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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
4
A man identified as Willoushby shot his wife while she slept, firing behind her left ear. Police report the assailant acted alone and fled after the incident. Investigators seek motive as the scene is secured and witnesses are questioned.
George Willoughby, manager of Jewett and Sherman coffee and spice mills, shot and killed his wife Florence at their Prospect avenue home in Milwaukee. He then fired into his own chest, confessed to police, and is not expected to survive. The couple had attended a Park Place Church social the night before the fatal quarrel.
The United Mine Workers of America completed its scale committee report and adopted a 50 cent monthly assessment to bolster funds for members who may lose contracts on April 1. Delegates sang My Country Tis of Thee before adjournment sine die. In Chattanooga Mike Schreck defeated Texas Ritchie at the Chattanooga Athletic Club. Seattle’s M Saito, ex Japanese cabinet minister, arrived to campaign for Japanese workers’ admission to union labor bodies.
Annona Texas plans a $7 000 school building as local fund raising efforts proceed. A roundup of brief items notes political fundraising and civic developments across regions including Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Rev. Charles H. Fowler, prominent Methodist Episcopal bishop, died Friday morning at his New York residence.
Reaches Houston March 20 Paul Frick alias A R Mills in Houston custody from Springfield Illinois charged with robbing Graydon post office of 180 dollars. Fort Worth March 20 H G Fut terling robbed on Santa Fe train at Cleburne left 600 dollars in a Houston bank. In crowd someone pinioned him while another rifled pockets. Washington March 20 House tabled a resolution to supply corporate information from the bureau of corporations by 148 to 115. A Nashville negro under five years for grand larceny contracted smallpox and escaped the pesthouse. A one week old boy baby abandoned on a train near Mobile cared for by the Salvation Army. Houston and Texas Central Railway safe at Llano blown open 250 dollars seized but 95 missed. Oklahoma senate Senator Stewart bills jim crow jail cells for African descent. Florence Alabama Stanley Zinn 15 fell from telegraph pole. nearly all bones broken and he died hours later.
J W Batts real estate agent advertises office in the Taliaferro Building opposite the courthouse. He claims to hold the only set of abstract books of Brazos County land titles for public inspection and use.
A for sale notice offers one half block and a six room brick house in a desirable area with shade trees. Price listed at 75000 with small cash payment and easy terms.
Advertises 1476 acres in Moses Hughes survey near Edge with reasonable price and terms. Includes half acre with improvements one block east of the seller's home. Two adjoining farms of 50 and 40 acres each, cultivated and well improved, west of Bryan on Sandy Point road, three miles west. B Hudson.
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