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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1903
Page
4
Ex Mayor Riggins of Waco placed a large Texas built order with Brenham Furniture factory for 25000 dollars worth of furnishings. The deal involves Brenham company using Texas material exclusively and covers various items. The action occurred on October 16 in Brenham Texas.
Interred at Grand Saline Texas on October 16, the remains of W. J. Shubert who was killed in a street duel at Mineola the previous Wednesday. He leaves a widow and three children. The inquest revealed Shubert's bullets struck Mr. Harpole and Marshal Cage.
Express service on the Wabash railway entering and leaving Chicago is tied up by a general strike of Pacific Express company employees. The 7115 train from St. Louis arrived with no express message.
Secretary Hill in Chicago said the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen pledged aid to strikers and would switch freight hands, with some conductors likely to go out.
Express company ends departure of ton Belt but Pacific vessel strike delays eastbound cargo. Messengers report some non union shipments accepted under agreement to relieve the company from liability for delays.
Reports from Salt Lake City Omaha Fort Worth and New Orleans show varied responses. Salt Lake City says no strike on the Pacific Express division while Omaha confirms a strike by Nebraska division messengers after wage gains. Fort Worth sees about four fifths of local employees out with non union replacements. New Orleans notes joint handling of express matter by Pacific and Southern employees with no strike orders from the Brotherhood.
Crowded cross town trolley on Twenty third street derailed after a loosened channel cover at Sixth Avenue raised and threw the car from the track. Passengers were hurled into confusion with many cut or bruised and one man nearly severed by flying glass.
Yokohama reports veteran Statesmen conferences with Tokio ministers appear pacific. The talks follow June 23 stipulations on Corea integrity and Chinese Manchuria with Russian rights recognition. Baron de Rosen and Baron Komura led the four hour session. M Lessar warned of permanent occupation if demands are rejected. Russian troops reinforce New Chwa.
In Brooklyn on October 16 a bitter vote by a leading Brooklyn Democratic club ended with a one vote majority to table a resolution endorsing the Tammany ticket. Controller E M Grout, who joined the ticket after fusionists dominated, is a club member and the action sparked strong stir within the party. Grout was absent from the meeting.
King Victor Emmanuel I and Queen Helena of Italy were guided by President Loubet to the mint where medals were struck in honor of their visit. The party then toured the Hotel de Ville amid cheering crowds and a municipal reception with messages of welcome from the council president and the Seine prefect.
An Evening Post dispatch from Wickliffe Kentucky reports Tom Hall a man charged with a crime. The brief item notes the charge and location Louisville and date October 16.
A white boy named Crockett Cmi Dress was seized from jail by a mob of about 100 men and hanged, according to brief, fragmentary local reports. Authorities investigated the incident as a lynching with no immediate arrests announced.
Browning Montana October 16 James Little Plume confessed to killing seven people on the Black Feet reservation Sunday. The motive was to kill fourteen more but a shell jammed his rifle. He injured himself to avoid suspicion after the murders.
A Nome dispatch reports two masked gunmen raided R. D. Hunter’s Northern Light camp on Ophir creek seizing more than 7000 dollars in gold dust. The robbers, both armed, missed about 400 ounces of gold left in plain view.
Paris reports the sultan's position growing desperate as official dispatches indicate the minister of war's troops have been defeated and dispersed, leading to widespread demoralization within the imperial forces.
Cordell Georgia on October 16 a bullet riddled unknown negro was found hanging from a tree limb near the town. The discovery was reported as police investigate the incident.
Crop conditions sound in Hutchinson county Texas. Miss Charlotte Bennett hangs herself at Pearsall Texas. An attempt to blow up the British legation at Pekin. Henry Falvey fifteen years old stabbed to death at Burke Texas. Lam ar county property at Petiy sold for forty six thousand dollars. Land patents covering over twenty one thousand acres issued at Austin on the sixteenth. Henry Hikel an aged St Louis citizen hides one hundred forty five dollars in a bucket and it is stolen. Miss Helen Kelly eighteen years old shot and killed at Butte Montana by Albert Beckman. Dawes commission books examined by government auditors and found correct. Oklahoma Normal school building contract let at Edmond. Erection will cost thirty five thousand eight hundred seventy five dollars.
Abstract Books of Brazos County land titles list several properties for sale near the courthouse and town. Offers include 105 acres with 25 cultivated, pasture, fenced for 1500. 1.25 acres near schoolhouse with small cottage for 750. four block brick residence near Main Street for 1250. half block near Allen Academy for 500. 13 acres with 4 room house and wells for 1000. another 4 room house with cistern and garden for 650. Joe B Reed home on one quarter block with 9 room two-story dwelling for 4250. half block near DC DeMaret place for 800.
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