San Antonio Rate Discrimination Claims Raise Rail Travel Issue
San Diego business leader B B Harlan, vp of Harlandale Bath House and Harlandale Realty, charges California to San Antonio rail fares discriminate by routing round-trip tickets via Houston. He cites a July test at the San Diego SP office, where no San Antonio round trip was offered, while single trip to San Antonio was higher than Houston. The San Antonio Chamber continues seeking better rates and stopover terms.
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B. B. Harlan
San Diego
Cal
Harlandale Bath House Company
Harlandale Realty Company
San Antonio
Southern Pacific
California
Harlan
Chicago
Houston
Mr. Harlan
Southern Pacific Ticket Office
H. J. Benson
Benson
Chamber of Commerce
McMillan Arctic Expedition Forced to Land by Ice
Ice delays Donald McMillan Crockerland party forcing landing at Etah Harbor. They plan to move supplies by sledge to Cape Sabin with Esquimaux and dogs picked up at Cape York. Expedition sailed from Boston on July 4 under American Geographical Society and New York Museum of Natural History.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Donald McMillan
Crockerland
Etah Harbor
Cape Sabin
Erik
McMillan
Esquimaux
Cape York
Boston
Arctic
American Geographical Society
Museum of Natural History
New York
French aviator Guillaux sets cross-country speed record
Paris reports Ernest Guillaux flying 118 miles from Savigny Sur Braye to Paris with a passenger in 50 minutes at nearly 142 miles per hour. The feat establishes a new cross-country record and follows his recent single day record of 5934 miles.
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Paris
Ernest Guillaux
Savigny-Sur- Braye
Guillaux
Local weather observations across major cities show cool rain
Observations from morning indicate St Louis at 66 degrees with cloudy skies and southeast winds likely to bring rain. Chicago 64 with rain and southeast winds. Milwaukee 58 with rain and east winds. St Paul 56 cloudy with northeast winds and rain. Kansas City 60 cloudy and northwest winds cooler. New York 68 partly cloudy with east winds and rain. Boston 52 clear with northwest winds and rain. Washington 54 cloudy with northeast winds and rain.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas’ City
New York
Boston
Washington, D. C
Stolen Pearl Necklace Recovered On London Street
A workman found most of a stolen 650000 dollar pearl necklace on a London sidewalk. Sixty eight? The 58 pearls were identified at a police station as part of the missing necklace. three Englishmen and two Austrians were arrested on September 2. A 50000 dollar reward may go to the finder.
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London
Paris
Highbury
W. K. Vanderbilt
Ulster Unionists Organize Ulster Army in Belfast
Sir Edward Carson arrived in Ireland to inspect a volunteer army forming to back a provisional government if the home rule bill passes. The Ulster force is reportedly 100000 strong and may double after full recruitment. Private Ulster Unionist council meetings will finalize arrangements this week.
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Belfast
Edward Carson
Ireland
Ulster
Ulster Army
Ulster Unionist Council
Primaries Held Across New York State
In New York on September 16 candidates for state assembly in eleven districts, for eleven Supreme Court positions, and for county and municipal offices will be nominated at primaries. The November general election will determine two congressional seats, with no nominations made today. Six parties appear on ballots: Democrats Republicans Progressives Socialists Prohibitionists and the Independent League.
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New York
State Assembly
Supreme Court
New York State
Independent League
Ad Reading Economies
A call to readers to adopt ad reading as a habit to practice daily economy. The piece urges sharing the message with friends who shop carelessly, asserting advertisements help save money in everyday expenditures across newspapers.
City approves Petrich Saur bid for bridge timber supply
At a finance committee meeting the Petrich Saur Lumber Company bid to supply 130000 feet of bridge timbers and flooring at 30925 dollars was accepted. The firm had sought release from the contract after price increases but a mill offered lumber at the old figure, enabling acceptance.
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Petrich-Saur Lumber Company
Steves
Warren
Petrich-Saur
Sulzer allegedly owes contractor 26500 in loans
Hugh J. Reilly testified before the Sulzer impeachment board that he loaned $10,000 to Sulzer after his nomination and that Sulzer still owes him $26,500 in total, with repayments promised but not made. Reilly described prior loans and noted the amount dating back over a long period.
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New York
Hugh J. Reilly
Sulzer
Reilly
House of Representatives
Sulzer Prepares for Trial in Albany Impeachment Circuit
Governor Sulzer and his counsel work late into evenings in the New York State Capitol as they rehearse for the impeachment trial opening on Thursday. Daily conferences and strategizing fill the governor's schedule in Albany.
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Sulzer
Albany
N. Y
Capitol
Dublin Transport Strike Expands Across Ireland
More than 10,000 Irish workers have joined the strike started by transport workers and building trades face disruption. Leaders warn 6,000 more may lose jobs. food prices rise amid transport shortages in Dublin and southern towns. In Liverpool 8,000 workers downed tools at docks and stations refusing to handle Irish goods.
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Dublin
Ireland
Liverpool
Mobile Flood Deluge Racks Up 12.60 Inches in 72 Hours
Mobile Alabama reports 12.60 inches of total rainfall in the 72 hour period ending at 7 am. Another 1.17 inches fell last night, worsening damage and inconveniences from the prior weekend. Low lying areas flooded again as more rain was forecast.
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Mobile
Ala
United States Weather Bureau
Poet of Zion Eliakum Zunser Near Death in New York
Eliakum Zunser known as the Poet of Zion is dying at his home in New York. The 73 year old Yiddish poet is a cancer patient and came to the United States 23 years ago.
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Zion
New York
Eliakum Zunser
Thaw Wins Suspension of Extradition Hearing in U.S. Court
In Littleton New Hampshire Judge Aldrich indefinitely suspended the extradition hearing on a writ of habeas corpus for Harry K. Thaw. Thaw, a Matteawan fugitive, faces possible extradition to New York if Governor Feiker orders the proceeding. The judge ruled no applicable law compels extradition of a lunatic charged with a crime, and the hearing is paused with contact to restart within six days.
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Littleton
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan
United States District Court
Aldrich
Thaw
New York State
Feiker
Concord
William Travers Jerome
Jerome
Drew
Coos County
United States
Nute
Marshal Nute
Colebrook
Austin Club Charters Forfeited In Liquor Case Crackdown
Attorney general in Austin seeks charter forfeitures in fourteen Twenty sixth District Court cases for liquor sales to members. The state also won a judgment forfeiting the Austin Germania Club charter. Clubs involved hail from Dallas Galveston and Houston.
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Austin Club
Austin
Tex
Twenty-sixth District Court
Austin Germania Club
Dallas
Galveston
Houston
Three Cities Vie for Next Odd Fellows Convention
Hot Springs Arkansas Atlantic City and Washington DC emerged as the leading candidates for next year's convention of the sovereign grand lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows during the eighty ninth annual session in Minneapolis. Grand secretaries and grand scribes branches of the order met today.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Hot Springs
Ark
Atlantic City
Washington, D. C
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Franklin College President Indicted by Vigo Grand Jury
Rev Elijah M Hanley president of Franklin College was indicted on assault and battery charges stemming from an attack on his father Calvin Hanley last Thursday. He is reported at Franklin Indiana, and Rev C M Parker trustee said he would appear when required.
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Ege
Terre C Haute
Ind
Elijah M. Hanley
Franklin College
Vigo County
Grand Jury
Calvin Hanley
Hanley
Franklin, Ind
C. M. Parker
Leased Wire Day Report From Associated Press
The San Antonio Light notes its comprehensive daily AP leased wire service providing broad general news coverage. It emphasizes reliance on AP as a premier, extensive news source supplemented by its own large special service.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Light
Underground trail in gun running case probes in Texas
Federal special agent Robert L. Barnes disclosed that only one prominent Southwest Texas figure is suspected as the underground gun-running trail from San Antonio to the Mexican border widens. Four suspects named include Casimiro Cruz Juan Galan Antonio Reyes and Placidio Reyes. The inquiry links Industrial Workers of the World to a northern Mexico revolutionary movement and cites correspondence with I W W members in many states.
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Carrizo Springs
Tex
San Antonio
Robert L. Barnes
Federal Department of Justice
Texas
Charles Cline
Barnes
Casimiro Cruz
Juan Galan
Antonio Reyes
Placidio Reyes
Industrial Workers of the World
Mexico
Order
Cline
St. Louis
Jay Smith
Smith
New Orleans
Gasoline Explosion Harms Nine at Waco Cleaning Plant
An explosion at the Shaffer and Duke cleaning and testing establishment in Waco Texas injured nine people shortly before 9 this morning. Two victims, including O. S. Womack, are believed fatally burned. others suffered burns and injuries across the body. A leaking gasoline distilling tank filled the furnace room with gas triggering the blast. the building was wrecked but no one is reported dead at once. Insurance covered liability and plant damage was estimated at five thousand dollars with clothing losses around two thousand.
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Waco
Tex
Shaffer & Uke
E. Steger
Womack
Shaffer
Duke
Slap Sparks Fatal Shooting Before Court of Honor
Berlin reports Prof Henrich Maass court painter shot and killed Court Chamberlain von Westernhagen after a slap in the face escalated a long feud. The act occurred before the court of honor as they had agreed to settle their dispute by testifying on a possible duel.
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Berlin
Henrich Maass
von Westernhagen
Court of Honor
Maass
Negro's Life in Danger in Louisiana Lynching Case
Sheriff Payne moved Frank Caesar a Black prisoner to Caddo parish jail after a mob reportedly neared Winnfield from Jackson parish to lynch him. Caesar had shot Napoleon McBride near Jonesboro after McBride rebuked him for familiarity.
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Shreveport
Payne
Winnfield
Jackson Parish
Frank Caesar
Caddo Parish
Caesar
Napoleon McBride
McBride
Jonesboro
Spanish Troops Defeated Near Ceuta by Moors
A Gibraltar dispatch reports a Spanish column with convoy ambushed near Ceuta with about 100 killed or wounded. Reinforcements from Ceuta were attacked by Moroccans and forced to retreat, suffering substantial losses.
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Paris
Gibraltar
Ceuta
Mississippi senator and timber man kill each other in Mississippi
Dr H F Broyles state senator and E F Hendricks of Selmer Tenn a timber man killed each other in a battle near Greenwood Springs Mississippi. Broyles struck Hendricks with an axe after Hendricks drew a pistol. Both men died on the scene Broyles shot through the heart Hendricks head split open. Broyles had sold timber to Hendricks about a year earlier and had been unfriendly since.
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Aberdeen
Miss
H. F. Broyles
E. FB. Hendricks
Selmer
Tenn
Greenwood Springs
Broyles
Hendricks
Rain Likely With Warm Weather Ahead
Major Buell of the local weather bureau says rain or showers are probable within 24 to 48 hours as a storm area centers over the lower Missouri valley and another over Arizona. A high northwestern anti-storm is present, forecasting warm rainy weather for a few days before a norther returns.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Major Buell
Missouri Valley
Arizona
California
Huth Takes Rolls on 1918 Tax Valuation for Bexar County
Albert V. Huth, Bexar county assessor, filed the 1918 tax rolls in Austin showing total assessed value of 105,898,862, up 6,457,884 from last year. Real estate leads gains at 76,842,015, with merchandise and material up 399,670. total taxpayers reach 26,916. state tax 45 cents and county tax 35 cents set the 80 cent rate.
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Albert V. Huth
Bexar County
Comptroller’s Department
Austin
Mr. Huth
Texas
Three Injured in Wreck on Philadelphia Night Express
Three persons were injured when three rear sleeping cars of the Philadelphia night express derailed at Coatesville, 38 miles west of Philadelphia. The sleepers, steel construction, left the rails as the train ran slowly, one car sliding down a fifteen foot embankment. 68 people were aboard. The accident was attributed to spreading of the s.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Coatesville
Colonel Moran Returns to Mexico City with Family
Colonel H. H. Moran will depart San Antonio with wife Angela Moran and five children Felesa Angela Harold Luis and Joseph. The family, long resident in Mexico, says they feel at home there and look forward to returning soon despite no anticipated danger. They moved from a rented house to the Bowie hotel yesterday, after registering from Mexico City.
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H. H. Moran
San Antonio
Mexico City
Angela Moran
Felesa
Angela
Harold
Luis
Joseph
Colonel Moran
Mexico
Bowie Hotel
Inspector Berkshire Tours Texas Border Stations
Inspecting Stations supervisor F. W. Berkshire of the immigration department of Texas passed through San Antonio last night from El Paso en route to Laredo. He is on a tour of border immigration stations and spent only two hours in San Antonio for train connections.
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F. W. Berkshire
Immigration Department of Texas
San Antonio
el Paso
Laredo
Berkshire
Shotgun Stabs Two In Allendale Street Fight
In Allendale South Carolina a street clash ended with the deaths of J W Hogg and W H Hogg brothers of Kline. J W Hogg a distant relative is jailed. The origin of the fight remains unknown.
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Allendale
S. C
J. W
W. H. Hogg
Kline
J. W. Hogg
Bankers Gather in Richmond for Institute Convention
Bankers began assembling in Richmond Virginia for the American Institute of Banking annual convention which opens sessions tomorrow with a full agenda and program outlined by organizers.
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Richmond
American Institute of Banking
Council Expels Aldermen from Zion City Meeting
Zion City Illinois city council expelled Aldermen John H. Sayers and R. R. Owens at a meeting last night for misconduct tied to the municipal election held in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zion City
Ill
John H. Sayers
R. R. Owens
Mexico City Independence Day Parade Draws Thousands
Thousands of Mexicans filled the streets for the Independence Day parade in Mexico City. General Victoriano Huerta addressed the crowd from Chapultepec while cadets, students, and military units marched past the national palace. The night featured fireworks and electric light displays as the nation celebrated its 1034th anniversary.
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Mexico City
Chapultepec
National Palace
Huerta
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Vivas
Francisco de la Barra
Madero
No Wheat for Huerta Halted by Mexican Order
An attempted wheat corner to ship grain to Vera Cruz for Huerta delivery was blocked by a three cent per kilo tax imposed by the Constitutionalist government. More than two million kilos held by Trueba Brothers were stopped at the international bridge as money lay in the bank. A daily $36 fine was set for mills not remaining in operation, affecting Truebo and their Piedras Negras base.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Vera Cruz
Huerta
Trueba Brothers
Southwest
International Bridge
Huertista
Consul Blocker
Truebanc
Piedras Negras
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