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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1907
Page
4
An advertisement urges early use of Preventics to check colds and grippe. It touts no quinine or laxatives, claims safety and rapid action at the sneeze stage, and invites readers to write Dr. Shoop in Racine Wisconsin for samples and a booklet.
In Pittsburg a petition in common pleas court seeks to affirm a divorce decree issued to Mrs Hanna Crietz against Peter J Creitz dated March 10 1907 though she died May 4 of that year The decree allegedly was granted in 1900 but never finalized The petition notes Creitz remarried after the divorce and a rule returnable Sept 28 was set with a son paying the verdict fee last month.
The port is tied up with the levee strike as longshoremen and screwmen skip a general conference of steamship agents stevedores and Commercial Exchange representatives. A conference outcome hinges on whether agents can meet labor demands or if the commercial bodies must stand firm behind the unions.
Evassville September 13 a drove of fifty cattle from the John S Hopkins steamer plying between Lere and Paducah Ky created havoc in Sunset Park overturning seats damaging shade trees and scattering visitors. Bicycle Officer Freidie was driven into the river while Saum sheltered under a park seat. Both officers avoided harm as the cattle were finally corralled and sent to the stockyards.
In Pillsboro on September 13 an elopement wave hits the community as James H. Pritchard and Alice Hyiles, both nineteen, wed in Youngstown Ohio. James sends a comic postal card to his father depicting a boy across a knee, with the message My Dear Old Dad When can I come home.
A few hours before the return of Mr and Mrs Preston a chest of solid silver arrived at Mrs Stonewall Jackson's residence, great grandmother of Mrs Preston. The gift came from the Greater Charlotte club which Mr Preston helped found and led as president for many years.
In Zanesville Ohio Dexter Williams long presumed dead reappeared after a year missing from his saloon. A body in the Muskingum River was identified as Williams and buried at Greenwood Cemetery with a tombstone. He now returns to his family claiming he had been in Pennsylvania Worcester. In Worcester Massachusetts Mrs Louise Taft, eighty, recently sat up and received visitors for the first time since July 25 illness.
Albany reports Mrs Labcile De Forrest widow of the wireless telegraphy inventor obtaining a divorce. Dallas notes a $200 diamond stolen from A A Roos of New Orleans.
In Trondshem Norway on Sept 15 Walter Wellman head of the Wellman Chicago Herald expedition reached Tromsoe aboard the Frithjor from Spitzbergen on his way home and announced he had abandoned the pole attempt for the year after a disastrous airship trial. The ascent on Sept 2 faced a strong NW wind driving the airship southeast overland and necessitating detachment of the balloon before recovery after two days.
Professor Le duc of Nantes claims a method of electric sleep that could replace chloroform and other anesthetics in surgery. He based the approach on intermittent currents and the skull's low resistance, noting no danger or ill effects even with extended application to the head.
Mrs Gertrude A Clinton 30 dies of throat wound inflicted by Frank Palmer 36 her lover with whom she had been living. They separated as he believed she would reconcile with her husband James Clinton. Police note the fatal injury followed a chase with blood flowing from the wound.
J Pierpont Morgan has leased a fashionable Richmond home near the Jefferson hotel and will occupy it with his family guests during the triennial Episcopal convention sessions starting October 1. The rent is reported at 5010 dollars per month.
New York dated Sept 13 announces the death of D Willis James senior member of the firm Phelps Dodge & Co at age seventy five.
A collage of short items reports an infant found in Barton’s Creek near Austin. Louisiana tolls to equal day rates. Panama Canal storage for food and coal at Colon. a laborer Henry Lee injured in Fort Worth. Taft globe tour from Seattle. Charlie Roller robbed in Ennis. Clarendon College trustees funding. Frank Rusk named Wichita national game preserve superintendent. Cook County fair in Gainesville a success. John M Turner obituary. Oklahoma Refining increases capital stock. J P Sullivan’s Golden bale sale profits. a boy saves J T Langley from drowning near Cameron. Beaufort post office clerk transfer to Washington.
San Angelo Texas September 12 a major fire caused about 810000 in damage and burned several business houses including the Farmer's hotel Insurance coverage is estimated around 4000. Firefighters fought the blaze through the night causing extensive property loss.
O J House of Temple a Santa Fe brakeman fell while coupling between cars in Morgan Texas. His body was cut in two, officials reported.
A man named 7. 7A Dutton of near Midlothan Texas died after being severely kicked by a mule on September 18. The incident occurred at his residence nearby and authorities reported the fatal injury.
In Rinehard West Virginia on September 18 Albert Ashcroft a prosperous farmer hanged himself in his barn authorities reported.
Saratoga New York September 18 Charles G Burton of Nevada Missouri was chosen commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at a national convention with officers and delegates present.
In Springfield on Sept 18 Warren Munday and his wife, wealthy residents of Logan County, were bound gagged and chained for five hours by two masked robbers who tortured them with flames and lighted matches to force disclosure of a $180 hiding place.
Richmond report says Thomas Baylok of Middlesex county fell overboard from a skiff while fishing in the Rappahannock River and drowned.
New York reports a letter from General Davi indicating the Hague conference will end September 28 and that the protocols will be signed on the 28th. The communication confirms the planned conclusion and formalities awaiting completion.
Wn Hester, a Houston baseball club pitcher, was elected mathematics teacher at the high school. He studied chemistry at Colorado College and taught at New Mexico Military Academy in Roswell. Hester will also develop athletics among pupils.
A man named Jim Dearman eighteen years old died near Turney, north of Jacksonville, Texas, after attempting to board a moving Texas and New Orleans freight train. He fell under a car and was found six feet from his body.
J N O Daniel sells 1400 shop to D D Atkinson of Sterning county at 8 per head and the same number to M Z House at the same price. The transactions occur in San Angelos Texas dated Sept 10.
Detectives Conwell and Gunning arrested a white man at a Dallas hotel on a Philadelphia embezzlement warrant. Philadelphia officers telegraphed to hold the suspect until transfer, with local officials stating the man is wanted for the misappropriation of a large fund.
Er nest Flowers, eighteen, was driving a milk wagon across the Midland railway when a train struck the vehicle. The wagon was demolished and Flowers was thrown forty feet and killed instantly. The team suffered no injuries.
Sept. incident reports a burglar entering the Oak Cliff residence while the Coun tryman family was away, stealing a check for 466.66 and cash totaling 25.25. Other notes mention Laning ranch land being divided for farming, a northern shoe factory eyeing Fort Worth relocation, Emmett Chaffin's fatal electric shock in Texarkana, and Raymond Lave, one year old, drowning after falling into a water trough in Alva Oklahoma.
A petition signed by 500 qualified voters was presented to the county commissioners requesting a local option election in Grayson County, Sherman Texas, on September 10.
In San Antonio 300 affidavits target saloon operators for licenseless work. A test case may decide if Baskin McGregor power can cancel oil licenses before expiry. Dealers pay 80 000 to county, refundable or reclaimable depending on outcome. Observers Wright, Hardiman, Knight, Covington toured hotel, viewed Gal via back stair. curiosity noted.
In Dallas a bar owner Mr West seeks to buy the Piedmont nightclub object called the Gal as a future hotel bar headquarters. George W Parrett quotes a price as West aims to secure the controversial Gal for refinement and status while the state prohibition era shadows loom over its past.
The Douglas colored school on Jackson and Calhoun streets burned down. It was the city’s largest institution for colored children, a three story frame building recently repaired at city expense. Total damage is about 16 000 dollars. the city owns no adequate replacement facilities for the colored enrollment. The fire left the school authorities without suitable instruction space, with the loss including building, furniture and school paraphernalia. Chief O Leary estimated the damage. the city was insured.
Captain Billy Donald, a state revenue agent, entered a saloon on North Flores Street and found five pool and billiard tables in operation. He drew a screwdriver, removed a side from each table, and put them out of commission before quietly leaving the room as a direct action against the liquor law violation.
Runnels Texas September 8. While driving with his wife and two children F F Pierce of Winters suffered a near fatal shotgun discharge injuring his head. The incident occurred during overland travel in the county.
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