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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
4
J. W. Batts offers one and a quarter lots with a five room residence on the east side of town opposite the courthouse. Includes a well and stable. asking price 1200 dollars with easy terms.
Reports from Warsaw on Wednesday night recount a violent massacre with thirteen police killed, four sergeants, seven gendarmes and four soldiers dead, plus dozens wounded. Soldiers reportedly fired on crowds, killing at least thirteen civilians and injuring many more as chaos spread across the city. Casualties were not fully confirmed by Thursday noon.
Danville Illinois August 16 The Fifteenth district convention renominated Hon Joseph G Cannon for the eighteenth consecutive time. The crowd showed great enthusiasm as Speaker Cannon delivered a speech that was consistently cheered.
El Paso reports from Chihuahua that twelve men were killed and twenty injured in a dynamite explosion in a carload at Chihuahua Mexico. Many of the injured are feared to die.
A Rio de Janeiro Herald dispatch reports a Bahia fireworks factory explosion causing twenty one deaths and many injuries among workers. The incident underscores hazardous conditions at fireworks plants in Brazil.
Tuscumbia Alabama August 16 James W Challen a leading young figure with the Southern railroad died by his own hand in a death that shocks the community.
City of Mexico August 16 Eduardo Loube thirty secretary of the Colombian consulate here is dead after being run over by a street car authorities reported.
In Patras on August 16 the Texas Democracy endorsed a broad platform advocating federalism with strong state sovereignty, law and order, and public accountability. It calls for lobbying bans, limits on free passes, campaign finance controls, corporate reform, Nepotism repeal, uniform textbooks, drainage and irrigation updates, youth offender laws, election law fixes, and support for roads, courts, and public institutions.
It is reported from El Paso that about thirty Mexican laborers and bystanders died when a dynamite car exploded at Chihuahua. The car, being transferred for the Robinson mine at Santa Eulalia, blew apart, with bodies and flesh found a mile away. Windows shattered and walls cracked. several American foremen among the dead.
The annual meeting of the Interstate Association of Livestock Sanitary Boards opened in Springfield Tl. Aim to prevent disease spread among livestock and improve state livestock boards work. President M. M. Hawkins of Quanah reported that a government grant of 83,000 dollars was appropriated last year to assist states eradicating fever tick.
In Warsaw on August 16 revolutionary groups organized mass executions against police and gendarmes. Seventeen policemen, four gendarmes, and seven infantry patrolmen were killed, with many more wounded. Soldiers fired into crowds, killing fifteen and injuring about 130. Bombs exploded in multiple districts, injuring nearly 100 as panic gripped the city.
Paris on August 16 observed a market holiday with the Bourse closed for the day.
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