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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
2
A compilation of scattered remarks and anecdotes covering dry topics in Shreveport as well as opinions on banking laws and freedom of belief. Notable items discuss prohibition talk for 1909, stock market activity, and reflections on perception and subjectivity. The piece blends humorous observations with social commentary.
In winding up the T. W. House bank of Houston it emerges that Dave H. Shapira owed $48 000 to the bank. He allegedly pledged notes some of which were fraudulently claimed, and an overdraft of $10 000 was added. Shapira left for Chicago while attachments and a grand jury probe proceed. He led the Farmers' and Bankers' Warehouse Building Association, now in receivership, with audits to come. The enterprise laid out warehouses across Texas and neighboring states funded by notes hypothecated to banks. Five banks are named in the transactions as involved. Legal actions and suits multiply as investigations continue.
The regular services will be held at the Methodist church with Sunday school and children societies at usual hours. Preaching at both services by the pastor J. B. Turrentine. Morning subject The Panic Its Cause and Cure. Evening subject The Atonement Its Fact Philosophy and Result. An invitation is extended to all, especially strangers.
Mrs. Herbert M. Sears, wife of a Boston broker and sister to tennis champion Richard Sears, ends her life at the Hotel St. Regis New York by leaping from a thirteenth story window. The body struck the roof of a four story building next door and a note to her husband was found in her room. Friends cite melancholia after years of erratic behavior and heavy travel with her maid.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma spoke at Cooper Union greeting New York supporters and urged campaign themes of less taxes, more money, and no monopoly. He criticized tariffs as a Chinese wall and argued American-made goods should be bought at home. He linked the recent panic to cannibalism by financiers and urged tariffs as not a shield against panics.
In Boyertown Pennsylvania Italian laborers dig graves by moonlight in Union and Fairview cemeteries for Rhoades Opera House disaster victims. Borough workers toil all night as many funerals are planned Friday Saturday and Sunday. Governor cites 173 dead. unnamed bodies to be buried in a trench sixty by forty feet.
New York January 17 1900 The firm of Whitney and Kitchene bankers and brokers members of the New York Stock Exchange made an assignment for the benefit of creditors to Bayard L Peck The firm consists of Girard H Whitney and James V Garaghty Counsel for the assignee says the firm is temporarily embarrassed by inability to collect debts and assigned to gain a few days to recover from the difficulty
President Roosevelt approves the Isthmian Canal Commission recommendation endorsed by Secretary Taft to reduce the Panama Canal locks width from 160 feet to 110 feet.
Memphis January 17 a four story building at the southeast corner of South Main street and Linden avenue housing D Dooley saloon and H C Laswell furniture store burned. Loss estimated at sixty thousand dollars with partial insurance.
The Republican state convention to elect delegates to the national convention was called for March 11 at Oklahoma City.
Augusta Georgia January 17 a druggist shipped the wrong medicine to the home of Henry Kelly for his infant son. The child died and a warrant was issued for the druggist.
A blaze destroyed the Imperial Underwear factory in Scranton, trapping Florence Waltrouse who died in the flames and causing Mary Buckley to jump from a fire escape and break her neck. Several injured workers including Kate Conrey May Wheelan and Katherine Griffith were hospitalized with burns and internal injuries after evacuations failed. Fire started when a glue pot toppled in the Economy furniture basement, four stories tall, as workers fled to exits and stairways. Firefighters saved others amid a crowded stairway jam and panic on the third floor.
Miss Alice C. Fletcher testified she knew Harry Thaw for 26 years and observed him as nervous and moody with wild eyes. She said his talk was often incoherent and he appeared irrational during visits to the Thaw household in Pittsburg and at his mother's home in 1903.
Archduke Ferdinand IV of Tuscany died in Salzburg on January 17. He was the father of the Countess of Montigomso once known as Princess Louise and formerly married to the king of Saxony. He had last year wed Liz nor Loselli, a musician.
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