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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
1
Local report details the shocking actions of R. E. Stockwell as three reads are blown off in connection to his alleged deeds. Officials investigate the incident and outline the consequences awaiting the parties involved.
Tulsa Oct 30 B E Stockwell a prominent oil man shot and killed W E Campbell of Winfield Kan and his thirteen year old son before fatally shooting himself. Jealousy cited as motive. Campbell 53, tied to Robert Galbraith in Glenn pool oil fields.
In Middlesboro Kentucky on pay day disturbances erupted at Stony Fork mines and Reliance mill. Military detachment arrested two men involved in the trouble. John Settles was killed by Mrs John Folse after she intervened with him about mistreating a child. Mrs Sim Richmond accidentally shot Henry Purvis. his condition was feared fatal. The fighting ended with military arrival.
A strong wind storm tore through southern Texas early Wednesday damaging telegraph and telephone lines and knocking out electric service. In Galveston several houses were demolished though there were no fatalities. Houston and Beaumont reported damage with no injuries.
Michael Mason a Pennsylvania Railroad worker at Union Station in Pittsburg gave his life to save a man woman and child who stood on the tracks as an incoming train approached. He pushed them to safety but was crushed by the locomotive. Mason leaves a widow and two children.
In New Britain Connecticut Dr Charles Eugene Monks a 38 year old dentist died of blood poisoning contracted while treating a patient with a diseased tooth. He plunged the instrument into the patient's palm before sterilizing it and died three days later after intense suffering. In Memphis Tennessee J E McLaughlin hanged himself in a rooming house after failing to wound himself with a razor. He had come from Huntsville Alabama.
Telegraph operators station agents and clerks of the Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburg railroad receive a monthly raise ranging from five to fifteen dollars effective immediately. The line is part of the New York Central system.
St. Petersburg on October 30 reports Mlle Razinnikopva who shot and killed Maximoffsky director of the prison ministry was taken to the fortress and St Paul and tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to the expected punishment.
A historic disaster claims about fifteen thousand lives making it one of the deadliest events recorded. Authorities and relief crews struggle to assess damage and provide aid as survivors search for loved ones and basic supplies.
Tashkend reports KaraTagh with about 15000 residents was buried by a mountain slide after a recent earthquake. The city is described as Bokhara. only the governor and his mother are said to have survived.
Chicago on October 30: Umpire Jack Sheridan and gate manager L M Olsen from the American League park were badly beaten in a night fight with E O Glenn a Denver broker and M J Meyer a Cheyenne cattleman. The four were arrested after $2700 was found on Sheridan. Glenn and Meyer suffered only minor bruises.
The Society of the Army of the Tennessee to hold its 37th reunion November 7 and 8 in Vicksburg Mississippi. Governor Vardaman and Mayor Griffith will greet attendees with invitations from city leaders and veterans. Major General Fred D. Grant to discuss the Vicksburg Campaign and Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee to also speak.
Herman Bradley Potter Jr., a prosperous Doylestown, Pennsylvania insurance agent, was found dead in a Waldorf Astoria room with a fractured skull and wounds. A letter to his wife and a jar of powder remnants prompt police to consider death by his own hand.
Guthrie Oct 30 Governor-elect Haskell announces first appointment J M Sandlin of Prague Oklahoma as private secretary to the governor. Sandlin is a young attorney native of Alabama and veteran of the constitutional convention. He will assume duties once the president signs the constitution.
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