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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
1
A blast on Locust street above Tenth wrecked five buildings, killed at least ten, and injured many as a gasoline barrel likely started the fire. Fire and rescue crews battled flames and flames spread across the street as hospitals prepared for the injured.
Special assistant attorney general Marion Erwin has filed in federal court an attachment against all the assets or property involved in the case. The action signals preliminary steps in a broader legal proceeding centered in Savannah.
Loans and securities in Savannah held by ex Captain Oberlin M. Carter, engineer of the United States army, amount to many thousands of dollars. In Silver City New Mexico on August 6 a quarrel between cowboys William Follis and Walter Newman led to Follis being killed with a gun. Newman fled but officers pursue him.
Eleven white men and women or descendants of whites married to Indians have filed for a writ of mandamus to force the secretary of the interior to permit their land selections and block settlement. They say they were denied allotments they are entitled to under old law, citing long residence and improvements on the lands with ties to Quanah Parker kinship. Justice Clabaugh ordered the secretary to show cause by Aug 15.
Interior Department approves El Reno and Lawton land districts as sole townsite reservations and instructs officers to exclude homestead entries. Listings specify townships ranges and lot blocks across both districts with sale slated for today. Washington also reports Major Eltonhead’s court martial sentence commuted to five years on the list of majors. Amanda Lewis of Quincy dies at 115, claimed oldest colored resident, born a slave in Virginia and recalling Washington’s 1789 inauguration. noted as longtime tobacco user. Jackson reports W. J. Logan, Sani
Jackson police inspector Logan shoots David Sheldon on the main street after a quarrel over an inspection. Sheldon attacked with a stick, Logan fired a revolver and killed him instantly. Both men are noted local figures.
The Fall River paper signed by local manufacturers calls for a 15 percent wage reduction for print mill operatives to take effect September 3.
The body of James M. Frazier 82 a Presbyterian minister was found in the Ohio River near Paducah Kentucky. It is supposed he took his own life.
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