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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1903
Page
4
J W Batts real estate agent advertises the only abstract books for Byazos County with several parcels for sale. Listings include 105 acres near the courthouse, 91 ¼ acres near the school, a six room cottage three blocks from Main Street, quarters near Allen Academy, and other lots with prices ranging from 100 to 3750 dollars. Some properties rent for nine dollars monthly.
Salamanca N Y April 21 It is believed with practical certainty that seven passengers died in the Erie railroad wreck at Red House Railroad officials list uninjured survivors the injured and one dead man Comparing with conductor records indicates six missing or unaccounted for Most bodies are charred and unidentifiable with no clues to identity
A Frisco passenger train from Kansas City to Memphis and Birmingham wrecked near Elverton Missouri. Engineer E R Mead and fireman Bert Coffman both of Fort Scott Kansas died along with postal clerk C B Campbell of Kansas City. Postal clerk Clyde Withers and passenger Louis Columbia were seriously injured. About a dozen other passengers suffered minor injuries.
The Interstate Commerce Commission in New York heard William R Hearst allege railroads including Philadelphia and Reading Lehigh Valley Central and Western New Jersey New York Susquehanna and Western Erie Ontario and Western Delaware and Hudson Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio charged unreasonable rates and favored bituminous coal over anthracite. It also concerns pooling discrimination against independent coal firms. The Texas Cattle Raisers and Chicago Live Stock associations seek relief on a $2 per car transfer tax to Union Stock Yards. a prior ruling cut it to $1 and the case was sent to the ICC by the Supreme Court. None of the railroads attended.
Harrisburg April 21 Every important newspaper in Pennsylvania was represented at the hearing on the Grady Salus libel bill by Governor and other state officials. The session gathered editors and publishers from across the state to press for or against proposed libel reform.
In the house of representatives Pennypacker and Governor discuss the measure while Attorney General Carson and the governor attend. Charles Emory Smith of the Philadelphia Press opens, with Pennypacker objecting to the word insolently.
At a Lena dance thirty miles from Alexandria two men were fatally or seriously wounded. John Dearborn died, Peter Dearborn was fatally wounded, and Aaron Johns fled after being charged with the killing. John Williams, who wounded Peter, was jailed. Separate item notes Oklahoma material for a government building in Guthrie.
Fort Worth April 21 grand jury indicted Policeman John Tomes and W C Holley for permitting two saloons to stay open on Sunday on their beat. The offense is a misdemeanor with a minimum fine of 200 dollars.
A posse of farmers using rural telephone service chased two suspected robbers near Edwardsville Kl. In the ensuing fight Frank Charles of Mobile Ala. was probably fatally shot while his partners escaped after a three mile chase.
Eight persons are dead and ten injured in a collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Erie line near Redhouse New York. Identified victim is Robert N. Hotchkiss a Meadville brakeman. Seven burned bodies are believed to be three men three women and a child.
Manor Tucker a St Bernard weighing 204 pounds and claimed to be the largest dog in New Jersey saved a six year old boy from drowning in a deep pool of the Second river between Bloomfield and Watsessing. The boy slipped into the water after the bank collapsed. the dog leapt in, grabbed the boy by the collar, and brought him to shore.
A Cetau dispatch says Port Tetuan Morocco is in a dire state with a pretender urged to attack. European and Jewish residents cannot leave by land and seek a rescue steamer. Spain seeks government protection as a New York steamer delivers 500 cases of ammunition and rifles for the sultan.
Whitely Wilford, a mulatto fugitive from a Lowndes county convict camp, shot Harmon West dead and mortally wounded Turner A Cox near a turpentine still sixteen miles from Camilla Georgia. He robbed West’s body and fled, with officers in pursuit.
A northern Harris county cyclone in Georgia April 21 damaged Green Anderson and Cameron Murray farms, injuring a laborer on Green Anderson's land as houses were blown down. The news also reports unrelated federal and regional items from Washington to New Orleans with varied updates.
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