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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1911
Page
3
President Taft arrived in Los Angeles with a busy schedule including a morning review of city school children at Washington Park and seven or eight brief speeches planned around the city.
A daytime event in Pasadena leads to an evening banquet planned to serve 1000 covers. The program features a guest speaker and a formal reception.
Right Rev Augustine Van de Vyver longtime bishop of the Richmond diocese died in Richmond Virginia from complications after a severe cold. He was born in 1844 in Haesdonck East Flanders Belgium.
Telegraph lines severed in Hupeh and Sze Chuen halt news from the rebel zone as rebels reportedly seize a Chinese warship at Hankow. Imperial troops retreating toward Chumaitien mobilize while three American diplomats join General Yin Chang. Foreign exchange of dispatches allowed, rumors of Japanese complicity denied. Rice prices rise sharply and Pekin to Tien Tsin rail traffic may halt tomorrow.
Washington officials believe a coordinated effort by great powers may emerge to safeguard Chinese territorial integrity amid a sweeping middle China rebellion. If the revolt endures, the risk of foreign infringement could prompt aggressive powers to press their spheres of influence, with America possibly leading a defensive alliance akin to the open door policy.
A mass meeting at the Young China association quarters in San Francisco heard a Pekin cablegram stating Japan refused to involve itself in the Chinese difficulty. A rumor from a conference between Manchu officials and the Japanese ambassador in Pekin suggested Japan might aid the Chinese government.
The commander of the German gunboat Tiger says from Hankow that the American admiral has taken command of the foreign warships at Hankow, the Japanese admiral Kwashimi remains leading the foreign land forces.
President Taft asked that no noise be made on Sunday so the 21 gun salute was not fired as ships officers and sailors aboard the California drank to his health with California champagne. The omission surprised many and sparked speculation about naval courtesy.
Police say a Houston man sold 350 bogus Ringling tickets at 50 cents each. He was arrested Sunday and escaped while being taken to the station. Officers traced ticket printing and found unused and partially burned tickets.
Special report from Mexico City dated October 16 notes after the electoral college had met, Jose Maria Pino Suarez appears to hold a majority of electoral votes to become vice president under Francisco I. Madero. Few votes went to Vasquez Gomez and one to Porfirio Diaz, with the contest mainly over the vice presidency.
An advertisement promotes S.S.S. as a natural cure for chronic sores by purifying the blood. It argues impurities cause ulcers and claims S.S.S. removes morbid matter, aids healthy blood cells, and leads to lasting cures. The copy notes a free book on sores and ulcer advice and lists The Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta, Ga. as the seller.
Early returns show Pino Suárez ahead with Francisco I. Madero poised for a people chosen presidency. Reported results place Suárez ahead in many states, with De la Barra strong in Jalisco and Puebla losses for the Catholic bloc. Madero plans a nationwide tour before the December 1 inauguration, the first civilian-elected president since Juárez.
Ralph and Robert St. John, separated in childhood, reunited in Wichita after thirty years. Ralph, selling carnival tickets, and Robert, a wealth cattleman from Canadian Texas, met at a show. Ralph had fled Akron at age 11, wandering to Baltimore and Paterson before losing track of kin. The brothers plan to move to Texas together.
In Lawton Oklahoma W H McAlexander plans a criminal probe into selling of spoiled canned sardines blamed for four deaths in his family. He travels to St Joe Texas to locate the purchase source and push charges against the grocer or sardine makers under pure food law. The victims include Mrs McAlexander and three children Yancy Ethel and Kash. Also reported Bay City Texas cotton yield from Matagorda county with a 25 acre patch yielding thirty bales.
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