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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1907
Page
1
Mrs Elizabeth Wilson longtime resident of Sterling Illinois dies at 96. She was close associate of Abraham Lincoln and wife of Robert L Wilson a Sangamon legislator and Long Nine member who helped move the capital. Survived by two daughters and ten grandchildren. In Pittsburgh a snowstorm caused telegraph outages and a pedestrian died of fatigue.
In New Orleans on March 6 a fire patrol wagon and a chemical engine collided while answering an alarm at Burgundy and Frenchman streets. Three firemen were seriously hurt and three slightly injured. the injured include tankman Joseph EsCobedo, Lieutenant C. Neplin, and driver James Kern. The crash broke wheels and dumped occupants onto the pavement.
The world champion Chicago team of the American League departed Tuesday in a decorated special train for Mexico City to begin spring training. About sixty people, including players, friends, and press, traveled from the Illinois Central depot with additional team members to join in Memphis and San Antonio, Texas.
Baton Rouge reports a proposed program to substitute enslaved labor with European immigrant workers. Charles Schuler announces a plan to recruit immigrants under a fixed wage system, prepaid by planters, with a $150 guarantee per family to cover state expenses. The plan leverages the New Orleans Immigration Station and seeks to hire and transport European immigrants to Louisiana plantations.
A man named Severn Em ory Lounsberg, thirty, from New York, claims to be Christ and travels to New Mexico with a rifle revolver sword knife and trumpet. He frightened women by blowing the trumpet and was arrested. He says he did not mean harm and that the trumpet was for attention. He also claims to be a Harvard graduate.
Ten people were injured when two street cars collided at Shelby and Chestnut streets in Louisville. The Shelby car struck the Chestnut car head on, nearly splitting it in two, though the Chestnut car had the right of way.
Lima O March 6 Frank T Campbell longtime Republican leader in Town and former publisher of the Lima Republican Gazette died here at age seventy four.
St Louis reports a short baseball item noting a local American League affiliation for San Antonio with minimal readable details. The fragment references a game or roster context and the teams involved. Further specifics could not be determined from the clipped text.
Chicago March 6 A coroner's jury could not determine cause of artist Webster Guerin's death found in his studio last night After eight hours the jury failed to agree and the case moves to the criminal court for possible indictment.
John D. Rockefeller arrived in Augusta on March 6 and commented that the story about a promised tremendous gift to Tom was greatly exaggerated. He added that he was too hungry to discuss details and suggested keeping quiet like a village schoolmaster.
Elizabeth Gordon Hanna wife of Dan R Hanna, son of the late Senator Hanna, sues for divorce in the common pleas court accusing him of gross neglect and abandonment with extreme cruelty. She seeks alimony and custody of their five year old daughter Elizabeth.
Mrs J E Stoval of Lawton gave birth to a baby girl aboard a street car in Oklahoma City on March 6. The event was noted in local reports as a dramatic birth involving an on board mother and a timely delivery by a passenger or, possibly, car staff.
Sympathizers say Antonio Villareal reached New Orleans and found work on a sailing vessel bound for Canada. Immigration officers report Villareal has never left El Paso.
March 6. A safe was cracked in Wilburton I. T. Only seven cents were secured. Local authorities reported the theft and are investigating, with no further details on suspects or method released at this time.
Insurance executive Tamal Paulding, president of the Delaware Fire Insurance Company, has died in Philadelphia on March 6.
An unsigned fragment notes Garfield as creator of an interior for a venue or project titled A Whien, with limited readable details. The brief hints at design work and a named individual, though specifics remain unclear due to damaged text.
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