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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1906
Page
8
Chicago April seven. Professor Adolph Gluck wagers twenty five thousand dollars that he can tell the truth for one year. If he lies at any time Rudolph Jones may verify the pledge while Gluck endures ascetic rules and raw foods to prove his philosophy.
Pittsburg April 7 Practically over the stand pat organization among independents in the iron and coal fields has dissolved. Nine firms signed the 1903 scale ending the strike in western Pennsylvania mines. The signing companies total nearly 3 million tons and employ about 5,000 workers. Mine closures last week will end as work resumes.
In Naples on April 7 panic swept towns near the Vesuvius danger zone. Families fled with few possessions while artillery cars aid refugees. Cardinal Joseph Prisco, archbishop of Naples, ordered prayers for safety. Boscoreale, birthplace of the cardinal, faces destruction.
Kansas Supreme Court rules the Kansas City Livestock Exchange is a trust and invalidates cattle mortgages made through its members. The unanimous decision reverses a prior ruling on rehearing, affecting millions of dollars of cattle paper.
March notes report 146 babies born in Ellis County. Texas Confederate apportionment for the quarter is 14 dollars. A boys dormitory will be built at Trinity University in Waxahachie. Jockey George Schilling, killed in a New Orleans race, resided in Paris Texas. Daughters of American Revolution start annual convention April 16 in Washington. A New York orphan near Newark Texas left and 17 dollars missing. Forty Scottish Rite Masons earned degrees in South McAlester. Cottle County purchased 370 acres near Paducah for a poor farm. A wagon with J R Brumley and Sam Dyer overturned near Mem Tex. both were seriously hurt.
General Overster Voliva announced Dowie will be tried by an ecclesiastical court when he returns to Zion City next week. Charges include extravagance misrepresentation mismanagement and polygamous teachings with a fair open trial to be held without lawyers present. Officials say Dowie lost around 1.2 million dollars in Wall Street speculation, mainly during the 1903 slump. Mrs Dowie affirmed her support, asking prayers to cast out an unclean spirit.
German Chancellor von Buelow recovers from a Thursday fainting spell in Berlin. He slept through the night and awoke Friday morning alert and clear headed. After coffee he asked for newspapers but doctors advised against reading. Physicians say no serious consequences are likely.
In a Senate speech on the railroad rate bill on April 7 Senator Elkins voiced his principal objection stating the measure did not go far enough and would be inoperative if enacted into law.
In Wilkes-Barre the Independent Operators in session decided against accepting the arbitration proposition proposed by President Mitchell.
Savanah April 7 Judge Speer overruled the defense motion to direct a verdict of not guilty in the Greene and Gaynor case. Vienna April 7 Peace prevails between the crown and Hungarian and the parliamentary crisis is over.
Texas lists eighty one state banks and Dal las revival cost eight thousand dollars. B M Young confirmed post master at Morgan City Louisiana Aubrey Texas ships second carload poultry to New York Eastman Johnson famed portrait painter dies in New York Five hundred Bohemians from Chicago to settle near Socorro N M Jesse M Smith founder of Smiths bile beans dies in Passaic New Jersey A New York cabman returns wallet with two thousand seven hundred dollars. rewarded twenty and a cigar For fifteen thousand dollars capitalists plan a two hundred thousand creosoting plant employing one hundred fifty men at Shreveport L W Clark and Arthur Geen added to A H Belo directors at Dallas J T Sutherland fined fifty dollars sixty days for local option violation While handcuffed Arthur Uelesford charged with theft jumps from a train from San Antonio to Elgin A N Thomas of Jasper Ind becomes blind as grand jury foreman listening to crime tales
New York April 7. Labor tensions in the anthracite regions were eclipsed by a western arbitration offer from J H Winder head of Ohio soft coal operators. Mitchell said he could not act but would submit the plan to the international executive board in Indianapolis. He joked about Winder's literary ability as miners' leaders doubted board approval due to regional differences and many operators already signing the 1903 scale.
Pittsburg April 7 Peace is assured in the western Pennsylvania soft coal fields as independent operators decide to sign the scale after a meeting Friday night. Operators who had opposed the scale sign now plan to join as wavering members were not present but expected to sign upon hearing the outcome.
Texans on the executive committee of the National Farmers Union resigned except Jameson and Garner. I N McCollister of Rattan Louisiana and BE J Cook of Guin Alabama were elected to fill the vacancies. R F Duckworth of Atlanta was named national president. Jameson Whitney said the committee met with the national body and declined to resign, keeping their seats.
Frank M. Mabry, vice president of the McGregor National Bank in Waco, was arrested on a warrant by Constable James Lindsey and Deputy U S Marshal Cliff Torrence. He is charged with embezzlement and making false entries totaling about $8,000. bond set at $5,000 for the next federal term.
A group of fifteen to twenty farmers southwest of Paris Texas attacked a blackbird roost on Cottonwood creek with shotguns for about thirty minutes. They killed many birds with single shots and filled two wagonloads as birds lay dead around the roost.
In Floresville Texas on April 7 in county court a man named Carter accused of trapping quail to sell was arraigned He pleaded guilty in three cases and the other cases were his The fines were 25 15 and
Snow melt and heavy moisture floods central Wyoming in early April. Belgo American Oil Company suffers major damage as its Little Popo Agie receiver is destroyed and about 100,000 barrels of oil lost. Railroad contractor John Trulson swept away at Muskrat river. his body later found. Freighter near Fort Washakie, identified as onorty, believed drowned with four-horse team and wagon.
American missionary Rev. Dr Charles B Hager and two others were attacked at night by about forty Chinese pirates armed with Mauser rifles while three boats anchored near Tung River, fourteen miles from San Sui. The boats were fired upon. Hager lost clothing cash and surgical instruments and reported the incident to the American consul at Canton. He and his wife reside in Hong Kong and serve with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Cook & Tenbroeck bankers of St Louis have bought 67000 acres of coal lands in Cullman Alabama. Mines to be developed at once with a spur line from the Louisville and Nashville railroad connecting to the Frisco and the Southern. Entire output to be sold to the Mexican government.
Thomas E. Lary former cashier of the First National bank of West surrendered to Deputy U.S. Marshal Cliff Torrence in Waco. He had been absent for a period and is charged with embezzling 1450 dollars from the Bank of West funds.
Austin April 7 It is estimated the last extra session of the legislature will cost the state in the neighborhood of $16 000 The total amount paid out to Saturday by the treasurer was $12 000.
The will of E. C. Swift the millionaire packer was admitted to probate in Salem Massachusetts. The estate valued around ten million dollars is left in trust for the family with a five thousand dollar gift to a Sagamore church and small annuities for two longtime employees.
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