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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1906
Page
6
Real estate broker advertises availability to list land from 1090 to 200 acres with a specialty in large tracts. Claims to have ready buyers and offers reasonable charges to facilitate sales for landowners. Contact office to arrange listings and marketing.
President Lerds in the list to the Senate for immediate confirmation. Dec. 3 Washington reports the nominees include George H. Cortelyou for Secretary of the Treasury Charles J. Bonaparte for Attorney General George L. von Meyer for Postmaster General Victor H. Metcalf for Secretary of the Navy James R. Garfield for Secretary of the Interior Oscar S. Strauss for Secretary of Commerce and Labor and W. H. Moody for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Milan dispatch reports a thorough Bergamo search failed to locate the sender of a threatening letter to King Victor Emmanuel. The writer mentioned a plot by the Holy Alliance to assassinate the monarch, but police have found no clues as of now.
Washington December 3. The United States Supreme Court has decided in favor of Atlanta Ga on the so called give trust case.
Brooke MacKall at age sixty, a retired real estate man, was arrested in Washington for threats against President Harriman and Union Pacific officials. Police surgeons declared him insane and ordered commitment to a government insane asylum.
Samuel Spencer late president of the Southern railway was laid to rest after a funeral at St John’s Protestant Episcopal church Washington attended by railroad officials financiers and public figures. The service featured Chippin’s funeral march and all Southern trains stopped in tribute. Floral tributes arrived from national leaders including President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks before being distributed to hospitals and charities.
Miss Nora Brassfield of Burnside Kentucky was struck by a switch engine while crossing a track at Chattanooga Central passenger station. She died within an hour from injuries. The incident occurred as the locomotive backed in and she sought a passenger train. House Adjourns After Brief Session in Washington. The House met briefly for fifty three minutes in a session marked by a quarrel over levying on actors' taxes at La Grange Missouri. Assistant Constable Duvall was killed and three others shot amid the dispute.
The Texas Supreme Court upholds the railroads in a suit against the railroad commission over rates and tariffs. It rules the commission may set passenger rates up to the 3 cent per mile limit and may vary by carrier, while denying equal protection claims. Arguments also addressed a proposed 20 percent cut in sleeping car fares and related tariff filings.
Lawton Oklahoma reports bids opened for 600 and 500 acres of Kiowa, Comanche and Apache lands. Judge J W Wit ten heads the bid office with clerks and stenographers as Lawton residents form a three person inspection committee. Bids accepted daily 9 to 4 through Saturday, then opened publicly next Monday before forwarding results to Washington for approval. Railroads offer cheap excursions as several thousand potential buyers arrive.
Washington reports the war department prepares for a congressionally driven investigation into the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Records show a 1885 Fort Sturges Dakota incident where soldiers rampaged and a lynching followed after troops forced disclosure of a killer.
Monroe Knight, a Marietta barber, drowned himself in the Red River. He left a note for his widow saying he had lost friends and was a financial failure, leaving behind his widow and several children.
Burglars pried off the safe knob and detonated dynamite at the San Antonio brewery’s El Paso office but failed to gain entry. The safe held about $2,000. Also tainted by robberies, a Christian church and a Jewish synagogue lost collections. Judge Cravens of Illinois’ death and dumb institute is seriously ill with typhoid malaria fever in Austin.
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