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Vasilefs Constantinos
Athens
Actress Dora Knowlton Raneous Ends Life in New York
Mrs Dora Knowlton Raneous a noted authoress translator of French and Italian literature and former Augustin Daly company actress killed herself at her New York Home by gas inhalation. Friends attributed the act to dread of continued illness and nearing blindness. She was about sixty and lived alone with a housekeeper.
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Dora Knowlton Raneous
Augustin Daly
Rancous
Child Drowns Skating Near Vernon
Mrs. R L Armstrong fainted after a failed rescue attempt for her 9 year old son Elbert Armstrong who fell through ice on Castleberry pond during skating. The ice broke and Mrs Armstrong was pulled free with difficulty by bystanders.
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Hog Calling Contest Planned for Agricultural Club Encampment
Fort Worth Texas January 19. A hog calling contest will be part of the state encampment of agricultural clubs in March. Only boys are eligible to compete in the calling contest.
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California flood reaches the coast
Southern California faces rising flood threat as coastal lands brace for inundation while mountains recede. Rail, telephone, and telegraph services remain disrupted, with overland traffic stalled and isolated cities like Redlands awaiting relief. Gila River flood peaks threaten Phoenix in twenty five years.
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Steamship Ryndam Aground at Gravesend
The Ryndam of the Holland America line is ashore at Gravesend after passing South End with a starboard list. No damage details are released and passengers are not allowed to disembark while an examination is conducted. The Belfast built liner is 550 feet, 12,527 tons, with a 200 crew and 79 first class, 34 second class, and 38 third class passengers aboard.
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Eight Japanese fishermen drift across Pacific in small boat
Eight Japanese fishermen endured 24 days adrift after a storm sank their boat off Chimodo. Driven by currents they landed on a British Columbia shore and were rescued by a passing steamer. one man, boat owner, later treated in Prince Rupert hospital.
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Emperor William Meets King Ferdinand at Nish Dispatch Says
Reuters report states Emperor William met King Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Nish Serbia yesterday. They exchanged cordial greetings and reviewed Bulgarian Macedonian and German troops. Berlin announced William fully recovered and back at the front.
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Senate Delays Action on Intervention in Mexico Fight
Senate debate on intervention in Mexico heated as the Foreign Relations Committee adjourned without action on resolutions to send troops or aid Carranza. Senator Borah urged canvassing the Senate for support while Democrats back President Wilson. Evidence of bandit killings of Americans with Villa leaders Jose Rodriguez and Miguel Baca Valles identified in El Paso. Ashurst urged keeping American troops on the border to protect property in Douglas Arizona.
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Bodies sent to Chihuahua for public display after executions
The bodies of Valles and Rodriguez, Villa leaders executed near Juarez, were placed on a train and sent to Chihuahua City to be shown again as a warning to outlaws. Enriqu e Cisneros, captured with Valles, is being moved to face a court martial.
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Enrique Cisneros
Carranza Cavalry Request to Move Through U S Territory
A second request to allow 600 to 800 Carranza cavalrymen to transit from Naco Arizona to Juarez Mexico through U S soil will be filed with the State Department in Washington. The initial bid was refused amid U S anger after the Santa Ysabel mining massacre. Reports say Francisco Villa plans to consolidate forces in the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua as a base for the request.
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Raid on Parral mining camp by Villa bandits reported
El Paso dispatch says the Parral camp of the Alvarado Mining Company was raided by Villa bandits. A Chinese cook was killed, a watchman wounded, and the company store looted, according to reports to mining company officials.
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Fifty Families Homeless in Passaic Fire
Fire in Passaic New Jersey today left fifty families homeless and destroyed eleven buildings with losses around 250000. Chicago fire caused major damage to a four story brick building tied to a wholesale grocery firm with losses about 200000. Galeton Pennsylvania area suffered a large district fire in Corning New York with losses near 150000.
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Chicago
Fire Causes $170,000 Loss in Tamaqua Business Section
Fire of unknown origin in Tamaqua Pennsylvania's business section caused a loss totaling 170000. News reports describe extensive damage across multiple storefronts and the origin remains under investigation. Local authorities probe the cause as firefighters battled the blaze.
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Fire Damages Orient Bridge Near Girvin
An official investigation opened in Fort Stockton into the fire that yesterday destroyed 200 feet of the Kansas City Mexico Orient Railroad bridge over the Pecos River near Girvin. Railroad officials have not yet determined the fire’s origin.
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Kansas City
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Girvin
Fire damages Rogers business district collapse
Fire at Rogers in Temple Texas caused an estimated 20000 dollars in damage. Three brick buildings were destroyed.
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Temple
Tex
Explosion injures man in Magnolia road oiler blast
A Magnolia Petroleum road oiler exploded at the Caroline and Walnut street plant, wounding A. C. Worrell who was tossed 20 feet. Fire Chief Phil Wright assisted, no fire damage reported, and officials speculated the vent may have become blocked before the blast. Worrell was taken to Kinney’s sanitarium.
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Price Given Life Term Minneapolis Murder Conviction
Frederick T. Price, a Minneapolis businessman, was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor after being convicted last Saturday of murdering his third wife for her fortune.
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Frederick T. Price
Threatening letter cited in Mohr trial linked to jealousy
Providence Jan 19 A letter threatening to kill Miss Emily Burger and alleged to be written by Mrs Elizabeth F Mohr during the trial for Dr C Franklin Mohrs murder was presented by prosecutors George W Rooks testified Mohr could hire thugs to murder her husband Rooks, Miss Burgers brother in law, identified the card urging her to stay away from the physician and described Mrs Mohrs bitterness and threats to kill Burger and the doctor
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Middletown
President Wilson Plans Early February Midwest Trip
President Wilson prepared for a national defense campaign tour beginning in February. He will visit middle western states including Ohio and likely address the Mexican situation. He spent two hours reviewing invitations and arranging an itinerary with a map of the Middle West in his office.
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American woman held in London for sanity examination
Miss Ethyin Lalande of New York, who claims to be Theodore Roosevelt’s niece, is detained by the police for examination as to her sanity. If her New York relatives request it, police will arrange her return home at once. She came to London on war relief work.
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Ethyin Lalande
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Miss Lalande
Marshall Voters Approve $60,000 School Bond Issue
Marshall taxpayers approved a $60,000 bond issue by a vote of 143 to 18 for the enlargement and betterment of the local school. The result was announced yesterday in Marshall Texas.
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Marshall
Roosevelt Denies Relation To Ethyln Lalande
New York January 19 Theodore Roosevelt Jr says he never heard of Ethyln Lalande and is certain she is not related to his family. He notes her name does not appear in the directory.
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Ethyln Lalande
Eagle Pass Youth William C. Blackett Killed in France
William C. Blackett, 19, of Eagle Pass, died in trenches in France on December 31, as confirmed by a War Department cable from London. He had served as a first sergeant and hoped to be promoted to first lieutenant. a letter from him dated November 27 details front-line service. He leaves his parents, a sister in Eagle Pass, and an aunt in San Antonio. Born in Piedras Negras, he graduated from a U.S. college two years ago after moving from England and Mexico. He enlisted with Canadian forces early in World War I and participated in multiple battles before his death.
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Tex
John Blackett
War Department
London
William C. Blackett
France
Blackett
Mexico
San Antonio
Kerr County
Piedras Negras
Canada
Strike Breakers Injured Near Edward Valve Plant
Two strike breakers were hospitalized after rioting near the Edward Valve Company plant. Officials say a recent strike over higher wages followed a plot to disrupt war munitions contracts.
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Chicago
Edward Valve Company
Carranza Cuts Import Duties for Shoes and Clothing
General Carranza orders an 80 percent reduction in import duties on shoes ready-made clothing cotton goods stockings and related necessaries effective at all ports tomorrow. The decree follows the republics abnormal condition and rescinds a prior 20 percent gold payment requirement.
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Queretaro
Mexico
Carranza
Republic
Guffey Well Fire Shocks Corpus Christi
The Guffey gas well, billed as the world's largest producing gas well, caught fire last night from an unknown source. Flames towered an estimated 400 feet, creating a magnificent spectacle for miles around and making extinguishing the blaze seem impossible.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Guffey
Montenegrin Negotiations Break Off as Austrian Demands Rejected
Paris dispatch reports that Montenegro rebuffed Austrian surrender terms. The Montenegrin army surrender is deemed premature as talks collapsed over unacceptable conditions. The king and royal family plan to move to Italy with the diplomatic corps.
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London
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Italy
Russians Open New Defensive Movement East of Czernowitz
Austrian statement says four Russian assaults near Czernowitz and Bessarabian frontier were repulsed. Russians initiate new defensive operation as clashes continue along eastern front.
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Sayville
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Bessarabian
Teutons Forecast A Break In War News From Europe
Patch from Amsterdam reports upper house of the Prussian Diet citing surrender of Man as evidence the Entente alliance is cracking. Ottoman and Russian campaigns in Caucasus and Persia discussed with mixed claims of progress and setbacks. Montenegro negotiations unclear as Paris notes possible premature surrender. Western fronts quiet. German air raid targets Ta Galicia depots.
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Bomb Plot in Peking Nets Arrests, Then Releases
Several servants and higher employees were arrested in connection with an alleged bomb plot in the imperial palace in Peking. The identifications office announced all have been released as no proof was found.
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