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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1915
Page
1
Irene K Read of Beaumont, Tex receives hero medal for saving a girl from drowning. The article lists Texans honored with silver and bronze medals and pensions for dependents, plus educational grants and other awards totaling 928,300 for various charitable uses.
Twelve year old Jwia Gurizac narrowly escaped serious injury Saturday morning when a can of alcohol exploded above a hot gas burner in the kitchen of the Windlinger house at 216 South Street. The child suffered burns to an arm and hand as neighbors smothered flames with blankets. Fire Chief Wright said the flame had been sparked by lifting the alcohol barrel over the hot gas stove. Fire crews responded, treating the burns with in-car first aid supplies. The building is owned by the John Windlinger estate and leased on Baxauer Street.
Resolutions commemorating the death of Resgay Houston were adopted Saturday morning by a committee chaired by Walter P. Napier and including William Andres, Senator Catling Bee, Judge J. Brooks, Perry J. Lewis, and Judge Leroy G. Venman. The gathering in the Fiftyseventh District Court room mourned Houston’s professional and personal virtues, lauding his independence, courtesy, kindness, loyalty, and devotion to duty. Committees were named to present the resolutions to family, state higher courts, federal court, and other venues where Houston practiced.
River pollution probe opened after multiple dead fish found in the San Antonio river. Commissioner Ray Lambert directs two inspectors from the department to sample water from pipes at the northern river end to identify likely sewer or factory discharges and determine responsible parties for prosecution.
A 25 year old black man was jailed on theft suspicion after offering two bicycles at Rogers Bicycle Store on Macket Street for 10 dollars, saying he had bought them days earlier for 40. He rode up to the store in front of the central fire and police station at 10 Saturday morning, offered the red Dayot wheel, then fled. Patrons and officers pursued and nabbed him near the station. at headquarters he refused to give an address.
The acting secretary at the Mexican government's finance ministry said no foreign loan will be sought to fix the currency. He announced economies will stabilize finances and that only notes from constitutional authorities will be recognized. Counterfeit money and arrests involving Chinese residents and two Japanese suspects were reported, with consular witnesses present. The Villa Consulate in San Luis Petar? closed its official extension today as part of a discontinuance.
Deputy Sheriff Arthur J. Yose of MacDown announces that four Mosigans were taken to Bexir County to face charges tied to better Narnees. They were bound over to the county grand jury at a Ve reas Mes action, with It. H. Flores and a CuStom Trendpis Now Mostend involved. A broad fiscal note follows about national revenue, pesos, and payments, with remarks on cease payments and upcoming meetings, amid references to Mexican currency and government reform.
Report from San Luis Potosi claims Jose Woo and Vicente Woo head a group of sixteen Chinese facing counterfeit handling charges. Jewelry and goods were seized at Woo’s hotel. victims held three days. American consul Wilber J. Bonney and counsel Enrique Jenier engaged. A separate item notes a road project vote in Live Oak County with 100,000 voters debating a Maca road spur via Three Rivers and Lakeville to connect Ra Antonio with Beeville.
More than a hundred neighbors and patrons attended the Harris School Halloween party hosted by children and the Alumni Association. The sixth and seventh grades played games supervised by teachers T. Guy Rogers, Nancy Lee Cook, Callie Lare, and Margaret Jones. Miss Rowena Nye told a ghost story and Miss Mitchell acted as fortune teller. Fathers, mothers, and children enjoyed games such as ducking for apples and blind man's bluff.
Senor Pesqueira and Governor Carranza met in San Antonio to discuss rehabilitating the Constitutionalist Lines in Mexico and restoring through service with the United States. American financiers are expected to fund the project, enabling traffic to resume between Mexico City and U S routes. Pesqueira planned to visit Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass as he outlined prospects and regional border tensions with Huerta supporters.
Ikaty pleads guilty to counts in a federal case and receives a total fine of 2000 dollars. The hearings reference Roxen and Waller T Burnd, with involvement of the federal grant return and a resigned attorney general contact in Washington.
Six laborers under Secretary Herring of the board of health used rakes to clean a dead fish filled gravel pit near Luversile Park School on Friday and Saturday. They removed carcasses to curb odors, after a retaining wall failed to stop river drainage and seepage. The work cost the board several hundred dollars, aiming to sanitize the abandoned pit.
A milk dealer on West Commerce Street was arrested by City Pure Food Inspector Theodore Anderson for selling milk in unbottled form. The proprietor poured milk from an original container into a bucket in view of the inspector, who says the sale violated ordinances. The owner faces arraignment before Judge Lowther in police court Monday.
A Georgia merchant recalls his two children, one a boy and the other a nine year old girl, struck by croup last winter. He used Foley's Honey and Tar, which he says cured them quickly. The ad urges Foley's as household medicine for colds and sore throats and mentions A. M. Fischer as the seller.
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