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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1908
Page
4
Penetang bound Grand Trunk express derailed seven miles north of Barrie Ontario. The entire train rolled down a forty foot embankment and turned three times. A stove in the second car started a fire. Fifteen passengers were injured but all were removed to hospital with non serious injuries.
Mrs. Cooke, wife of Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, who abandoned his family for a San Francisco affair, says she may press charges but will seek family counsel. She notes the crime is against the girl, the church, and God, and suggests Nassau county officials should act, awaiting District Attorney Coles's guidance.
In Pittsburg at the Carnegie Institute, presidents of colleges and universities and leading medical men and educators gather for an American Academy of Medicine meeting. The discussions will shape the program for the annual convention in Chicago during the second week of June.
Eureka Illinois January 2 The Rev Gilbert Gish pastor of the Christian church at Chambersburg Michigan was found to have died from poison after an examination of his stomach The state attorney has begun a homicide inquiry The minister had received a death threat note while preaching in Adrian Michigan several months earlier the missive appeared to come from a near relation
A dynamite bomb believed set by the Black Hand wrecked the lower floor of a five-room tenement on East Eleventh Street and sparked panic. One man was injured in the explosion.
Indianapolis Jan 2 Three Indiana National Guard companies spent the night under arms at their barracks, held in readiness. Winchester Kokomo Greenfield and Lebanon units were ordered by Governor Hanley to be ready to move at once in case of further trouble from the strike along the Indianapolis Union Traction company's lines at Muncie Anderson and other places.
County Judge C O Prowse announces a 300 dollar cash reward for each night rider arrested and convicted after a recent raid. When combined with the governor's reward, the payoff becomes seven hundred dollars to the informer for each conviction.
McCurtain Oklahoma January 2 burglars blew open the State bank vault securing 3600 dollars in gold and silver. They escaped without leaving a clue. The town is about forty miles from Fort Smith. Hopkinsville Kentucky January 2 Herman R Crenshaw a Trigg County planter was arrested charged with belonging to the night rider band that invaded Hopkinsville December 6. He posted a two thousand dollar bond.
Buffalo New York January 2 The Lackawanna Steel Company will relight its open hearth furnaces early next week restoring production as several mills that have been idle for four weeks resume service.
Ambassador and Mrs. Tower entertained the American colony on New Year’s Day in Berlin, hosting a reception that gathered members of the expatriate community.
Rev. William N. Page, the city's eldest Presbyterian minister, died at his home in Leavenworth on January 2 at age seventy four. He was elected vice moderator at the recent Los Angeles general assembly and was a schoolmate of Secretary of State Root.
FE Paso reports a birth of triplets a boy and two girls to Mr and Mrs N K Butterbaugh. The father a railroad engineer plans to name his son Roosevelt. Revier Missouri records a tragic double drowning as Mrs Bertha Pelkert drowns herself and baby in a cistern.
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