Old Bonds To Be Retired Under City Plan
San Antonio plans to retire old bonds using the sinking fund and a one cent increase in the old bond tax rate from 16 to 17 cents per $100. The plan targets $723,000 due before 1920 and $490,000 due May 1, 1920, with projections to reduce the old-bond tax to 10 cents by 1920 and to about 7 cents by 1933, assuming steady property valuations.
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San Antonio
Brown
Elmendorf
General
General Sinking Fund
Steamer L Edward Hines Crew Lost in Caribbean Hurricane
Sixteen crew members including Capt. F. M. McKeige Jr. of New York drowned when the steamer L Edward Hines sank in a tropical hurricane October 15, 45 miles east of Belize. Belize agents' wireless report says only three were saved.
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New Orleans
L. Edward Hines
F. M. McKeige Jr
New York
Caribbean Sea
Belize
British Honduras
Otis Manufacturing Company
State Wins Its Injunction Case In Texas Rail Tariff
Judge George Calhoun granted the state's injunction to stop 32 Texas railroads not in the Atlanta suit from applying the new tariff 2-B set to take effect November 1. The Cotton Belt and Wichita Falls & Northwestern were dismissed. the former feared inclusion, the latter leased by Katy. The ruling enjoins use of tariff 2-B rates while advance freight rates from the Texas commission may still apply.
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Austin
Tex
George Calhoun
Fifty-third District
Texas
Atlanta
Cotton Belt
Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railroad
Katy
Texas Commission
Robberies Reported Across City Including Mason Street
S Schmidt, 222 Mason Street, reported a Sunday night burglary with $300 stolen from a trunk broken open while family away. N F Hoogen huyze, 208 Ashby Place, lost five quilts from a clothes line. A box car on a South Medina street siding yielded apples. R A Grant reported the theft. James Burley, 207 Dalton alley, had $18 stolen from his trousers Sunday night.
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S. Schmidt
Mason Street
N. F. Hoogenhuyze
Ashby Place
Medina Street
R. A. Grant
James Burley
Dalton Alley
Steel Takes Strong Market Lead On New High
United States Steel mounted a fresh intraday high in New York trading on October 23, with 3100 shares moving at 120 8-4, topping its prior peak by 1 8. The stock later touched 121 as other industrials including iron and steel, sugars, central leather and mid-priced rails rose 2 to 6 points.
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New York
United States Steel
Richmond Blues Arrive in Brownsville for Provisional Cavalry
The first squadron of the Virginia cavalry known as the Richmond Blues arrived at Brownsville Texas from Camp Stuart. They will join the new provisional cavalry regiment as announced.
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Richmond Blues
Brownsville
Tex
Virginia Cavalry
Camp Stuart
Provisional Cavalry Regiment
Weather outlook for San Antonio area unsettled tonight
For San Antonio and vicinity, conditions remain unsettled tonight and Tuesday with possible showers or thunderstorms. Temperatures stay mild and winds shift, shaping a variable pattern across the region.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather for Tourists Across Major Cities
Forecasts by The Tight list today’s temps for St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington with brief conditions and wind. Temperatures range from 42 to 48 as skies vary between clear and partly cloudy and Tuesday is forecast with generally clear conditions.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Plans for twice weekly brigade reviews at Fort Sam Houston
General Funston proposes semi weekly brigade reviews at Fort Sam Houston with Brigadier General Henry A Greene to replace staff post parades. Aiming for Tuesday and Friday afternoons the reviews will showcase about 3000 troops and acquaint the public with new regiments now stationed there. Three Virginia units arrived and Second Kansas will move to Fort Riley in three train sections.
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Funston
Fort Sam Houston
Henry A. Greene
Twelfth Provisional
Staff Post
Austin
San Antonio
Camp Wilson
Kansas Infantry
Seventh Illinois Infantry
Kennon
District of Columbia
First
Mississippi Infantry
Third
West Virginia Infantry
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Illinois Infantry
Thirty-seventh Infantry
Nineteenth Infantry Band
Virginia
Signal Company
Field Hospital
Engineer Company
Third Infantry
West Virginia
Fort Riley
Small cruiser Muenchen torpedoed in North Sea action
Small cruiser Muenchen reported torpedoed Thursday and returning to harbor after light damage. British admiralty said German Kolberg class cruiser of about 4350 tons was torpedoed that morning and seen headed toward German waters in evident difficulties.
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Berlin
London
Muenchen
Admiralty
North Sea
British destroyer struck by German seaplane bomb off Flanders
Berlin report says a German seaplane squadron bombed sea forces off the Flanders coast on Oct 21. One destroyer sustained a hit, but the raiders returned unharmed after heavy shelling, according to the admiralty.
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Berlin
Sayville
Flanders
Admiralty
Storms Off Florida Move Northward Warned Along Coast
Weather bureau reports indicate a second storm 200 miles off the North Florida coast moving northward. Storm warnings have been issued from Fort Monroe to Charles City as the system tracks north along the Atlantic waters.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Florida
Fort Monroe
Charles
Cotton Nears 20 Cent Mark As Market Rises
New York trading opened firm with 28 to 32 point advances as Liverpool strength and Egyptian cotton gains lift prices. January hits 18.85 and May 1906 trades above 60 points from last week, with profit taking and outside demand offsetting some gains later.
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New York
Liverpool
Aeroplane sighted over English coast attack
London reports a hostile aeroplane over Margate on the southeast coast dropping three bombs injuring two people. Paris says a French air squadron of twenty four machines dropped four tons of projectiles on blast furnaces near Metz and on Metz and Thionville stations, hitting all targets. A French flotilla also bombarded factories at Rombach.
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London
Margate
England
Paris
Metz
Thionville
War Office
Rombach
Bituminous coal hits record high at Pittsburg mines
Pittsburg Pa October 23 bituminous coal reached 9.25 a ton at the mines, 2.65 higher than the usual price and likely the highest ever commanded.
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Pittsburg
Mail Congestion at San Antonio Post Office Reflects Holiday Rush
Monday morning the San Antonio post office resembled a holiday department store as packages piled sky-high. Superintendent Robert S. Hedges called the congestion routine, predicting worse as holiday orders mount. A large New York shipment arrives express to San Antonio and is parcel-posted to recipients, with stamps pre-purchased and canceled in this office before returning to big northern and eastern mail-order houses.
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San Antonio
Fifty Die In Mexican Train Wreck Near Ramos Arispe
Fifty people were killed and many injured in a rear end collision between a coal freight train and a crowded passenger train near Ramos Arispe, between Saltillo and Torreon. Reports say the dead were brought to Saltillo and buried, with no Americans believed injured.
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Laredo
Tex
Ramos Arispe
Mexico
Saltillo
Torreon
Coahuila
Sinking of Hebe Fortuna and Cabotia Reported
Lloyds shipping agency reports the Danish steamer Hebe and the Dutch Fortuna of 1254 tons gross sunk. Ten Fortuna survivors landed, captain and fifteen others feared drowned. Also believed sunk is the Donaldson liner Cabotia of 4307 tons gross, 385 feet long, built in 1900.
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London
Hebe
Lloyd’s Shipping Agency
Carranza and Officials at Queretarid War Munitions Move
General Venustiano Carranza and Alvaro Obregon with officials are in Queretaro as reports say sixty carloads of war munitions were removed from Mexico City. Pablo Gonzalez reportedly returns to Mexico City to oversee the capital. Mrs Carranza and relatives travel by special train to Nuevo Laredo and then to San Antonio. Mrs Obregon may visit Los Angeles. American Consul Garrett ordered to extend full courtesy at the border.
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Virginia Carranza
Venustiano Carranza
Alvaro Obregon
Nuevo Laredo
San Antonio
Alonzo B. Garrett
State Department
United States
Cabinet Meeting Hints Mexico Ministry Changes
Mexico City reports a cabinet session Sunday attended by military officers to discuss ministry changes. Unconfirmed talk ties Eliseo Arredondo to a foreign post in Washington while Juan Sanchez Azcona may become sub secretary of foreign relations and Alberto J. Pani to finance minister with R. Zeruche taking over the railways post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Eliseo Arredondo
Washington
Exico City
Foreign Office
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Spain
Alberto J. Pani
National Railways of
Mexico
R. Zeruche
Villistas in retreat near Fresno and Santa Ysabel
In Chihuahua City on October 23 Villa forces pull back from Fresno toward Santa Ysabel as General Ozuna pursues. Trevino reports decisive action expected soon with heavy losses on both sides. Ozuna’s main force near Fresno. Santa Ysabel hosts a thousand strong bandit forces, and Torreon reports Villa fighters surrendering to Carranza’s forces.
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Chahuahua City
Villa
Fresno
Santa Ysabel
Ozuna
Trevino
Chihuahua City
Martin Lopez
Martin Salinas
Chihuahua
Torreon
Carranzas
Ozuna Reported Killed as Battle News Lapses
In Ozuna reported killed rumor, Villa traps and annihilates Ozuna’s forces, while Mexico’s general elections proceed quietly across the republic. Matamoros says delegates to the constitutional congress to be chosen December 1, with four delegates per state. This marks the first nationwide election in three years.
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EL Paso
Tex
Villa
Carranza
Ozuna
Matamoros
Mexico
Mexican Constitutional Congress
Mexico City
Republic
Wilson Optimistic On Eve Of Election Campaign
President Wilson shows optimism about his bid for re election as the campaign enters its final phase. He has two speeches left in Long Branch and three trips before election day, likely receiving returns at Shadow Lawn. He will address Cincinnati on Thursday, then Buffalo and New York City next week. Alton B Parker plans lunch with the president today and James W Gerard, ambassador to Germany, will join him Tuesday.
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Long Branch
N. J
Wilson
Shadow Lawn
Cincinnati
Buffalo
New York City
Alton B. Parker
James W. Gerard
Germany
Kills N.Y. Sheriff by Posseman at Whiteiston
Frank Taft, 65, after killing Sheriff Paul Stier of Queens County with a shotgun, barricaded in his Whiteiston home as police and deputies closed in. He was shot and killed by a posse member, ending the siege.
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Whiteston
N. Y
Paul Stier
Queens County
Frank Taft
Illinois guardsmen held for leaving fort during muster out
Sixty six members of the Illinois field artillery at Fort Sheridan were placed under arrest after rebelling against alleged cold protection and visiting their homes over Sunday without leave while awaiting muster out of federal service.
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Chicago
Illinois Field Artillery
Fort Sheridan
Local option case set for Thursday in Bee county
The local option contest from Bee county where the wets appealed the dry result is scheduled for submission Thursday in the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals. Lawyers for both sides are expected at San Antonio with the case styled A. C. Marsden et al vs. Charles Troy, Bee county attorney.
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Bee County
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
County Commissioners’ Court
Mullaly
Laredo
Ferguson
F. G. Chambliss
San Antonio
Theros
Thomas, Ouchstone & Milam
Dallas
Beasley & Beasley
J. Ed Dougherty
Beeville
Charley Troy
Antis
Dougherty
A. C. Marsden
Charles Troy
YMCA Boys Stage Perfect Record Contest This Fall
The YMCA announces a boys department contest from October 23 to January 1. A perfect record requires attendance at every gymnasium and Bible class session. Winners receive YMCA emblems chosen by the victor. if no perfect record exists, the best attendance earns an emblem. Bible classes run Tuesday and Thursday sessions and Saturday mornings with plans for a monthly Bible study rally and social event.
Germany to Repatriate Italians Civilians
Paris dispatches report Germany plans to repatriate about 1000 Italian civilians unfit for military service who have been interned in Germany. Lacking feeding capacity, authorities will send them home via Chiasso, according to news despatches.
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Germany
Paris
Chiasso
Surgeons Open Seventh Clinical Congress in Philadelphia
Surgeons from across the nation opened their seventh annual Clinical Congress in Philadelphia. Distinguished visitors conducted clinics in city hospitals as retiring president Dr. Charles Mayo of Minnesota and president-elect Dr. Fred Bates Lund of Boston prepared to deliver addresses.
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Surgeons’ Chemical Congress
Philadelphia
Clinical Congress of Surgeons
Charles Mayo
Minnesota
Fred Bates Lund
Boston
Stogie Makers in Wheeling Vote for Higher Pay
Stogie makers in the Wheeling district vote unanimously to demand a $1 per thousand increase. About 1400 workers are affected in the October 23 report from Wheeling West Virginia.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Germans Capture Constanza Port and Danube Bridge
The Associated Press dispatch from London reports Field Marshal von Mackensen’s Dobrudja campaign achieving a principal objective with the seizure of Constanza, its strategic Black Sea port and eastern rail terminus. German forces push toward Tchernavoda, with Danube crossings and continued operations along the Constanza–Danube axis as the war unfolds on multiple fronts.
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Black Sea
Roumania
von Mackensen
London
Debrudja
Constanza
Berlin
Central Powers
Marfatlar
Dobrudja
Danube
Tchernavoda
Old Roumania
Von Mackensen Advancing to Constanza Capture
German and Bulgarian troops have captured the Roumanian fort of Constanza and crossed the railway toward the Danube, with forces under Field Marshal Von Mackensen advancing on Tchernavoda as Russian defenses retreat from the western bank.
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Berlin
London
Constanza
War Office
Black Sea
Danube
Murfattar
von Mackensen
Fighting Along Cerna Front Entente Gains Tie Macedonian War
Desperate fighting along the Cerna bend on the Macedonian front ends with an Entente advantage, according to the war office. Bulgarian counter attacks were repelled by Serbian forces, who inflicted heavy losses on the attackers.
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Paris
War Office
British French Attacks Repulsed on Somme Front
Berlin reports that British and French assaults against German positions between La Sars and Ran court in the Somme were repulsed with heavy losses. Artillery fight raged along the north bank of the Somme and German forces withdrew to a prepared line north of Chaulnes south of the river.
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Berlin
London
la Sars
Rancourt
Somme
Chaulnes
Chaines Wood
Land Destruction Seen From French Battlefields
Sir Herbert Matthews reports from Albert and Fricourt that land is being destroyed by World War I trenching and mining. He notes extensive soil churn due to entrenchments shell pits and mine craters making levelling and redevelopment unfeasible. He warns it may be decades before nature and soil could support farming again.
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London
France
Herbert Matthews
Albert and
Fricourt
Herbert
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