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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1907
Page
4
Rizzotto's Restaurant advertises meals at 25 cents with short orders available all hours. Daily fish, groceries, fruits, and confectioneries sold. location Parsons' Building on North Main Street with phone listed as 37U.
200 acres located 3 miles north of Bryan with 125 acres cultivated and 75 in pasture. One 5 to 100 meter residence and 3 tenant houses ideal for a country home with spring and well water. Priced at 25.00 per acre. 59 acres with 25 cultivated and a good house with improvements. Price 12.00 per acre. A five room cottage on the west side near Mrs Spencer Ford with two lots and well water. Good improvements. Will sell for 100000.
Assistant Attorney General Hawkins ruled that a railroad conductor cannot ride free unless actually performing duties. It is illegal for a conductor to ride free between plates while entering or leaving duties. Representative Graham, also a railroad conductor, pressed the inquiry. Dewitt C. Webster, owner of Floto Sells Shows, discusses anti pass law impact on circuses and Texas contracts.
Fort Worth July 29. City Attorney Orrick contends the commission government is unconstitutional and all ordinances illegal. He alleges the commissioners are usurpers not properly nominated and plans to file suit to oust them and restore him as city attorney. He has studied the legal points since the new government began.
A Sunday fire destroyed seven blocks of Coney Island amusement zone. Titan's Steeplechase Park and about twenty small writers burned. Luna Park and Dreamland faced threats. Wind shift saved much of the area though $1,000,000 in damages occurred. Three people injured, fireman Gottfried Messerli among the likely fatality.
Funeral services for Senator Pettus will be held at his Selma home with a large military escort including the Second Alabama infantry under Colonel Bricklen, artillery, and cavalry under Adjutant General Bibb Groves. About 700 in line. Governor Comer and staff attend. services at Pettus residence.
Prominent southern figures attended the funeral of Mrs. Newton C Blanchard wife of Louisiana governor. Services were conducted at St Mark's Episcopal Church by Rev. J. H Spearing with the church filled by mourners. The service followed Episcopal ritual.
A North Fort Worth trolley car derailed at the Cotton Belt crossing Sunday afternoon. The 48 passengers endured injuries as the car careened about fifty feet before tipping. Mrs. Katherine Brown suffered a deep scalp wound with heavy bleeding.
Four miles south of Farmersville Texas an automobile carrying W S Burton and his Ladonia family rolled on a bridge and plunged into a ditch. Burton and his young daughter were seriously injured with the girl not expected to survive.
Senator BE W Pettus of Alabama died after apoplexy at a Hot Springs breakfast. His granddaughter Miss Bessie Roberts was present. Edmund Winston Pettus, born Limestone County Alabama July 6 1821, served as a Mexican War lieutenant and rode to California in 1849 before settling in Selma in 1858.
The text traces a Civil War officer who became lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Alabama infantry, later elected U S senator in 1897 and re-elected in 1903 and 1915. It notes Alabama's last Democratic state convention endorsing Bankhead as successor after Morgan and Pettus aged, with Gov Comer appointing Bankhead and the Democratic legislature electing him after Morgan's death. Ex-Governor Johnston is named as a popular, wealthy figure in Alabama.
Short items report floods, heat in Dallas 102, drownings in Arkansas river Jenks and White Rock creek Dallas, wrecks near Shipman Virginia, fires at Tyler and Stella, bank charters and capital increases in Moody Houston, new storage tanks west of Dallas, and various accidents from Aline Oklahoma boy to Muskogee jail escape.
Fort Worth reports Roy Prewitt eight burned in a family cottage fire on Sunday. His mother Mrs Prewitt wrapped him in a blanket and he was taken to St Josephs infirmary where he died after intense agony.
In South McAlester on July 29 a stranger used a brass brick as substitute for a gold one pledged as security to Colonel J. J. McAlester. The owner swapped in a bogus brick and fled before the fraud was found, costing McAlester about 19 000 dollars.
An agreement between the state and the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line railways sets the 21¼ cent railroad rate into effect by August 8 pending final court settlement. In Knoxville, Presbyterian minister Rev. William Smith collapsed from apoplexy during a Sweetwater sermon at age sixty five. he had warned, I may never speak to you again.
July 29 report from City of Mexico states that poisoned meals left 154 inmates ill at Belen prison, with several in serious condition.
In Memphis on July 29 Harry Rice was shot four times by an unknown assailant and is listed as seriously injured.
Galveston on July 29 welcomed over five thousand visitors Sunday as crowds toured the area and enjoyed warm weather and local attractions.
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