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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
1
An aging ruler of the Flowery Kingdom has died ending a long reign. Royals and officials prepare for a transition as the empire enters a period of succession and mourning.
Pekin reports the emperor died after being moved to the death chamber at 2 PM. Two edicts named Prince Chun regent and Ru Wei heir presumptive. Empress dowager reportedly swooned as the palace grand council met in the afternoon. The death is placed around 4 PM with some uncertainty.
Austin reports Pierce will be defended by at least six of the city's leading lawyers when he faces a Travis county jury next January on the false swearing charge. Dr. J. W. Bradfield, assistant to Superintendent Worsham at the Texas state insane asylum, is likely to be named by the governor to succeed Worsham, with several other aspirants to the post.
Fort Worth on November 13 reports a Baptist ministers and laymen conference raising 150000 for the Dallas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium. Colonel C C Slaughter contributed 50000 and John D Rockefeller reportedly planned a substantial donation. Fielding Lewis No More. McAlester obituary notes former Oklahoma official Fielding Lewis died of typhoid fever at age, with remains sent to Washington under Eagles and Knights of Columbus auspices.
A mortgage deed for seventy thousand dollars was placed on record in Honolulu on May 13 by former Queen Liliuokalani. The deed is executed in favor of Claus Spreckels and W G Irwin.
Urey Woodson secretary of the Democratic national committee after leaving Chicago where the national headquarters closed plans to open a permanent office in Washington in early December He says the Democratic party has perfected its organization in the past six months and will spare no labor to maintain it despite defeat Leaders of factional divisions remain embittered toward one another.
A political dispute from Lowell Massachusetts recounts a standoff over winning and the belief that business interests fear a candidate. Separately Lucina Piette, a French Canadian girl, remains asleep thirteen days as doctors attempt electricity to wake her, yet she resists with visible consciousness and reflexive withdrawal.
In Yekaterinburg Russia on November 13 a band of twenty five men attempted to rob a railroad train carrying several million roubles to St. Petersburg. Five attackers were arrested one killed while the rest escaped. A gendarme and a bystander were wounded.
It was announced at Fort Morgan that the Seventy-fifth U S artillery fired twelve inch rifles achieving eight hits from ten shots on a target six miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
Washington November 13 Postmaster General Meyer reports the postal deficit for the year ending June 30 1908 at 16 910 278 dollars. Receipts total 191 478 633 dollars up 7 893 657 from last year while expenditures hit 268 361 886 dollars. This deficit marks the department’s largest in history.
The Southern Medical association concluded its session in Atlanta with officers elected. President Dr. G. C. Savage of Nashville presided, with vice president Charlies Murray of Mississippi and George Lock of Louisiana, and secretary Oscar Dowling of Shreveport.
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