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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1907
Page
4
Short orders available all hours at Parsons Building North Main Street. Rizz Otts serves meals for 25 cents with daily fish, bulk fish sales, and a range of groceries fruits and confectioneries. Phone 370.
A prospectus describes 209 acres located three miles north of Bryan with 125 acres cultivated and 75 in pasture. It includes one 5-109 residence, three tenant houses and abundant spring and well water priced at 25.00 per acre. Also offered is 59 acres with 25 cultivated, a good house and improvements. rate 12.09 per acre. A five room cottage on the west near Mrs Spencer Pord’s home, two lots with water from well and cistern and good improvements offered at 1000.00.
The American Midland Railroad company with $60,000 capital is chartered by New York and Guthrie men to build a 2100 mile route from Langsdon South Dakota through South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory to near Galveston. A Winnsboro Texas branch to Coal City Indian Territory and another from Coalgate to Poteau Indian Territory are planned.
The Industrial Peace conference in San Francisco sent Patrick Calhoun, president of United Railroads, a letter asking his delegates withdraw to protect conference harmony. Calhoun replied denouncing the request as cowardly politics and said he could not appear at the conference.
Lat in 6-80 drowning in Little Rock as merchant Robert Lane Clark and his son struggled in the Arkansas river. Clark lost his life while attempting to rescue his son during a bathing outing.
At Camp Mabry Texas on July 23 Private Frank DeWitt of Troop fh First Texas shattered by a falling limb after his horse bolted is rushed to Seton infirmary where an operation followed. Corporal Lyons of the First United States Cavalry suffers severe head and back injuries when a horse falls. A negro worker suffers a crushed foot in tent floor movement, amputation possible.
Fort Worth July 23 Deputy Sheriff Ewart arrested Miss Gussie Robinson on an indictment for the murder of Arthur Hodges four weeks ago. Hodges and Robinson were on the International and Great Northern railroad tracks near East Terrell avenue when Hodges died from a pistol wound to the head. Robinson, wounded in the arm, called police and was jailed after a nervous breakdown and fever.
Decatur Texas July 23 G F Mee Cracken will take Mack's Ideal a 200 pound yearling Poland-China to the Texas State fair in Dallas this fall. The pig bred from Star of Texas the 1909 sweepstakes boar has been groomed since October and Cracken believes Mack's Ideal will win.
In Marlin Texas R S McCoy owns an eighteen month old heifer that has never calved yet yields a gallon and a half of milk daily, enough to make three fourths of a pound of butter each day. In Pottsville Kentucky fourteen Seay family members are reported critically ill from suspected stomaine poisoning after a dinner party ice cream.
In Longview Texas on July 23 authorities identified the two brothers killed by a tie train. The oldest was Andrew Jackson Davis twenty and the younger James Davis sixteen. identification came from their stepbrother Mr Ray of Gilmer.
Fort WorthJuly 23 A Frisco switchman R C Ballard had both legs cut off by a freight train and died. A young widow and baby are left in the wake of the accident.
Dallas social figure Mrs. Maranda Miller dies. Tulsa records 104 degrees on a hot day. Four Chinese nationals to be deported from Dalhart. Salesman Charles L. Mayer dies in St. Louis. Randall County Texas assessed at 3 185 450 including intangibles. Mormon missionary Charles A. Woods dies in Electra. Cooke County fair slated Gainesville September 10 to 14. Oklahoma City to host union labor bank with 500000 capital. Wade at Terrell asylum notes John C. Anderson as successor in Bartlesville. Joe McGee’s son in Rockdale badly harmed by a horse kick. Mrs. John H. King dies at Pitot Point from gas stove shock. Oklahoma constitution filed by President Murray with Sec retary Filson. Governor Frantz to call an election at earliest notice.
Grief stricken by a notice of dismissal Mrs Nielson a house keeper for Ultk jaer in Jutland hanged three of her employer’s children and three of her own, then killed herself.
Karl Hau a law professor from Washington DC was sentenced to death in Baden Baden for the November murder of Frau Molitor mother in law to his wife crowds protested outside the court for days as police and infantry restored order several were arrested and one woman was trampled during disturbances
About 100 night riders surrounded Stephen H. Moseley's residence near Bearing Springs, Hopkinsville. Moseley was shot in the face and hand, Mrs. Moseley wounded by wire fragments, and three children narrowly escaped bullets. Mosley has been an anti association leader. earlier his plant beds were scraped and wires cut.
Judge V W Grubbs of Greenville has proposed and Campbell residents have accepted a plan to establish a self help and industrial college in Campbell Texas. He received notice of approval and the official prospectus will be printed soon. The move is hailed as a strong advance for education in the region.
Mrs. O H P Belmont former wife of W K Vanderbilt and mother of Harold S Vanderbilt is in Newport July 23. She declined to be seen about her son's disappearance but her secretary issued that Mrs. Belmont knows where he is and would not elaborate.
The Hague July 23 delegates to the peace conference traveled to Amsterdam where Queen Wilhelmina hosted a dinner in their honor. The queen presented each delegate with a commemorative medal featuring the Hall of Knights with a rising sun on one side and an inscription with the date on the reverse.
San Francisco July 23 Jack Welch of this city will officiate as referee in the July 31 bout between Jimmy Brittant and Rattling Nelson.
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