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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1907
Page
6
Sired by Alamo Jubilee and out of Fadett Signal this Jersey bull named Signal of Bryan promises high quality genetics with a perfect pedigree back to Jersey Island imports. Charges for service are five dollars payable at time of service with return privileges and breeding information available at my barn in Bryan Texas.
New York dispatch reports Morgan Steamship Line piers at Canal Street consumed by fire owned by Southern Pacific. Freight loss estimated at five hundred thousand dollars. In Georgia, Hugh Starr fifteen? fourteen died trying to rescue his younger brother from a Southern railway train as it approached a trestle. He saved the boy’s life but was crushed. The younger suffered a broken arm.
Berlin reports the death of Prince Charles of Hohenloh Langenburg in Salz burg recalling a forty year royal romance with Marie Grathwohl a woman of the people. He renounced his rights after 1860 to marry. their union was solemnized in Paris in 1861. The king of Wurtemberg ennobled her as Baroness von Bronn in 1890.
The body of Captain George W. Roosevelt, a coach of the president, who died while serving as consul general at Brussels, is laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. A congressional medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry at Bull Run and Gettysburg was granted to Captain Roosevelt, with President Roosevelt inheriting the trophy as next of kin.
J M Falkner, a prominent Alabama figure and Confederate army colonel, died at his Mountain Creek summer home at age sixty five. He founded the Jefferson Falkner home for old soldiers at Mountain Creek, now a state institution, and died of long standing heart disease.
Lawton Oklahoma May 18 Individuals sold the government town site of Randlett covering 400 acres in Kiowa Comanche and Apache lands. All 1300 lots were disposed of for about 85000 dollars. About 10000 people attended the sale which began last Monday morning.
Nathan Guilford of Yonkers former vice president of the New York Central Railroad leaves his entire $100,000 estate to his widow in a probate filing dated May 18 in New York. The will is noted as being written on a note head and contains about thirty words.
Prince Alfonso of Asturias, born May 10, is christened in the private chapel of the Madrid palace at noon. Other items report the Washington population census, Mayor Schmitz denying Ruef graft, and several shooting and death incidents in Texas.
Atlanta May 18 The supreme court upholds the validity of the anti bucket shop law.
In Galveston on May 18 the Texas Press association discussed a plan to reinstate discussion on exchanging advertising for railroad transport. James H Lowry spoke on press rights and lawmakers, while Hon T F Mangum argued the constitutional basis for newspapers to contract for transportation. A three member committee Sterett Cullum Shaw and Judge Walling was appointed to pursue court action.
Ex president Emanuel Bonilla of Honduras arrives in Galveston from Texas City aboard the Molina subport. He plans to travel to New Orleans for eye treatment and then to British Honduras, saying he has plenty of funds if good security is offered.
H Clay Pierce engages Joseph H Choate New York former ambassador to England to oppose extradition to Texas. Judge Priest says Choate agrees the Texas indictment is defective and Pierce may travel to Texas to face trial if needed. Clay Arthur Pierce says his father could go within days to stand trial.
Charles H. Hammond of San Antonio testified at Brownsville on May 18 about the shooting near the Miller hotel. He reported hearing a man say There goes the d Let him Have It and that firing around the hotel sounded like Negro troops were involved.
In San Antonio on May 18 Jim Coleman of Columbus was shot and killed instantly. Marion Hope, once of Columbus and a former local saloon keeper, has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Stephen B. Tehee, a former Cherokee chief, was found dead 200 yards from his Tahlequah home in Tahlequah Indian Territory on May 18.
E. T. Curtis collapsed and died on a street in Oklahoma City shortly after finishing a meal at a local restaurant.
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