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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1912
Page
3
In Bessemer Alabama on Sunday John Chandler a Black man accused of killing Italian Joe Gagliano was shot dead by a mob of enraged Italians. Detective Cross was wounded in the leg during the attack on the principal street.
A confrontation erupted as officers waiting for a street car to take a man to jail watched Gagliano’s funeral procession pass. A crowd of the deceased man’s compatriots charged a Negro, shooting began and the man was killed instantly.
In temple No. 87 Flatonia Texas at the last regular meeting the officers were elected P C Mrs Lizzie Wheeler M E C Mrs Louise Kaiser M E S Miss Lonnie Sullivan M E G Mrs Hattie Goode M of T Mrs Mamie Laux M of R and C Mrs Jennie Simmons M of F Miss Lottie Fennan P of T Miss Myrtle Sullivan G of C T Mrs Sadie Morris.
Albert Wolter was put to death in the Sing Sing electric chair at 5 41 am for the 1910 murder of 15 year old Ruth Wheeler in New York City. He denied the crime in a final statement written before death and claimed innocence despite circumstantial evidence linking him to the crime.
An old advertisement touts LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets as a one day cure for a cold. It promises a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved and features W. GROVE'S signature on each box.
Special to The Light reports the formation of the Business Men's Accident Association in Austin with plans to apply for a charter soon. Officers named include George W. Walling Jr. as president J W Hoopes as treasurer Sam Sparks as vice president C W Connolly as secretary R D Watson as assistant secretary Ireland Graves as general counsel and Dr J W McLaughlin as medical director.
The advertisement asserts severe cold relief after two hourly doses and three consecutive doses. It claims rapid disappearances of headache fever cough and runny nose and states the formula costs 25 cents and costs over fifty thousand dollars to develop. It notes no quinine and asserts unique global efficacy.
Six Republican governors form a self described committee to back Colonel Roosevelt for the presidency. Led by Governor Walter Stubbs of Kansas, the group includes Bass of New Hampshire Aldrich of Nebraska Hadley of Missouri Glasscock of West Virginia and Osborne of Michigan. They communicate by letters and telegrams and see growing Roosevelt sentiment, especially in the south.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a quick remedy for stomach discomfort and indigestion. It claims relief from pain nausea and cold sweat, improves appetite and sleep, and notes availability in drug stores for 50 cents per box. A trial package is offered from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
A party of eight passengers traveling from Birds Point Missouri to Cairo Illinois faced peril after the Mississippi River iced over. Captain Frank Jones steered through dangerous floes, but a private ferry boat was splintered, sweeping several travelers from sight amid fog. Rescuers later found the group landed below Wickliffe Kentucky.
An angry mob broke into Quito jail and hanged Generals Elvoy Alfaro Flavio Alfaro Medardo Alfaro Ulpiano Paez and Manuel Serrano all senior revolutionists. Elvoy Alfaro had proclaimed presidency in 1906 and led the insurgency with others before being killed.
In Cuernavaca on Sunday the Zapatistas repelled a Federal assault to reclaim Santa Maria nine miles north, after federal forces briefly drove the rebel garrison from the town. An artillery battery under Captain Alberto Quiroz and Colonel Garcia Lugo’s cavalry attacked at dusk, but the Zapatisas began retreating only late in the day.
Indianapolis January 29. The Socialist party of Indiana condemns Federal Judge A B Anderson for discharging Detective W J Burns indicted on a kidnaping charge tied to the J J McNamara extradition. The party calls on Representative Berger of Wisconsin to demand the judge's removal by Congress.
Four persons died from burns or suffocation and five others were seriously injured in a house fire early Sunday at the home of Curtis Hale in Claytonia, a mining town ten miles from Butler, Pennsylvania.
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