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Bath Tub Trust Boosts Prices and C People May Have to Use.Kitchen'Sink for Ablutions If Your Eyes Pi An you or become “blurry" when reading they very likely are in need of glasses. We fit glasses. H. C. REES OPTICAL CO. . 242 W. Commerce Street. SAN ANTONIO • WOMAN DIES AT PITTSBORO 1 Mrs, E, A, T, W. Nease, Exten sive Property Owner, Is a Victim of Typhoid. FUNERAL TO BE AT ST. LOUIS She Had Personally Managed Large Holdings In City—Sis ter and Husband Survive. News of the death of Mrs. Eugenia A. Thompson-Wickes-Nease, wife of David A. Nease. at Pittsburg, Pa., was received in this city by Joseph M. Muir, president of the Lockwood Na tional bank, through which Mrs. Nease transacted her large volume of busi ness. A telegram announced that her death had occurred last night after an illness from typhoid fever of several weeks' duration. Mrs. Nease was formerly Miss Eu genia Thompson of St. Louis. Mo., and had been a resident of San Antonio for the past fifteen or sixteen years. She was first married to Col. E. D. L Wickes, one of the largest property owners of San Antonio. After his death, she became the wife of David A. Nease of Pennsylvania, by whom she is survived. Besides her husband Mrs. Nease is survived by a sister, Mrs. J. A. Maginnis, of St. Louis, from w hose home the funeral will take place. Interment will be in St. Louis. Mrs. Nease is reputed to have hold ings in San Antonio valued in the neighborhood of half a million dol lars. She kept her home at 819 Gray son street, though during the past few years she spent much pf her time away from San Antonio, in the north and east. Mrs. Nease was a woman of much business acumen and personally managed her business interests. Her holdings here include the Grand Opera house building and smaller parcels in every ward in the city. BISHOP OF SALISBURY AGAINST RACE SUICIDE Declares Marriage Ceremony Should Contain a Prayer for Children, Spce'al Dispatch. Chicago, 111., Oct. 24.—The Right Rev. John Wordsworth. D. D.. lord bishop of Salisbury. England, took a decided stand against American race suicide today in his sermon at the St. James Protestant Episcopal church. He even went to the extent of Criti cising the Episcopalian marriage serv ice in use in America, because it con tained no prayer that children bless the union. “I find to my sorrow one serious dif liculty in the marriage service of our church in America.” said the lord bishop "In England the marriage service includes a prayer that children may be born of the union. I consider it a most important part of the mar riage service and it should be added to the services used here.” WILL NOT NAME SENATOR Governor Carroll Says No Hasty Ac tion Will Be Taken In Selecting Dolliver's Successor. gpeeiel Dispatch. Clarina, la., Oct. 24.—Governor B. F. Carroll, in a speech here this after noon, announced that he would not appoint Senator Dolliver's successor at least for the present. The governor said: "Under the law the governor has authority to fill the vacanacy in the United States senate by appointment but the man appointed would serve only until the legislature could elect a successor to fhe late senator. "Out of respect for Senator Dolliver as well as for other reasons, I deem it but proper and right that no hasty action he taken and shall therefore reach no decision as to the matter, or give any consideration whatever to it at present.” The governor added, however, that the death of Senator Dolliver placed an added responsibility on the repub lican party In electing a legislature that would choose a republican sena tor. SILVERDALE WITH CREW OF 31 LOST? Special Dispatch. New York. Oct. 24.—The steamer Silverdale, with her crew of 31. bound from New York for Havana, was to day given up as lost by her owners She is eleven days overdue at Havana. Jt is believed she foundered in the Cuban hurricane. RANCHMAN KILLS SELF. Takes Dose of Carbolic Add and Dies in Two Hours. SpcHal Dispatch. Wichita Falls. Tex.. Oct. 24.—C. W. Morgan Sr., a prominent ranchman and stockman, known throughout the Wichita Valley, died at his home here this morning from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid taken two hours previously. He ,was 54 years old and leaves a widow And ten children. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT VOLUME 31. No. 274 AVIATION MEET MAY BE FAILURE AMERICA II HAS LANDED SAFELY IN QUEBEC WILDS Reported Pilots of Long Sought Balloon Are Now on Their Way to United States. ORGANIZE GREAT SEARCH Premier of Canada Gave Aid In Hunt of 100,000 Men for Bal loon Which Began Today. + + ❖ BALLOON HAS LANDED. + + -8 ❖ Special Dispatch. * ❖ Montreal. Oct. 24. —A re- ❖ ♦ port reached here this after- 4 ❖ noon that the America 11, the 4 ❖ missing balloon, has been ❖ ❖ landed in the wilds of Quebec * ❖ and that Alan Hawley and ♦ ❖ Augustus Post, the aeronauts. ❖ 4- are on their way to this city. ❖ * + + + + + + 4-4- + + +* + + ** + + * Special Dispatch. Ottawa. Canada, Oct. 24.—The most thoroughly organized search in the history of North America was In full swing throughout northeastern Can ada today for Alan Hawley and Au gustus Post, the occupants of the missing balloon America 11. Approximately 100,000 persons were in the vast hunt after the American balloon which left St. Louis last Mon- j day and has not yet been heard from definitely since, though there ate rumors that the monster gas bag has; landed beyond Lake Kiskisink. Edmond F. Stratton, representing the Hawley family in New York, will open a central bureau in this city co operating with the dominion govern ment, the Hudson Bay company and ■ the various railroads which are assist-। ing in combining to comb the wilder ness of Quebec. All of the hunters, trappers and guides in the employ of the Hudson Bay company will work . night and day in the territory where the Amer ica 11 could have landed, in search of the lost balloon. Half breeds aud French Canadians who have intimate knowledge of the trailless country have been sent out in squads from Hudson Bay posts. ( Sir Wilfred Laurier, premier of I Canada. directed the northwest (Continued on Page 4. 3rd Col ) $lO,OOO IN JEWELS IN SUIT CASE GONE Special Dispatch. _ „ , Chicago, 111., Oct. 24.—J. C. 1 oster Jr., a traveling jewelry salesman from Columbus, Ohio, was robbed of $lO.- 000 worth of jewelry In the lobby of the Great Northern today. Foster declared that he had the val uables in a suit case when he entered the hotel. He set the grip on the floor while he registered. When he stooped to get it again the suit case had dis appeared. Detectives are working on th® case. ELECTION WILL STAND. So states Hchry Quasso On Return from Spanish War Veterans’ Convention at Dallas. Henry Quasso, officer of the day < f Luther R. Hare camp. Spanish war Veterans, returned Saturday night from Dallas, where he attended the state meeting of that organization. Mr. Quasso who attended the session stated today that he was of the opin ion that the election of O. P. Storms, as department commander to succeed General Luther R. Hare. resignod was constitutional in every respect and that the commander-in-chief M the national body will allow the Dal las man to serve out the unexpired term of the former commander. Cautain Quasso will make his report as a delegate from this camp at the next regular meeting and states that the State officers, including the new department commander, will visit San Antonio during the fair. The camp a . its meeting next Wednesday night will outline a program of entertain ment for the visitors. STEAMER GIVEN UP AS LOST. Special Dispatch. The New Orleans. lg». oct. .4. — in steamship Crown Prince eight da>s overdue, carrying a crew and passen ger list of forty-five has been given up as lost by marine agents here, rhe Crown Prince plied between South American ports and this city. -'■■ ♦ a ~ TRAINER IS KILLED. Special Diaoatch. Gainesivlle, Tex.. Oct. 24.—John O'Neil, aged 35. animal trainer, of the Sells-Floto circus, was killed six piles east of here yesterday when he fell between speeding Katy cars. It is sup posed that he lost his footing ip step ping from one car to another 1 The body was cut tn two 14 PAGES Dangerous Course Causes Dis content and Many Fly ers Withdraw. FRENCH ARE FASTIDIOUS Have Acute Coldness of Feet. Moissant Threatens a Damage Suit. <8 88 88 * * 88 88 88 4$ « ft # 88 * « » « $ DREXEL WINS DISTANCE. * ’> 88 Special Dispatch. 8* International Aviation Field, 88 88 Belmont Park. N. Y„ Otet. 24. 88 88 —J- A. Drexel, the American 88 88 aviator, won the hourly dis- 58 88 tance prize, making 27 laps of 88 88 the track this afternoon. Au- 88 88 brun, of France was second. 78 88 26 laps. 88 88 * 88 DeLESSEPS BEATS BROOKINS. ?8 48 48 88 Count de Lessens, a French- *8 88 man, won the altitude contest 48 from Walter Brookins, a 48 48 Wright pupil. DeLesseps 88 88 reached a height of 3500 while 48 88 the best that Brookins did 88 88 was 2000. 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 48 88 88 88 88 88 88 48 Special Dispatch. International Aviation Field, Belmont Park, N. Y., Oct. 24.— The second International avia lional tournament for the world’s supremacy of the air may end In a fiasco. A fight of the foreign aviators against holding the race for the International cup. the feat ure of the meet, developed today. Alfred Leblanc, of the French team withdrew from the race, de claring the course was a death trap and the meet badly man aged all around. The officials were on Hie ground today trying to placate the angry entrants. ■ Hubert Latham, another member of the French team and the most sen’na tional flyer in France, backed up his colleague. Charles K. Hamilton and A. J. Drexel, fo the American team, an nounced that they would possibly withdraw from the race due to the dangerous condition of the course. Owing to the failure to carry out Sunday's program on account of the high winds, it was combined with to day's. The wind was lighter early to day and dawn found some of the in ternational army of bird men busily tuning up their machines for prelim inary spins about the course. The air was wintery this morning and the sunshine was without the slightest warmth. The aviators who braved the chill wore heavy coats. Hypercritical. The forecasts indicated a brisk breeze for the afternoon and the aviators prepared to carry out the program. M. Leblanc took occasion to criticise the manager of the meet, saying that the course is impossible. "The only thing which could be done to make this course acceptable to the French team,” he said, “is to raze (Continued on Page 4. sth Col.) CRIMINAL LIBEL CASE AGAINST PUBLISHER Assoriatod Press. Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 24. —John Tener, republican candidate for gov ernor of Pennsylvania, today swore out a warrant for the arrest of E. A. VanValkenburg, editor and president of the North American company of this city, charging him with criminal libel. ARGUE PANAMA LIBEL SUITS Counsel for World Declares Govern ment Xot Justified in Appear ing as Complainant. Special Dispatch. Washington. Oct. 24.—Arguments in the ease of the United States against th-- Press Publishing com pany of New York (The New York World) in the Panama libel suits, was resumed in the United States su preme court this afternoon. Special Assistant Attorney General Mcßeynolds spoke first for the gov. ernment. declaring that the defend ant. in a series of articles of an al leged libelous character, had violated I the law. Delancey Nicholl of New York, rep resenting the defendants, declared that the government is not justified in appearing as complainant. BOYS HURT STATE'S CASE Special Dispatch. Waco. Tex.. Oct. 24. —Sam Neff. 13 years old. son of Mrs. Patsy Neff, and Henry Evans, aged 15. were the only witnesses examined for the defense this morning in the case of Mrs. Min nie Lee Streight, charged with the murder of her husband. The boys told a story which if sup tained explodes the state's theory that Streight was asleep when shot. Both I withstood a warm gruelling by the J state’s attorney. The youths declared they were across the street just be fore the shooting and heard quarelling in Streight's bed room. They said the racket continued up to the moment when the shot was fired. The boys then ran to awaken Mrs., Patsy Neff, whom the state attempted to implicate in the killing, finding her asleep. Mrs. Streiebt may be put on the stand this' afternoon. AND GAZETTE SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1910 First Picture of First Rescue at Sea of an Airship Crew This picture was taken at the thrilling moment during the fight of the steamer Trent crew to rescue Well man and his crew from the dirigible airship America. Far out In the Atlantic ocean. It shows how the Amer ica looked from the steamer as the men on the dirigible were lowering their lifeboat, preparatory to aban doning the airship. The steamer at this lime was going “full speed ahead,” to lie close alongside when the life boat hit the water. The photograph was taken on board the Trent by H. O. Bannister, a 'passenger, and was se cured for the Daily Light and Gazette by Its New York correspondent. W. G. Shepherd. 1 CLOUDBURST AI NAPLES KILLS 50' Streets Are Filled With Mud and Three Families Are Buried Alive, Special Dispatch. Naples, Oct. 24.—A heavy loss o life was caused by a cloudburst in an, around this city today and it is be lieved that fully fifty are dead. Streams of mud filled sever® streets and buried three entire famf lies alive. There were several fatal! ties at Torre del Greclo. At Ceten several persons were drowned. Tin sea heaved during the cloudburst threatening to wreck steamers in th hay of Naples. NEGRO GOES WESIIO Special DUpatrh. Chicago. 111., Oct. 24.— Fearing that he would be lynched if taken back to Arkansas for trial on a charge of murder, Steve Greene, a negro, who slew Wm. Sadler, a white farmer, has fled from Illinois. "Greene has gone west." said W. G. Anderson, the negro's attorney here. "Further than that he is more than 500 miles away from Chicago. I can say nothing.” Governor Deneen has before him for consideration a request from the gov ernor of Arkansas for the extradition of Greene but had taken no action on it before the negro fled. Greene claimed he was forced to shoot Sadler to save his own life" and that he was wounded twice before he tired on the white man. PASSENGERS WILL GO TO NEW ORLEANS. Associated Press. New Orleans. La.. Oct. 24.—Pas sengers of the French line steamer Louisiana which went aground on Sombrero reef during the recent hur ricane, will be brought to New Or leans from Havana on the steamer Excelsior. Morgan line, arriving here next Thursday. The steamer Texas of the French line was directed to take the passengers from the Louisiana to Ha' ana, FEAST DAY. Commemorating the feast day of San Juan Capistrano, elaborate relig ious ceremonies were held yesterday at the old San Juan Mission near Berg s Mill, this mission having been erected in honor of the saint. Follow ing the celebration of solemn high mass at 10:30 o’clock a typical Mexi can dinner and barbecue Was served at which the officiating priest and several others were the guests cf honor. Many from San Antonio went out to participate in the religious celebration and the nubsaonent civic ESCAPE LYNCHING ASK TEXAS TO GIVE EL PASO TO NEW MEXICO Special Dispatch. ‘ Santa Fe, N.’ M.. Oct. 24. —A new method of compromise of the old boundary dispute between New Mexi , co and Texas is proposed by Isidore Amijo. member of the New Mexican constitutional convention and chair man(of the committee on boundaries. New Mexico lays claim to all of I Texas extending west of the. one huu j dred and third parallel, a narrow strip I of land something like a mile wide and 200 miles long upon the western • boundary of Texas. I When the boundary dispute gomes up for discussion Mr. Armijo will making an effort to compromise by suggesting that In lieu of this land Texas cede El Paso county to New Mexico. He believes El Paso would like the change, inasmuch as ne de clares as that district has threatened to secede from Texas and form a new stale. El Paso is the westernmost county in Texas, below the southern border of New Mexico. In It is the city of El Paso. DEEDS LAND FOR OPENING STREET A deed was filed last Friday by J. A. Clopton to Dave A. Myer, com missioner of precinct No. 2. giving to Bexar county a strip of land extend ing from the city limits in the west ern portion of the city. This is for - continuation of West Commerce street and extends for a distance of one mile through the Latly of the Lake addition and up to the Lake view addition. The conditions named in the deed to the strip of land were that the county should open up the street for thb entire distance and ma cadamise it all the way to the addi tions named. The property deeded to the county was jointly owned by the J. A. Clopton Realty company and the Southwestern Land company and adjoining that of the Alameda Igind company. It is said that work will commence on opening the new street the early part of next week 19 DIE IN WRECK OF THIS STEAMER Associated Press. St. Johns. N. Y„ Oct. 24. —News of the wreck of the steamer Regulus bound from Helle Island to Sidney, with a loss of 19 of her crew, was re ceived here today. The wreck oc curred nine miles from this port. ♦♦♦ BRAKEMAN KILLED RY TRAIN. Dispatch. Denison. Tex.. Oct. 2 4. —Bert Brown a brakeman on the Houston and Texas Ontral. killed at Van Alstyne to day. when he fell beneath a moving train. Three trucks passed over his body, die leaves a wife. 14 PAGES BRAZIL TO BE REPRESENTED South American Government Will Send a Delegate to the Trans-Mississippi Congress, The Brazilian government will be represented at the Trans-Mississippi congress which meets tn San Antonio Nov. 22-25 by Dr. Eugenio Dahne, commissioner to the United States, representing the minister of agricul ture and" commerce. President Ike T. . Pryor this morning was in receipt of ! a letter from Dr. Dahne saying that । he would be present at the. meeting. Secretary Arthur M. Francis , this morning received a letter from (’apt. J. W. Howell, the vice president from । Washington, stating that he had con ferred with the Chamber of Com merce in regard to the appointment of delegates, and that he would take the matter up with the governor and- with the mayor of Seattle. Arthur LeSeur, mayor of Minot, North Dakota, writes that he has ap pointed nine delegates, and Arthur Seeligman, mayor of Santa Fe. has appointed three. Ed H. McCuistln. of Paris, Tex., has appointed twenty delegates. Governor John H. Brady of Idaho has written that he will be pleased ,tp appoint delegates and will name ‘stor'd; thirty people. He extends his "wishes for the con’ ention. SrtM-etary of States Thomas P. Smith of Oklahoma has written that he will bring every pressure to bear op the gov er nor to have him in at tendance. President Ike T. Pryor this morn ing received a personal letter from Edwin L. Morris, governor of Mon tana. stating that he is in hearty ac cord with the congress and that he will appoint delegates to represent the stat® and will make it large | enough to be sure of a good number. STEAMER WRECKED; THREE AR7 DROWNED. A«soci»le<! Pse««. Cape Town, Oct. 24.—The mail steamer Lisbon, with 250 passengers, is wrecked today near Pater Nosier Point, on the west coast of C.ipe Colony. Three persons were drowned by the capsizing of a small boat in which they were attempting to Ie lie the wreck Three passengers are also missing. The other passengers and crew were rescued. QUANAH PARKER DAY AT DALLAS FAIR Special Dispatch. , Dallas. Tex.. Oct. 24. —This is Quanah Parker and G. A. R- Day at the state fair and the attendance at noon was estimated at 35.000. This afternoon the famous Indian chief tain. Quanah Parker, made an ad dress describing the battle of Mule Creek. A large number of people from" towns along the Denver road are present tod<i" ( PRICE: FIVE CENTS’ You May Need Glasses and yet not know it. Why not be aure by having us examine them at oneef H. C. REES OPTICAL CO. The Better Opticians. 242 W. Commerce Street. MENTAL STATE OF 00. CRIPPEN NOW PITIABLE Condemned Man May Not Be Able to Testify In Leneve Case and Suicide Is Feared. NEVER IMPLICATED GIRL In His Trial Doctor Shielded th( Typist as Much as Possible. Miss Leneve Under Guard, ♦ •» * GALLOWS GOES UP. 4 + 4 4> Special Dispatch 4 + London, Oct. 24. —The erec- 4 + tion of a gallows on which to 4 + hang Dr. Crippen began to- 4 ♦ day. The high sheriff stated *J ♦ that it would be ready before 4 + November 8. the day set for 4 + the execution. 4 ♦ 4 4- + + ❖ + 4+ + + + 44,4 4 Speciii Dispatch. London, Oct. 24.—Dr. H. H. Crip pen under sentence of death for th 4 murder of his wife, Belle Elmore Crip pen. is in a state of nervous collapsa Extraordinary precautions are main tained in Brixton Jail to prevent him from committing suicide. The Ameri- can doctor is under constant surveil lance in the death cell and al! his food is especially prepared and guarded more carefully than it was before hit trial. ’ Crippen may not be able to testifj in the trial of Miss Ethel Claire Le- neve. charged with being an accessorj after the fact and for whose lovt Crippen put his wire out of the way. The I.eneve woman will be called to the bar in Old Bailey tomorrow aud her trial will be pushed as speedily as that of her lover. Desgite the announcement of Bar rister Alfred A. Tobin that an appeal would be taken for Crippen, it had nol been tiled today and lawyers who hav< followed the case closely, expressed the opinion that the American law yers were on the verge of giving the battle. In sentencing Crippen. Lord Chiei Justice Alverstone announced that Crippen should entertain no hope oi escaping the penalty. Interest has been transferred t® the trial of the Leneve woman until it outrivals that in the trial of Crippen Thousands of applications were re ceived for seats, despite the fact thal the court room will accommodate only 150 persons and approximately halt of these are court attaches, lawyers, witnesses and others there on busi ness. The evidence against the Leneva girl will be the same as that presented against her when she was indicted. 14 was reported today that public Prose cutor Richard Muir was preparing to show that Crippen made known hid wife’s death to the girl about the tim* of their flight. Barrister F. E. Smith, assisted by Barrister Ward, will defend Miss Le neve and while the defense has not yet been made public, it is believed that the girl’s lawyers have been rely* ing upon Crippen s testimony to ex ornate the pretty young prisoner. In his testimony Crippen made n® mention that would implicate the girl. He seemed to take especial pains t® shield her as much as possible, ex plaining that he took her with him oil his flight to America because he want ed to escape from accusations that were made against himself and ths girl. Miss Leneve has been confined in the woman’s infirmary’ at Brixton jail. She has been closely watched and a matron is with her constantly. Th® girl has been devoting much of her time dictating her memoirs, although she has read extensively her preferred love stories. NO CHANGE IN SIGHT. Major Buell Sees No Immediate Pros- IMX’ts of Kain or Change ol Temperature. Ther® are no prospects for any im mediate change in the weather, de clares Major Allen Buell of the United States weather bureau. There is no rain in sight and there is not much change in temperature imminent. There is an area of high barometric pressure covering practically the en tire United States, though there Is a storm area moving along the northern border. Practically no rain has fallen in the United States within the past twenty-four hours Major Buell declares that appear ances are deceptive and he is of th® opinion that there are no immelJ-1 prospect for rain. Weathery FForteasi till T P ” Tueadsy. For Saa Antonio and vicinity: Tonight and fuead*'" l*ir- AThe minimum :-mp«rat-e fol the 24 hour* ending al 8 o clock this morning was 58 degrees. IConpsnutt temperatures («t this year and last: 1909 1910 4 a m ... 87 ST R- 1 : ::: “ X 12 noon .... T 8 58 1 p a... 15 SB