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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1906
Page
1
Taxpayers in South Heights and East End push to sever from San Antonio due to lack of police and fire protection. A petition will be drawn Monday calling on county commissioners to order a special election for precinct No 4 with Hackberry street as boundary.
European bankers, keen on Russian securities, reportedly offer funds to back a Russian revolution on a business footing. They allegedly act to secure repayment and become allies before a new regime forms, amid fears czarist debts could be repudiated. In Helsingfors, Finnish senate orders Red guards disbandment as disturbances grow and czarist police may be expanded.
Shelley Undertaking Co announces new phone 971 replacing old number 964 in business listings and customer notices. The change affects inquiries, arrangements, and service coordination with immediate effect.
Statewide party meetings today showed candidates holding second place in Dallas Harris Ellis and Johnson counties while W J Bryan was endorsed for president. Resolutions supporting Culberson Bailey and Colquitt passed in several counties amid protests and hooting with blanket primary debates and anti graft stances.
In Austin on August 4 Attorney General Davidson advances railroad tariff injunctions aided by Houston assistant Chennel. He plans to marshal every applicable law before tackling the facts in what promises to be a highly intricate state litigation. Railroads prepare to defend all issues when cases go before Judge Maxey in federal court.
In St Petersburg on August 5 numbers of 55000 railway tram factory and lighting workers join a citywide strike. Troops patrol streets and river with gunboats as authorities fear riots and mutiny in the Moscow guards regiment.
Plans were filed to consolidate and remodel two four story houses at 1054 and 1055 Fifth Avenue owned by Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh, a half brother of Harry K Thaw. Friends expect Benjamin Thaw to move to New York to assist in the Stanford White murder trial.
The Republican county ticket was announced at Beethoven hall with W. M. Locke as county surveyor and multiple candidates for county offices. Delegates debated eligibility rules and credentials amid a partial count of attendees and party officials.
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