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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1911
Page
8
Governor Dix, returning from the Adirondacks, commented on the Republican win in New York. He said he hardly understands the turnover and noted it reflects voter independence across the country. He vowed to press Democratic policies despite an adverse legislature.
A group of eastern and European bankers tours Texas by rail on the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexican system escorted by J. H. Elliott, with Corpus Christi reporting.
The group led by A. T. Perkins C. B. Rodgers and William Doherty, all from the same road, left Houston Saturday night and is in the Rio Grande valley area. Corpus Christi may be dropped due to limited time in the region.
In Houston on November 10 the school board's decision denying after school play on school grounds drew increasing protest from mothers’ clubs. A remonstration is planned for the board’s Saturday night meeting to rescind the ruling.
Routine matters engaged the attention of the African Methodist Episcopal conference over which Bishop Tyree is presiding today in Houston Texas.
The Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association, meeting at the Chamber of Commerce, urges Congress to maintain wool product duties to protect profits for raisers. They seek help from Governor Colquitt to enlist northern Mexico in exterminating wolves. The group also requests a doubled import duty on mohair, and plans another meeting to discuss further actions. The Texas bounty law takes effect September 1, 1912.
The will of Frank T. Howard was probated in New Orleans after his death in New York. He left $55,000 to charities including $10,000 to Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia. The widow Elizabeth Howard inherits $600,000.
The junior class of Long Island Medical College, about 100 students, is on strike to protest alleged unfair treatment by an instructor. President Dr. John M. McCorkle warns the entire class will be expelled if they do not change their stance promptly.
President Taft issued a ninety day reprieve to Mrs. Mattie B. Lomax of Washington who had been sentenced to death for murdering her husband. The case would have made her the first woman executed in the District of Columbia since Mrs. Surratt.
The census bureau reports 1910 population totals of 91,972,266 with whites at 88.9 percent and negroes 10.7 percent. In the South whites are 69.9 percent to 29.8 percent for blacks, reflecting higher white growth and some migration of African Americans. Texas shows whites 3,204,896 and negroes 690,020, making 82.2 percent and 17.7 percent respectively.
Leavenworth Kan Nov 10 Second Lieutenant E Hand of the Fifteenth Cavalry learned a court martial reduced him fifty grades in lineal rank for conduct unbecoming an officer. He was accused of driving his private horse into a mud hole and leaving it to die and of failing to perform duties and disobeying orders. He was previously found guilty last summer of drunkenness.
Walter Hudson, 30, of Pontiac, who had been jailed in Jackson prison, found he inherited $25 from a distant relative, while already serving a sentence for larceny six months ago.
Convalescence after pneumonia phoid fever and the grip is said to be real with Hood's Sarsaparilla. The advertisement claims rapid recovery and urges readers to trust thousands of testimonies and take Hood's.
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