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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
1
Unclear text describes a well finished unwashed Domestic fabric and a soft bleached Domestic item to be discounted Friday and Saturday. Gingham-apron checks in brown blue greek and black will be sold Friday and Saturday at four per yard.
Associated Press reports portrait painter William Conley, head of the International Society of Art, shot and killed himself in his office on Fifth Avenue at Fourth Street. He had been working late. a janitor found him with a bullet wound and a revolver on the desk. Conley had achieved notable success and founded the organization several years ago.
Chicago June 10. Testimony in Judge Landis's Chinaman smuggling trial reveals the usual practice of placing smuggled men on trains after dining out. Albert C. Hampton, a crewman aboard a box car, describes the method involving a steel chain and a loaded box. Ch G Walker and wife of Alpina are noted in a brief mention.
In Burlington on June 10, Bristow Draper the Massachusetts governor’s son, disowned by his father for marrying chorus girl Queenie Sanford, works in a Hopedale cotton mill and earns his way. After a year he advances at the mill, and a reconciliation with his parents leads to a family move near Lake Champlain. Draper vows to stay in his hard earned labor and not return to society.
New York win dominates the national balloon race with 358 miles flown by Forbes and Harmon in the New York balloon. They landed at Corinth after thirty five hours ten minutes aloft, while Indiana stayed aloft forty eight hours but touched water. Endurance prize may go to Fisher if results stand. Southern Shriners celebrate the event with entertainment across Dixie towns.
Chicago reports a nearly 90 year old man named John Howard who contended to penetrating months in the house of correction. He was saved from breaking into a rest room on Fullerton avenue amid a June sighting.
Chicago June 10 AP reports George Lytle manager of Jack Johnson says the big boxer will part training in Chicago or Cedar Lake. Talks of fights with Al Kaufman and Hanley Keeler. Kehel would meet O'Trien with Johnson’s plans unaffected for October 8. September 17 or 19 remains set with Kaufman.
A starving family in a West Fourth Street tenement drawn attention when a policeman entered after a window appearance by Mrs Thorns Corbett. The father, nearly skeletal, lay unconscious. Corbett and her husband endured days without food since Saturday amid illness and poverty. A hospital and medical staff tended them as authorities assess the grim case.
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