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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1908
Page
7
Piza HB Thompson, 34, died July 4 after exhaustion. interment in Bastrop. Bula May Magill, 1, died July 3 of meningitis at 3731 West Conc aerce street. interment in cemetery No 6. Yaldra Flores, 77, died July 6 of pneumonia at 409 Comal street. interment at San Merdandy cemetery. Henry A. Ashley, age 2, died.
The notice records the death of JWy and burial at St Joseph Cemetery, with interment at 149 North Street listed, indicating the funeral arrangements in the local cemetery.
The painters and paperhangers will hold a picnic next Sunday at Madarasz park. A large attendance is predicted. XH, Oarder and wife of Sanderson are at the Bexar. J. Soak and wife of Houston are guests of the Alamo hotel.
The city council adopted an ordinance prohibiting new private sewer systems without council consent and transferred 14,009 from general funds to the back tax fund. It also approved a Kuehn cemetery ordinance, delaying a report on Mission Cemetery, and debated subway and cemetery extensions amid traction company uncertainty.
An ordinance by Alderman Mauermann requires permits from the city council for sewer construction and city engineer supervision. Private sewers must be declared within 10 days. Alderman Smith reports 125 feet cement walks on Malb avenue and other streets, with efforts to place walk adjacent to city schools. The council also considers legal questions about electric light shares, grants side-track construction, and repairs streets while approving payments and new meat market and slaughterhouse permissions. Attending were Mayor Gallighan and several aldermen. Braden and Carey absent.
San Antonio council approves a $1000 ordinance to fund street signs at all intersections. Bids must include a sign sample. proposals will be evaluated by the council and mayor for a uniform system. An additional ordinance prohibits removing signs from posts or fences. Some signs still remain. many are missing in parts of the city.
Denver July 7 Hawaii declares itself a colonial possesion and announces support for William A Kinney of Honolulu for vice president. Kinney, a native Hawaiian lawyer and political orator, campaigned last year to carry Hawaii for the Democrats and now will receive the state's vote.
A Denver convention history traces the evolution of the nation s oldest political party from its Jeffersonian roots to the present. It lists presidential and vice presidential nominees at major gatherings from 1865 Buchanan Pierce in Cincinnati to 1904 Parker Devis in St. Louis, with notes on Baltimore Chicago and other sites.
A. M. Chilum filed suit in the Forty-fifth district court against the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad alleging cattle injuries during a May 24 1908 shipment. Damages sought amount to 220.93 dollars. Suit noted alongside local tailoring ads for Model Tailoring Co. outlet at 418 Mast Houston Street.
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