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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1899
Page
4
The Texas Senate approved antitrust legislation after altering provisions and adding an exemption for certain press news gatherers. Amendments limited below cost sales, imposed extra territorial rules, and defined monopolistic behavior while a companion appropriation bill moved to the House.
A legislative session discusses Section 7 defending buyers from liability for prices paid to individuals or firms unlawfully transacting business. The amendment exempts criminal prosecution for affi davits, and the bill advances to engrossment and final passage amid a lengthy day of sessions focused on the general appropriation bill.
In Okolona Mississippi a feud over a bill ended in a fatal sequence. Dr William Murphy and Charles D Clark killed each other and Clark’s son Howard Murphy and Clark’s brother Walter Clark died in a later pistol duel.
A 50 man masked mob raided Lebanon Tennessee at dawn on Tuesday. They demanded Ewing Hodge, accused of attacking a white woman, and after finding him gone they seized Bill Dibble and Leslie Hudgins, confined them, and beat Dibble while Hudgins escaped.
Sheriff Newblock and deputies halted two freight trains and a passenger train on the Santa Fe at Norman to seize property for 1898 taxes owed by the road company. The action halted traffic on the southern division. a court suit may resolve the dispute and end the standstill. A separate dispatch from Sweet Home reports an incendiary fire at H. W. Robinson’s store, an axe assault on Mrs. Robinson, and a lynch threat against the suspect, with search by a bloodhound posse. In Durango, Ute Indians attacked Mexican herders near the Animas River, killing livestock. a posse heads there to bring the attackers to the city.
Ed Grandi son the famous negro outlaw has been captured in Jackson. He was wanted for the murder of three deputy sheriffs in Yazoo county about a year ago. Grandi is regarded as the most desperate criminal in Mississippi.
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