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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1908
Page
4
A fifty strong masked group seized Arcadia hotel guests in Dawson Springs Kentucky on January 25. They shot at rooms and forced John Heath an independent tobacco buyer to the river in his night shirt threatening whipping and ducking unless he promised to stop selling tobacco. He escaped return of riders.
San Francisco reports new misfortunes in C. R. Johnson of Boston's bid to recover 1862 gold from Manzanillo after the Pacific Mail steamer Golden Gate burned. Two men drowned and one killed by a timber during the storm, and the gasoline launch sent from the city sank in the same gale.
Lisbon C January 25 George B Harvey proprietor of the Lisbon Banking company assigned to Albert G Mason the bank is closed. Harvey's real and personal property are estimated at 126000 and bank deposits at 150000.
Omaha Nebraska January 25 Last Monday Union Pacific shop men reduced working hours and will now work five days per week.
The first export lumber shipment for England left via the Sabine Lake canal. Latcher & Moore Lumber Co of Orange Texas sent 300000 feet. Congress has spent 526500 on the canal, which is fifteen miles long connecting the Sabine and Neches rivers. Dredging began January 11, 1906.
A Houston party is charged with forgery and theft by a noted chicken thief scheme. The accused used rail and express offices to copy poultry crate tags and sent a driver with a fake consignee order to seize crates for resale. Several hundred dollars in fowl are claimed. Fred P. Ruddick of Dallas investigates the Houston fire department amid a resolution by local insurers alleging incompetence after the opera house fire.
Denison Texas January 25 Miss Anna Benjamin aged about twenty, a refined educated young woman from a leading family, killed herself with a pistol shot to the temple. Five years earlier a brother died by self inflicted means. Cause given as delicate health.
Francis Trevelyan, a leading American racing writer and long time judge at western tracks and New Orleans, died at Forest Lodge near Charlottesville, Virginia, from gout after several months of illness.
Joseph C. Bloch senior member of Bloch Bros whisky brokerage shot himself in his Louisville office on January 25 after suffering nervous prostration for some time. Friends say he had been ill.
In Elkins West Virginia on January 25 John Collier living nearby was warned by the Black Hand to depart within ninety days or face death. He plans to leave the area.
Tokyo moves to restrict emigration to America and Canada with new official orders directing governors to enforce a strict policy. Viscount Hayashi to present plans on immigration limits, while Hawaiians face a total emigration ban except for relatives already there.
Reports from Friday detail an accidental asphyxiation near the Zoological Park and a suicide attempt by Howard G. Wagner after his wife Daisy M. Wagner was found dead with a bullet in her head. Wagner tried to jump from a fifth floor window but was restrained. A boarding house resident Georgianna Harley attempted self harm by gas after a near fatal event. Iron worker Thomas Rowe was found unconscious in a boarding house room and remains critical.
Federal investigations into the Yellow Pine Manufacturers association will extend beyond the grand jury. U S District Attorney Foster disclosed that national officers were summoned before the grand jury, but no federal regulation issue appeared to the jury. He declined to specify future investigative lines.
Viscount Aoki, ex ambassador to the United States, has arrived in Tokyo. Hayashi sent a minister to Yokohama to greet him. At Shimbashi station, Baron Chinda and officials welcomed him warmly. In San Francisco, Harriman and Gould reportedly settled their railroad feud with a peace accord and pending lawsuits to be dropped.
Bradstreet reports New York bank clearings for the week ending January 23 totaling 2.7188 billion dollars, down from 2.7284 billion last week and 3.3769 billion a year ago. Canadian clearings reach 75.495 million, slightly below 75.863 million last week and 75.769 million a year earlier.
Fairmont reports the death of Charles E Conway at age forty five from appendicitis. Conway founded the Buckhannon and Northern and Fairmont and Southern rail road companies and was among the state’s wealthiest coal operators.
Austin officials discuss buying Ellis and Cunningham sugar plantations in Fort Bend county to house convicts and end the convict lease system. Governor Campbell says the move would shift convicts to manufacturing sugar, challenging the sugar trust. Citizens of Richmond oppose the purchase citing tax and local crime-cost concerns.
The Texas Railroad Commission released a statement comparing the first five months of the current fiscal year with the same period last year. Gross earnings rose to 38,853,999 this year from 37,977,329, a 2.26 percent drop. Freight earnings declined 2.83 percent while operating expenses rose 21.11 percent. Also, the Missouri Kansas and Texas Development Co of Dallas amended its charter to rename as Union Central Construction Co.
In New York on January 25 Mayor McClellan asked for the resignation of Magistrate Droege after a scandal involving a $250 payment to a newspaper man to suppress a story about tax methods in his court. The payment was routed through a third party before publication.
From New York on January 25 James Stillman president of National City Bank resigned from the directorate and the executive committee of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railways. Frank A Vanderlip was elected to fill the vacancies. Stillman plans extensive travel and retires from boards to focus on new activities.
George L. Thomas of New York City and FE. N. Taggart his clerk pleaded guilty in U S district court to conspiring to pay rebates to shippers. Judge McPherson fined Thomas seven thousand dollars and Taggart four thousand dollars. no jail sentences were imposed. Both tendered checks covering fines and they were accepted.
A box car near Rocking, two miles from Albia, Iowa, held five hundred pounds of dynamite that exploded during a fire. Five men were injured and property worth about $60,000 destroyed. The blast could be felt five miles away.
The Missouri and North Arkansas railroad finishes its new line from Seligman Arkansas to Neosho Missouri. An operating contract exists for use of Kansas City Southern tracks between Neosho and Joplin. Train service will start between Joplin Missouri and Leslie Arkansas on February 25.
Washington January 25 Secretary of the Navy Metcalf is reported to have grippe and is confined to his residence. The illness is described as mild with no indication of distant complications affecting his duties.
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