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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
4
A March 19 report says letters threatening a new, hideous assassination method were sent to Mayor Busse, Chief Shippy, and Assistant Chief Schuettler. The letters included a dozen steel points and claimed a revolver made to fire them. The writer identified as part of a group playing on fear.
Chicago police arrest Ankodine Ziteso, once of Kishinev, suspected of participating in a bombing near Tsarskoe Selo palace that killed three civilians. Police traced him from New York to Chicago, and found him at 645 Austin Avenue. he speaks only Russian and offers no statements.
Miss Wilhelmina Crawford a well to do woman adopts James Butler in the supreme court as her son Butler aged forty six says his parents died when he was a boy He was raised in her father's family and she developed a motherly feeling toward him and decided to make him her son.
Five hundred locomotive department workers at the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway shops were laid off due to decreased business and cost reductions. The move aims to save about $30,000 per month, though over 500 workers remain employed and many laid off are experienced.
A riot at the American Steel and Wire plant on Independence Road in Cleveland injures several, with one man killed. Fifty job seekers clashed as a crowd pressed the gates. fighting escalated to stone and club use, and a shooting occurred after a rock struck a striker.
Attorney Locke of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company discusses possible steps after the supreme court refused a writ of mandamus on the Robertson insurance law. A rehearing motion is likely, with the company preparing its record for future action.
In St. Louis on March 19 Charles Havil and Albert Hale, iron workers, battled on a narrow eighteen inch beam on the sixteenth story of the National Bank of Commerce tower at Pine and Broadway. Others intervened to keep them from plunging to the street. Haviland suffered severe facial cuts and was treated at a dispensary.
Constantinople March 19. British Ambassador O'Connor who has served here since 1888 is dead.
J W Batts advertises in the Taliaferro Building offering the only set of abstract books for Brazos County land titles. For sale a six room brick house in a good neighborhood with cistern and shade trees, half a block from street, price 75000 with small cash payment and easy terms.
W. W. Wilson of Franklin Texas advertises 1476 acres in the Moses Hughes survey near Edge, with price and terms reasonable. Also offers a half acre lot with improvements one block east of his home and two adjoining small farms of 50 and 40 acres each, cultivated and well improved, west of Bryan on Sardy Point road, three miles from town.
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