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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1908
Page
1
Three young men face charges after a court case described as outrageous conduct. The trio were named in local records, with authorities alleging shameful actions during a recent incident. Further details were not provided in the available text.
Warrants allege Bud Lanham Steve Heath and Tom Collier andrinking ruffians entered the J A Gibson home near Cartersville three miles from town. They fired at Mrs Gibson wounded her and dragged Lizzie Hardy aged sixteen from the house and assaulted her. Lanham and Collier jailed, Heath sought. Judge File acted to shield the Gibson family amid severe destitution.
Kansas City dispatch reports James Sharp known as Adam God led followers into a clash with police in Kansas. Five people died including bystander A. J. Selsor aged seventy two who died at a hospital after being wounded by a stray bullet.
In Port Townsend Washington on December 11 a riot erupted for the second time in a month as artillerymen from Fort Worden clashed with locals and police. Charles Kaiser a bartender was beaten by soldiers who seized his bar. Eight soldiers were arrested after police and citizens subdued the disturbance. Several soldiers were beaten with baseball bats.
Dr. E. N. Wright and Peter Hudson, Choctaw delegates to attend Washington, arrive in McAlester, Oklahoma, and say prospects for Indian legislation are slim during the brief session.
In Rome on December 11 a foreign national demanded entry to the Vatican. Gendarmes arrested him and handed the case over to police, signaling a security action amid access disputes at the holy see.
Washington reports reveal a subcommittee probe into the razing of the old Pennsylvania Depot and the president’s order tearing it down. Lawmakers plan a five member special committee to address the president’s critique of Congress on outside duties for secret service personnel.
President Roosevelt’s call to redistribute government bureaus to unify national health administration gains formal endorsement from the American Medical Association through its committee on legislation. The Texas Anti Tuberculosis Society is praised as a model for other states to follow.
The Union 10 tobacco society, representing growers in Kentucky Indiana Ohio Tennessee Wisconsin with assets about 30 million dollars, was organized in Louisville to protect growers from minimum price and consumers from maximum scale. A governing board will pool interests and sell tobacco.
Washington December 11 Speaker Cannon voiced strong opposition to financing national waterways improvements with government bonds. In a Rivers and Harbors congress address he said he would not vote for a bill to issue bonds for ten years totaling 1,000,000,000.00 if such a measure reached congress.
United States Marshal Victor arrived from Muskogee with Diaz Guerra charged with leading an expedition into Mexico. Guerra was shackled and jailed pending his Del Rio trial. reporters were not allowed to interview him.
Wealthy farmer Joseph Furhman, 24, from ten miles west of Gainesville, Texas, disappears from his home. Despite extensive searching, no trace has been found. He was about to marry, and a note to forgive him for leaving away was found.
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