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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1908
Page
1
Senator Borah says Chicago will be the Republican campaign headquarters and may serve as the operations base for the national executive committee after attending a Cincinnati conference with Secretary Taft and Congressman Sherman.
Editor Ora F Havell of Havell's Every Morning suffered skull injuries and internal damage after Dode Buddell a Mt Carmel liveryman hit him with a brick knocked him down and beat him as he attempted to draw his revolver. The assault followed the publication of a joke in Havell's paper.
Secretary Taft directs the quartermaster to reserve a plot at Arlington National Cemetery for a monument honoring black soldiers who died in the Civil War. The Colored Soldiers' Monument association, which petitioned for the action, is fundraising to erect the memorial.
Friends of Senator Bailey doubt he can take part in the Denver convention and may not attend as Chicago dispatches say a Democratic subcommittee views him for chair of the resolutions committee. He remains ill in bed at the Waldorf Astoria and may be unable to leave for a week or ten days.
A Louisiana leper home report to be presented to the state assembly notes that out of sixty one residents in the past two years six have been practically cured. The figures show discharged cured and under observation, reflecting improved sanitation and access to quality medical care rather than a discovered cure.
In a Red River Valley railroad wreck near New Orleans on Monday one man was killed and a dozen or more injured. Dr. G W Jones of Denham Springs La a member of the house of representatives was killed. Serious injuries include Lewis L Morgan of St Tammany parish Joe Rodgers and John Lob dell. The collision happened when a freight train attempted to cross before a passenger train from Baton Rouge to Hammond.
On June 22 New York saw eleven drownings as extreme heat sent crowds to the city’s waters. Notables include John Milton who died rescuing three men in the East River and Frank Kriz who drowned diving at the YMHA pool.
Anonymous pamphlet bearing Katipunan signs denounces Americans as tyrants and thieves. It calls for revolution and campaigns including assassination of invading Americans, arson, and violence against property and animals, ending with fervent Filipino nationalism.
In St Petersburg on June 22 sentences were handed down for participants in the 1905 Bialystok massacre. Eleven Christians and seventy three Jews were killed, twenty three Christians and eighty Jews wounded. One prisoner received three years penal servitude, thirteen were sentenced to six months to one year imprisonment, and fifteen were acquitted.
Salisbury report says prominent pharmacist E. Bryant and Thomas Littleton aged twenty one drowned while swimming near the city. Bryant cramped in twenty five feet of water and sank Littleton attempted a rescue but was pulled under by Bryant.
Pittsburg reports sharp improvement in trade conditions with American Sheet and Tin Plate Company resuming full time after layoffs, employing 2,000 workers. Sharon Steel Hoop and National Malleable Castings plan to resume this week, signaling up to 10,000 idle workers expected back within a month.
Twenty four Manila wrapping paper manufacturers were fined 1000 dollars each by Judge Hough in the United States circuit court for maintaining any legal combination in restraint of trade. The firms are members of the Manila and Fibre association.
Four prisoners escaped from a Youngstown jail with help from a woman who pretended to be the wife of one inmate and smuggled in saws. The woman vanished after the breakout.
President Roosevelt names John C. O Laughlin of Washington secretary to the American commission to the 1912 Tokyo exposition. Salary set at five thousand dollars annually.
Two deaths and seven prostrations were reported in Chicago up to noon Monday as heat continued with only slight relief for twenty four hours.
Oyster Bay June 22 Secretary Taft and General Luke E Wright will call on the president Friday reports say. The planned audience follows their arrival and is expected to address current affairs.
Fuchow China June twenty two the Fu river rose twenty feet flooding the city with casualties and extensive damage reported by local authorities and residents.
A chemical explosion at a torpedo laboratory in the Newport Rhode Island naval training station caused about 3000 dollars in damage on June 22.
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