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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
2
The Eagle notes local and national items: a Hempstead man gets damages over oil staining chickens, and a dengue warning near Brownsville. It compares anti-pass laws, mentions Italy’s industrial start, and a planned Terrell peanut factory with 1500 bushels daily capacity, backed by Barnhart Mercantile Co. of St. Louis.
Gov Campbell says no special legislative session unless needed to mend cracked laws from federal or state court actions. He defends most recent measures as wise and lasting, asserting support as long as he remains in office.
The text notes that critics overlook how the prior legislature ended gambling, shut bucket shops, banned drinking on trains, tightened the Sunday law, and ended the free something, implying a broader reform record.
A meeting of peanut growers is set for August 16 in Paris Texas to organize those involved in the rapidly growing crop. Paris hosts one of three peanut factories in Texas. Factory manager Mr Williams leads the drive to form the organization.
In a Farm and Ranch note the author argues Texas peanut rates hinder local growers and let Virginia farmers compete from closer states. The piece urges communities with peanut acreage to send delegates to Paris to influence the meeting on this inter-state commerce issue.
The tenth annual Farmers' Congress met at the Agricultural and Mechanical College on July 23 to 25. About 600 attendees gathered despite the free pass abolition, praising demonstrations over lengthy papers and addresses as officers and program committee earned credit for an excellent program.
Mr and Mrs D Mike of this city celebrate fifty years of marriage on August 5. Married in Franklin county Arkansas they moved to Bryan in 1867. Mrs Mike, formerly Miss Mary Tucker, had thirteen children with eleven living. Both enjoy good health and are praised for hospitality friendship and neighborhood esteem. Mr Mike was a pioneer Bryan merchant with a long business career.
Bryan easily won the second game against Thornton with an 11 to 4 score. McDonald fanned fifteen in the box for Thornton while Anderson struck out two for the visitors. Gordon and Tabor homered, Nunn doubled, Menifee added a two-base hit, and Bryan incurred three errors.
South Omaha Neb Aug 8 fat cattle reached a five year peak with a 1500 pound corn fed steer selling at 7.30 dollars. The same price was matched last in 1902 indicating sharp demand.
Guthrie Aug 8 Governor Frantz has been invited to attend the Confederate Veterans reunion of Indian Territory and Oklahoma to be held in McAlester on August 20 21 and 22 Five of his uncles served in the Confederate army stepping into regional history with a ceremonial invitation to a milestone gathering.
Alfrus Cornelius, an Indian, was found dead on South Broadway Green Bay Wisconsin with a broken neck and deep head wound. Authorities say evidence points to murder and District Attorney Reynolds has ordered an investigation.
Union Springs Alabama reports Reuben Buchanan a local farmer died after eating a poisoned melon he had placed to trap a thief. He misidentified the infected fruit and consumed one.
Austin Aug 8 Railio and Commissioner Colquitt issued a dissenting opinion on denying a Farmers Union hearing on a 10 cent reduction for ten pounds of cotton in favor of the round bale Colquitt argues the petition differs from Weld and Neville and claims the denial harms farmers of north Texas He says the action upholds square bale interests while leaving round bale patent owners in control Also notes a new railroad bookkeeping order pending and a Tennessee insurer granted Texas business permit to Volunteer State Life Insurance Co of Chattanooga Tenn
On the Bishop farm near Frisco Texas two young Rickard children aged two and seven died after a coal oil fire they started in a stove. Mrs Rickard was burned while trying to rescue them and the house and contents were destroyed.
In Corpus Christi on August ?. Rev. George W. Truett of Dallas First Baptist preached on Consecrated Personality in Gods Service from Chronicles Amaziah. The audience, including men women and children, were moved to tears at the conclusion as Amaziah offered himself unto the Lord.
Beatrice Greenfield of Beauregard Street shot Charles Snake Davis in Shreveport Louisiana August 8. Greenfield says Davis previously attacked her and that he visited her home Wednesday and struck her with a club and a pistol. Davis was wounded in the abdomen and was unconscious, expected to die.
Groveton Texas August 8 a fire at 1 am damaged the Trinity County Lumber company dry kiln destroying kilns and about 100000 feet of lumber along with sheds and lumber runs. Loss placed at 15000 to 20000 dollars with partial insurance coverage.
On Houston street in Dallas on Thursday a man named George Reed was stabbed to death five times. Will Wheeler was jailed on fighting charges. In Fort Worth, Winfield Sydott, the citys wealthiest resident, faces a police court trial for fighting after an altercation at the Hotel Worth rotunda. J R Chilcoat of Terral Oklahoma died in the Texas and Pacific station from apoplexy, his death blamed on the condition. his mother resides in Longview.
About 100 laborers halted paving on Main street in Denison on August 8 to protest for a $2.50 daily wage instead of $1.50. The Mexicans volunteering to work were urged to leave the site.
A Baltimore and Ohio grain elevator and its contents were destroyed by fire. Officials estimate the loss may reach $200,000. The blaze, reported in Baltimore, caused extensive damage to the facility and its assets.
Polish priest Tudwig Sezegiel shot two brothers Stephen and Andrew Starzynski owners of a South Side hotel. Stephen died within an hour while Andrew lay dying. motive unknown. Sezegiel, arrested, kept silent as police and Chicago clergy could not verify his identity or connections.
Police searched imperial technical schools in Moscow and uncovered a central laboratory for new pattern bombs and large explosives. They seized bombs, 600 time fuse devices, a typographic outfit, forbidden literature, and arrested twenty students and staff.
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