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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
6
This bull Signal of Bryan stands as a premier Jersey cattle sire with a complete Jersey Island lineage. Last year 3 to 5 month old calves sold from 25 to 35 dollars, with heifers at 25 to 75 dollars, and demand remains high. Services priced at five dollars with return privileges at the Bryan Texas barn.
Carroll B. Short, a well known Center attorney, was shot on the Santa Fe train as it entered Center. Dr. Buck Paul of San Angelo fired six times, five hitting Short. Short, about forty, leaves a widow and three children. The incident recalls the earlier Dr. Paul murder and local lynch threats.
J B Baggett, a carpenter, was shot twice while working on a house in Hamlin Texas on May 1. He suffered a through the arm and another through the spine before the ball lodged in the abdomen. he has a wife and five children and had recently moved from Stephens County.
A movement in Brownsville Texas on May 1 aims to raise ten thousand dollars by popular subscription as a reward to any soldier or officer of the Twenty-fifth Infantry who confesses participation in the August thirteenth raid on Brownsville or provides names and evidence to convict those responsible.
Visitors from Broome County New York praised the president as best known in the world. In Egypt they found 10000 camels named after him. Willoughby from the District of Columbia is named to be promoted to Porto Rico secretaryship. Mrs Mary Smith aged eighty six a pioneer dies in McKinney.
A series of brief items notes deaths in Dallas, Longview, Cuero and Norlina. Other entries cover political moves, bond votes, gas pipe transit, church offerings, a mass meeting in Bowie to ship frost damage, a flour shipment for China famine relief, and a crime verdict in Oklahoma City where a twelve year old was sentenced for killing a white boy amid a rock and dirt fight.
After two days of work the senate approved the textbook bill. It restricts the uniform system to specified studies and bars board bids from publishers tied to trusts. Bids must disclose any financial interests. board members to be named by Jan 1, 1908. The house also passed a liquor sales felony bill in local option districts.
In St Louis on May 1 inquest into the death of Edward Lynne twenty four, who killed himself after a remorseful act of striking his mother. He had been out of work as a painter. his mother chided him on employment efforts. He later returned, begged forgiveness, and shot himself in the cellar.
Laura Talbot Ross a Louisville and Kentucky social figure dies at home aged eighty two. She helped organize the Albert Sydney Johnston chapter Daughters of the Confederacy and was grandmother of Laura Talbot Galt famed for refusing to sing Marching Through Georgia in a public school chorus a gesture later praised by an Augusta Georgia camp of United Confederate Veterans.
Houston reports the most violent electrical storm in its history lasting about thirty minutes from 2 o clock Wednesday. Hundreds of telephones burned out, several houses struck causing fire and damage. a Black man named Jack Robinson was killed and electrical companies suffered substantial losses.
Dallas May 1 John Wall driver of the dead dog wagon reports the number of carcasses hauled in the past year Dogs 2381 cats 2611 chickens 5189 geese 372 turkeys 1256 ducks 126 rabbits 296 opossums 23 raccoons 7 amadillos 2 hogs 17 calves 9 sheep 5 In addition to these he handled forty one sacks and boxes of meat many pigeons and numerous rats
Sherman May 1. Mr and Mrs Jeff Cordell living near Rockfort Grayson County are parents of triplets all girls. Their average weight is four and one half pounds. The Cordells have three other children.
Waxahachie Texas May 1 district judge Hawkins and county judge Spencer appoint C T Spalding county auditor ten applicants filed for the post.
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