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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1907
Page
1
Memphis residents fled their homes Friday as a city levee broke, inundating the northern area north of Poplar Boulevard and west of Fourth Street with about two feet of water. Hollybush remained intact but threatened as rain continued and the river neared 41 feet.
New Orleans reports that the Honduras Lottery company will capitulate to U S pressure. They notify 6 000 agents their services are no longer required and charter rights will be surrendered. Liquidating commissioners will wind up affairs in Puerto Cortez. The firm, formed after the Louisiana Lottery left Louisiana in 1892, was capitalized at 2 million dollars and paid about 100 000 annually to Honduras.
Washington Feb 1 The War Department has received no report on the alleged order of Colonel Glenn directing Columbus barracks soldiers to attend divine services. The department had earlier stated soldiers may organize to attend worship but are not required to take part. Officials insist no order was issued.
Edward P Hipple, president of the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, shot himself in his bedroom Friday morning. He was rushed to a hospital but died en route. The 70-year-old had been distressed after the death of his brother Frank Hipple last summer. His family was at breakfast when the tragedy occurred. Police classified the death as self-inflicted, noting the brother's prior suicide may have influenced him.
Reliable authorities say the Honduras Lottery company in New Orleans Tuesday officially ceased business in the United States. Washington indictments against company agents in Boston Mobile and Wilmington, Del., are cited as a motive for the Tuesday dismissal of all employees in the country. Leading officials reside in Louisiana.
Twenty five Catholic soldiers at the barracks appeal to the war department against Lieutenant Colonel Glenn's order requiring attendance at church services on Sundays. The post is stirred with protests and the men threaten to mutiny rather than comply. Columbus.
Joseph Endsley was arrested by St. Louis postoffice inspectors on a charge of robbing a Cotter Arkansas mail pouch of 3000 dollars and valuables. He confessed and implicated three others. inspectors Spottard and Hamner pursued further investigation in Arkansas.
New Orleans reports from Jackson Miss say assessors will begin next Monday to locate and record every living ex Confederate in the state and every wife whose husband followed the stars and bars. The aim is to track veterans and their families for provision of aid.
The overflowed Mississippi River with ice floes swept away two residences and a schoolhouse at Dorent, a village twenty five miles south of Charleston, Missouri, on February 1.
Rome reports the death of Henry Magruder, son of Confederate General John Bankhead Magruder. He died while traveling in Italy with his niece Miss Buckler, who nursed him. his father died in Houston in 1871.
The Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee decided to favorably report the Livingston resolution authorizing an investigation by the Commerce and Labor Department into the New York Cotton Exchange. Washington.
A coroner's jury absolved William G. Copley of blame in the death of his wife and infant child from pistol wounds on Tuesday night. The verdict supports the police account that Mrs. Copley killed the child and herself.
In Gordonsville Virginia two houses were broken into by robbers who chloroformed women inside. One victim has recovered enough to recount the assault while three others remained unconscious by Thursday night. Police are investigating and pursuing leads.
Byron Webster former editor of the Marshalltown Statesman died Thursday. He first suggested Grover Cleveland as a potential presidential name when Cleveland was elected governor of New York in 1884.
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