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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1907
Page
4
Mish offers daily meals at 235 cents and bulk sales. Short orders available all hours. Groceries fruits and confections stocked at Parsons' Building North Main Street. Prone 37 is listed in the ad.
Property listing describes 290 acres located 3 miles north of Bryan with 125 acres cultivated and 75 acres as pasture. Includes one 5 room residence and 3 tenant houses, spring and well water. Asking price 25.00 per acre. Additional 59 acres 25 cultivated with improvements at 12.00 per acre. A five room cottage on west side near Mrs Spencer Ford with two lots, well and cistern water, good improvements. Total sale price 1000.00.
Houston July 19 The law firm Baker Parker and Garwood has issued an opinion on the amended Texas anti-trust act. They say retailers merchants and ordinary buyers who purchase from a trust and sell through normal channels avoid the law but agents of trusts selling directly to corporations within the state fall under its provisions. The firm also notes the law did not take effect July 12 and becomes law August 10.
A westbound Texas and Pacific freight train derailed half a mile west of Elmo on Friday morning. Five lumber and cordwood cars were torn from the track, which was badly damaged over about 100 yards. Repairs took several hours and traffic detoured via the Texas Midland to Greenville and then the Katy to Mineola.
Houston July 19 Henry Disnowitz a passenger on a Southern Pacific night eastbound for New Orleans left a satchel containing papers valued at one million dollars in a coach. The satchel was found at Lafayette and has been recovered and is held subject to his orders.
The national convention of the Kappa Alpha elected officers with F. P. McConnell of Eufaula I T chosen as grand purser and C. Otis Robinson of Jackson Mississippi named grand historian.
Berlin July 19. The Emperor will construct a private automobile track twenty three miles long on his Schorfheide estate.
In New Orleans on July 19 a mob of about 300 men gathered at Gretna to threaten three Italians convicted in the Lamana murder. Governor Blanchard ordered two state militia companies within hours, saving the prisoners at Hahnville jail. About 100 soldiers guard the jail as authorities tighten controls and consider further relocation.
A tornado and heavy rain caused widespread damage in St Joseph and surrounding areas. Houses were wrecked, streetcar tracks torn out, and cellars flooded. Daniel Riordan family narrowly escaped death as their two story home was uprooted but did not crush them. Dozens of homes washed off foundations and several were struck by lightning with no fatalities reported.
Charles W. January alias Charles W. Anderson was released from Leavenworth after a pardon granted on President Roosevelt’s recommendation. He returned to Kansas City with his wife and child amid a joyful family reunion. The ex-convict had previously been convicted of robbing an Oklahoma post office, escaped, and later led a model, exemplary life before his rearrest and pardon.
Heavy rains north of Kansas City lifted the Missouri river, flooding cellars of about two dozen wholesale houses in the West Bottoms. Stocks were moved to safety, with slight damage reported. At Quindaro near Kansas City Kansas, river flooding damaged truck gardens, estimated at $20,000, forcing several farming families to higher ground.
J. L. Davis a well known young man and Miss Webryke drowned when their boat capsized on McCulloughs Lake. Bodies were recovered at dawn after the fire department dragged the lake all night.
Winfield Scott of Fort Worth transfers to Harry A. Chatham of Chicago and C. H. Bencini of Brownwood Tex his mills and gins at Brownwood Dublin Hico Stephenville and Coleman for 600000 in cash.
Winfield Scott plans a $140 000 four story brick Terminal hotel opposite the Texas and Pacific passenger station. It will house 125 rooms with some en suite connections and gas heating. A large tiled lobby with marble wainscoting and a spacious cafe will feature. Opening date is January 1.
Henry Berg a retired grocer and consumptive, threw himself from the twelfth floor railing of the Chamber of Commerce building in Chicago. He had been despondent and was influenced by a morning paper story of Anna Homoyle's suicide from the sixteenth floor of the Masonic temple.
Will Lamson a man over 500 pounds died in Waco on July 19 at age 39. His extreme size forced the use of a special shroud a custom coffin and a large wagon to transport the body to the burial site.
Groesbeck Texas July 19 George Gillard once convicted of murder and sentenced to fifty years has been acquitted after a new trial. He spent over a year in the county jail before being released.
Nolanville Texas July 19 Miss Eunice Bridges died last Friday her sister Mrs McDonald died two weeks earlier and now Mrs Bridges is dangerously ill Oklahoma City July 19 J L Hannon chairman of the Republican state central committee calls a state convention at Tulsa August 1 with 1537 delegates expected to attend
Indian woman Annie Malone of Stigler Oklahoma drowned herself in the North Fork of the Canadian river. It is noted as the second full blood Indian death by suicide in twenty years. In Waco Texas, R T H Chambers a retired timber dealer died suddenly while talking with his family.
July reports describe twelve residences burglarized in Boswell I T with losses ranging from 1 to 50 dollars. Other items note a gas asphyxiation death in Jasper Texas, a barbecue in Jenks Oklahoma, a seed hose fire in Louisville, a death from a kick near Granbury Texas, a veterinary surgeon's cocaine overdose death in Lawton Oklahoma, a bank in Gallatin Tennessee under receiver, a 39000 dollar discrepancy, a mad dog bite treatment in Perry Oklahoma, a boy nearly losing a leg in Lampasas County Texas, 200000 pounds of wool stored in Clayton New Mexico, a daylight robbery at J F Evans store Holdenville Oklahoma, and a boat accident near St Louis Missouri with a steamboat struck bridge abutment.
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