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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1908
Page
1
A large fire ripped through a Dallas furniture showroom causing extensive damage and prompting evacuations. Fire crews battled the blaze for hours as witnesses reported fierce flames and heavy smoke seen from nearby streets. No injuries were immediately reported. Local authorities are investigating the cause.
Dallas reports a two story brick Strickland Furniture warehouse on Pacific avenue burned this morning. Over three hours of effort subdued the blaze with loss estimated above 30000 and partial insurance. M. W. Strickland, president, says stock ruined by fire smoke and water. A worker was overcome by smoke. others saved goods and two carloads were moved to safety.
Governor Campbell rejects anonymous letters from San Antonio and elsewhere about Sunday law enforcement saying he has no time for such foolishness. Adjutant General Newton returns from New Braunfels and will not discuss results. Newton met County Attorney Henne who discussed enforcement with the governor. Tulsa incident reports Myron Massey, 20, fatally shot after a dance by an unknown assailant.
In Moscow a police chief Baron Cotte was killed and Colonel Muraki wounded during a heavy clash with revolutionaries entrenched in a riverside villa. Troops and artillery arrived after a second assault, with numerous revolutionists losses and police casualties reported. The encounter marked a major flare in the post 1905 unrest.
Harry Carr a Syracuse machinist for a typewriter company was shot and killed at a Morgan Street boarding house. Police say fellow boarder Lytton Enoch Cordery returned home and, after an alleged disturbance, fired a shot over Carr’s shoulder piercing his heart before Cordery collapsed in a stupor.
In Cleveland two suitors for fourteen year old Julia Price fought in a dark room. Powell Fromich died and Michael Milanovitch was gravely injured after Milanovitch struck Fromich’s brother who tried to separate them. Milanovitch is jailed on murder charges. The girl refused both men.
Kansas City remembers Charles West Spalding a pioneer newspaper man of Kansas. He died at his son’s home in Kansas City aged seventy nine after a long career in journalism.
The obituary recalls Spalding as a pioneer telegraph messenger in Chicago who later served as first violin in McViecker’s theater and organist at St. Mary’s Cathedral. He joined the old Ben Cotton minstrel troupe and wrote as a Civil War correspondent for the Chicago Times before moving to Kansas journalism in 1875.
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