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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
4
Announcement details a nonprofit ownership by 1500 Dallas citizens funding a fireproof auditorium and $90,000 in prizes for the Twentieth Annual State Fair. The fair opens Sept 30, 1905, runs sixteen days, with 16 days of livestock displays 13 days of horse racing for a $30,000 purse, and a showcase of Texas resources for homeseekers.
Baron Komura the Japanese peace envoy plans a Texas tour on his way home from San Francisco He intends to visit several cities and stop at Japanese settlements as part of his stateside visit with General Agent Anderson reporting the plan.
Howard Bush was instantly killed when struck by a northbound Santa Fe passenger train three miles north of Gainesville Texas. He suffered severe injuries with both hands and feet severed and limbs mangled as witnesses say he was asleep on the track. Engineer Joe Girard reported no sighting in time to stop.
Austin notes a November street fair and carnival planned after no encampment this year. First State Bank of Ravena appears with $10,000 capital, Farmers' State Bank of Georgetown lists $50,000. Colonel J L Peeler confirms major carnival event in Austin this fall.
The Austin business league will review a proposal from A G Chapman representing a large Buffalo canning company to build a local plant with a daily capacity of about one million cans. If located here, the facility would can all kinds of fruit and vegetables.
Dallas report says W. E. Green of Galveston and his wife checked into a local hotel. He became ill Wednesday afternoon and died that night. Physicians attributed the death to opium poisoning. A man and a woman were arrested in connection with the case.
Col. Tazewell Plett of Richmond, Virginia, enraged by neglect in a famed Manhattan restaurant, fought several waiters and caused a stampede. Police intervened, were mauled, and five officers helped subdue him after he attacked captors on Broadway.
Rev. G Campbell Morgan criticizes American churches during his stint in Dwight L Moody's East Northfield role. He warns that the church has become a social organization with members focusing on social pursuits and business concerns rather than spiritual duties and church pledges.
Jasper Wenzel a railroad laborer from Baiard Texas was run over by a Missouri Pacific switch engine near Heim's brewery in Kansas City. His right arm was severed above the elbow and he died four hours later at the general hospital. He was believed to have been asleep on the track.
Temple Oklahoma August 24. The first bale of this year’s cotton in Oklahoma was sold at Temple for 103 dollars. In several sections cotton is nearly ready for picking and by next week picking is expected to be general.
A trolley car collision with an automobile returning from Bergen Beach left two men and two women badly hurt. It is feared that both women and one man may die from injuries.
The state department reports 200 Americans from the Maccader circus are stranded in Grenoble France after difficulties securing passage home. Government officials implore consular aid and await further details on evacuation options.
In New York on August 23 tensions rise as clashes between rival Chinatown societies spark fears of further violence and community unrest. Police monitor the situation and urge restraint while investigators review leads.
In the South Texas League results Fort Worth defeated Waco and Temple with Fort Worth 5 to 1, Temple 2 to 1, and Galveston beat San Antonio 3 to 0 while Houston won 11 to 2 at Brenham. President J A Hart of the Chicago National League Club noted the standings.
Weather and sports brief lists scores for Shreveport Little Rock Nashville Birmingham Memphis New Orleans Montgomery Atlanta and others with rain affecting play. No single dominant result. multiple city matchups show varied outcomes with several close margins.
A compact summary notes results across multiple cities. St Louis defeated Boston 6 to 2, Cincinnati 9 to 6, Philadelphia 6 to 9, Brooklyn 10 to 9, Chicago 9 to 6, with New York 7 to 2 over Pittsburg.
A sequence of baseball scores lists teams such as Boston Cleveland Chicago Philadelphia St Louis New York and Washington with varying run totals across eleven innings. The fragment appears to be a box like summary of game outcomes and tallies.
The Examiner reports Miss Lilly Belle Browne known as Miss Ida Warren, an actress, gains one third of an estate valued at 5 million dollars left by English baronet Sir Reginald Tracey. Tracey reportedly proposed to Browne before dying in Australia, and the mother in Washington DC remitted the funds to her daughter due to illness.
Dr William Reninger a Marion Sims Medical College faculty member was killed in an explosion in his home laboratory. He was cleaning a microscope lens by a gas jet when benzine fumes ignited, ending his pursuit of a systematic study of consumption.
An electrical storm with high winds hit Atlanta on Wednesday. Eighteen year old James McDaniel was killed by lightning near the city center. The Kimball House and the state capitol were struck twice but unharmed. About 1000 telephones burned out and many electric streetcars damaged. Awnings were torn away and cellars flooded. Ten minutes produced seven tenths of an inch of rain. Damage runs to several thousand dollars.
Reports from Pekin describe a preplanned mob of about 1000 Buddhist Llamas in Yunnan attacking French Catholic missions along Sawaho coast. One church was wrecked and many priests killed or wounded, with death toll estimates between eighteen and twenty three. The French minister protests to the Chinese minister seeking stringent punishment.
In Liverpool on August 24 a fire broke out in the steerage of the White Star line steamer Oceanic but the blaze was promptly extinguished by the crew. Damage described as trifling.
A Yokohama Chinese boycott aims to halt dealings with American goods and services. Resolutions ban American ship cargoes and banking or insurance business, with penalties for violators. the plan also discusses funding for displaced Chinese workers and potential American retaliation.
In Shreveport on August 24, anger grows as no reply comes from Dr Tabor of Texas to requests to lift the Texas quarantine. Four tons of sulphur are being distributed city wide to enforce fumigation. Ruston and Mansfield wire abandonment of quarantine against Shreveport.
Corpus Christi Texas August 24 two children die within twenty four hours from poisoning. Refugio Garcia girl poisoned by sardines and Ga vine Trujillo daughter ate roach paste with fatal effect.
A description of trapping condors by building a circular pen with a carcass in the center. The bird lands but cannot gain enough upward angle to clear the fence. The passage notes similar flight constraints in heavy short winged ducks requiring substantial run to gain lift.
John Scott, later Lord Chancellor Eldon, took his B A at Oxford in 1770 and was examined in Hebrew and history. His answers were Golgotha and Alfred the Great, with later historians Freeman and J R Green debunking the second as a fiction.
Medieval herbalists spread tales that mandrake or May apple grew only at sites of grave crimes. Pseudoscientists claimed the root's shape resembled a human figure, earning the plant the name gallows plant.
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