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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
4
One mile from the courthouse a 26 acre property for sale features three cultivated acres and pasture. Fenced with a pantry hall fires tub cistern horse and garden. Rent $650 monthly. price $1500.00 for the property.
Reports from St Louis dated June 11 say fifty to two hundred lives lost in the great flood. East St Louis is largely submerged with water up to house eaves. ten thousand people homeless. The flood threatens Madison Venice Granite City and Brooklyn as embankments and dykes fail.
Two thirds of East St. Louis flooded from two to fifteen feet, claiming eleven lives. The river breached embankments along the Illinois Central line, isolating laboring neighborhoods and submerging cotton cottages and grain elevators while workers rushed sandbags to shore up the frontline levee.
The flood swept streets to roofs as alarms rang and rescue boats plied the water. Eleven drowned including John Koolish and his three children. others unnamed. Reports claim several Blacks were shot during looting after guards fired on them in the north side.
President T J Cornwall vanished after a $280000 shortage at the Bessemer Savings Bank. He left notes blaming himself, exonerating officers, and warning his wife. Checks for $800 were refused, prompting an investigation. The shortage prompted cornered fear but Birmingham banks say their paper is out.
On the third day of Curtis Jett and Tom White’s trial for the murder of Attorney Marcum, B L Ewen the leading Commonwealth witness testified seeing White near the shooting and Jett after their victims removal. The court faced intense cross examination as defense and officials confronted courtroom arrangements and troop presence. Inspector Hines arrived from Frankfort under Governor Beckham’s orders, stirring speculation on the trial’s conduct and officials’ performance.
Reports from western Kansas say settlers attacked a militia and sheriff's posse near the Dewey ranch in Cheyenne county as forces headed to St. Francis. Wires are down and telegraph is limited while the Deweys face possible capture amid feverish excitement in the region.
Kansas Kalkaska Mich June 11 After two weeks Prosecutor EB Smith secured the confession of Mrs Mary McKnight to the cold blooded murder of her brother John Murphy his wife Gertrude and their three months old baby A partial confession was made Monday night which Mrs McKnight denied killing the baby Late Tuesday night she made a complete confession She said she gave the baby a spoonful of strychnine which woke up and cried while her mother was gone She did not intend to harm any of them She also admitted giving Gertrude one of her capsules which caused spasms and may have killed Gertrude John seemed to feel badly about it and she poisoned him as well Eight other persons died in fifteen years under circumstances now considered suspicious all were relatives or intimate friends who showed signs of strychnine poisoning.
Seven bodies recovered in Clifton Arizona after a cloudburst flood. thirty missing as eight feet of water swept through canyons destroying homes and stores. Arizona Copper Company losses expected near fifty thousand dollars. property losses total well over one hundred thousand. Eight miles of rail line washed out. train derailed. telegraph service cut. news carried by runners.
A Clifton Arizona dispatch says the strike continues with a clash likely and troops may arrive. Morenci reports Arizona National Guard militiamen have been sent to the miners strike at Detroit Copper Mining Company's plant under Sheriff Parks request to Acting Governor Stoddard to preserve order.
In Paris Texas Faris Fort Worth 15 10 Corsicana rain. Memphis 3 Birmingham ? twelve innings. Shreveport 1 vs Nashville. Little Rock 5 at Atlanta 4. New Orleans 5 Montgomery C Nickell, ex Dallas Texas League player, debuted for New Orleans.
In New York and Philadelphia games were rained out with no play. Washington beat Cleveland 8 to 6, and Boston defeated Detroit 5 to 0.
In St Louis New York defeated by 1 run while Chicago beat Boston 7 to 3. Cincinnati routed Brooklyn 7 to 0 and Pittsburgh won 7 to 4 over Philadelphia.
London reports at Crestwick Scotland on Wednesday Trarry Varden broke the green record at the one role championships by completing the round in 73.
In Lincoln Nebraska on June 11 a mob of about 200 armed men attacked Atwood and a jail to seize Chauncey Dewey Clyde Wilson and J C McBride, tying them during the raid as reported by the Star from Atwood.
Washington June 11 Major L Howse of the Porto Rico regiment has been ordered to be present during the investigation of charges against him in the treatment of Filipino prisoners.
At Indianapolis on June 11 the national convention delegates and visitors from the Travelers' Protective Association toured the Gas Belt area. About 254 delegates attended with wives and sweethearts, spending the day sightseeing by trolley.
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