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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1908
Page
1
Rev Dr Charles Parkhurst will resign as president of the Society for the Suppression of Crime after seventeen years in office. The resignation and its reasons will be announced at a Gotham Hotel dinner next Thursday. Parkhurst, pastor at Madison Square Presbyterian Church, began the campaign against liquor trafficking on Sundays and against gambling.
Sterling P Strong, chair of the Prohibition campaign, arrived in Austin to seal an accord with evangelist Rev George Stuart for November sermons promoting prohibition in Texas. Strong vowed no cessation in the fight, warned incumbents against anti submis sion votes, and said a statutory prohibition measure could follow if the amendment fails. Shipments rules also issued affecting Dallas transit routes and through rates in a separate rail order to take effect Oct 28. A three year old choked to death in Clarksville, and Governor Campbell traveled to Dallas to seek medical advice before returning to vote.
Booker T. Washington delivered three addresses at Memorial Hall in Columbus Ohio ending the International Student Bible Conference. About five thousand attended the morning session with many turned away to a second hall, later filled. at night Washington spoke at Mt. Enon Negro Church urging a productive life for Black Americans and praising the Bible's uplift.
Denver reports show speakers from New York Oregon Missouri and Colorado at a Monday session with Ohio and California evangelists also addressing. The Crusader topic drew editor Anna Gordon and others as discussions covered state reports and ten minute superintendent talks. Washington census shows 1908 cotton ginning totals through Oct 18 with 6 283 780 bales and 115 438 active ginneries 1904 1909 comparatives listed.
Azle notes a burglary at Joe Fowler’s store with cash missing. El Paso reports snowfall affecting cattle. Manila records seven new cholera cases. Tacna Chile reports two plague deaths on October 26.
Rumor says the railroad commission plans to instruct its lawyer to pursue forfeiture of a charter from a named general connected with a railroad case. Details are unclear and the source text offers only hints of the pending move and involved parties.
Harvard Goodman of Van Zandt County was instantly killed at the Jacksonville oil mill when his clothing was caught in a moving belt. His body was hurled around the shaft several times before the machine stopped. Both arms were broken and his skull fractured. The accident occurred October 26 in Jacksonville, Texas.
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