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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
3
At 325 East ney Place investigators report a burglary in which two or more intruders ate a large roast, bread, cakes, and a rice pie, and stole a coat, a gold watch and fob, and 1.50 in cash. Papers were left on a table. Police notified.
Credit Men of the Chamber of Commerce re elected officers and named a new board of directors at yesterday afternoon’s meeting. Reappointed manager H A Hirschberg. reports on the year were read. New directors include Jake Wolff W J Morrison A J Castanola Arthur Storms A H Halff R T Pruitt H D Elliott Ben M Hammond Gus Giesecke C M Cain J A Patterson. Officers re elected D J Straus president Hugo Goodman vice president George Allensworth secretary J D Oppenheimer treasurer.
Morris Price, a Baltimore stevedore, testified before the coroner's jury about the Alum Chine disaster. He linked assistant foreman William Bomhardt to the first explosion, recounting a shouted threat while handling dynamite. Price and three others corroborated the sequence, noting smoke and additional blasts ten minutes later.
In Louisville Kentucky today a federal trial resembled a picture theater as stereoptical views of the Louisville and Nashville Railway right of way were shown to jurors. Eight hundred views illustrate the railroad’s claim of encroachment by the Western Union Telegraph Company’s poles and wires. The suit seeks dissolution of the injunction that bars the railroad from interfering with Western Union facilities while eminent domain proceedings proceed.
A buoyant health ad urges action for sluggish bodies likening impairments to a brackish pool. It promotes Warner Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy as a long trusted spring medcine to awaken energy, improve digestion, and restore vitality, inviting readers to ask their druggist or request a sample.
Joseph McDonald, wanted in Juneau, Alaska, on a murder charge, arrived in Laredo from Guanajuato Mexico under his own extradition. He paid his own travel and the guards’ fares after Mexican funds were unavailable. Ambassador Wilson secured extradition and J H Warren United States special agent handled custody. He traveled with his wife and son.
E H Hulsey of Galveston has leased 100 feet by 100 feet at Capitol and Main in Houston for 99 years at 2 2 million dollars rent and taxes. He plans construction of a top tier theater and office building likely costing about half a million dollars.
Waco Texas March 12 an elaborate banquet will be tendered congressman R L Henry tonight by his townsmen for his long services in Congress O L Stribling will be toastmaster.
In Austin the Thirty third Legislature has 58 days with only four general bills sent to the governor, three of them consolidation measures. About 1,400 bills were introduced amid calls for a special session as no court reform or platform promises have been fulfilled. Senator Willacy doubts general appropriations will pass. long speeches and high costs hinder progress. The House engrossed anti loan shark legislation by Kirby and Roach’s bill on county bond issuance advances as the session stalls.
Advert reads that S S S blood cleanser quickly boosts energy, blood flow, and vitality for malaria and rheumatic conditions. It endorses immediate purchase at $1.00, urges readers to seek medical advice from The Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Ga.
A 74 year old fruit and vegetable dealer, A. O. Reed of 301 Granada Street, reports relief after using Plant Juice. He praises its effects for run down nerves, general debility, and worn out feelings and urges others to visit Fischer's drug store at Alamo and Houston for the remedy.
Lawmakers consider a two thirds county bond requirement for roads and a nine juror verdict plan for district courts. The Cotton Belt No 2 bill absorbs the Eastern Texas Railway while a land bonds bill seeks three million dollars. Gov support shifts on university bonds and insurance chief pay rises are discussed.
Governor indicates likely disapproval of the bill creating a new Grayson county court and probable rejection of the proposed Beaumont or Houston court of appeals. House and Senate sessions discussed electrocution substitution for hanging, nine jurors, and a Supreme Court relief bill amid committees and investigations into penitentiary affairs.
A San Antonio delegation reached Austin to support the employees' compensation bill now before the House committee after passage in the Senate. The measure covers all industrial firms with ten or more workers and drew the interest of local businessmen including Claude V. Birkhead L. J. Hart Otto Koehler and A. C. Burnett.
In Cincinnati Ohio on March 12 a street car from College Hill jumped the track and crashed into an apartment house at Ludlow Avenue. One man died and eight persons were severely injured in the accident.
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