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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1907
Page
1
Marcus Brauns reports extensive organized schemes for smuggling Chinese into the United States after tours of Mexican ports and the border. He declined to share details but suggested mounting riders to patrol the border as a remedy.
A six-story structure at 87 Franklin Street in Chicago housing several manufacturing concerns burned Sunday night. Estimated damage is $150,000. The building sat near the Chicago Telephone exchange where about 100 girls were on duty. they stayed for almost an hour before evacuating after a warning from the fire chief, temporarily tying up telephone service in the business district.
Felix Robert, manager of the Juarez Plaza del Toros, was fined $100 and forced to return receipts estimated over $8,000 after failing to stage the advertised event. Neither the Bulls nor the Buffalo Bull fought the matador, despite more than 7,000 spectators in El Paso on Sunday.
At Bra shear a locomotive split from the tender on Sunday morning. Fireman Snow stood on the gang plank feeding coal and fell beneath the wheels, crushed instantly. He leaves a widow and several children in Greenville Texas.
In Koppers Texas on February 4 George Hughes of Union Hill died after his horse collided with another hunter's horse during a rabbit chase with greyhounds. Hughes never regained consciousness after the accident.
At Tolar two miles from town physicians found Sam Bowers wife dead from a bullet wound. Bowers lay dying with a cut throat and his mother Owen was unconscious from injuries, as a gunstock blow felled her in the same home.
A stranger shot himself at a New York apartment where a wedding was to be held. Police identified him as Alderick Hugton of Waterbury Connecticut. The bride and guests were stunned and the ceremony was delayed about an hour.
Lawton Oklahoma February 4 Richert No 1 drilled by Whitewater Oil and Gas of Gozebo is among the largest gas wells in Oklahoma and may be the heaviest producer for its depth 400 feet in the middle continental field. Production is conservatively estimated at 5 000 000 to 6 000 000 cubic feet daily.
Rebels tighten pressure and escalate actions causing concern as authorities monitor rising aggression. Local sources report heightened clashes and tensions amid ongoing power struggles influencing regional stability.
Reports from Victoria B C February 4 describe Sun Yat Sen leading Kwang Tung and Hunan rebels in central China. Authorities curb arms imports as twenty thousand imperial troops clash with insurgents and warnings spread of secret society forces moving toward Pekin.
Commissioner Clark presiding at Kansas City hearing on interstate rail rates. Producers' Pipe Line of Indian Territory vs Missouri Pacific Texas Pacific Houston and Texas Central Cotton Belt and Missouri Kansas and Texas on charges of excessive rates to northern Texas. E M Willhoit Springfield Missouri sues for high oil shipment rates Erie Kansas to Joplin Missouri. Mayer Coal Kansas City alleges excessive switching by MK&T. Atchison city council charges discrimination in grain elevator service favoring Leavenworth Coffeyville and Kansas City.
Pittsburg February 4 Engineer B H Morrow of Cleveland died of heart disease just as he stepped from the engine cab of the Cleveland Flyer at the Pittsburg and Lake Erie station after completing a fast run from Cleveland. He felt ill near the end but refused to abandon the throttle, guiding the train in on time.
Brigadier General Samuel Hollabird retired and former quartermaster general dies in Washington after brief illness at eighty. West Point graduate of 1849 and noted in literary circles as translator of General Jomini's Treatise on the Grand Military Operations of Frederick the Great.
Superior Wis Feb 4 for the first time this winter the thermometer Monday registered 40 degrees below zero indicating an extreme cold snap across the region with frigid winds and clear skies.
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