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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
1
In Crowder City Oklahoma four guards kept citizens at bay during a bank burglary around 2 am. Eight men barraged the premises and looted cash and checks while four criminals guarded the entrance and revolvers protected the scene. Report said the robbers fled toward Muskogee and were described as white and masked.
Defense wins delay in the murder case of Senator Carmack. Colonel Voper Robin Cooper and ex sheriff Sharp, indicted for the Nov. 9 shooting in this city, see trial moved from Dec. 9 to the next court term starting January.
In Huntington West Virginia on December 2 the local coke oven district resumes operations after a shutdown. In Carnegie Pennsylvania on December 2 a railroad worker WW Young fell from a moving train and died from injuries.
In Port au Prince the populace has seized control from the Haytien government and formed a provisional administration led by General Legitime. Police stations arsenals and the port are held by organized, well armed citizen groups ensuring order. Local leaders created a public safety committee as the movement consolidated power.
Houston December 2 J F K Wolters state chairman announces leadership chosen for each Senatorial district. Systematic campaigning against city forces to be carried on with Mr Wolters giving personal supervision to the contest.
The Texas Supreme Court holds a railroad may challenge any unjust rate fixed by the railroad commission but cannot target a specific rate on a narrow road segment to prove unprofitability. The decision, in Santa Fe railway et al v railroad commission, upholds lower court rulings affecting lumber rates to Port Arthur and Sabine Pass.
In Pepperell Massachusetts the First National Bank vault was blown open early Wednesday morning yielding $14000 in cash. Three men conducted the operation with professional precision and fled in an automobile toward Groton after shots from Ernest Tarbell failed to stop them.
The department of justice intends to send a representative to San Antonio this month to aid in prosecuting men in Texas and Mexico alleged to have defrauded Kickapoo Indians in Eagle Pass of Oklahoma lands through forged deeds. A federal grand jury in San Antonio will examine and indict those Secretary Garfield seeks to remove.
F Hiller a farmer was shot four times and killed near West Point Mississippi. His skull was crushed. Two arrests of local Black men were made in connection with the crime.
A Denver passenger train No. 8 derailed four miles north of Wichita Falls Texas when the tender jumped the track. Four coaches left the rails and all passengers were shaken but none injured. Traffic suffered a ten hour delay.
Sherman report details the Grayson County Poultry Show opening with 600 birds exhibited. Judge H. B. Savage oversees judging, while J. H. Barden of Lyon poultry farm serves as superintendent. The event draws large crowds from nearby and distant points.
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