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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
6
A dynamite explosion in the New Orleans and Southern railway tunnel near Charlotte blasts killed one white man four African Americans and an Indian. Seven others were seriously injured and a mule and car were hurled down the mountain. The white man opened the dynamite box by mistake. No one in the tunnel survived without injury.
Elmer A. McNeal a coal miner and former patient at Ath en asylum fired twice into a moving trolley in Jackson Ohio. He killed Harry White and mortally wounded J D Van Atla and fatally wounded J B Kinneson before being shot by officers after being driven from the car.
Landowners are urged to contact the office to list acreage from 100 to 200 acres with a broker who advertises a ready clientele. The agent emphasizes large tract sales and reasonable charges to benefit both seller and buyer.
Paris reports the pope's stance triggers extreme gravity in religious matters. Government plans new authority after Tuesday to enforce 1881 law, allowing prosecutions in 36,000 communes and possible church closures. Militant Catholics reportedly cheer the prospect of violence and expulsion of priests.
Captain Billy Williamson a famed turfman and former California legislator clerk died at the St Charles hotel in New Orleans. He served as a major in the Waller expedition to Nicaragua and as a staff officer in the Confederate army, aiding General Withers at Shiloh. Born in Richmond Va he was about eighty four.
At the Collegiate Church of St Nichols on Sunday night Rev Donald Mackay invited Jerry McAuley mission converts to aid a revival. John Wyburn spoke of redemption after drinking and crime, and Tom Farler described four state penitentiaries and a sudden divine change that led him to urge others to seek God.
John J. Kinneally Socialist Labor candidate for mayor of Greater New York in 1905 drowned in Long Island Sound off Oak Point while employed as a shipping clerk for the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. He fell overboard from a float after missing his footing.
The Norwegian parliament awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to President Roosevelt in recognition of his services in ending the Russo Japanese War. Sponsors cited include Professor Judson of Chicago, Professor Baldwin of Yale, Professor Harberger of Munich, and Georgetown University faculty.
Bellamy Storer, former US ambassador to Austria, replies to Roosevelt’s letter and reiterates his prior statements. He says he has four letters on Archbishop Ireland’s promotion and claims he followed Roosevelt’s instructions. Storer accuses the president of taking credit for actions Ireland repudiates.
Archbishop Ireland, a central figure in Roosevelt and Bellamy Storer correspondence, visits New York to attend the National Civic Federation annual meeting and urges appreciation for the delicacy of his position and propriety in speaking on the subject.
In Madison Square Garden six day bicycle contest, Hugh McLean of Boston was seriously injured in a 620 AM spill on the Fourth Avenue Twenty Seventh Street turn. McLean, first to go down, suffered a three inch scalp wound and was attended by Dr. Cramer as fellow riders Clark Georgetoff MacDonald and Rupprecht tumbled. Billy Walthour led the race at the time.
Countess Eugenia Bertinatti aged eighty died in Nashville. Born in Sumner County she was a niece of the late Senator Bate.
Detroit, Dec. 10. The passenger steamer Monarch sank in Lake Superior. All passengers and crew were rescued.
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