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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
1
A compact survey highlights the most important domestic and international developments. Read as a weekly digest of politics, economics, conflicts, and social trends shaping the period, with emphasis on key actions, leaders, and outcomes.
A wide array of brief items notes a New York fire killing seven, a Chicago mob assault during a 1100-strong religious parade, Typhoon damage in the Philippines, Taft on Samar destroyed, Wright flights near Le Mans with passengers, a New York bomb case verdict, Fort Worth county court rulings, a shipwreck rescue, and a Chicago principle on saloon restrictions.
A defective attic wiring fire at the Agricultural building of Texas A and M College in College Station burned about half the roof Friday night. Firemen contained the blaze by 1 am with aid from Bryan, five miles away. The seven year old building cost 30000 and houses labs creamery classrooms and offices. Loss runs to several thousand dollars. President Milner and L L McInnis of Bryan traveled to Prairie View.
A dramatic rescue tale reports a fall from two thousand feet followed by a miraculous escape. The account highlights a survivor who endured a harrowing descent and survived without fatal injuries. Local observers describe the event as astonishing and brave.
In Wallisville Texas the Houston Harrisburg Navigation Co unearthed sixteen large human skeletons from shell banks below town. The remains are over six feet tall with intact teeth and unusually large jawbones. Dr. R M Sproule identifies one skeleton as well preserved and suggests it dates back perhaps 1000 years.
The international balloon cup race near Schmargendorff Berlin saw the Conqueror burst at 4,000 feet and its crew A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post parachute to safety after the basket struck a house roof. Twenty three balloons from multiple nations competed before 80,000 spectators as America III led early.
Texas State Superintendent Cousins plans recommendations to the next legislature to standardize teachers certificates to expire on August 31 each year. The move aims to prevent mid year expirations from disrupting contracts and allow complete school sessions. He also seeks reforms to teaching agriculture and other minor changes to smooth the new laws.
Large iron and steel plants issue orders to resume by October 1. The Interstate Commerce Commission has not yet decided when it will come to Austin to hear testimony on the Texas rate. In Caldwell W H Parkhill reports cows with horns locked for at least ten days.
San Antonio reports state investigators seize all accounting and storekeeping ledgers. Captain W J McDonald leads the audit with J C Haynes and a controller’s office expert. Family and employer deposits allegedly vanished. total unknown but possibly thousands.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing remedy for female ailments including displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities and back pain. It invites women to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential free advice and notes many have been helped.
A reader testifies that switching to Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum improved stomach acidity and indigestion within two weeks. The correspondent reports renewed appetite and ability to enjoy lunch, attributing the change to the advertised cereal.
The Young Americans' Protective Association of Dallas faced a ruling that its birth payment plan is not insurance. The Texas commissioner of insurance and banking said it is not an insurance contract, since it does not indemnify against loss.
Bohemian farmer John Janca shot and killed his wife with a shotgun about 2 a.m. Sunday while she slept beside their children. Janca fled but was captured later and taken to La Grange by the sheriff as the community reels from the tragedy.
A rabid mule in Mount Pleasant, Texas, bit J. D. Mitchell on the right forearm, lacerating flesh. The mule was killed after the bite. doctors say Mitchell’s arm was dressed and serious results unlikely.
Reports detail last Tuesday night storm destruction near Georgetown Texas. The Gabriel River rose ten feet and at least 1000 bales of cotton were destroyed. Pilot Knob Baptist Church west of town was wrecked with losses at least 2500 dollars. Several barns and outhouses also destroyed west of the area.
12 year old Ernest Lass of 1919 Hardy Street endured minutes in the grip of an Indian leopard during Barnum Bailey circus unloading in Houston. The beast’s claws mangled his left arm and doctors fear the limb may have to be amputated after it was released from the cage.
The Texas Attorney General filed in the U S Supreme Court a motion to dismiss the Waters Pierce Oil Co of St Louis appeal from Texas court decisions. The motion argues no substantial federal question exists as alleged violations are state statutes outside U S court concern.
Vienna reports Crown Prince George of Servia uses inflammatory rhetoric to urge war and destabilize the throne, while King Peter counsels caution. Serbian premier struggles to curb the prince amid fears of a dynastic crisis and possible Bosnian action.
San Antonio reports a strong start to the influx of homeseekers with a northbound semi monthly excursion arriving and hundreds of prospective buyers arriving. Immig ration agents predict a record year for the region. Temple donors aid local libraries and Confederate daughters chapter. Williamson Co buys rival stock wagons to consolidate locally. Paris awards 1908 Aero Club gold to Wilbur Wright for aviation achievements.
N W Mitchell editor of the Yoakum Herald died at his home in Yoakum Texas at 2 pm Sunday after illness began Wednesday night He helped found the Yoakum Daily Herald in May 1897 and later sold his stake but remained editor He is survived by a wife with no children
Deputy Marshal Potts arrested a Black Army deserter in Elgin and jailed him overnight for transport to San Antonio. He cut his way out during the night and fled. The same report notes fair trade conditions and very fine weather aiding crop saving efforts.
About thirty head of horses were auctioned in Cuco Texas on Saturday and brought fair prices given the circumstances.
The Daughters of the Confederacy observed Reagan's birthday with an elaborate program at the First Presbyterian Church in Gainesville Texas Sunday. Judge C C Potter delivered the address of the occasion.
In Mertindale Texas a beautiful monument was unveiled over the grave of Sam R. Scott at Tuttle Cemetery by the Woodmen of the World on Sunday the 4th.
The Wash Star quotes Farmer Corn Tessel saying he has too much farm labor to engage in the rivalry for government jobs. He admits he has not decided whom to vote for in the next election.
An Englishman boasts of his ancestry claiming his great-great grandfather was made a lord by a king pictured on a shilling. A Yankee counters with a cent showing an Indian and says his ancestor was made an angel by the depicted figure.
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