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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1905
Page
6
A roundup of incidents from Titus county to Lawton and Abbeville covers dryness in Titus, a Carnegie library aspiration for Muskogee, armed thefts and burglaries in Maypearl and Hot Springs, fatal shootings in Crockett and Texarkana, deadly accidents in Houston and Shawnee, farm and rail developments, arrests, and a river improvement bill proposal for congress.
The Batts office in the Taliaferro building opposite the Court House advertises the only set of Brazos County land title abstract books with contact by phone.
Property listing notes five tenant houses available with land priced at ten dollars per acre and terms described as reasonable.
Hillsboro Texas sees two dynamite incidents over the weekend. The office of coal dealer T E Wilson was damaged Saturday night around 8 30. Sunday night dynamite or nitroglycerine blew open the Hillsboro Roller Mill safe, shattering the safe and splitting part of the building. An inside safe door was hurled at a school building sixty yards away. A dollar fifty was the only money recovered. Authorities suspect local amateurs testing methods for future use.
In Fillsboro on December 11 the cases of Jack Farly and Harmie Horne for the Mount Calm deputy marshal murder were continued after special venues were quashed.
A carrier chain broke at a Dallas area cement works four miles west of the city, striking Chris Henrikson on the forehead and killing him instantly. A. M. Rochester was badly injured with a fractured left wrist, injured left hip, and a severe abdominal blow. Henriksen, twenty four, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, had been married a year.
Major Hugh Swain was acquitted on grounds of self defense in the murder of President Charles Jones of the Texas Fire and Marine Insurance association. He left Houston Monday for Dallas, his future home.
Major Charles B. Peck a prominent railroad man and Houston resident since 1892 died after several weeks illness aged sixty five in Houston.
Washington reports Texas shifts in committee assignments. Burleson moves from agriculture to appropriation while Garner goes to foreign affairs and Fields to agriculture. Russell and Randell switch to interstate commerce and elections respectively, Beall to territories, Smith to arid lands, Slayden stays on military affairs, resolving a split over the appropriations panel. Burleston’s rise follows John Sharp Williams’s recommendation despite Texas delegation backing Slayden.
Nominations for postmasters were sent to the Senate. In Texas they are Frank I. Bradley for Gilmer J M Clark for Yoakum J T Ballard for Beeville. In Louisiana they are Louise E Alverez for Covington and B F Dudley for Mansfield.
The Attorney General reports the state recovered 281102 in taxes from railways under the Love bill after trial. An additional 33688 was paid voluntarily, bringing the total to 314,790.
Edward Atkinson a renowned social economist of Boston died suddenly Monday after an attack of acute indigestion. He was eighty two years old and a longtime figure in civic and intellectual circles.
In Dallas on December 11 the Texas Baseball League admitted Cleburne and Greenville, joining existing members Dallas Fort Worth Waco and Temple. J D Roberts reelected president and treasurer T J Darling named Temple secretary. Class CC application approved. Salary cap 1000 monthly. twelve players per club. Cleburne franchise awarded to Roberts. Greenville to H B Mack. Next meeting at Waco January 7. treasurer bond set at 2000. Farmers Union ends Texarkana meeting. headquarters to executive committee. President P Pyle Mineola salary 100 monthly. secretary 1000 yearly. eight dollars per day for executive committee work.
Texarkana says the executive committee will convene in Dallas January 7 to decide headquarters location and the establishment of a newspaper organ.
Dallas December 11 National Nut Growers association elected E W Kirkpatrick of McKinney Texas as president J E B Wilson of Poulan Georgia secretary and treasurer and a vice president for each state Time and place of meeting left to the executive committee Secretary’s compensation set at 150 per year and 10 percent of all membership fees to be retained at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.
El Paso reports snow for the first time before Christmas as snow falls Sunday across the region. Officials note it is not cold enough to harm cattle unless a further frost comes.
Berlin reports say Krustaloff, president of the executive committee of the workmen council, was arrested without warning. Cossacks and troops moved on the council headquarters in Targovia street as two strikers and a policeman died in front of the general post office. Knives and revolvers were used amid stonings and volleys, wounding several on both sides.
From Moji the Daily Telegraph reports refugees recount Harbin sacking by mutinous Russian troops in December. Desperate clashes with loyal troops follow and civilians including Russians and Chinese suffer during the massacre era.
Washington report on Francis E. Leupp annual Indian affairs findings urges preserving native music through schools and appointing a supervisor of native music. It calls for an Indian reform school for unruly pupils and a Southwest tuberculosis sanitarium, plus tighter procurement controls and protection against ruin of prehistoric ruins.
El Paso reports Max Kirchma of Chicago is at Soroceco New Mexico working on establishing a Bohemian colony. He has already secured the land for the settlement and outlines details of the venture.
New York reports a deadly shooting leaving one dead and another mortally wounded. Three men, accused by police, barricaded themselves in a West New Brighton tenement on Staten Island, defying police reserves for an hour until officers battered the door and arrested them as chaos spread through the neighborhood.
Memphis reports Jim Green a negro was lynched at Boyle Mississippi by fellow blacks after he assaulted an eight year old girl. He was captured at Shaw Station and brought back to the crime scene where a posse of black men hanged him from a tree limb.
Charles C. Clapp once private secretary to Thomas W. Lawson departs Guadalajara for Boston, severely ill with heart trouble and nervous prostration. Arnold Lawson, son of Thomas W. Lawson, accompanies him on the trip.
The Austro-Hungarian Colonization company buys a 250000 acre tract in Chihuahua. Immigrants from Austria and Hungary are to settle the land early next year.
A. L. Cox clothing dealer was found dead on the Fort Pickering road in South Memphis with a bullet wound in his chest. City scavenger William McCarker has been arrested in connection with the killing.
Captain Samuel S. Brown, noted coal operator and horseman, died Monday at his Squirrel Hill home after years of stomach trouble. His death had been anticipated for weeks.
The well known American journalist Murat Halstead is in Mexico City as of December 11.
London dispatch reports an early date fixed for the marriage of King Alfonso to Princess Ena of Sattenberg. In Mexico City Vice President Corral is convalescing.
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