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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
4
Washington August seventh. Among recent navy recruits are several educated at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Edward M. Ellis grandson of Red Cloud the renowned Sioux chief is among them and serves as a petty officer.
Aug. 7 in Nowata Indian Territory. Pleas Childers, a farmer, shot and killed his stepdaughter at his farm near Nowata and fatally wounded his wife. Childers was intoxicated and has been arrested.
Pittsburg August 7 The court room filled as the second and final day of arguments in the Hartje divorce case opened. John M Freeman senior counsel for respondent delivered a scathing speech attacking Augustus Hartje while praising Mrs Hartje.
Madisonville Kentucky August 7 Miss Myrtle Fugate identified John Cushenberry the negro under arrest charged with assault from last Friday morning His examining trial was set for Wednesday.
In Paterson New Jersey on August 7 heat has forced a number of factories to close. The extreme temperatures have caused several deaths and many people to suffer prostrations.
Belton Texas August 7 a young man living near Summers Mill was arrested for attempted criminal assault and bound over to await the grand jury hearing before Judge Shipp. The case involves a Belton girl with whom the defendant had gone buggy riding.
Office in Taliaferro building opposite the Court House. QF Phone 37. has the only complete set of Brazos County land titles abstracts.
At Little Rock on Monday the local nine lost to New Orleans 16 to 0 with the visitors sending ten batters to the plate in the ninth inning. The entry lists team matchups across the National and American leagues and notes several scores including St Louis 4 Philadelphia 2 and Chicago 7 Philadelphia 2.
New York and surrounding areas faced extreme heat with the government thermometer peaking at 92 degrees, a record for the year. Over twenty people in the city died from heat and hospitals and police ambulances were overwhelmed with prostration cases.
Madisonville Kentucky August 7 there is great excitement over the arrest of Joe Quizenberry a black man charged with criminally assaulting Miss Myrtle Fugate of the Free Henry Ford neighborhood. Officers believe they have the right man and Miss Fugate will identify him here. If she says he is the guilty party a lynching is expected.
New York August 7 District Attorney Jerome will personally conduct the prosecution of Harry K Thaw. He declined to set a trial date saying the case will be called when ready and not a day sooner. Thaw and other prisoners at the Tombs face first degree murder charges.
Elgin Iowa reports butter sales for the past week totaled 425000 pounds as market activity remains steady.
At a Dallas meeting of over forty persons from the Farmers' union and allied groups, Greenville presiding, it was agreed to push two planks for the Democratic state convention. A separate department of agriculture and an industrial education system in public schools were requested, with support from State Superintendent Cousins.
Philadelphia August 7 court record shows a grand jury returning true bills against four members of the Ice Exchange charged with conspiring to raise ice prices.
Tremendous rains have fallen in this section. A bridge on Frisco was washed out and wires are down north of here. Frisco passenger trains are rerouted over the Katy.
Washington reports say despite hostile student sentiment in Montevideo toward U S policies, diplomats expect no display of unfriendly acts during Secretary Root’s upcoming visit to Montevideo. Root will travel from Santos after San Paulo and stay several days hosted by the Uruguayan government.
On August 7 the Concho and Colorado rivers rose about thirty feet, causing extensive damage to farms and drowning cattle. At Bismarck farm a tenant, his wife, and three children drowned. In Ballinger the Colorado River swelled to three miles wide with homes submerged and boats and teams lost. Water flooded businesses, destroying goods and forcing evacuations.
At a Sunday night service near Spikes Prairie Kaufman County two armed men opened fire inside a negro church. Five or six shots killed Ben Noble and wounded a boy named Will Burley in the shoulder. Dave Welsh surrendered to authorities.
Three accused black men Jackson Murray and Howell faced possible lynching after the murder of Harry Priester a boy. Federal officers rushed them to Muskogee jail as mob activity and the injured Eugene McQueen were reported found near Sapulpa following the attack.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New York presides over the third annual meeting of the International League of Woman Suffragists in Copenhagen. Daily sessions run through Aug. 11 with twelve countries represented. American delegates include Miss Hay Rev Anna Shaw Mrs Rachel Foster Avery Miss Lucy Anthony and Mrs Ida Husted Harper. The venue moved to a larger hall due to crowding.
In St. Petersburg on August 7 a general strike was called off. Over half of the factories resumed by Tuesday morning while some Moscow shops stayed out. Leaders were jailed or deterred and a wave of repression followed, but the overall mood shifted toward political calm and reforms.
Campaign expenses of Hon. O B Colquitt total 9806 dollars 57 cents. An alligator was captured in the Trinity river by two boys at Fort Worth. Katy railway replaces timber with steel flat cars. Houston and Texas Central railway receives ten carloads of coal daily from Arkansas. A racehorse burned in a Sherman fire. must be shot. Eyeless white frogs found near Brenham at 100 feet deep. W R Crumley of Ennis dies from carbolic acid effects. Henry Davis shot dead near Lake Charles while resisting robbery. Shreveport Northeastern railway construction to start between Homes and Shreveport. Brakeman McAdams mangled by train near Amarillo. head found 200 yards away. San Antonio city council rejects inviting negro Odd Fellows to district convention. An affray on a train near Hempstead leaves Elk Pullen’s lip split. At Camp Mabry Private MacBurney fatally run over. Hamburg-America plans a vessel larger than the Lusitania 40 000 ton displacement 790 feet long.
Major Scofield son of the late Lieutenant General Scofield shot himself in San Francisco on Monday while on leave for ill health. He reportedly feared an attack of locomotor ataxia and that he would become a burden to his wife.
In Pittsburg on August 7 arguments in the Hartje case drew sharp comments from both sides. Attorney Acheson pledged a sympathetic depiction for Mrs Hartje, moving her to tears during the plea.
Guthrie August 7 reports a Frisco proposal to build the Oklahoma City to Liberal Kansas line, a 150 mile northwest railroad. The project aims to connect Oklahoma City with Liberal, Kansas, via Kingfisher and the Northwestern route.
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