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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
2
A large delegation in Naples Texas on December 5 ordered whiskey agents to stop taking orders. A leading agent was told to leave town, another refused and took a case from the express office in view of the crowd. He was struck with a barrel and whipped with a buggy whip as the others disappeared.
The Cannel Coal Mining company, operating mines at Cannel near here, has advanced wages for all miners and pay hands by 10 percent, effective immediately. Coffee futures sales totaled 130000 bags in New York. In Milley, Washington county, a three cornered street fight left Walker Murphy dead after John Warrick fired eight times. dispute stemmed from a joke. Amarillo and Wichita Falls seek public buildings in Washington.
In Washington on December 5 Senator Culberson pressed an inquiry into the presidents refusal to turn over negro soldiers involved in a murder. He demanded all papers and orders related to the Brownsville authorities and Captain McDonald of the rangers. The Foraker resolution was postponed to Thursday due to Penrose's absence.
Denison Texas December 5 City Marshal Sexton of Durant Oklahoma arrived with the woman who deserted her baby at the depot last Sunday. The mother says her husband compelled her to abandon the child under threat of fleeing with them both. The mother and child returned to Durant.
Dallas December 5. F H Manning a Black man received the death penalty for the September 1904 murder of Arden Riddle a white man. Judge Muse ordered Manning to be hanged on February 1.
Austin December 5th reports that parties purchasing the Driskill hotel will materially improve it. The new owners plan enhancements to the historic property reflecting ongoing investment in downtown landmarks.
At 11 o clock Wednesday money on call loaned at eighteen per cent in the stock market as reported from New York.
In Herkimer New York Chester E Gillette was convicted of first degree murder in the death of his sweetheart Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake on July 11 The jury after six ballots and five hours twenty minutes returned a guilty verdict The judge scheduled sentence for Thursday The defense claim the verdict should be set aside as the prosecutor portrayed the case to the jury in emotive terms
Washington reports Henry White, current American ambassador to Italy, will move to Paris to succeed Robert A. McCormick as ambassador. Lloyd C. Griscom, the present ambassador to Brazil, will replace White in Rome.
In St. Petersburg on December 5 a police inspector, Sheremotteff, linked to the Bialystok outbreak, was mortally wounded by a workman near the Fontainia canal. the assailant then killed himself. Also noted is a West Point entrance exam set for December 15 at Rockwall with Rockwall County as principal appointee and Dallas as alternate, plus posts for Indian Territory and Louisiana postmasters and a Richmond investigation into the Southern railway wreck that killed President Spencer.
Manila reports two additional deaths among prisoners at Bilibid prison bringing total fatalities to twelve from twenty four patients inoculated with the cholera serum as a test.
The post office department will terminate allowances for special fast mail facilities from Washington to New Orleans effective January 5. The decision was announced in Washington on December 5.
With fall nights bringing catarrh, E. J. Jenkins reports rising Hyomei sales. The ad urges early use, no stomach dosing, and a pocket inhaler delivering healing oils to nose throat and lungs, promising satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
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