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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1903
Page
4
Due to poor health I offer a 500 acre farm two and a half miles west of town. It features a new five wire fence, three houses, a large barn, eight hog sheds, 40 fenced hog proof acres, a well, windmill, and a perennial creek. 300 acres are pasture with 200 acres Bermuda grass. Prices and terms on request. One hundred hogs and one hundred cattle may be sold with the property.
J W Batts has in Mee the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles for sale. Several parcels listed: about 105 acres one mile from courthouse with 25 acres in cultivation, balance in pasture. fenced with six wires, price 1500. Also one and one quarter acres near schoolhouse with small cottage and well, price 870. Six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street with brick cistern, price 1250. Half block near Allen Academy, price 500. About 13 acres on south side town with new 4‑room house, well, cistern and outbuildings, price 1000. A four‑room house with pantry and two galleries, tub cistern, barn, stable and garden four blocks from courthouse, rents 9 dollars monthly, price 650. Jose B Reed home place quarter block and 9‑room no‑story frame dwelling, price 4250. One half block adjoining DC DeMaret place, price ...
In Edna Texas Sheriff George Wharton and Deputy Frank Bragh were killed in the Edna jail by W T Lander alias M G Cagle of Macon Georgia. Cagle was shot and killed by Wharton after firing on them. Cagle had attempted to pass worthless checks to a Portsmouth bank, bought diamonds, and left town before his capture.
A Berlin diary reports a letter claiming a Bulgarian statesman described a subterranean passage from Castle Euxinograd to the river enabling Prince Ferdinand to flee by water if his position worsens. It says Princess Clementine met King Edward in Vienna to request a vessel to evacuate Ferdinand, who was said to seek asylum in England.
In Waxahachie Texas on September 14 Mrs Will Allen and her sister handled an allegedly unloaded shotgun when it discharged nearly blowing off the top of Mrs Allen s head. The incident remains under investigation with medical aid rendered at once.
Dr A R Harmonson shot and killed Charles Medecis with a Winchester as Medecis, unarmed, walked on the street. Harmonson surrendered to the sheriff and is jailed claiming Medecis authored anonymous letters attacking his family. Medecis was a well known, unmarried resident.
In Bay City Michigan on September 14 two Michigan Central switch men Clarence D Hopper and Roy Boucher were killed when dynamite exploded in a yard car as a switch engine moved trains. Engineer Robert Roblin fireman Wm Noble and conductor John Cradle were injured, Cradle severely. The blast involved a car with a thousand pounds of dynamite and shells for rifle practice.
Cochise county officers and Texas rangers pursue Brown county Texas Sheriff Denham on a kidnaping charge. Josh Hughes of Bisbee is jailed for cattle theft, and a habeas corpus attempt preceded Hughes re arrest. A forged telegram allegedly aided requisition papers to move Hughes.
Mrs. Coudert widow of Charles Coudert died at her home in Tuxedo Park New Jersey on September 14 from apoplexy.
Memphis 10 Birmingham 5 in front of 5000 in Memphis. Shreveport 12 Atlanta 3. New Orleans swept Montgomery 7 2 in game one and 2 in game two. St Louis edged New York 2 1 in game one and tied 9 9 in game two. Chicago 5 Brooklyn 4. Cincinnati 11 Boston 0.
In the American League matchup Chicago defeated St Louis 4 to 2 in the first game. The second game ended Chicago 4 St Louis 3, extending the series with a close finish.
A Frankfort Zeitung dispatch from Sofia reports Turkish troops raiding the Bulgaria frontier near Teekendsche and driving off three flocks. Turkish forces at Kirk Kilisseh in Turkish land fired on the French consulate, breaking windows. Turks bivouac near Gichtepe with twenty Bulgarian women and girls. Five hundred fugitive women and children reach Tekendsche.
Paris dispatches report Bulgarian foreign office warnings that Turkish forces are edging toward the border, raising the danger of general mobilization. The Russo Austrian note clarifies Russia and Austria will not back either side if hostilities erupt, holding each party accountable. France is expected to follow the Russo Austrian stance.
Roger Connor, holder of the Polo Grounds longest hit record and former New York Giants first baseman, retires from baseball after twenty five seasons and sells the Springfield Connecticut League club where he has served as manager. The Navy reports from Beirut that Admiral Cotton has met with the governor general, implying improved security after arrests linked to disturbances.
Charles Pfister of Maysville Kentucky a friend of Cassius M Clay and John C Fremont and a noted abolitionist has died in Chicago at his son Walter B Fister’s home. He was eighty four. A longtime lumber merchant he was the only Maysville voter for Fremont in 1856 and among six Lincoln supporters in 1860. Pfister built Fort Hill guarding the Ohio River and handed it to the Union without pay. He once arranged a meeting where General C M Clay spoke while holding a revolver in each hand.
St. Petersburg reports Archpriest Vassilov was killed by a stabbing in Alexandropol on August 26. The killer fled. A Nevoe Vremya correspondent says the murder is part of a string of assassinations linked to Armenian Mafia and notes Vassilov was blacklisted for converting three Armenian villages.
A damage suit for 10000 dollars is brought by the Texas and New Orleans Railway against Tn I Campbell a colored Baptist minister in Austin. Campbell published a religious paper in which he allegedly said accommodations for colored people were inferior affecting attendees of the National Baptist convention in Philadelphia. The case was noted as the grand jury convened amid recent crime concerns.
About 150 miners will return to Italy. At Thurber Junction Texas the mine No. 9 operation was halted due to insufficient workers. Three wagonloads of provisions were sent from Lyra by the miners organization and a steady stream of wagons carried miners away toward Fort Worth and beyond.
Terre Haute Ind Sept 14 James L Hiatt superintendent of a glass factory two years ago divorced his wife after sixteen years together. He then married a female factory employee who quickly divorced him and he remarried his first wife. Weeks ago she obtained a divorce and he again married wife No 2 who had divorced before she first married Hiatt.
Clarence Egnor of Buffalo was electrocuted for the murder of Archibald Benedict, a keeper at Auburn prison. Egnor, twenty six, had served in the Spanish War under another name. In Kentucky, Curtis Jett’s murder case saw a denied continuance and a venue change bid due to defense attorney absence and illness.
The Novoe Vremya calls for active intervention in Macedonia and suggests attaching the offices of foreign powers to Turkish repressive expeditions to curb cruelty. In New Orleans, longshoremen end their strike by waiving a demand for eight hatch hands and return to work on eighteen ships awaiting cargo.
National Tube builds a 10 million dollar plant in McKeesport Pennsylvania. Scranton hosts six gambling raids with 4740 dollars in fines paid. Actress Mrs. Kelly known as Violette inherits 250 thousand dollars. Gray, a physician’s wife in Wynnewood Indian Territory dies from morphine. Hoffman surrenders after killing his father in law near Mays town Illinois. Collin county Texas tax rolls total 13,293,940 a rise of 117,620 since 1902. Populist party committee meets in Dallas October 6. Oklahoma exhibit includes giant corn, tall oats and 100 pound watermelons. G W Rosenberg of Chicago crushed by freight train near Dallas left leg mashed.
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