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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1906
Page
2
A mass meeting is called at the courthouse on May 12 to further the movement for rural mail delivery extension. The Eagle is publishing the call for interested residents to attend and support the issue.
The Eagle endorses extending free rural delivery in Brazos county and calls residents to a courthouse gathering on Saturday May 12 at 2 p m. to support expanding routes. D J McDonald urges all who favor the move to attend to benefit the entire county.
The Eagle reports Bryan is on the Houston business men's itinerary. Visitors will arrive Thursday night and stay until 9 30 Friday morning April 27. The Business League will host the city and discuss plans at this afternoon's meeting to welcome the guests. Bryan's hospitality is emphasized.
George Slosson defeated rival Jacob Schaefer in Madison Square Garden to win the 18.2 balk line billiards championship by 500 to 306. Slosson’s high run reached 116 with an unfinished break of 37 in the fifteenth inning, giving an average just over 33, while Schaefer averaged a bit over 28.
At a meeting of the state printing board P. L. Richardson was elected state expert printer, succeeding W. P. Connelly who resigned. Richardson led the printing establishment at the state deaf and dumb institute for years. Health Officer Tabor said the Washington conference on maritime quarantine for Gulf states yielded no action as Surgeon General Wyman declined to join.
Austin April 23. The attorney general rules that unorganized counties are not entitled to participate in conventions. The ruling addresses eligibility and eligibility standards for county representation and calls into question participation rights for areas lacking formal organization.
In response to H. C. Hord of Sweetwater the attorney general states unorganized counties are attached to their judicial counties for election purposes under section 120 of the election laws. The ruling clarifies eligibility for state and district conventions.
Austin shooter Connerly captured the Houston Chronicle challenge trophy at the twenty-ninth Texas State Sportsmen's Association tournament. Forty-four amateurs entered. Connerly made fifty blue rocks from fifty. I Dryden of Waco and Colonel Oscar Guessar of San Antonio both scored 49. The cup was held by L and Hubby of Waco.
Fire likely started by a faulty electric wire in a building on Main to Commerce Street, at the southeast Field corner. It damaged several offices, with about 15000 dollars in losses mainly from water.
Shamokin Pa April 23 Orders were issued to employees of local machine shops of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company that during the suspension of mining the men will work only two weeks a month. Many railroaders contemplate leaving for the west. No attempt was made to reopen the washeries here Monday.
Four people died as a fire swept a stable and a line of three story frame flats on West Orange Street near Park Place Coney Island. Nearly thirty families were left homeless by the blaze.
Waco reports several coachloads of Confederate veterans departed for the New Orleans reunion on April 23.
In New York on April 23 the cotton market opened barely steady with declines of 1 to 7 points. In San Francisco the same date, a clash at Ellis and Vanness streets left a Japanese fighter killed after exchanging about thirty shots with Federal troops. he took cover behind an automobile and fired, was surrounded, and killed.
Mrs Ira H Evans of Austin is elected vice president general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution George Collins suffered a robbery and assault at the Dallas Trinity River wagon bridge two white men attacked him throwing him over the railing and badly hurt
Bennie Blass five years old touched a galvanized iron cistern after an electric wire formed a connection with guttering. His mother died trying to help him and an elderly man named Graff who lived with Mrs Blass also perished. Graff had been working on a perpetual motion device.
Mrs. John Guyer living six miles southwest of Bennington gave birth to triplets on the 20th and 21st inst. A girl arrived the 20th at 9 p m and a boy and girl followed on the 21st. The father Mr Guyer is about sixty and the mother thirty, who has previously given birth to twins. The couple are very proud of the three babies.
A Colorado Fuel and Iron mine forty miles west of Trinidad suffered a dust explosion. Twenty-two miners are dead and one is missing. Of forty men in the mine, seventeen escaped uninjured through another opening.
A large Tyler structure on the square burned in the early hours Sunday. The building housing Jacobs & Jacobs general merchandise, L. Goldsmith grocer, and Woodmen hall upstairs was totally destroyed with contents. Losses are around $10,000 for Jacobs & Jacobs and similar for others.
Rev. Dr. Peter Harrison Whisner secretary of the board of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dies in a Baltimore hospital on April 23.
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