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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
1
Washington reports a rare army recruiting crisis with large shortages in coast artillery field artillery white infantry and white cavalry. Officials blame prosperity and labor demand, plus a lack of canteens, for reduced enlistments and call for intensified efforts in major cities.
Congressman Livingstone and Harvie Jordan urge Postmaster General Cortelyou to issue a fraud order barring NY Cotton Exchange officials from using the mails amid allegations of fraudulent practices. Walter Hubbard defends the exchange. letters and affidavits were submitted and a similar past audit is noted.
The Yellow Pine Lumber Men's Association and the Louisiana and Southern Cypress Dealers' Association told the Louisiana state railroad commission that receivers’ weighing methods cost Louisiana lumber interests nearly 1 million dollars yearly. They cited car weight errors, dirty stock and coal cars, rain weight adjustments, and reliance on the Western Weighing Association in Chicago as evidence.
Austin reports Representatives Tom B Love and other lawmakers arriving for the new session. By Sunday a quorum is expected as members from Hood Parker Clay Bexar Comanche Hill Dallas Galveston Pecos gather with bills ready for introduction.
From Topeka Jan 3 the Alma Rock Island wreck left forty nine dead including forty four Mexicans and four men plus a black porter. All women aboard reportedly escaped injury. Mrs Harry Wright of Dalhart Texas and her baby were unharmed while en route to Decatur Illinois.
St Petersburg January 3 Major General von der Launitz prefect of police was shot and killed by a young man at the Institute of Experimental Medicine Thursday noon police report.
Washington January 3. The Senate is expected to order an investigation into the discharge of Negro troopers from the Twenty fifth Infantry over their alleged role in the Brownsville Texas shooting. Senator Foraker's resolution authorizes a military affairs inquiry. Senator Lodge may oppose but likely won’t act. The committee may convene in Washington with hearings held there.
In Birmingham on January 3 R. D. Blackburn, a Louisville and Nashville railroad detective and former Warrick marshal, was shot from ambush and wounded by pistol bullets and buckshot. He is in dying condition. authorities believe multiple assailants, likely two or more, possibly with a grudge against him and indicating a staged assassination by unidentified perpetrators.
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