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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
2
A collage of political comment and local notes from Texas in 1908 discusses steamroller campaigns, Be rea n agencies, airship factory talk in Dallas, and misgivings about a statewide election. Mentions include Taft enthusiasm, John Temple Graves, Wiley Imboden, and Governor ambitions amid crop news and local commerce.
The piece discusses Governor Campbell and public confidence shown by a large crowd in Pittsburg. It notes R. R. Williams campaign expense disclosure, colonial title misperceptions about ex Governor Lanham, and war service details. It also covers suicide cases in Pittsburg, calls for legal reform, state resource conservation, and Kansas Republican primary dynamics between Bristow and Long with campaign vigor.
Key events listed include John Eliot born 1604 and died 1690, Minden victory 1759, Richard Henry Dana Jr born 1815, Herman Melville born 1819, Belknap acquitted 1876, Louis Riel conviction 1885, Pilgrim Fathers monument dedication 1889, Elihu Root becoming secretary of war 1899, and Robert J Patterson death 1904.
New York July 29 a man who knew Harry Cornish during the Adams murder trial says the body found in Gravesend Beach tide last Sunday is Cornish. Charley Crane a former private detective now runs a Coney Island amusement concession says identification was previously disputed. Cornish had called to deny reports of his death.
The International Glove Workers' Union plans a Detroit convention on August 4 while the International Typographical Union meets in Boston on August 10. New York City hosts a Hebrew labor paper, and unions discuss industrial unity, labor needs, and immigrant conditions amid strikes and migration trends across Europe and America.
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad announces round trip excursion rates for trains leaving Bryan Saturday afternoon August 1 and Sunday morning August 2. Rates are $1.95 to Houston and $2.20 to Galveston with the usual return limit.
Washington announces Rear Admiral James H. Dayton will be relieved as commander in chief of the Pacific fleet and retire in October. He is succeeded by Rear Admiral William T. Swinburne, former commander of the fleet's second squadron, aging sixty one and a Rhode Island native.
Francesco Cedio, a Blackhand member, is slated for execution on July 31 in Revelstoke B C. He was condemned for dynamiting the Niagara Hotel at Grand Forks two years ago, after letters demanding money led to the blast that killed Louise King and injured others.
The De Beers diamond mine in Kimberley shuts indefinitely as American demand slumps. For more than a year imports to the United States declined, threatening the world diamond trade. De Beers cites the need for retrenchment and closes the largest mine in its group.
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