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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1911
Page
1
A moving picture theater in Bologoic Navagolic province near Mikolai railroad burned Sunday killing ninety people including many children and wounding forty others. Fire trapped exits and rescuers were driven back by the flames as panicked crowds struggled to escape.
City officials announce no change to the general tax rate of 1.06 per 100, plus 1.00 for public schools, totaling 1.44 per 100 valuation. The budget may near one million dollars as improvements and new fire stations require funding, with ordinances to levy extra rates for fourteen improvement districts to be read and possibly adopted.
George Bancroft Sr a broker aged 86 discovered he was robbed of about 100000 in securities last Thursday in the Produce Exchange Safety Deposit Vault corridor. A tall man collided with him, an undersized accomplice swapped a bundle, and the envelope with the securities contained only three old newspapers.
Special Dispatch from Austin March 6 states the senate voted to table the Vaughn resolution with a roll call listing Aye votes from Adams Austin Bryan Cofer Hudspeth Hume Perkins Meacham Ratliff Sturgeon Watson Weinert Wilacy and Nay votes from Collins Greer Johnson Kaufman Lattimore Mayfield Murray Paulus Real Townsend Vaughn Ward and present not voting officials. Absent Terrell of McLennan.
Governor Colquitt sent a 3 o clock message to the Texas Senate urging immediate action on six matters: repeal of the automatic tax law, consideration of the appropriation bill, separation of the university and A M college, relief of the supreme court, provision for institutions of learning, and redistricting of the state. Senator Sturgeon condemned the move as meddling while Senator Cofer backed records of Baley and Culberson in congress.
London March 6 Home Secretary Churchill said the government will investigate allegations of Mormon activity among English women. He noted no official confirmation of girls being induced to emigrate to Utah but said the issue causes deep concern and will be exhaustively probed.
The new Democratic House Ways and Means majority held its first meeting to map a program, including possible selection of standing committees and tariff revision scope. The panel faces pressure from two factions as it sets its path.
Beaumont Texas March 6 Judge Pope impaneled the grand jury with Charles R. Bone as foreman and instructed a full investigation into the killing of three negroes during a gambling raid by portion of the sheriff's force at Port Arthur.
G H Charles, a former bookkeeper lodging at 303 Dwyer Avenue, asked landlord W H Peters for sleeping powders after drinking heavily. Peters retrieved them and found Charles dead on the floor when returning. Charles had recent lung trouble and had a wife in Birmingham, Alabama. The body is to be held pending further instructions.
At the hearing this afternoon post office inspector William A. Greenway testified to try to show that the Texas Fiscal Agency and Texas Collins Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Co has business connections with New York wireless firms.
Sherman Texas March 6 Alvin Grandstaff a Pittman Harrison Grain company employee was killed when he was pulled from a shelled corn loading bin and crushed under a heap of corn after being caught in the grain while at work.
Washington March 6 the interstate commerce commission and eastern trunk line officials concluded a plan not yet public to cancel proposed railroad rate advances in official classification territory. Carriers may voluntarily suspend the increases from March 15 to next autumn to gauge this fiscal year's business.
A bomb exploded in a hallway of a building housing Italians in Chicago on March 6. Another explosive set at a grocery doorway was removed and extinguished by a policeman before causing harm.
John B. Dickinson William A. Bomar and Charles H Beauchamp were arraigned for conspiracy to defraud by mail in a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner R L Edwards The hearing was postponed to allow more time for evidence The petition by Jack Pheiffle seeking stockholder representation was denied by Commissioner Edwards The case centers on the proposed Texas Collins Wireless Telegraph and Telephone company and the Texas Fiscal Agency in Waco
The eighth annual convention of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of Texas Arkansas and Oklahoma opens in Sherman with President C A Duck of Greenville presiding. Members from the three states gather for the meeting.
Baton Rouge March 6 William G Purvis the aviator seriously injured yesterday when pinned beneath wreckage of his plane is reported resting today in a local hospital.
General Duncan reported that the Wrighe biplane used for border scouting was damaged when Foulois and Parmalee forced a landing twelve miles from Eagle Pass on their return from Laredo. The craft landed in the Rio Grande with bent parts. it will be transported to Fort Sam Houston for repairs, with return timing undecided.
Cincinnati March 6. Vice President Powell of the New Orleans and Texas Pacific railroad says the firemen's ballot vote to decide on a strike over the employment of negro firemen is not important. He notes no negro firemen north of Oakdale Tennessee and claims no plan to move them north.
Press report from Washington notes no opinion announced in major corporate cases including Standard Oil dissolution, tobacco dissolution, and the corporate tax cases. Officials suggest decisions postponed about another week.
The Arkansas Supreme Court sustained Chancellor Martineau in dismissing the state's suit against Arkansas Brick and Manufacturing Co for 18000 in convict labor claims from a 10 year contract. The court found the state owed the company more than the company owed the state, and ruled the state could not be sued, so the case was dismissed.
Nacogdoches Texas March 6 The Saner Whiteman sawmill one of Texas largest was nearly burned down by fire this morning Loss estimated at 100000 The planer commissary and part of the stock were saved The origin of the fire is not known The mill lies at Caro twelve miles north of here
President Taft will skip a March stop in Chattanooga and instead visit in September during the Appalachian exposition. The current southern tour will include Atlanta as part of the itinerary.
San Diego March 6 The ship Arayan long believed missing after leaving Philadelphia for San Diego 209 days ago may be safe, but reports yesterday identify the vessel as the United States ship Albatrosa.
In Baltimore on March 6 Frank McCauley white man wept as he faced five lashes at the whipping post and jail after confessing to beating his wife. Prosecutors showed he struck her seven or eight times and choked her while taking over $20. This marked Judge Duffy’s second wife beater sentence at the post in a month.
Amoy China March 6 American Consul Julian Arnold departed for the United States leaving the consulate in charge of vice consul Charles Brossel who remains on duty at Amoy.
In Austin on March 6 Senator Vaughn offered a resolution praising Culbertson for preventing reimbursement of Senator Lorimer’s $25 000 investment in the late investigation. The measure failed 13 to 12 with five not voting as Bailey senators led a floor caucus and headed a tabling vote. The House saw Terrell and Shannon file a continuation notice.
Paris March 6 The new premier M Monis faced jeers in the chamber of deputies as socialists and radical allies, surprised by the conservative tone of the ministerial declaration. They objected to references on schools and church and the pledge to apply laws on religious orders and separation of church and state.
Dukes Johnson faces a pistol toting charge in county court after Saturday arrest at a wagon yard by Sheriff Tobin. Johnson says Sheriff Matthews of Travis County authorized him to trail horse thieves and had permission to carry a weapon, a claim Tobin cannot verify. Antonio Hernandez also charged with carrying a dagger. all cases docketed in county court.
French mining engineer L Chev Fillon traveling via the Menger says Mexican revolution has not harmed investment prospects. He notes many French investors remain confident, believing the upheaval will end soon, and he plans to inspect mining ore for French and English backers.
Atlanta announces Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain will attend the Southern Congress opening in the city next Wednesday. The visit underscores international attention to the regional gathering.
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