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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1908
Page
1
Police seek a killer after a young woman is found dead in a padlocked East Eleventh Street apartment. The room shows violent destruction with shattered furniture, burned photos, and a hacked razor beneath the body. Fingerprints on the door knob and sheets point to a lone suspect.
Paris December 12 Philippe Bunau Varilla former Panama minister to the United States and engineer involved in canal work warns the project faces catastrophe He estimates the cost at 280 million dollars double the U S figure and says the dam at Cajun must be moved to Miraflores to avoid disaster citing recent dam failure and heavy rains on blue clay soil.
In Chicago on December 12 Dr. G G McCon nell medical examiner in chief of the Knights of Pythias announced formal decision to establish a tuberculosis sanitarium affiliated with the order in New Mexico Bremond Business Block Burns Bremond Texas December 12 Fire destroyed a business block and threatened another loss estimated at 64500 One Hundred More Ovens Washington Pa December 12 Bessemer Coal and Coke company to construct 100 additional coke ovens
A German battleship of about 18 000 tons was launched at Kiel. Princess Radolin wife of the German ambassador at Paris christened the vessel the Posen.
Governor Campbell asserts San Antonio and Bexar county must obey state laws and enforce them. He cites open gambling and Sunday saloons as issues to stop and says county officials owe duties. he dismisses mandamus as a threat and expects Supreme Court action soon.
President Neill of the Texas Farmers' Union says about 200 county presidents will meet in Fort Worth on December 22 to launch a live at home campaign urging farmers to raise all they can and buy no outside produce. Commissioner Kone will address the gathering, seen as a landmark action.
Mrs. Barbara Allen of Chicago collapsed from a heart affection as she reached her sister Dr. Belle Exsbridge's Houston home and died instantly. Pryor Seeks Legislation to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to allow pre promulgation rate review and to require railroads to pay demurrage if cars are not furnished promptly.
John Kelly was fatally hurt and four others seriously injured by an explosion at the Carnegie Steel Company Ohio works in Youngstown Ohio on December 12. The incident left multiple workers injured with authorities investigating the blast at the site.
A decree of divorce was granted to John L. Sullivan ex-champion heavyweight pugilist on the ground of desertion in Chicago on December 12.
Houston December 12 detective Findley of Chicago left Houston with W Briggs Goodrich who is wanted on embezzlement charges. He is accused of appropriating about $5,000 from the widow of Michael McDonald. Goodrich contends he can straighten the matter.
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