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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1906
Page
1
Reports from Kemper County detail white mob violence over Christmas with five identified white suspects, numerous deaths, and arson as Deputy Sheriff Currie vows action. Governor Vardaman arrives, troops deployed, and investigations proceed amid ongoing unrest.
In Weston West Virginia on December 27 three Singleton children aged thirteen eleven and eight were cremated when a natural gas explosion followed a defective valve. The family slept in one room as flames spread burning four houses and destroying their contents.
In Quitman Mississippi on December 27 George Butler shot and killed Lige Barfield both young married men. Barfield’s family is prominent with his father treasurer of Choctaw county Alabama. Butler surrendered and will not be prosecuted. The Jacksonville Alabama city prison burned, inmate Richard Walker cremated. An infant from Brown County Texas died after clothes caught fire.
James Bryce to replace Sir Mortimer Durand as British ambassador to Washington will require him to vacate his South Aberdeen seat. The constituency, famed as the most intellectual in the United Kingdom, boasts not a single illiterate voter according to Bryce in a letter from Aberdeen dated December 27.
In Stillwell near Muskogee a 14 year old girl Miss York repelled an attempted assault and fled as a man fired a shotgun at her back. Abraham Hughes was arrested and taken to Vinita by Federal Marshal George Marrs and Horace Gray.
In Pawnee Oklahoma on December 27 an unknown man died and another was fatally wounded after Fred Springler a saloon keeper opened fire during a holdup as two strangers demanded his surrender. Springler was assaulted and heavily bruised in the incident.
Washington reports no decision will be made on reenlistment applications of the Twenty-fifth Infantry discharged without honor until the return to Washington of Assistant Attorney General Purdy. Purdy, Major Blocksom, and Wendell Micheler are to aid in preparing evidence for the president.
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