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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
3
Beaumont officials led by Mayor Emmett Etcher back a 300000 dollar bond issue to fund a major paving project after touring asphalt deposits near Uvalde. The deposits, once owned by Uvalde Asphalt Paving, passed to Bluett Smythe, a wealthy lumberman, who could challenge the asphalt trust and push commercial development.
United Mine Workers of America president John T White says negotiations with anthracite coal operators are off and he predicts a general work suspension on April 1 The miners demand union recognition a 20 percent wage rise and shorter hours while the operators stand firm Retail coal prices rose again today
London reports a fresh deadlock in talks to settle the coal strike paralyzing the United Kingdom. Premier Asquith and cabinet ministers meet with miners and owners without progress. Unemployed numbers exceed two million with many families short of resources. Rail service limits broaden, lamps fade, and troops are used to harvest wood for fuel.
Fifteen thousand dollars in currency was stolen from the registered mail pouch on the Arizona and New Mexico railroad at Clifton Arizona. The money was York consigned from El Paso to the Detroit Copper company at Morenci Arizona.
In the Westphalian district near Essen a gendarme at Wattenheid shot and killed two mob attackers after being shot twice. An open air Erbe meeting for 5000 strikers was dispersed by police. Fifty people were wounded as striker numbers rise.
STRASSBERG Germany March 15 Twenty three hundred Merlenbach miners struck yesterday refusing the proffered ten per cent increase due July first They condemned the offer as insufficient and vowed to continue their walkout until terms improve.
Francisco I. Madero, president of Mexico, sent a letter with a check to the El Paso Day Nursery dated March 15, asking to be considered a regular contributor to the nursery’s work.
The attorney general's department approved a 25000 dollar issue of Bexar county common school district bonds No 48. The bonds bear 5 percent interest and mature in 20 years. The issue was registered in the comptroller's department.
The Panama Canal record explains the steam and hot gas emission from Culebra cut as due to oxidization of iron pyrites exposed to air. Temperatures dropped in days, with minor risk to workers who test drill holes to prevent accidental dynamite blasts.
Captain Frank R. McCoy aide to Major General Leonard Wood arrived in San Antonio en route to Washington after a Panama canal zone trip. He downplayed significance of the visit and denied danger at the border, noting plans to visit Fort Sam Houston. Ethel Capps, 12, died at Brazos and Granada. burial set at Coker settlement. King Pattison Drug Co of San Antonio filed dissolution papers with stockholders William King and J. T. Edwards.
The San Antonio Ministerial union will hold its regular meeting Monday at 11 a.m. in YMCA rooms. One order of the day is the election of officers for the coming six months. All city ministers are urged to be present. SAN-A-LAC! IT'S REFRESHING.
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