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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
4
A committee from the Travelers' Protective association presented Mrs. Joe Lee Jameson a handsome tablet in memory of her late husband Joe Lee Jameson in Austin on August 2. The tablet bore a suitable inscription.
A fire in the Terrell cotton warehouse caused partial destruction of 400 bales of cotton and an estimated $10,000 in damage.
Arkansas cities including Texarkana Pine Bluff Helena Forrest City Arkansas City and Newport declare quarantine against New Orleans and infected points. Texarkana orders cessation of trains between Shreveport and Texarkana and connections. Night trains Pine Bluff to Alexandria are halted. Governor Davis orders state guard to enforce strict quarantine at rail and boat entry points due to health funds.
Galveston August 2 State Health Officer Tabor received numerous telegrams from friends and business people in Texas and Louisiana asking for quarantine passes. He will show no favoritism and will not grant exceptions.
W C Fountain is a dentist offering crown and bridge work as a specialty. His office is upstairs over Burt Norwood's store.
The State Fair of Texas, owned by about fifteen hundred prominent Dallas citizens, funds a fireproof auditorium and $90,000 in premiums. The 1905 Twentieth Annual Fair opens Sept 30 for sixteen days with livestock displays, $30,000 in purse prizes for racing, and exhibits of Texas resources. Secretary Sydney Smith invites inquiries to Dallas, Texas.
Chattanooga dispatch notes a deal completed to move the Shreveport baseball club to Chattanooga with all games to be played there starting August 15. The New Orleans team will travel to Meridian Mississippi and the Shreveport club will continue to play ten inning games against Atlanta Birmingham Nashville Little Rock Montgomery Memphis.
In Texas League games Dallas defeated Temple 6 to 0 while Waco fell to Fort Worth 9 to 1. North Texas League saw Texarkana beat Greenville 4 to 2. South Texas League results had Houston over San Antonio 3 to 0 and Galveston over Beaumont 2 to 1. National League tallies included Philadelphia 7 Chicago 6 in eleven innings, Boston 10 St Louis 4, and New York 10 Cincinnati 6.
The body of Ignatius Fretainger, a night watchman for Boylan f ies, was found in the river near Water and Napoleon avenues. Robbery was the motive, with two or more assailants using a heavy oak stick and a razor to wound and disarm him. A bloody stick was left at the scene. ~30 dollars, a pocketbook, watch, and chain were missing.
San Diego reports from an official source say the Bennington court of inquiry will find the boilers failed not from high pressure but due to a dead crown sheet and bolts. The report apparently will not fault Bennington officers but defer responsibility to higher authorities.
In American League action Washington blanked Detroit 4 to 0 as New York led 3 to 2 over Cleveland earlier in the day. The results highlight strong pitching and timely hitting across the league.
The Plain Dealer reports a new rival to the National Carbon Company with Rockefeller backing. United States Carbon Company plans a near one million dollar capitalization and will operate as an independent institution. Burton Foster leads the project and stresses independence despite substantial financial backing.
Police are removed from man wagons of long strike bound firms in Chicago. Union drivers regain their posts as the Employers' association lifts the ban on strikers a week after the Lumbermen's unit decided to reinstate union teamsters. The Coal Teamsters' union ignores threats to withhold rehiring until the strike ends, while a boycott against five large coal companies persists.
The grand lodge of Texas Knights of Honor met in Waco for the eighteenth regular session with about 250 knights attending. I H Bettis of Orange officiated and delivered the invocation. Supreme dictator J C Sheppard of Edgefield and supreme treasurer Frank B Sliger of St Louis spoke.
In Madill Oklahoma Territory August 2 Professor Baze an aeronaut and tight rope performer saturated a suit with gasoline and lit it then fell twenty feet after his trapeze broke tumbling ten more feet to the ground amid flames. He was rushed to a doctor in critical condition as witnesses fought to extinguish the blaze and remove burning clothing.
In San Juan the longshoremen strike for a 25 cent wage sparked a mob action. About 1000 armed rioters attacked streets with paving blocks, police fired into the air, one person died, forty injured, and darkness fell as arch lights were pelted. By midnight 100 officers had the city under control.
Washington reports a cable from American Consul Harris in Nagasaki stating the boycott against American goods has spread to Nagasaki. The State Department views the development as inconsequential since little American trade at Nagasaki is held by Chinese interests, with broader Chinese measures unlikely to affect it.
W. G Gibson, then editor of Puck, dined with cartoonist Opper at his Bensonhurst home. A playful puppy shredded Gibson's hat, prompting laughter and philosophical humor. Opper later used the episode in his Now Wouldn It for You series with a quip about mistakenly tearing one hat.
A London Chronicle note links Sindbad to St Brendan the Kerry saint and recounts Brendan’s seven year voyage visiting mythic islands. It then describes Paris La Necropole Zoologique, an immense animal cemetery with marble monuments, dog undertaker services, and grave leases from 2.50 to 100 dollars, on a Seine island.
A New Bedford captain in the Pacific outwits rivals in a famed return race. Seeing a rock with a cow whale and calf, he aims for shore and secures the prize by reaching home first. The tale contrasts a boastful finish with a personal victory for the skipper.
A historical sketch traces Santa Cruz through alternating control by Spain England Holland France Malta Denmark and Britain from early rights to uninhabited status to Danish ownership. A woodman parable warns that the axe handle, not the iron, tempts destruction by humans, with a moral about renegades.
New York reports that four or five persons removed from the steamer San Jacinto from Galveston and held for fever observation at Hoffman's Island were released from quarantine after examination.
Dr Dean a Hartshorne physician was riding from Hartshorne to South McAlester when he fell from a car and struck his head on a stone, instantly killing him.
General Linovitch telegraphs the emperor denying reports his army is surrounded or in danger and states the army has never been in a dangerous position.
Indianapolis August 2 James R Karnahan commander in chief of the Uniform Bank Knights of Pythias is dying at his home in this city.
Tokyo dispatch reports Lieutenant General Haraguichi announced military administration over Sakhalin Island on July 30. In Mangum Oklahoma a boy named Byron Ralton was severely injured when thrown beneath a merry go round, both legs broken.
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