QUICK ACTION EXPECTED ON TARIFF BILL
The House, meeting in Washington, anticipates approving the conference report on the tariff bill before adjournment. Speaker Underwood touts lower rates, cites a 26 percent average, and says the bill places many necessities on the free list while predicting an $18 million surplus in 1915. He asserts Democratic pledges are kept and calls for business readjustment as tariffs shift.
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Washington, D. C
House
Underwood
Representaive Underwood
Senate
Wilson
Democratic Party
Congress
United States
Payne
Republic
Republican Counees
Huge Display of Foreign Goods Held in New York
A placard demonstration in New York on September 30 highlights a result of the new tariff law. The event showcases large quantities of foreign made goods held in the port as a public display by supporters and critics of tariff policy.
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New York
Local forecast for San Antonio area
Local forecast says for San Antonio and vicinity tonight and Wednesday expect cloudy skies with little or no precipitation. Winds light to moderate and mild temperatures anticipated through the period.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather roundup for major cities this Wednesday
Observations taken in multiple cities report temperatures ranging from 52 to 64 degrees with winds varying from light to moderate. Clear skies in St Louis and New York contrast with rain and cloudy skies in Chicago Milwaukee and Boston. The lowest temperatures over the last 24 hours hover between 52 and 62 degrees. Washington reports rain and a 4 mile wind from the north.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
D. C
Miner Thomas Toshesky Trapped Behind Coal Wall At Continental Mine
Rescuers continued work at the Continental mine in Centralia as Thomas Toshesky, trapped by a coal wall after a fall, is fed through a tube inserted into a bore. Heavy coal and refuse hinder progress. he has survived a prior entombment.
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Centralia
Thomas Toshesky
Continental
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
T@tiesky
Toshesky
Indians Raise Cattle Under Government Plan
Washington Sep 30 The government moves to ease beef scarcity by enlisting Redman to raise cattle for the market Commissioner Sells is stocking large Indian reservations with beef herds and plans to develop all tribal livestock He has authorized purchase of cattle with Indian funds for several reservations including bids for 9000 head for the Crow reservation in Montana.
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Washington
Redman
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Commissioner Sells
Crow Indian
Montana
Bixby Found Not Guilty In Minors Case
George H. Bixby a Long Beach California millionaire was found not guilty on charges of contributing to the downfall of minor or young women. The verdict delivered in Los Angeles follows a high profile case involving alleged improper conduct.
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Bixby
Los Angeles
George H. Bixby
Long Beach
Cal
Wanted At Once Advertising Appeal For All Businesses
The Light calls for broad business advertising in its pages. Banks railroads public service firms and political parties all place ads. If your business is unadvertised this is a chance to enter the market. Advertising managers invite talk to discuss opportunities.
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Railroads
Women Fight Side by Side With Husbands in Albania War
Vienna dispatches report Albanian women actively join battles in Dibra on Sept 28, armed with hatchets and fighting beside husbands and brothers as 1200 Servians were killed and 300 captured. Greek women in Southern Albania organize a drilled company at Koritza, vowing to die to keep Koritza independent of Albania.
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Vienna
Albania
Avlona
Dibra
Tirana
Koritza
Unsettled Weather Predicted With Showers Across Region
Major Buell of the local weather bureau says unsettled conditions with showers are likely, but no major temperature change. A storm area is developing over Northern Mexico driving unsettled Southern weather. light rains reported in Texas and nearby areas, including San Antonio and Taylor.
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Allen Buell
Major Buell
Mexico
Canada
Gulf States
Cotton Belt
Texas
San Antonio
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Taylor
Woodruff Rests After Illness At Fusion Meeting
Timothy L. Woodruff, longtime New York Republican figure and leader in Kings County, was stricken while addressing a fusion gathering. Doctors report his temperature normal, left side affected, with hopes paralysis symptoms will fade. son Joan E. Woodruff says illness stems from a nervous breakdown.
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New York
Timothy L. Woodruff
Republican State Committee
Kings County
Brooklyn
Joan E. Woodruff
Woodruff
Mitchell Begins Fight for Mayor With Fusion Ticket
John Purroy Mitchel and other fusion candidates were formally notified of their nomination. Mitchel opened the campaign at Cooper Union with an attack on Charles F. Murphy tied to Sulzer impeachment. The crowd packed the Union as Tammany was framed as the city’s issue, with Stimson presiding.
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New York
John Purroy Mitchel
Fusion
Mr. Mitchel
Charles F. Murphy
Sulzer
Cooper Union
Tammany
Henry L. Stimson
Timothy Woodruff
Norman Hapgood
Burleson thanked for parcel post blessing letter
A grateful Ohio mother praises parcel post in a letter to Postmaster General Burleson. She says it enables her to send garden gifts to children in the city, easing high living costs and keeping them connected to the home nest.
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Washington
Burleson
Ohio
Major Alexander McDowell Dies in Sharon at 82
Sharon pa September morning death of Alexander McDowell longtime clerk of the House of Representatives in Washington after several weeks illness due to diabetes aged eighty two.
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Sharon
Alexander McDowell
House of Representatives
Washington
Leased Wire Day AP Report Highlights Global News
The San Antonio Light notes it receives the Leased Wire Day report from the Associated Press, describing AP as the world’s largest reliable general news service. The daily package runs about 20,000 words and the paper also carries its own large special news service.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Governor Sulzer Ledger Shows Large Stock Loan
At impeachment trial, Melville Fuller testifies about a Carnegie Trust loan to Governor Sulzer to cover margin calls on Big Four stock. Ledger entries reveal multiple purchases, margin calls, cash deposits, and a total loaned amount of about 180383 dollars by Harris and Fuller through December 30 1912.
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Albany
N. Y
William Sulzer
Carnegie Trust Company of
New York
Stock Exchange
Harris and Fuller
Melville B. Fuller
Big Four
Fuller
Sulzer
Kiesel
Governors
Harris
Hbookkeepers
Kresel
Cullen
Frawley Investigating Committee
Frederick L. Colwell
Wall Street
Colwell
Frawley Committee
Murder Probe Focusing on South Side Suspect Spencer
Chicago detectives and Wheaton’s States Attorney Hadley hunted a South Side building for a suspect named Spencer in the murder of tango teacher Mildred Allison Rexroat. A young informant claimed the killer once worked as a club bouncer in a Bushnell dance hall, and the body of Rexroat was to be buried by her first husband W. H. Allison, who described her warning she would drop the suspect.
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Chicago
Hadley
Wheaton
Mildred Allison Rexroat
Kuhn
Spencer
Bushnell
W. H. Allison
Allison
Second Extra Session Called in Tennessee
Nashville Sept 30 Governor B W Hooper issued a proclamation announcing an October 13 second extra session to consider enforcement bills for the prohibition law. He urged citizens to unite beyond party lines to support restoring the majesty of the law and to pressure counties and cities to enforce state law against outlawed saloons.
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Nashville
Tenn
B. W. Hooper
Tennessee
General Assembly
Strike Unrest Mounts in Colorado Coal District
In Denver, conditions in the Southern Colorado coal strike zone worsened as Sheriff Farr warned of possible violence in the Waldenburg area. A gunfire incident near Waldenburg and mass ejectment notices to striking workers sparked fear of strikebreakers being imported and heightened tensions between unions and operators.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Farr
Huerfano County
Ammons
Walsenburg
Customs Receipts Rise in Dominican Republic
Customs collected in the Dominican Republic during the past year totaled 4,109,294 dollars, an increase of 463,319 over the prior year, in the sixth year of American receivership. Only two months exceeded 400,000, with July at 407,319 and January at 429,000.
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Washington
Dominican Republic
State Department
Ex ecutive order targets reentry to canal zone after deportation
Washington on September 30 reports an executive order prescribing six months to two years imprisonment for individuals who return to the canal zone after serving a sentence there and being deported.
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Washington
Canal Zone
Ortiz Murder Described by Deputy Buck
Deputy Buck testified in the Serrato case about the killing of Deputy Ortiz near Carrizo Springs on September 11. He described capture by the smugglers, their abuse, Ortiz’s threats, the march through the brush, and the shots that killed Ortiz while Buck watched from 40 feet away. Dr. Barnard testified on Ortiz’s wounds as jurors were seated for the Serrato trial with a 12th juror named and a large venire.
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Pearsall
Tex
Eugene Buck
Dimmit County
Ortiz
Carrizo Springs
Jose A. Serrato
Buck
Gardner
White
Mr. Buck
Rangel
Asherton
Cline
Charles Cline
L. Barnard
Barnard
Walls
Smith
Dr. Barnard
Serrato
C. J. Robinson
Telephone Company
R. L. Foster
Charles Melms
J. J. Little
H. A. Taylor
W. A. Arnold
W. A. Wallace
J. M. Starr
N. S. McKinley
D. W. Fuller
J. W. Tally
Clay Coker
C. I. Robinson
Americans Urged to Quit Piedras Negras
A brief United States advisory calls for Americans to leave Piedras Negras amid rising tensions. Shortly after, U S troops are dispatched to Eagle Pass to bolster border security and monitor the situation.
Cavalry and Artillery to Reach Border City Tonight
American Consul Blocker protested destruction of foreign property in Piedras Negras after talks with Constitutionalists. Major Caldwell of the Fourteenth Cavalry accompanied the consul as negotiations continued over a three cent a kilo tax on wheat. Americans along the Mexican side urged to leave for Eagle Pass.
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Piedras Negras
Mexico
State Department
Washington
Blocker
Eagle Pass
Caldwell
Fourteenth United States Cavalry
Constitutionalists
Consul Blocker
Gabriel Calzada
Coahuila
United States
Arturo Carranza
Carranza
Upbiie
Calzada
Bell
Fourteenth Cavalry
General Calzada
Representati
Opsul Blocker
Ped
Ancans
International
Troops Move by Special Trains to Eagle Pass
Three special trains carrying the Third Cavalry and Battery C of the Third Field Artillery, commanded by Lt. Col. Guy Carlton, departed San Antonio for Eagle Pass. The move, with 33 cars total, included machine gun platoons and artillery, prompting talk of duties beyond border patrol as officers including Capt. Winters and Lts. Lee Nelson Johnson McConkey Johnson proceeded.
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Third Cavalry
Third Field Artillery
Guy Carlton
Southern Pacific
Eagle Pass
Pine Street
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Carlton
William H. Winters
George M. Lee
George E. Nelson
Ronald D. W. Johnson
Clyde J. McConkey
Alfred B. Johnson
Dennis H. Currie
Currie
Federal army resumes northward push from Aura
Panic grips Northern Coahuila as residents flee to the U S frontier. Federal forces, after tapping an unfamiliar water source, advance from Aura to Sabinas aided by water carts from Monclova. Constitutionalists reportedly must rally on the northern bank as the front tightens.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Aura
Coahuila
Paniic
Monclova
Sabinas
Front
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Tees
Dng
M. Senna
the Licht
Mitchell
New York City
Parcel Post
Major McDowell
Slayer
Hooper
U. S
Border City
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