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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
8
Rio de Janeiro reports an anarchist plot to attack part of the fleet in the harbor and strike at centers in Rio de Janeiro and Petropolis. Police pursue suspects across Sao Paulo and warning residents as authorities claim to be tracing conspirators believed linked to foreign radicals.
John R. Walsh, a resident of the defunct National Bank, was found guilty Saturday of misappropriating funds. The law imposes imprisonment of five to ten years per count, with no option for a fine in lieu of prison. He was convicted on fifty four counts and seeks a new trial.
In Shawnee County District Court Judge Dana assessed a total fine of 12500 against the International Harvester company after forty three counts of violating Kansas anti trust law. The court granted a sixty day stay of execution to allow preparation for the Supreme Court.
Plano notices death of John W. Martin a retired merchant aged seventy two at his residence. He planned a coffin stored in the attic built by a local carpenter about three years ago and celebrated his golden wedding with a surviving wife.
Captain Vardy Pritchard Sisson longtime editor and publisher in the South died at his Kirkwood home Sunday aged seventy. A Confederate veteran he served with distinction in the Civil War and was connected with the Atlanta Constitution after the war.
After forty six days entombed in the Circoux mine Alpha shaft, A. D. Bailey P. J. Brown and Fred McDonald were rescued Saturday night. Bailey emerged at 8:30, McDonald fourteen minutes later, and Brown ten minutes after. District whistles rang out as crowds cheered and bells rang.
Tecumseh lawyer Alfred Hare urges uniting Tecumseh with the county seat six miles away to pool efforts for securing the State Capital. A Tecumseh delegation has been chosen to meet with the Shawnee Commercial Club to draft the merger contract.
A railway ticket was sold in Houston a few days since for 7980 dollars. It covered seventy six people at 105 dollars each, read for travel from Houston to Omaha via El Paso San Francisco and Portland.
Representative Sims of Tennessee exposed a legislator’s link to distilling interests while examining a penal statute codification bill. He warned that omitting the words and liquids in a nonmailable section would have allowed whiskey in the mails, and that another section would force the Postmaster General to regulate packing, creating wide distribution via rural routes.
The State has impounded seventeen additional Union Tank Line Company cars in the Standard Oil anti trust suits, bringing total seized to sixty six in this State. Estimated value runs around $600 per car totaling about $33,000, with receivers preparing a full list of the cars.
In Scranton Pennsylvania the Imperial Underwear Factory a four story structure employing over a hundred girls burned early Friday causing a panic. Florence Waltrouse perished in the flames and Mary Buckley died after leaping from a fire escape.
Corsicana man John Kennedy, age about, employed by a pipeline company, was found dying on a sidewalk on Eighth Street. He died before help could reach him. An inquest verdict attributed the death to carbolic acid. Letters indicate relatives in Newark New Jersey. telegrams have been sent.
Washington announces that at Judge Smith’s request the Department of Agriculture will send Prof. Youngblood to West Texas to study agricultural resources. The report will cover soil, climate, farming methods, and crop adaptation, noting Youngblood’s former affiliation with A. and M. College.
State Bank Commissioner Austin T. B. Love says Texas banks can insure deposits if they organize an insurance company. He published his reply to W. L. Lasley, cashier of the Farmers' State Bank of Putnam, who argued that current laws already permit such a company.
Representatives from Texas anti liquor groups unite to form the Texas State Prohibition Federation with headquarters in Dallas. The slogan Texas Dry in 1909 calls for a constitutional amendment prohibiting liquor traffic. A ten member campaign committee will add fifteen more, fundraise, and coordinate with Local Option, Anti-Saloon League, WCTU, and Prohibition party groups while preserving their separate efforts.
In Longview Texas on January 17 Alex a colored man robbed Citizens National Bank and opened fire. A second unnamed negro fled as officers pursued. Walker was wounded with five bullets and taken to jail in a dying condition. two women linked to the pair were detained. Sheriff Little aided in the confrontation as the bank president wrestled a pistol from the assailant. Dur ing the rampage the assistant cashier and others fired back. The attacker suffered multiple gunshot wounds including a broken leg.
A rear fire at W. C. Cannon grocery in Walter Oklahoma destroyed the store and the adjacent New Era Publishing Company building, with the entire paper plant lost. Owners R. H. Sultan and B. F. Sawyer face about 11600 dollars in damage as flames spread Tuesday morning.
President fights Senate rebuke as four nominations are rejected in bunch. Foraker loyalists switch to Taft camp after pressure, while Cortelyou and others cited in gossip amid ongoing cabinet politics. The piece notes shifts in party alignment and the impact on appointments.
A fire destroyed the Santa Fe depot including the Wells Fargo and Western Union Telegraph offices. A car on the side track was burned. The origin is unknown. The northbound passenger train had just passed and the agent, hearing shots, found the building in flames.
An altercation occurred at the Farmers' Union state headquarters in Fort Worth after noon between D. J. Neill president of the Texas Farmers' Union and O. P. Pyle editor of the National Co-Operator published in Dallas. Accounts vary but both are identified as principals and Pyle returned to Dallas.
Guthrie Oklahoma notes a railway proposition linking Kansas City to Houston via Guymon and Amarillo. The Kansas and Texas line, chartered last October, aims to build 700 miles southward with surveys near complete from Garden City to Amarillo and through Kansas and Oklahoma.
Washington reports Mr Kandell introduced a bill making it a criminal offense for a member of Congress to accept employment from any trust or public service corporation or from any corporation doing interstate business. Penalty includes a fine imprisonment and forfeiture of office. Randell re introduced his bill to bar rail road and telegraph lines from giving favors to members of Congress.
Thomas Cox, said to live in El Paso and about thirty, shot himself in the Texas and Pacific baggage room at 2 50 p m Wednesday afternoon. He was seen loitering for over an hour before the grim discovery and obtained a grip from the baggage agent. About twenty dollars was found in his pockets.
Mrs. Leo Jacobs aged thirty killed her two children and herself with poison on Wednesday afternoon in St. Louis. The three bodies were found after noon, with the physician noting they had been dead about three hours. Jacobs, a traveling manager for a cement company, was away from the city. before marriage she was Miss Camille Blum of Dallas, Texas.
Reports say the Pope, weakened by gout, is advised to rest as Dr. Petacci urges bed rest. Also, descendants of General Israel Putnam plan a family council to seek a $20,000,000 fortune claimed to be in the Bank of England, with Monday dispatches noting the pontiff’s recovery.
The Bank of England reduced the discount rate on Thursday from six to five percent, signaling tighter monetary policy and potential effects on borrowing costs across the financial system.
Oscar Addison Field, president of the Jesse French Piano Company, died in St. Louis Saturday night. The note adds that Fort Worth considers a bread ordinance on loaf weight and price. W. E. Estes of Central of Georgia was accidentally shot by his wife Saturday and died Wednesday in Savannah. Texas Republican office holders rush to join Taft.
A new company organizing in Beaumont plans to exploit an oil field located three miles west of the city. Other items note deaths, appointments, trials, and regional developments across Texas and nearby states, including political, transport, and legal news.
Dallas and Dallas county pursue a joint hospital project to be named Union Hospital. The report lists numerous Texas items including a fatal fire at a mill, a drowning-like tragedy, a bank deposit note, violent incidents, fires, deaths, and mid winter exposition opening slated for Jacksonville, with several local figures and dates mentioned.
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