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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1911
Page
1
A schooner sank off New Haven during a gale as four crew members were reported missing. The storm battered Atlantic approaches and affected telegraph and wire service, with high winds and freezing temperatures closing in on the harbor area.
The Associated Press reports unseasonable cold hit the sugar cane and trucking sectors across Louisiana and Texas. Temperatures fell to about 27 degrees as far south as Alexandria, injuring blooms and reducing protection for cotton. High winds damaged open boll sections. forecasters predict a general warming trend but limited impact from the late freeze.
Atlanta endures one of its sharpest cold snaps since 1887 with the morning low around 22 degrees after a 16 degree spike earlier in the night. Strong winds stripped cotton left in oils, though overall damage to the crop is believed minimal as harvest has largely finished.
Chicago headlines report a third death from the bitter cold as William Johnson aged four is found unconscious on a north side street and dies in an ambulance en route to a hospital amid the severe winter weather.
The report from Luling Texas notes a sharp temperature drop after a windy night. Blustery winds lingered through Sunday as the season began with bitter cold.
Forecast suggests clouds and a rising mercury tonight and tomorrow after a cold wave that began Saturday night. In San Antonio the temperature did not drop below freezing. 33 degrees was the low at 6:30 this morning, with 22 in Fort Worth and 24 in Palestine and Taylor elsewhere.
For San Antonio and vicinity: to night and Tuesday, increasing cloudiness, rising temperature.
Weather readings at 8 a.m. show St Louis 18 degrees with increasing cloudiness and a southwest wind six miles per hour. Chicago 14 degrees with clearing and a southwest wind ten miles per hour. Milwaukee 10 degrees partly cloudy with a southwest wind 22 miles per hour. St Paul 8 degrees cloudy with a south wind four miles per hour. Kansas City 20 degrees partly cloudy with a south wind twelve miles per hour. New York 24 degrees clear with a northwest gale 38 miles per hour. Boston 30 degrees clear with a west wind 24 miles per hour. Washington 22 degrees clear with a north wind 14 miles per hour.
A claim asserting that the Associated Press leased wire to San Antonio is carried in full or in part by newspapers other than the San Antonio Light is unfounded and without basis in fact. The record shows no supporting evidence or official confirmation.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals denied Henry Clay Beattie Jr.’s petition for a writ of error in his murder case. With the electric chair set for November 24, only clemency or a reprieve by Governor Mann can save him. The warden declined to notify Beattie, awaiting his father and brother, while influences mount for or against commutation. The governor planned a statement tomorrow.
The Supreme Court ruled the Interstate Commerce Commission lacked power to bar railroads from paying operators of elevators for elevating grain in transit. The decision cited limits on regulatory authority and addressed a major transportation and trade dispute.
About fifty San Antonio baseball fans will meet the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues delegates in Austin and escort them to the city. C H Genslinger leads the reception party, who will board the northbound Illinois Central Gulf train at 7:30 AM to greet the magnates with a royal reception and parade to the hotel.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood arrived at Fort Leavenworth to inspect posts. Stimson said generals lack familiarity with their men and that smaller posts should be reduced while centralizing forces. He planned to decide which posts to abandon or enlarge after the inspection.
Five aliens held for possible deportation after arriving on the Hanover were at large in Galveston on November 13. Four escaped from the ship and one from the marine hospital, with authorities and the steamship company actively seeking their retaking and facing fines for each unrecovered individual.
The major college football clash between Texas A and M is staged in Houston this afternoon. The Light will publish the result and full story in its 7 o clock edition along with national scores and highlights.
The traveling baseball delegation will arrive in San Antonio Tuesday at 6 pm with a live band to welcome the major leaguers. They will march from the depot to the St. Anthony hotel where A W Houston will deliver a city welcome. For four days delegates will take over the town as fans urged large turnout in Austin trip tomorrow.
In San Antonio rumors spread that within three months President Madero would be ousted due to declared incompetence. General Reyes and family tensions prompted visits by aides, with Maderistas predicting trouble and Reyes denying any flight or arms shipments.
A dire watch report says EETY faces mortal danger at sea with the vessel in grave peril. Crew and passengers are believed doomed as distress signals rise from the troubled ship.
The steamer Washington, ashore on Peacock Spit near Astoria, is driven by a southeast gale toward rocks between Cape Disappointment and North Head. About fifty aboard, two sailors drowned, life-saving crews patrol all night, and tugs Tatoosh and Gollah head to the scene with slim hopes of aid.
New York report says the health department will intervene to curb rotting garbage piles in poorer districts if the sanitation workers strike continues. Health officials deployed disinfectant barrels as police seek to quell strike mobs after a night of violence.
A want ad from Vancouver, British Columbia targets Tur Licur and is reprinted in over 40 Southern and Western papers. The National Mercantile Co. Vancouver and GEO. B. Stillings send a plea to discontinue the ad for John F. Seton. The note emphasizes want ads as fast, wide-reaching results for readers.
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