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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1907
Page
6
Signal of Bryan, sired by Alamo Jubilee and out of Crater Marie line, praised as a premier Jersey bull with a flawless pedigree to Jersey Island imports. The breeder notes rising heifer prices and offers breeding at his Bryan Texas barn with return privileges. For details see the notice.
Chicago May 13. Wheat opened with a wild surge as bulls predicted dollar wheat. December rose to $1.03 while September and December options climbed above expected levels. Broad buying pressed prices higher, amid reports of a tightened winter wheat crop and strong Liverpool and Minneapolis markets. By 10:45 the rush eased and prices steadied with December slipping to 99.4 cents from the high.
Ninety men are supposed to have died in a fire at the Tensas copper mine near Velardina in Durango. The report, from May 13, notes the disaster location and the high fatality figure, with details scarce.
Workers at Havenmeyer sugar refinery Williamsburg ended a strike after accepting a 12 1/2 cent per hour raise offered by management. Previously earning 15 cents, the laborers had demanded 18 cents and walked out last Monday.
In Ruston Louisiana on May 13 unknown persons set off a high explosive under Samuel Cook a Negro’s house killing Cook and four others sleeping in a front room Civil authorities report the blast hurled Cook’s body eighty feet into a tree fork and sent a woman’s body more than a hundred feet into a tree. The bomber used an electric battery with two wires found after the crime.
The Horatio Arkansas orchard firm signs to sell its entire Elbert peach crop through a Tyler Texas commission house. The company manages 1 900 bearing acres with an expected 300 to 500 car yield, first car due about June 25.
Boise Idaho May 13 The jury selection in the William D Haywood case resumed with eleven jurors present and no final verdict yet reached Both sides have ten peremptory challenges and up to four or five days may be needed to complete the panel A special venire of 10 men was ordered to gather additional eligible jurors from the pool
A Southern Pacific special carrying Shriners from Ismailia temple Buffalo and Rajah temple Reading plunged off a defective switch at Honda station near Santa Barbara. Thirty-two were killed, many injured, as cars piled into the sand and flames swept the wreckage during a noonday meal.
Grand Duke Nicholai Nicholaievitch married Princess Anastasia of Montenegro in Yalta on May 13. The ceremony drew notable imperial and royal guests as part of the Mediterranean tour.
A Texas roundup reports Blosson Texas building program Oscar Bolinger slain at Wagoner Indian Territory Neches Tex business leader dies six inches hail in Alabama Dallas poisoning Yukon Oklahoma chartered $60 000 cap stock Overton Texas shooting accident Denison mill wide looms 60 inch ducking Policeman suicide in Mississippi Chicago gas suicide Houston razor incident carbolic acid child dying in dye works Cleveland convict finger amputation Bell county boy killed by gun discharge Sparta Texas accident.
Austin May 13 At 12 25 Sunday morning the called session of the legislature ended after hours of delay. Senators and representatives sang old time songs while bills were enrolled and signed The house yielded on key measures including the state revenue agent bill senate amendments to general law bill free conference on renditions bill and franchise tax bill Wilmeth court exception bill The governor signed the 9 000 per diem bill and thanked members for their labors Both houses accepted free conference reports on automatic tax and textbook bills
In Memphis the local team scored 21 runs on 19 hits against Nashville pitchers while Nashville held to 4. Other scores include Shreveport 4 Birmingham 1 New Orleans 11 Montgomery 1 in the Southern League. Dallas 2 Austin 1 in ten innings. Houston 2 Waco 0. Fort Worth 9 Galveston 8. San Antonio 13 Temple 9. American League games Chicago 19 Philadelphia 2 Washington 2 St. Louis 0. A wreck at Rome Georgia injured T B Hadden as four carloads of show paraphernalia were damaged. lions cages battered and attendants scratched.
In St Louis on May 13 Judge Adams heard exhaustive arguments and took the H Clay Pierce case under advisement. A decision is promised by 10 o clock Wednesday.
In Lawton Oklahoma on May 13 Mrs F Wolley and her Gracemont baby were bitten by a rabid dog. Mrs Wolley died soon after from hydrophobia and was buried at Anadarko while the infant is receiving treatment in Oklahoma City. Also on May 13 J L Hollified Macon Telegraph city editor and noted southern journalist died suddenly at his daughters home in Atlanta at age sixty one.
Charles Haines Haswell, renowned civil and marine engineer, died at his New York home at ninety eight. He helped design early US Navy ships and served as chief engineer and engineer in chief from 1836 to 1851.
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