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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
5
A night watchman suffers a severe and deadly outcome in a distressing incident reported with stark language. The article notes the circumstances surrounding the watchman's end and the immediate aftermath. Further details remain limited in the preserved text.
In Dallas on Sept 5 M. H. Zellner a 54 year old watchman for Dallas Gas was found killed near Fitzhugh Street and Ross Avenue. He had a fractured skull and pockets rifled with two bloodied 2x4s nearby. Three Mexican workers were arrested hours after the crime as detectives pursued suspects connected to the company site.
A broken Dallas water main left the city without water from Wednesday afternoon until Thursday morning. Two fires on Thursday damaged six houses near Live Oak Olive areas, destroying five along Olive and Pearl to Pearl and Olive. Losses reach about 13 500 with roughly half insured.
The railroad commission directs the attorney general to sue the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio railway for penalties for not maintaining double daily passenger service between Del Rio and another point as ordered October 27, 1906. The suit should be filed in Victoria district court. The governor appointed penal examiners J. H. Grant Sam G. Duff and C. M. McCauley.
Sherman Sept 5 Receiver Dorchester and General Manager Stanley deny a Beaumont report that Waters-Pierce Oil company has been sold to the Texas Company. They are emphatic in their denial.
In a wreck on the Kergwille branch west of San Antonio engineer Charles H. Snell was scalded to death and fireman J A Hamilton was seriously scalded with a broken collar bone.
In Texas v International Harvester Company of America a guilty plea yielded a $35000 penalty and forfeiture of the Texas permit. A sweeping injunction bars further Texas activity except interstate business and prohibits exclusive contracts, creation of new Texas corporations, or acquiring stock in Texas entities.
Word from Colonel Hamp Cook, veteran Texas newspaper man, reports a $1,000 gift from Howton business leaders as he campaigns for Texas in New York and other eastern cities. He is known for strong arguments, boosting Texas, and has reduced the Five Million club office literature while away.
Vernon Texas September 5 A train on the Fort Worth and Denver railway at Tolbert derailed after gear tracks of the last car detached and caused the car to overturn and roll down a ten foot embankment. Twenty three persons were hurt some seriously but no fatalities reported aboard the Pullman car
Denison reports the Lone Star laundry destroyed by fire. Bud Freels a mute man with the fire department was crushed to death when a wall fell on him. Alfred L. Smith was slightly injured. Loss estimated at about 20000 dollars.
A resident four miles south of Hallville in Harrison County, Charles Blailock, eighty four, reports a theft of one thousand dollars in twenty dollar gold coins from his trunk at his home. The money was kept in a trunk and taken by an unknown person. Blailock is one of the county’s oldest settlers, having lived there for sixty two years.
Charlotte NC September 5 Anson county voted to go dry by a margin exceeding 300 in the referendum. The result marks a decisive shift in local liquor policy within the county.
200 acres north of Bryan with 125 cultivated and 75 pasture plus a 5 100m residence and 3 tenant houses described as an ideal country home with spring and well water priced at 25.00 per acre. Also 59 acres 25 cultivated with good house and improvements at 12.00 per acre. A five room cottage near Mrs Spencer Ford’s home on two lots with water and good improvements for 1000.00.
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