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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1907
Page
4
Restaurant advertises meals for 25 cents with short orders available all hours. Daily fish served and bulk sales of groceries fruits and confections offered from Parsons' Building on North Main Street. phone listed as 37.
Real estate listing describes 200 acres 3 miles north of Bryan with 125 acres cultivated 75 in pasture one five room residence three tenant houses spring and well water priced at 25 dollars per acre. Also 59 acres 25 cultivated with a good house 12 dollars per acre and a five room cottage near Mrs Spencer Ford home with two lots water and improvements priced at 1000 dollars.
An ad touts Dr Shoop's Restorative as a nerve based kidney treatment. It claims backache weak kidneys and urinary symptoms indicate nerve weakness and promises relief with tablets or liquid after a month of use. Sold by pharmacists.
Nin e Armenians, tied to the Hunchakist movement, were rounded up in New York after the murder of rug merchant H. S. Tavshanjian. Among the detainees was Father Margos sian, charged with attempted robbery for allegedly trying to blackmail merchants for sums from ten thousand to twenty thousand dollars.
In Galveston on July 30 Judge J. E. P. Gillespie heard a habeas corpus petition from A. H. Hobson who sold liquor without a license at Twenty-fifth and L. The issue is whether the old law unexpired saloon license remains valid. Hobson bonds out for $100 pending ruling.
Two masked men entered the rooming house of Mrs Rosa Elliott in Fort Worth on July 30 binding her a towel over her face and mouth and tying her hands and feet. They took a diamond ring valued at 175 dollars a gold watch other jewelry and 25 dollars in cash before fleeing. Her husband found Mrs Elliott unconscious.
Baton Rouge July 30 The state crop pest commissioners report enormous numbers of boll weevil grubs have been baked to death by two weeks of scorching sun. Heat has improved outlook in sections where crops were worst as weevils die where squares fall from the rows.
Prescott Arizona July 30 Thomas W Lawson of Boston is reported to have purchased the Arizona Smelting company plant with control of numerous mines in the region in a deal valued at 17 million dollars.
Worchester Massachusetts July 30 General Josiah Pickett eighty four a civil war veteran is said to be dying while technically a military prisoner. He has been under arrest since Cold Harbor after a clash with General Stannard who later commended him for gallantry. The arrest has endured for more than forty years.
John C. Roberts, a Confederate veteran, was killed instantly in San Antonio after the second-story gallery banister collapsed, sending him to the street where his neck was broken and his skull fractured.
The barber examining board met in Austin and organized with J. H. Halley of Colorado City as president W. H. Kleabe of Austin as secretary and W. M. McKowen of Marlin as treasurer.
New Orleans July 30 General Stephen D Lee issues a Confederate Veterans order announcing the death of United States Senator Edmund Winston Pettus. Lee praises Pettus as a true soldier and born leader, noting his brilliance in conversation cheerfulness and universal friendship.
Two hundred thousand dollars moved from the general revenue fund to the available school fund on July 3 in Austin. The general revenue fund still holds about four hundred fifty thousand dollars.
In district court Wells Fargo Express files a suit against Santa Fe railway seeking specific performance of a contract. The action was filed in Houston on July 30 and involves contractual obligations between the two parties.
A baby was born on a Trinity and Brazos Valley train near Corsicana Texas on July 30. Mother and child were taken to a local hotel to recover. The event drew attention from train staff and local officials.
Central Labor Union of Washington adopted a resolution urging President Roosevelt to instruct Attorney General Naparte to order the immediate trial on the pending indictment involving United States Senator Borah of Idaho in alleged timber land frauds against the government. The move follows Borah’s role as an attorney for the prosecution in the Haywood trial.
Lawton Oklahoma July 30 constable J C Hanks of Roosevelt Kiowa county was shot and killed at his home by two unknown burglars who escaped The officer intervened as they entered a store and they began firing wounding him twice
Philadelphia July 30 Edward Gilbert & Co a major building and contracting firm with NorfolkVirginia roots has been placed in the hands of a receiver by the Philadelphia common pleas court The company active in Philadelphia andState has debts estimated at about 96000 The receiver will continue the business without interruption Maxwell Wyeth president signed the application
Boise, Idaho. Judge Wood sets bond at 25000 for Charles Moyer and his lawyers say it will be posted.
Taxable values of Houston are 47 212 997 dollars. Denton Texas records a 105 degree Sunday. St George hotel Dallas plans a ten story addition. Cuban plotters dispersed by rural guards. Shreveport Auto company establishment burned. Methodist college San Angelo to cost 43000 dollars. Mrs Sarah Howell Dallas county since 1857 is dead. Heat prostration kills George P Marchand Galveston. Decatur Texas seeks East Line railway extension from McKinney. John Bland Rock Island foreman dies Amarillo. William Hubbard Dallas shot in neck. Dick Leaser jailed Denison for attempted assault on Miss Music. Louis F Dolch found dead under a tree at Eagle Pass. H P Ketrick dies in caboose near Deridder. Colorado Concho Confederate reunion and carnival at Bollinger August 21 22 22.
A court martial in Guayaquil sentences fifteen soldiers over the failed political plot against President Al's. Eight are executed by shooting, nine receive life penal servitude. Authorities report a new conspiracy at Quito with leaders fleeing toward Guayaquil.
George Thomas, a Black man, killed his wife in Westchester Pennsylvania and fled. He was hunted to a barn near town where shots were exchanged. He was found dead in a hay mow with a temple bullet wound. wife remained hospitalized in critical condition.
Jacob A. Riis the author and settlement worker and Miss Mary A. Phillips his long time private secretary were married in Ipswich Massachusetts on July 30.
Hibbing reports say Peterelli the strike leader was arrested on concealed weapon charges. Ore hand lers await arbitration reply after Duluth Massaba and Northern railroad officials were asked for talks.
Two of the men convicted for involvement in the January 3 murder of Major General Von der Launitz police prefect of St Petersburg were executed today. The executed men's names were not disclosed.
New York on July 30 reports the first bale of the 1907 08 Georgia cotton crop sold on the New York Cotton Exchange. It brought 26 cents per round.
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