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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
4
J. W. Batts advertises one and a quarter lots with goods room residence on the east side of town. Property includes a well and stable on the premises. Price listed at 1200 dollars with easy terms.
Alexander R. Chisholm pay ing teller at First National bank Birmingham charged with embezzling 97000 of bank funds. Bond set at 50000 after failing to post bond. W L Sims and C M Hayes arrested for aiding and abetting. Sims bond 50000 Hayes 10000 both later bonded. Shortage discovered during Chisholm’s vacation. Chisholm confessed in presence of bank directors.
Eulogies at the Dallas fairgrounds honor Judge John H Reagan ex Governor Frank R Lubbock and ex Governor James S Hogg. Speakers praise Reagan for devotion to Davis and duty and liken Hogg to Moses for Texas breadwinners. The widow Reagan attends with Frank Andrews presiding.
Dr George Merrill of Cedar Indian Territory died in a Joplin hotel under mysterious circumstances after fleeing alleged assassination threats. Hotel staff heard his screams. coroner probes consider self poisoning despite claims of a deadly feud with his son in law over his daughter’s death.
At Gowan in South McAlesett an alleged drunk Negro entered Mrs. Coudran’s home and tried to assault her with her baby in arms. She fought him off until help arrived and the assailant was captured. He is said to have confessed and claimed intoxication on Choctaw beer.
San Antonio August 14 Secretary R G Callahan of the Life Insurance Policyholders Association of Texas says a meeting will be called in the next few days to select a proxy to attend the election of directors of New York Life and Mutual Insurance companies this fall in New York. Texas policyholders urge a Texas man be elected to the directorate in each company.
A series of brief items reports drownings at Cottonwood Texas and a boy killed by lightning in Mississippi, a deadly riot near New Philadelphia Ohio, a powder explosion in Indiana, a murder attempt near Lampasas Texas, a large strike settlement in Massachusetts, lunacy proceedings in Oyster Bay, assault on a woman in Brownsville Texas, and other assorted incidents including deaths and property damage.
The Texas Prohibition convention convened in Terrell with a small delegation. E H Conibear of Dallas elected permanent chair and T A Searcy as secretary. Welcome by J P Coon and Mrs Mattie R Turner. Committees named for Platform Nomination and State Officers. Ex-Gov St John addressed the gathering in the elaborately decorated Tabernacle.
A Katy train and a Frisco switch engine collide at Fort Scott Junction Kansas injuring twenty five passengers in a chair car. Notable injured include engineer Joseph Halleck and his wife, A W Ruland, with others suffering bruises. The six hour late Texas to St Louis passenger train toppled its chair car but the Pullman sleeper avoided a rollover thanks to a telegraph pole. Physicians treated the injured and they continued their journey.
Yoshishi Sakura, recently arrived from Japan, predicts Japan will source over three fourths of its cotton from the United States in the coming decade. He notes Japan used over a million bales last year with only a quarter from the US, importing the rest from India and Asia.
Adjutant General Hulen received a telegram from Brownsville signed by County Judge Bartlett and Mayor Combe plus other citizens reporting that the negro troops stationed there broke loose and fired on the town. One man was killed and another seriously wounded. Citizens urged an armed force to quell the disturbance. General Hulen said the matter would be addressed and he began contacting authorities.
In New York on August 14 J C Stubbs denied plans to quit the Harriman system for London railway work. He stated he would remain until expelled and he believes Sproule will not succeed him as traffic director. Another source says Sproule may depart for a different railroad, but the new company is unnamed.
Toronto Kansas reports John Donohue a 70 year old farmer was shot at his home near Coyville by his wife who had earlier attacked him with a butcher knife. No arrest yet for Mrs Donohue.
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