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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1927
Page
1
In a tense late night session at Millikin, a courtroom clash between defense attorney Clarener and Sheriff Ellison erupted beside Judge M C Defties. The judge adjourned until 10 tomorrow while the crowd calmed, Millikin smiling as the scene finally shifted toward calm.
CC Charpier, 11, a ranch hand at the F.C. Warabech ranch twenty miles from San Aisiena on the Afe dina lake road, was hospitalized Saturday after a rattlesnake bit him on the hand as he stooped to pick up keys. He had killed several snakes in recent days and had just disposed of the last one when the bite occurred.
International Xoe Bervise reports from Arkansas City Kansas on February 22 that Italian manager Marland, connected to W. EF Allison, suffered severe burns in a hospital incident as a stranger caused a gas tank blast. The cat accompanying them was badly damaged in the event.
Fragmentary OCR mentions Biss Flortie Taylor of Del Rio spending the weekend at the St Anthony hotel. No clear date or event context available.
The article notes funds donated to memorialize Sam Street, slain chief of detectives. Mrs Street will inhabit the bungalow at 52 West Park Avenue, with $9221.25 donated by trustees via The Light publisher Thanh All. Proceeds will pay the home debt, securing a memorial for Street and offering a place for family and future classes to remember him.
A collage of excerpts on Voltaire, Milton, and historical figures asides on collectors and rulers. Mentions Coleridge owning a Milton volume, Voltaire’s books, Catherine the Great buying Voltaire’s house contents, and travelers to Mecca in cars. Includes remarks on Mussolini and European dictators, and a reflection that power shifts rely on people readiness for better government.
Boston reporting a vessel named Talernational News Beeline drifted helplessly in four heavy seas after losing one propeller. The line was reported by wireless early today, with the ship Vtaltin Viner Laboor dem Gonna presenting a perilous abnormal situation off Cape Ae.
Three former Russian millionaires, the brothers Vladimvir and Cyril Prove, and their brother in law Kerepanoff, were executed today on charges of military espionage. The report places the events in Moscow on October 20, with terse notes on the proceedings and a brief mention of the individuals involved.
Indianapolis faces a tangled mayoral ownership dispute as city comptroller Joseph L. Hogue proposes a compromise to have Marion County judges select two mayors from competing claimants. The scene features Du Vall, Negley, Holmes, and shifting allegiances as resignations, injunctions, and legal challenges unfold amid two active mayoral claims and a pending state supreme court decision.
Survivors of the Principessa Mafalda disaster head for new homes in Brazil and Argentina, recounting the ship’s poor condition and alleged negligence. Calls focus on insufficient lifeboats, bad engines, and attempts to cancel the voyage. About 983 survivors are accounted for in Brazilian ports, with 203 dead or missing.
In Athens on October 2 former Premier Venizelos has been ill with inflammation of an inner membrane and has been ordered to bed for at least a month.
Washington October 20 The War Department reports negotiations for the exchange of about 12 million battle pictures from World War year have been completed with the German government.
Chicago recorded an October heat spike with temperatures reaching well above normal levels. The unusually warm spell caused cherry trees to bloom early and apple trees to sprout new leaves, signaling an unseasonable late warmth.
Paris dispatch reports Carolist plans in Romania linked to the arrest of M Manuilescu former under secretary of finance of Rumanus and the burglary of the villa of former Crown Prince Carol at Neaills. Carol’s valet, questioned by police, said he was lured by a woman friend of Carol who paid him and bought his dog, then woke with a headache and found the letter box empty.
Hondo district court yesterday acquitted B C Armstrong of murder in parricide related to the fatal Oct 17 shooting of Walter Taylor, 19. The plea was rejected and the verdict returned as accidental shooting. The case hinged on the relation between Armstrong and the victim and the circumstances of the deadly event.
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