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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1907
Page
2
A Bryan Texas page item bundle cites the Rockdale Messenger on lignite shipments, comments on William J Bryan and Roosevelt, notes the Bryan Eagle’s capital improvements, quotes a Palestine Herald tie, and reports Fort Worth District Judge Simmons urging a grand jury to probe the school book trust and to indict six shooter deputies.
Poem notes summer leaves the trees and a breeze strips the season away. The speaker bids farewell to the straw hat and the old dress of summer as nature shifts toward autumn.
The furriers strike in New York ends with 5000 men returning to work. About 1000 gain closed shop and union recognition, while the remainder continue under the open shop plan.
A man named Clinton Hilta biddle from Terre Haute Indiana was struck by a train near Bellville Illinois. His head and limbs were severely mangled and his body disemboweled in the accident.
Frank Knighton, a street car conductor in Anniston Alabama, was held up and shot by two masked men at the car line terminus as he reversed the trolley pole. He died from his wounds after the robbers escaped with a small sum of money. Authorities have not captured the assailants.
In Atlanta on October 9 the Southern Soft Yarn Spinners association, with 27 of 36 mills present and 300000 spindles total, decided producers must run at 20 percent above or below capacity for the rest of the year, dismissing a proposed 30 day curtailment.
Montgomery Oct 9 Guests and proprietor of the Hawkins hotel at Laverne Alabama barely escaped with their lives when the building burned at 1 o clock Tuesday morning. W H Stoddard a local business man was rescued in his night clothes. This marked the third large fire in six months at the town with one side almost destroyed previously and the other side nearly wiped out.
In Chattanooga on Lookout mountain Ed Turner of Breathitt county Kentucky was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing his wife with a throat slash in April. Turner confessed on the stand and showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
Columbus Ohio October 9 Mrs Cassie Chadwick ill at the penitentiary is believed to be near death. While in the hospital ward Tuesday she was baptized in the Roman Catholic faith reflecting her final religious rites.
In Halls Tennessee on Oct 9 several mad cows roamed near the town causing widespread uneasiness among residents and prompting authorities to monitor the situation.
Rev. Well born Mooney a Methodist preacher nearly sixty years old died in Dresden Tennessee on October 9. He served his church for several decades and was a familiar local figure.
Clarksville Tennessee October 9 Frank Lyddy a brakeman fell from a train and died.
Mount Pleasant Texas October 9 improvements at Red Springs and Delwood Park are nearly complete with a new hotel and a modern structure costing about 20000 to begin soon. The park features a two story amusement pavilion auditorium for 1500, a lake for boating and bathing, a bathhouse and graded roads. Total buildings and improvements so far cost about 25000 with plans to invest 100000 to create a premier health and pleasure resort in the state.
A major blaze in the Fourteenth Street car barn in New York on a Wednesday caused $400,000 in damages and destruction of 125 electric cars. Hundreds of panicked foreign bystanders hindered firemen until priests in robes preached calm, as the wall collapsed and flames spread to nearby tenements.
Atlanta October 9 The international conference of cotton growers and spinners adopted a report urging better seed selection to raise quality, drying time before compression, Egyptian bale standardization, improved bagging, and planter owned gins. The Heflin resolution to investigate exchanges was sent to other bodies after a four to one vote, with the Southern Cotton Association voting no.
Practice spans county state and federal courts with special attention to business. sale advertised in Brazos and Robertson counties.
The ad extols Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes as America's leading ready-to-wear line. It credits careful tailoring and patient workmanship for superior fit and style, inviting readers to prove the claim and suggesting they have more to gain than the seller.
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