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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
6
In Taliaferro district opposite Court House, an office offers abstract books and listings. A corner brick residence with cistern and stable on two blocks from Main Street is priced at 1050 dollars. Also available two lots and a new five room cottage with bath in the southeast town area for 2000 dollars, terms to suit purchaser.
Reports from Tokio on December 3 state a severe typhoon wrecked thirty five Japanese fishing boats off Matsu island Kawatsu bay, with about 350 fishermen dead. Constantinople also reported the assassination of General Ismail Mahir Pasha, former aide de camp to the sultan, by an army officer. In New York, Dec 3, an inquiry into the death of a well dressed woman who shot herself in the Clarendon hotel Brooklyn identifies her as Mrs Lillian Doty, recently divorced from a Sioux Falls broker, and said to be president of the Reserve Fund Securities company.
Fire from an overheated stove in Shapiro block at Princeburg near Scranton, Pennsylvania, killed four people: Abraham Shapiro and his son Arthur, daughter Anna, and mother-in-law Mrs. Sarah Blatski.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on December 3 officer Link Norwood was shot and seriously wounded by Ben Harrison a Texas man. Police confronted Harrison during a robbery of a pedestrian and he fired then fled.
A New Yorker famed for hunting in Uganda wields a rifle but is outpaced by a huge lion chasing his photographer. The photographer awakes to see the hunter sprinting after the animal, shouting to open the hut door as the lion closes in.
In Port au Prince on December 3 General Poidevan mobilized citizens and soldiers to fire on an angry mob. Several killed as rioters looted stores and divided goods before internal clashes erupted among the factions supporting President Nord Alexis.
In Port au Prince a riot broke out after Alexis was escorted to the Buguay Tourin. Looters seized twelve hours with nine Syrian owned stores and two Haitian owned. General Poideyan organized armed citizens and soldiers to quell the mob, eight looters fell, and order was restored by midnight. The U S state department voiced no immediate intent to intervene as Haitian unrest continued.
New York reports sixteen year old Max Klein attempted to gas himself at home in Harlem after saying he hated his brother Louis. He was found unconscious by his brother and turned over to police. Mother says he has previously tried to harm himself when angry.
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