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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
1
In San Antonio on January 24 the county adopts a policy to curb tramp circulation by placing petty offenders in convict camps along county roads. The program builds roads, claiming 185 miles of macadam radiate from the city, benefiting farmers and merchants while reducing petty crimes and deterring hoboes during winter.
The rules committee met at the Murray Hill Hotel with a preliminary session and planned full talks for tomorrow. The chief topic is whether to limit forward passes amid rising calls for restraint. the seven Yale Harvard Princeton Cornell Chicago Pennsy lvania and Annapolis members will join the AIUS panel, with Hackett replacing Daly and Crane replacing Reid.
A conference of the Episcopal church Laymen's union opened in New York and will run for two days. The event follows a Richmond convention birth and aims to coordinate laymen in New York Baltimore Pittsburgh Buffalo Providence and other cities to support missionary work.
Atlanta, Jan 24. The State pardon board met and took up Arthur Glover's case. Unless it interferes, Glover will be executed next Monday, the first white man hanged in Richmond County in over 50 years for the murder of mill worker Maude Williamson on October 19, 1906. Jealousy motive cited.
Eminent legal figures attend the annual New York Bar Association session opening in New York. Joseph H. Choate delivers the association’s president's address while James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, speaks on The Methods and Conditions of Legislation.
Flora Tennyson wrote on her deathbed that George was the cause of his father David Tennyson’s murder near Frankfort Marshall county. George Tennyson confessed after hours of questioning saying Flora wrote Dont tell anyone unless you have to. The case centers on motive suspicion and a shotgun shell found near the Tennyson home.
News from yesterday reports the death of Mrs. Nancy Orr of Edge at her son J. M. Hunt’s home in Normangee on Thursday morning. She was 82, born in Georgia, had lived in Texas over 50 years, and only one of nine children survives. She was known for noble Christian character and was greatly loved.
Secretary of War Taft will speak at the Yale Alumni Association of Essex County twenty-fifth annual banquet in East Orange New Jersey. Govern or J Franklin Fort and Prof William Lyons Phelps also appear as speakers at the event held in the Womans Clubhouse.
Marriage licenses have been issued to Chas. A. Stasta and Christina Seasta Lonnie Kramer and Lela B. Steele Buford Thomas and Nancy Mooring Will Pearce and Laura Glasco by the county clerk office.
Rent notice for a five room house. Inquiries directed to Mrs. R. Vv. Kernole. Listing lacks additional details such as location or price.
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