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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1908
Page
1
Salt Lake City reports John Hawkins an invalid commits suicide after his wife leaves to choose a casket. He bars doors with a steel bar nails windows shoots himself in bed with a cane triggering a fatal gun blast. The act leaves the left side of his face and head destroyed.
The United States circuit court in New York sustained the government's contention that the American Tobacco company is a trust restraining trade in violation of the Sherman act. Judge Ward dissented. Count Johann Heinreich von Bernstorff chosen as new German ambassador to America pending official announcement. Countess von Bernstorff, daughter of Edward Luckemeyer, has ties to New York. Julia O'Brien of County Tipperary died at nearly 104, crediting her longevity to smoking.
In Sherman on November 7 the safe of W. H. Lucas grocery store was blown open with nitroglycerin, yielding $76.25 in cash. About $800 damage to the safe, cash registers, show cases and a back door lock, plus robbed post office stamps and money orders. Loot found 400 yards away by a creek. a telephone operator heard the blast and the explosion knocked the telephone from its desk.
State Treasurer Sparks urges reducing three clerks with combined salaries of 3150 annually. Proposes 1300 extra for three months to handle school land receipts, plus 1200 already allowed, saving the state 1800 yearly and promising better service. Also notes depository law allows 1,400,000 in circulation during panic.
Burnet Texas November 7. Merchants report counterfeiters passed six $20 to $50 bills. The gang’s two Chicago registered strangers, now missing, are alleged to be the culprits.
Expires on Gallery. Farmersville Texas Nov 7 George Armstrong twenty nine a merchant found dead on his back gallery believed from heart trouble no violence. Mayence Nov 7 Karl Oppenheim partner in one of oldest banks in Hesse shot himself heavy losses said reason. Santiago Cuba Nov 7 funeral of late ex President Palma attended by vast concourse.
Attorney General Davidson has returned from Washington and will announce his new assistant as soon as a suitable lawyer is found. He gave no indication of timing.
New Orleans November 7 officers of the Colonial Bank and Trust Company named in a stockholders suit asking for receivership appeared in court and filed an answer to the petition. Petitioners allege the bank is insolvent to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars.
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