29 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1907
Page
1
In Haarlem court Nellie seven and Johnny two allege their stepmother Kate Cravius branded them with a red hot stove lifter as punishment for noise. She fainted in court twice, admitting the burns while claiming an unaccountable mania.
Governor Swettenham resigns amid the Pear Admiral Davis incident and the city quake. He promises fourteen months of tax relief while Archbisher Nuttall calls for dissolving the municipal council and appointing a powerful reconstruction commission. The report notes needed initial grants and imperial loans, with fire insurers limiting liability.
In Danville Virginia on a Sunday early morning H E Reynolds a young merchant near Chatham was killed in a pistol duel with three police officers. Earlier Reynolds had shot injuring Tom Corbin in a house of questionable character and, after officers mistook him for Albert Perkins an escaped prisoner, fired to halt him. Reynolds returned fire. Eight or more shots were fired before he fell. None of the officers were injured. Reynolds was about twenty eight and well connected. Corbin's injuries were not fatal.
Washington January 28 after a White House conference it was announced the contract for canal construction will be awarded to W W 1 with Anson M Bangs as the lowest bidder. The award depends on Bangs pairing with at least two independent constructors within ten days to cover the full scope of the project.
A man and a woman died after they stood on or near an electric railroad track in Camden and were struck by a passing train. Both bodies were recovered from Newton Creek. The ages and details are unclear due to the damaged report.
Jan 28 report says 160 workers at Jamestown resume labor after two weeks of idleness as wage talks fail to raise pay from five to six dollars daily. Plasterer strife in Richmond Virginia referenced with ongoing strike action and related exposition issues.
In Saarbruck Prussia an explosion of fire damp at the Reden shaft of the Rhenish region entombed 425 miners. By noon Monday 125 bodies recovered and 300 men missing. Later 39 more bodies were recovered making the toll one of the region’s worst disasters with over 160 dead.
A violent rain squall struck Hong Kong on Monday morning sinking more than fifty Chinese vessels and drowning over 100 natives. White residents suffered no casualties. Shore launches rescued many boat occupants as wreckage littered the harbor including sunken junks. The river steamer Paul Bean went adrift but anchored safely.
Albert Houck returned from work to find his wife dead in a room burned to a crisp. Police and coroner investigate a locked house, with initial accidental death theory dropped and foul play not ruled out. The case is described as wilful murder with considerable mystery remaining.
London January 28 coroner s jury returns a verdict of wilful murder against Horace George Rayner for shooting William Whiteley the Westbourne Grove merchant on January 24. Little additional testimony emerged as attempts at blackmail were discussed. The murdered man s sons and old employees testified they had never seen or heard of Rayner before the day of the tragedy.
Four men died and sixteen were seriously injured when an ice machine at Armour & Co in Chicago exploded. The blast ripped the cylinder head, releasing ammonia fumes and trapping twenty workers in the room. Victims were Austrian and Hungarian laborers.
New York police arrest John Bell a former Brooklyn street car conductor over suspected information about the death of Dr Charles Townsend in his Brigh ton Staten Island home. Authorities tie Bell to a motive linked to his wife’s death after an operation blamed on Townsend. Bell denies knowledge of the crime.
Denison Jan 28 Charles Lee four was run over by a Frisco freight engine near Colbert at a farm. He was ground to pieces in the accident marking a tragic rural incident.
A new panel of 100 jurors was summoned to appear Tuesday in the Thaw case in New York.
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