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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1916
Page
1
Paris officials report a German dirigible dropped bombs over the city causing more than 40 casualties and property damage. French aeroplanes pursued the airship for 53 minutes as fires and warnings disrupted nightlife. one family survived with a young boy among ruins.
Francisco Villa, per reports, has been driven from the Picachs hills and Santa Clara canyon and is now surrounded by Carranza forces near Valle. Villa's secretary Miguel Trillo reportedly captured, per Carranza consulate telegram from General Trevino dated yesterday.
Gen Argumedo is said to have died from blood poisoning after a wound at Passie. Carranza orders exhumation at San Miguel for ID. Beeson reports Murgia forces defeated Argumedo and Contreras. Cisneros seeks amnesty. Trevino zone commanders report rapid efforts to drive out bandits.
The Geological Survey reports radium price could top 9 million dollars per pound if supply were available. In 1915 US output totaled 6 grams, far below 22.8 grams in 1914, as World War I reduced European demand and commerce for radium and uranium ores.
For San Antonio and vicinity tonight cloudy and colder with a cold wave bringing temperatures of 24 to 28 degrees. Tuesday is expected to be fair.
Forecasts show St Louis 30 degrees with snow and northwest wind and rain or snow. Chicago 34 degrees cloudy with northwest wind and rain. Milwaukee 28 degrees cloudy. Kansas City 132 degrees cloudy with northwest wind and colder rain or snow. New York 46 degrees raining with southwest wind and rain. Washington DC 56 degrees partly cloudy with south wind and rain.
The Weather Bureau issued a flood bulletin noting continued heavy Sunday rains in Arkansas and the lower Mississippi and Ohio valleys. River stages Monday morning included St Louis 31.2 ft Cairo 51.4 ft Memphis 39.8 ft Vicksburg 50.1 ft New Orleans 17.8 ft, with flood stages generally lower. warnings say levels may be exceeded and remain high for some time.
Reports from Little Rock detail that about fifty families along the Redfield levee behind the Arkansas river may drown within four hours without rescue. The Board of Commerce seeks a steamer to aid Redfield, while Fourche River dam near Little Rock has collapsed, flooding 206000 acres of prime plantation land. Hundreds of Negro sharecroppers flee, convicts at Pulaski County surround and boats are built for safety. levee threats extend toward Jacksonport and White river levels are rising toward thirty three feet by Tuesday night.
Reports from Peking say Kweii Chow province has rebelled with the governor fleeing on January 16. Luchow and Tzeliutsing are reportedly captured. Monocacy gunboat at Chungkin will protect foreigners as 12 000 Kwei Chow troops march with Yunnan revolutionists toward Chung Kiang.
London dispatch reports Mongolian insurgents numbered about 20 000 and armed with 12 guns are advancing toward Peking, according to Reuters from Mukden.
Washington January 31. The administration shipping bill prepared by House merchant marine chair Alexander would replace last year’s failed Senate measure. It expands the shipping board and limits government operation to private funds shortfalls, proposing a $50,000,000 annual fleet appropriation and five board members including the navy and commerce secretaries.
The long predicted cold wave has reached Texas with San Antonio expected to be fair and cold. Temperatures may dip to 24 to 28 degrees in East Texas, though San Antonio remains uncertain. Weather south of the state faces lingering cold fronts as western regions freeze, while Nebraska and central areas report zero or below-zero cold.
The U S Chamber of Commerce creates a fourteen member Committee on National Defense to study commercial and military preparedness. A Washington photo from the committee's first meeting shows members including Mathew E. Hanna Ira N. Nellis and Des Moines based D S Chamberlain with officials Garrison and Daniels.
Near Buffalo New York early today four members of the Teiper family were attacked during an auto hold-up. Mrs Agnes Teiper 67 was killed Frederick Teiper was beaten to death Grace Teiper skull fractured and Edward Teiper left senseless and beaten The assailants robbed them and fled police seek a negro suspect.
The San Antonio district received praise from M D Payne district demonstration agent for progress in the last six months. Efforts include soil conservation lagoon crops wide row corn planting hog cholera control and boy agricultural clubs.
The Summit Hill mine fire in Lansford, PA, burning for over sixty years, has eaten through a massive concrete wall built by Lehigh Coal & Navigation. The breach endangers the Panther Creek valley vein, the world’s largest anthracite deposit, prompting extensive drilling and water slurries to halt further spread and salvage coal resources.
Josiah Turner, reputed oldest resident in the border area, died in Brownsville Texas at 90. He arrived in 1845 with General Zachary Taylor's army and helped defend Fort Brown in 1846 during a seven day siege by hostile forces.
In Providence Rhode Island on January 31, the doctor’s sister Ella Hogan and brother G B Mohr testified for the defense of widow Elizabeth F Mohr charged with instigating Dr C Franklin Mohr’s murder. They spoke of affection for the doctor and disputes about his marriage.
May reopen Corpus Christi channel as engineers propose deepening to restore navigation. P Hannford offers services to local interests seeking to reopen the channel that connects Corpus Christi Bay with the Gulf of Mexico. The harbor was blocked after last August’s great Texas hurricane.
In Milwaukee on January 31 the president arrived amid cannon salutes and 15 000 spectators outside the station. He delivered a 2 36 p m speech on preparedness at the auditorium, joined by Mrs Wilson in a box with orchids as a 9 000 audience sang America along with the band.
President Wilson in Racine Wisconsin defends national defense as a public necessity. He rejects claims that munitions interests drive readiness and says the impulse comes from disinterested men and government self manufacturing to control prices. He jokes about his inability to quiet crowds of schoolchildren.
President Wilson spent an hour and a half in Chicago on his way to Milwaukee where he planned to speak this afternoon. He arrived at North Western station at 8 and left for the north at 10 with Mrs. Wilson. An explosion heard at the rear platform caused a crowd to gather as a steam leak from a ruptured hose was repaired.
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