Six room house and half block in good neighborhood
A brick cistern property listing describes a six room house plus a half block of ground in a good neighborhood. Asking price is 800 dollars.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1907
Page
4
A brick cistern property listing describes a six room house plus a half block of ground in a good neighborhood. Asking price is 800 dollars.
Property offers 200 acres north of Bryan with 125 acres cultivated and 75 pasture. Includes a 5 room house and 3 tenant houses, plus abundant water. Asking price 25 dollars per acre. Also 59 acres with 25 cultivated and a good house at 12 dollars per acre. A four room cottage on the west side near Mrs Spencer Ford’s home with two lots and water improvements priced at 1000 dollars.
In Longview Texas on August 6 R Gibson's wagon collapsed after front wheels dropped from a low bridge. Passengers were thrown onto rocks. Eight year old Olle Gibson died instantly. Lon Gibson suffered a broken collarbone. Others including Tom Melendon and Rev J M Spivy were bruised. Accident occurred six miles north of Loneview.
About forty auditors and general attorneys of Texas railroads were heard by the railroad commission on orders for a uniform bookkeeping system. The Texas and Pacifics Judge Freeman led a protest against the plan, arguing the rules require impossible state and interstate separation. Fort Worth attorney Goode spoke for Harvey F. Courson, jailed awaiting extradition to Alabama for a 20 year old murder. habeas corpus actions are in Fort Worth district court, with possible appeal to the criminal appeals court if remanded. Courson notes a prominent Alabama family.
Theodore Beilhart of Dallas died at Comfort Texas after a lingering illness. A North Texas insane asylum sold twenty thousand pounds of tallow to a Dallas firm at five thirty four cents per pound. John A. Zuck, a prominent member of the Improved Order of Red Men, dies in Madison Indiana. Dr J R Nichols, first assistant physician at the Terrell asylum, resigns after years of service.
A West Side street assault on a lone woman ends in a gunfire pursuit in Central Park. Nurse Adelaide Wilder fought off the attacker named Pietro Daurio, who was captured after a police volley. A second assault on 13 year old Sadie Momah in Greene Street hallway ended with the suspect escaping.
In a Chicago vs New York National League game won by New York 5 to 4, McGraw, Matthewson, Shay and Dahlen were ordered off the field after arguing with Umpire Klein. Other results include Philadelphia 5 St Louis 2 and Detroit 8 Washington 2.
City basketball scores list results: San Antonio eight to Waco six, Austin two to Dallas zero, Fort Worth six to Galveston three, Houston three to Temple one. Rankings reflect regional matchups across Texas.
Reports indicate quail in portions of Nebraska are dying from a disease resembling tuberculosis. Rioting at Seoul Armenian consulate left bullets fired with no injuries reported. Methodist training school for Gatesville district moved to Meridian. Jockey Walsh fell from his horse at Brighton Beach and narrowly escaped death. First National Bank of Silverton Texas authorized to do business with capital stock of $30,000. July building permits for Dallas totalled 186 permits valued at $234,884.
Memphis defeats New Orleans 7 to 6 in a 14 inning Southern Baseball League contest. Little Reel, 10, Shreveport, 0.
A string of city match results shows Austin 4 Dallas 0, Galveston 7 Fort Worth 2, Houston and Temple 2, San Antonio 2, Waco 1. Reads like a scoreboard fragment with multiple city pairs and final scores.
Chicago defeated New York 2 to 1 while Cincinnati ran up a 7 to 4 win over Boston. St Louis trailed Philadelphia 12 to 1, and Cincinnati also beat Boston 7 to 2 in another matchup.
Mount Vernon Illinois August 5 an itinerant preacher Rev I J Williams who had lived in Paragould Arkansas for fifteen years was shot and killed by an unknown assailant. He allegedly carried about 300 in his possession and was seeking the home of Rev Mr Atchison brother of his first wife.
Dr. William Brumby reports 500 dengue cases in Brownsville and 100 in Matamoros across the river. Federal health officers assist in containment as Brownsville screens cisterns and covers pools to halt spread. No deaths have yet occurred and initial fears of yellow fever have faded.
In Waco on August 6 1900 Ruby Morgan daughter of W R Morgan died from hydrophobia after a cat bite the previous Wednesday. The cat later showed hydrophobia symptoms and the child suffered spasms before death. The bitten cat bit a dog before being observed by experts. The Morgans left for Gatesville to bury their daughter.
In McAlester on Monday night fourteen Federal prisoners nearly escaped after a prisoner found a key to the main cell. Two guards faced an attack in the run around area one guard was overpowered and locked in the vacated cell the other grabbed a six shooter from the turnkey and repelled the mob. The captured inmates were later recaptured and locked up again.
Major J. P. Beardsley and a North Fort Worth committee signed papers to build an interurban road from Mineral Wells to Fort Worth via Springtown. Contracts commit to operation within twelve months and construction to start within weeks.
In Mountain View Oklahoma a two year old girl, daughter of Lewis Gordon, was struck and killed by a passing train while crossing a railway track with her brother and sister. The siblings escaped unharmed.
A report lists Atoka Oklahoma as planning a $20,000 hotel project. Mayors and officials are cited in a string of incidents and developments including a burned lamp accident, a warehouse project, and various local calamities across Texas and Oklahoma.
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