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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
8
The Knights of Pythias ask for subscriptions to a holiday fund to provide remembrances for all poor and needy in Bryan. A committee of ladies and lodge members will distribute items, with a Friday noon deadline. Letters from children or others may be sent to K. of P. Santa Claus in Bryan Texas.
About sixty masked men seized Henry Davis, an African American, from the Calvert Street jail in Annapolis and lynched him near Brick Yard Hill after he confessed to a felonious assault on Mrs. Reid of Brownsville. He was shot about 100 times and his body left as a grisly souvenir.
Baptist Church holds Sunday school at 9 45 a m and public worship at Ila m led by Dr Butler on Faithfulness in Church Office B Y P U at 6 30 p m and a 7 30 p m sermon Salvation Free Baptist Church Sunday school at 9 45 a m Christian Endeavor 6 30 p m Rev T A Searcy preaches 7 30 p m pastor Rev Tatum at Wellborn Deputy County Clerk G R Wicker reports 57 marriage licenses issued in November and 41 this month including George HarrisMary Jane Ellis Willie HallWillis LesterEliza Lawrence Jeff HogensEaster Daniels
The H and T C R R offers holiday tickets at one and one third round trip. Out of state trips return by 30 days. Sale dates December 20 21 22 with a special Houston New Orleans train on December 20.
Representative Smith of Texas discussed with Dr Melvin chief of the bureau of animal industry the supreme court ruling voiding Texas cattle rules. The department of agriculture will issue new interstate regulations while intrastate movements remain under state authority. No serious outcomes expected.
Galveston reports the first cotton import from Mexico, fifty bales from Tampico aboard the Norheim. The cotton, grown near Torreon, arrived for experimental purposes as Mexico ships surplus to find outlets.
Wells Fargo & Co express box reported missing from Reno office after a train from Tonopah. Messenger Edward Crofton continued to San Francisco. Also, Tom Steele was seriously wounded in the head at Dublin Texas, with Stark Dunn held on $200 bond.
Louisiana railroad commission reports that unless the interstate commerce commission acts the state can only offer minor relief to shippers. Notably, the largest shippers who complained most withdrew demands for a car service rule just before hearings and urged no rule be adopted.
A man named Franz Niedsielski and a woman identified as Madeline Kreeger were arrested on a train in Utica for allegedly robbing Chicago's C. V. Stein of jewelry and silverware. Syracuse police seized their trunk, with diamonds pearls coins and gems valued in the thousands, and the man claimed the loot belonged to his companion.
United States deputy marshals monitor whisky shipments as they travel through Ardmore on December 20 amid enforcement efforts.
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