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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1908
Page
6
Paris reports Edmond Rostand built a villa at Bayonne and slept poorly until a barking dog and unseen master disrupted his cure. A peasant used animal mimicry to quiet the dogs for a reward, then barked again prompting Rostand to threaten police. He ends with a dog story without a dog.
P A Bruce notes in Soci! Life In Virginia In the Seventeenth Century that Virginians fed abundantly with cattle, venison, poultry, fish, oysters, and shellfish. Wild fruits and nuts, grapes, watermelons, corn pone, and honey completed a rich rural bounty across plantations.
A tale of Ralph Sutherland born 1701 in Leeds who died in the Catskills after a century of a peculiar legal curse. He was condemned to hang for murdering a bonded Scottish servant, delayed until age ninety nine, with yearly appearances before judges to prove his crime. He died at over one hundred still bound by the rope.
A Washington scientist, strict with both staff and household, offered his attendant a round the world trip. The aide asked about time zones, noting a day loss and replied that a day off would be welcome. The exchange comes from Harper's Weekly.
Crowds gather outside the criminal court on the first day of the January trial for 4 K Thaw. Police maintain order while Justice Dowling handles jury matters and Thaw receives a greeting from his sister and brother from the Tombs prison.
Austin January 7 District Judge Calhoun ordered receivers to take charge of all movable and personal property of Standard Oil Company of Indiana New Jersey and New York National Transit Company Union Tank Line Company as anti trust suits proceed. The order follows statutes allowing court appointed receivers in such litigation.
Austin reports Representative H. B. Terrell from Mc Lennan county urged the governor to call an extra session to pass a bank deposit guarantee law. Terrell, who opposed it last session, now supports the measure and seeks gubernatorial action. Governor accepts the resignation of Clifford Braley from the Sixty six district as he moves to Amarillo to practice law.
A four year old girl was lured in a Charlottenburg suburb hallway and fatally stabbed in the abdomen in a crime resembling the earlier July series of child stabbings attributed to the same unknown killer.
In East Omaha a body is found of Giuseppe Fierenza, a New York immigrant who said he fled home six months earlier under threats of death from the Black Hand society. Police pursue leads as the suspected mob links emerge.
Washington report to Congress states the Board of Engineers and General McKenzie oppose an eight foot channel from Tres Palacios to Matagorda Bay.
Former Governor and ex-Congressman J Proctor Knott suffered a slight stroke at his home near Lebanon. The former governor is advanced in years and in frail health.
Dallas January 6 A pipe liner named Mike Birmingham about thirty five unmarried was found dead in a boarding house room with a rubber tube tied between his teeth to a gas jet. He turned on the gas and awaited death.
A breeder and trainer of race horses sold a horse to an English buyer who asked to see the horse run. The trainer replied the horse cannot go faster than he can be told, a quip reported by the New York Sun.
Three people died in the blaze at the French hospital’s outbuildings in San Francisco on January 6. Michael Franco and Jean Pons, both laundry workers, plus a woman believed to be Franco’s wife, perished. The fire, likely from a defective flue, caused over 50,000 dollars in building damage and damaged electrical equipment. Nurses helped evacuate patients as the main building faced threats and a panic ensued.
Waco January 6 reports Joe Ferguson a well known conductor on the International and Great Northern railway between Fort Worth and Mart shot himself on a street sidewalk at 11 o clock Sunday night after setting his suitcase down. A love affair is alleged as the motive. Ferguson aged thirty five and a bachelor.
A little girl explains a framed photograph on a plane to a caller noting it shows a smile. the scene reflects a domestic moment cited from Chicago Tribune Dodging the Water. The exchange includes playful banter with a tramp and a constable about baths and vacuum cleaners.
Historic bell cast in Paul Revere's workshop was destroyed when the local Congregational church in Wiscesset Maine burned. The 1824 courthouse also perished in the same blaze.
World renowned pianist Josef Hoffmann made his initial appearance before the Mexican public on Sunday night and was enthusiastically received by a large and fashionable audience.
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Dunleigh lamenting her mother’s habit of calling when she is out while Little Flossie Dimpleton jokes about watching from the front window.
Reports from El Paso say former Iowa Governor Horace Boies is recovering from pneumonia at Providence hospital. Dr. Henry B. Hoyt stated Boies shows marked improvement and is resting easily with notable strength gain in the past hours.
Two county convicts filed their chains and escaped from a detention area in Paris Texas. The incident occurred January sixth with authorities launching a search for the pair.
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