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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1907
Page
4
A dated ad for Rizzotto's offering meals at 25 cents with short orders around the clock. Catalog includes daily fish, bulk sales, groceries, fruits and confections from Parsons' Building on North Main Street with phone number 37.
Real estate listing offers 200 acres three miles north of Bryan with 125 acres cultivated 75 pastured and a five room residence plus three tenant houses. An ideal country home with spring and well water priced at 25 per acre with 59 acres 25 cultivated and a good house. A five room cottage on the west side near Mrs Spencer Ford with two lots and water improvements priced at 1000.00.
Beaumont July 20 Mrs Ronnie Mulholland about twenty five is charged with shooting Mike Abbott proprietor of the Santa Fe hotel where Mrs Holland resided Six shots were fired Abbott was shot three times The wounds are not dangerous A young man employed as night clerk at the hotel and a young woman resident there were also arrested and turned over to the county
Sasakawa marshal John Morrison, a U.S. posse member, was killed near Holdenville Oklahoma while serving a warrant in the Seminole nation. Morrison rode toward three men he believed were whisky peddlers. they fired, killing him, and escaped into Little River swamps.
A Belleview Texas report notes W J Williams owning a calf with a fifth leg on a shoulder. In Charlotte North Carolina Union county jurors in the John Jones lynching case at Wadesboro May 28, 1906 found John Jones not guilty after half an hour deliberation.
In Hahnville Louisiana on July 20 a mob of about 100 confronted four Italians jailed for conspiracy in the Lamana boy kidnapping murder. Militia from New Orleans arrived by special train and, after a tense standoff, one soldier calmly asked for a cigarette. The crowd dispersed without violence as reinforcements arrived and the mob retreated to the railroad. No injuries were reported.
In Raleigh, July 20, a North Carolina state court fined Southern Railway 3300,000 and ticket agent T E Green for selling tickets above the new uniform rate of 2 14 cents per mile. Green paid a reduced fine of 5 and promised not to defy the law again. Judge Long asserted state courts hold criminal jurisdiction and warned the railway to comply with the act until a final ruling. Additional cases against agents at Newbern, Garner, Cary and Morrisville will move to the next term, with more county cases anticipated where Southern Railway sells tickets.
A St Ceo dispatch notes a 15 to 20 mile oil district with ten thousand acres located. An oil well opened July 14 now yields 5,000 barrels per day. Black oil with gasoline content flows from 64 feet depth. attempts to halt flow and drill deeper fail due to underground pressure. Washington county Princeton New Jersey July 20. Ex president Cleveland remains ill and not yet ready for summer home trip.
A man about 30 and an 11 year old boy were killed by a passing train on the Texas and Gulf railway about six miles south of Longview Texas. They had been in Gilmer seeking mill work and were walking toward Beckville where they lived. Both bodies were badly mutilated.
The Denison peach show opened July 20 drawing attendees from across the country. Mayor Acheson welcomed guests then J. S. Kerr spoke on Pointers for Peach Growers followed by T V Mumson on Insects and Diseases Affecting Peaches. Will G Fields demonstrated Peach Packing for Market and E J Kyle of the agricultural college lectured. The Board of Trade offers many prizes and prize packages will be sent to College Station for the farmers congress exhibition.
Justice R A Pleasants of Cuero was named by Governor Campbell to be chief justice of the Galveston court of civil appeals, succeeding W H Gill who resigned. Judge S A McMeans of Palestine was named to fill Pleasants' vacancy. State purchasing awarded leather goods to Padgett Bros Dallas Tipps Austin and Hamilton Turner Waco. Edgewood Distillery Cincinnati to supply whisky and Oppenheimer San Antonio drugs and sundries. Encampment at Camp Mabry in full blast.
In New York on Saturday a dense wet fog halted most transport while the subway ran normally. Ferryboats ferried thousands from Long Island New Jersey and Staten Island with cautious pilots. a steamer collided with the Baltimore ferry but caused only minor damage.
Marquis Ito reports cabinet warning that the retiring emperor ordered the imperial guards to enter the palace to murder them. A guard surrounds the palace while Crown Prince ascends the throne at 10 o clock. the father leaves immediately. An enraged mob of 1000 Koreans attacks and burns the premier residence at the palace.
A storm hit Zanesville Ohio from 9 PM Friday to 3 AM Saturday, delivering 3.91 inches of rain. Farmers and gardeners face an estimated $100,000 in losses as multiple rail lines, bridges, and roads were damaged by washouts and landslides.
El Paso July 20 The famous Bal milla mine near Parral Mexico owned by Pedro Alvarado, a multi millionaire said to have begged to be asked to pay the national debt, has shipped ore valued at 150 million dollars and was leased for fifteen years to Eugene Davis of Washington DC and associates for five million pounds sterling.
Sandy Hook Kentucky July 20 Judge Moody orders acquittal of Judge James Hargis for complicity in the murder of Dr B O Cox due to lack of witnesses. This ends the prosecutions against Hargis.
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