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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1907
Page
4
A white man in professional attire climbed through a window to steal the corpse of Mrs. I. L. Northstone but fled when a house dog barked. A negro in livery stood on the lawn. another man attended an undertaker cart as revolver shots rang out and police pursued the trio.
Austin Sept. 23 Secretary of State Dashiell issues a ruling affecting proposed benevolent charitable educational and scientific corporations. Charters now require affidavits that the group will not seek a United States retail liquor license to sell spiritous or malt liquors.
The Interstate Cottonseed Crushers Association met in extraordinary session in New Orleans to prepare for the International Spinners' convention in Atlanta next month. They discussed ways to prevent export losses blamed on careless cargo handling and tariffs, totaling about 3 million dollars yearly. J L Benton of Monticello Georgia gave the first post‑work address on cottonseed products abroad, with President L A Ransom of Atlanta presiding and speakers including J W Allison Ennis Texas C A Adama Georgia and Professor J H Connell Dallas Texas.
Vincenzo Ragazzo, an Italian from Niles Ohio, defends wife beating as a privilege of disobedience. The mayor explains equality under US law that protects wives as partners, not children, prompting Ragazzo to concede the law is good though he still claims love for his wife.
In Lodz eleven labor participants were executed by shooting without trial for the killing of Marqis Silberstein, owner of a large cotton mill, who was slain after he refused to pay workers for strike time. Seven workmen and two girls were put to death following the incident.
Fort Worth police arrest fifteen suspects tied to a cran shooting case. Other notes report Martin Lyday seized in Galveston on burglary and theft charges, Comanche county votes bonds for road projects, and Oklahoma hosts a Free Methodist conference at Dutcher\u2019s Grove. Additional notes cover a $29,000 bonus for the St Louis Bartlesville line, a Thomaston fire destroying the Atwater Nelson Buggy plant, and other regional incidents.
The body of Earl Mabry, slain across the Trinity River, was shipped to Mineola for interment beside his brother. Mrs. Rogers of Abilene requested the transfer. A young man was arrested Monday in the case and proclaimed his innocence.
Sherman Texas September 23 Attorney General Davidson filed suit in the Fifteenth district court to recover penalties of 5000 from the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway of Texas the St Louis San Francisco and Texas Railway and the Houston and Texas Central Railroad for failure to build a union passenger depot at Denison as ordered by the Texas railroad commission. The cases are set for the October term of court.
In Evansville Missouri two Missouri Kansas Texas freight trains collided head on Monday. Four crew members died including engineers Bledsoe and Whit taker and a fireman and brakeman. All four resided in Franklin Missouri. In Boswell Indiana a farmer Neagle was found hanged near a limb with foul play suspected and family left behind.
A Gulf Pipe Line Co pipe burst at Sulphur Bluff near Paris Texas on September 23 causing oil to spill and ignite by boys nearby. Fire caused loud alarm and total loss estimated at 3000 dollars.
Sydney Nova Scotia reports Mr Marconi arrives in Glace Bay to inaugurate wireless communication linking Canada with Great Britain marking a milestone in transatlantic transmission.
Arthur Naylor, right fielder for the Fort Worth club, married Miss Mattie Parker daughter of a leading business man in Denton Texas on September 23.
Mose Dossett, a black man, was strung from a tree at Pritchard Station Ala after being accused of assaulting Mrs J Breeder a white woman. Deputies had removed him from a wagon en route to Mobile for safekeeping when masked men stopped the procession and hanged him. The act echoes prior lynchings of two other black men en route to Mobile for safekeeping last year. Dossett confessed before the mob and a shot hastened his death.
Henry Dalton, a Black man, shot James Horn, an engineer for the Big Four, after a buggy collision at Sunbury. Dalton, captured and kept secret in the county jail, fled fearfully from advancing mob violence as Horn died from his wound.
Wilton Louisiana September 23 Mr H Thompson famed Negro bear hunter of the Louisiana swamps kills a 400 pound bear in East Carroll parish backswamps. He leads a pack of fourteen dogs and runs the bear down with ease. The section hints Thompson may join President Roosevelt's party in camp.
In Lawton Oklahoma on September 23 a telegram from the President to the Oklahoma convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union congratulated the group on winning approval of the prohibition amendment. The President expressed pleasure at the victory and acceptance of the constitution with prohibition for the new state.
A Southern railway train derailed after a rail broke north of Ryan's Siding in Washington. Thirty two passengers were injured but none seriously.
In Schulenberg Texas on September 23 John Chelbeck a resident four miles from the town hanged himself using a calf rope from a porch rafter. Sheriff notes no foul play suspected and death appears self inflicted.
In Lockhart Texas on September 23 a hunting party of boys accidentally shot and killed a Mexican boy while another party member entered a nearby house. Authorities investigate the incident as an accidental shooting.
Lawton Oklahoma September 23 a young man named John Chance was struck and killed by lightning while riding on a hay rack two miles from Lawton. He was a resident of Lawton and the incident occurred during a storm.
Dunn and Daly block offers fully guaranteed eyeglass service by J. D. Ganter and Optician. Local readers urged to visit for quality glasses and eye care with trusted workmanship.
Boston dispatch reports Mrs. Mary Mc Donald aged 106 died in Roxbury after long residence in the area. The death closes a century living in the city with memories of the late 19th and early 20th eras.
Calls answered day or night with office hours from 9 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Office phone 66, residence 313.
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