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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1907
Page
3
A Texas jury awarded the Waters-Pierce Oil company penalties totaling 1 623 900 dollars and canceled its Texas business permit. The verdict covers days from 1900 to 1907, with 1 549 500 in penalties for earlier periods and 74 400 for later. County Attorney Brady praised the win, noting a potential extensive appeal.
Counsel Clark and Bolinger for the Waters Pierce Oil company say they are not worried by the decision and expect ultimate victory. They cite ample legal grounds to justify the fight and foresee no major change from the current trial, with issues including the statute of limitations and the penalties assessment under consideration.
Representatives McGregor and Baskin with Senator Green questioned the attorney general’s ruling that saloons must close twenty days. McGregor said saloons will not have to close and called the ruling confiscatory and unsustainable in any court.
County health officer Houston chased a floating pest house swept away by Buffalo Bayou. The structure, carrying one inmate, was lassoed before it hit a bridge and was rescued. The house was tied to trees to prevent further danger.
A catfish weighing 117 pounds was landed in the Red River near Denison on June 1, highlighting a notable catch for local anglers.
Henry Johnson, a middle aged African American, was seized from Echo jail by about 150 men and hanged from a tree by a lynch mob. He had been charged with attempted criminal assault on Ephraim Pearce's wife, a planter. Deputy Richardson reported mob actions and that Johnson was taken around noon and hanged by late afternoon after being moved along a railroad track.
Howard Gould counters his wife’s separation suit with charges of her extravagance and a troublesome temper. He claims her public jewel displays and spending provoked his embarrassment. He plans to recount suits by tradesmen against her, arguing she was reckless and overcharged.
W D Haywood was seized by a serious illness in his Boise county jail cell early Saturday. Two doctors treated him for several hours amid signs of distress and possible nervous breakdown from jury strain. Guards reported head pains and acute agony with cries audible in the jail yard.
Richmond news reports the United Confederate Veterans elected officers led by Grand Commander General Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi and generals C Irvine Walker of South Carolina Clement A. Evans of Georgia and W J Cabell of Texas. The group chose Birmingham Alabama as next year’s reunion site with plans announced in Richmond on June 1.
Seattle hosts grand ground breaking for the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition planned for 1909. Mayors governors and officials attend as John Barrett rostrum honors President Roosevelt. John Edward Chilberg turns first spade as a military parade winds to the railroad for the excursion to the grounds.
Elyria Ohio June 3 Motorman C M Forney of the Cleveland and Southwestern Traction company was arrested in Cleveland and brought to Elyria to answer to a charge of causing the death of seven people and injuring eight others in a daylight rear end collision. He pleaded not guilty before the mayor and was bound over in five thousand dollars, which he could not meet and thus remained in jail. Forney operated a car that struck a standing car on a straight track. both trains were crowded with passengers.
Corunna June 1 A railway train switching here ran into and overturned a vehicle at a level crossing nine women aboard were crushed to death in the mishap.
A well known Georgia cotton mill contracted for 500 bales to be shipped from Liverpool due to local shortages. The cost is reported to be 2 cents above the current Atlanta market price, as of June 1.
In Rockwood Pennsylvania on June 1 President Roosevelt greeted hundreds as his party traveled to Washington from the west. A spectator shouted for him to run again and the president replied with a humorous deflection saying it is somebody else’s turn next time.
The comptroller ruled that moving picture shows must pay an extra state tax of 25 dollars and a county tax of 12.50 dollars if they operate any other attractions such as vaudeville in connection with the moving picture show.
New Orleans on June 1 reports cotton futures paused their weekly rise with profit taking at weekend close. October futures fell about $1 per bale in early trading though remained about 20 points above the 12 cent level.
Red River is out of its banks flooding bottom farms near Paris Texas on June 1. Crawford's plantation is covered with three feet of water.
In St. Andrew's Scotland on June 1 John Ball won the amateur golf championship for the sixth time. In Tulsa Oklahoma on June 1 two sticks of dynamite were found in the boiler room of the cotton gin. In Fort Worth on June 1 Miss Florence Haney achieved a perfect 100 in all her studies.
Montgomery report states several hundred men gather at Troy Alabama for the trial of ten Black defendants linked to the murder of Fox Owen a prominent white man. Owen was shot through the store doorway two weeks ago with a shotgun from the dark. Every Negro in the community has been summoned and the murderer is expected to be named.
Birmingham June 1. A locomotive traveling from Pratt City to the prison mines left four empty cars on the main line. E. E. Ellis trainman recently from Pittsburg was killed. Conductor Caldwell seriously injured. Engineer Hogan badly hurt. A second trainman injured.
Fatalities occur in a runaway stage near Lopey Oregon with driver George Galbreath and two commercial travelers dead and two other passengers possibly fatally injured.
Five persons died and eleven were injured when a workmen’s car toppled down a steep embankment on the Cuban Eastern railroad near Guanntanao. Four others are believed fatally injured as officials investigate the wreck. Dissatisfaction spreading in China’s province follows this report.
In Grant hall Richmond on Friday General Stephen D. Lee presided over the United Confederate Veterans convention. A large audience cheered as Colonel Robert E. Lee Jr spoke in defense of the South and slavery era veterans, while Edna Pearl Jewell and Senator John W. Daniel were honored and the crowd greeted the Lee family with waves and handshakes.
Fred Bush was acquitted after trial on charges of assault to commit murder. He had been accused of sending an infernal machine to the home of Mrs. Julia McCarthy on May 8, which seriously injured Mrs. McCarthy and wrecked her home and the store she owned.
Allen Bell and two companions were rounding up cattle in Pilot bottom when floodwaters trapped them. They climbed a tree top to stay safe until a boat from Park Lake reached them and carried them to shore.
Edward H. Lucas, a widely known telegraph operator, died in Little Rock after a long illness. He is survived by a wife and child.
Fine coal is reported discovered near Coleman Texas at a depth of forty feet. The find could boost local mining prospects and economic activity in the area.
Celeste Texas and nearby Hunt county sections endured a heavy rain that resembled a waterspout. Streets became streams flooding homes and damaging foundations. Santa Fe railroad track washouts stretch from one mile west to near Wolfe City with 200 workers dispatched. cotton in surrounding farms likely to need replanting.
Beaumont reports the drowning of George Stephenson age about twenty one at Voth on Pine Island bayou. He was bathing in six to teen feet deep flood water along a former public road with four or five companions. He cried for help, others heard him, rescue attempts followed but he sank. Body recovered and physicians pronounced death. he worked for Keith Lumber company at Voth.
A gale toppled a large pine onto a cabin near Crockett Texas. Mandy Lynch Hubbard Lynch John Lynch and John Foster were killed instantly while Frank Foster suffered fatal injuries. The cabin was demolished and bodies were recovered after the tree was cut away.
Mrs Helen M Stoddard writes from San Jose California to Denison Texas announcing her resignation as president of the Texas Woman s Christian Temperance Union after sixteen years in that role due to ill health. Hattie B Turner of Terrell will serve as president at large until the next state meeting.
Houston reports two city open-air theaters on strike. Theater companies have sent for musicians from Kansas City and expect to be music free until arrivals.
Frank Kelly, a young man who lived in Italy for years, was arrested by Sheriff Forbes on a Wilbarger County warrant charging bigamy.
News notes from Texas and Oklahoma report Naples shipping carloads of potatoes while Groesbeck plans a large Farmers' Union warehouse and Temple metros to add a cotton seed oil mill. Rain deluge hits east Texas and San Francisco iron workers return to scale.
In City of Mexico on June 1 Francis Aldape set fire to his home at No 10 Stone after threats to his wife. Four people died in the blaze and several others were seriously burned. Aldape was arrested as the death toll grew with three more victims dying later in hospital.
Memphis reports dairyman Peter Lay of Shreveport traveled with a man named Marino who promised joint profits in New Orleans. Lay says they buried $15,000 in a livery stable after a bank closing, then Marino vanished with the box contents. Lay returns home poorer by ten thousand dollars and seeks recovery of the missing treasure.
In a Muskogee city council investigation Edward Alley Alderman faced graft allegations. Adams a St Louis firm representative testified Alley offered $2 to push an ordinance and raised to $5 000 for passage. Alley denied the charges and said he would not be swayed. Beaumont Texas bridge collapse near Pine Island due to heavy rain damages rails and blocks rail service across East Texas.
San Francisco reports Pacific railroad lines on slower routes due to scheduling problems causing delays of about three hours. In St Louis three people died from asphyxiation in a Lawton rooming house, with R Gabler Ida Gabler Daniel Dwyer and Thomas Hines among the occupants. Hines hospitalized and recovering. Kentucky Prohibitionists nominate Rev L L Wilmore for governor, urging stricter liquor laws and opposition to trusts.
Heavy rains washed out multiple railroad tracks in Lamar area including Santa Fe near Celeste Texas and Texas and Pacific near Frisco. One line of the Frisco route was reportedly washed out for 600 feet disrupting travel and commerce. Authorities assess extent of flood damage and plan repairs.
In Little Falls Minnesota on June 1 Greth aged twenty was struck in the head by a pitched ball. The accident occurred during a local game as Soles delivered the pitch and the ball struck the batter. He was injured seriously and transported for treatment.
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