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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1908
Page
1
London April 24 The Shipbuilding Employers Federation set a deadline for striking workers on the northeast coast to return or yards across the country may be closed. Workers twice rejected terms and a sustained refusal could shut down up to a quarter of a million people.
Attorney General Lavideen left Washington for Austin where he attended a dinner with Associate Justice White. The AG department approved Matagorda County drainage bonds worth 259000, the first of its kind. A recent salvo questioned Waters-Pierce Oil contracts for oil supply. The Sullivan Spanish land grant case yielded a writ of possession transferring 55000 acres to the state for public school funds. Saloons may close May 2. raffling of merchandise is legal if value does not exceed 500.
London on Shakespeare birthday draws admirers to Stratford on Avon for a festival. Society leaders discuss plans for a memorial to Shakespeare’s death centenary in 1916 with a proposed fund of one million dollars and a monument site in Park Crescent near Regent's Park.
Corry Pennsylvania April 24 three persons were cremated and a fourth fatally burned in a fire that destroyed the home of David Wetherbee at Centerville. The dead are David Wetherbee seventy five Mrs Wetherbee sixty five and Mrs Albert Lemm thirty their daughter Albert Lemm was badly burned and is believed to die Mrs Lemm escaped then rushed back into the flames attempting to save her mother father and husband
Washington notes the House voted 245 to 8 to authorize the attorney general to file suits against the Oregon and California Railroad Company. The action seeks forfeiture of part or all of 2,800,000 acres in western Oregon due to breaches of grant acts. Supporters say real buyers in good faith will not be harmed. The Senate had passed the resolution through Senator Tillman.
Robert C. Ogden of New York is re-elected president of the Conference for Education in the South at Memphis on April 24. Officers include vice president B J Baldwin and treasurer W A Blair, with a large executive committee featuring James H. Dillard and J H Kirkland. Addresses highlighted women’s school improvement and higher education for women. Dr Wickliffe Rose led an open forum on compulsory education.
In Atmore Alabama on April 24 Joe Bishop a white man living near Per dido creek was killed by deputies while resisting arrest on an indictment for carrying concealed weapons. He fired at officers from a window. a deputy sheriff returned fire and killed him.
New Orleans April 4 railroad officers received reports of a tornado sweeping across Rapides Parish near the Louisiana Railway and Navigation company's line. No details are obtainable, but damage is reported heavy.
The suspension of T. A. McIntyre & Co., brokers and members of the New York Stock Exchange and New York Cotton and Produce Exchange, was announced on the exchange. The firm, with wide Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Hartford, Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester and Hot Springs, Va., branches, lists principals Thomas A. McIntyre, C. Ryan, Johnny McIntyre, Thomas A. McIntyre Jr., J. & Hulshizer, James M. Hudson and Edward T. White.
Lucius Goss longtime associate editor of the Chicago Express and a founder of the American Press Association died on his farm near Nevada Missouri April 24. He served from 1879 to 1886 at the Chicago paper and helped establish the AP A.
In Bandana Kentucky four masked robbers seized the Cumberland Telephone office and bound operator and assistant cashier B. H. Hals of Ballard County Bank. They forced the safe to be opened and escaped with 3000 dollars. victims rescued Friday morning.
Fort Worth reports indicate the Hoover store fire Thursday night was arson. Robbers looted goods before setting oil tanks to spill fuel, hindering flames as investigators seek a clue with police lacking leads.
Two people were injured and sixteen others narrowly escaped from a blaze at a Wilkinsburg apartment building. The structure was destroyed in the fire.
Captain Frank McCoy, military aide to President Roosevelt, surveys Havana to determine if conditions justify withdrawing American troops.
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