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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
3
Northbound and southbound train timetable fragments appear, followed by a crowded page of local names visiting and returning from Houston, Calvert, Ennis, and Bryan. Notices include business retirements, family visits, church calls, a Christmas dinner update, and bakery ads. Many personal names and places indicate a busy holiday-season community page.
A man referred to as Red was found under a bed at Dr. L Goldstein's house on Magnolia and Broadway and placed under arrest by City Marshall Stewart. He is jailed on a charge of entering a private residence at night for burglary.
At Torveen Mexico nine banquet guests died and many more fell ill after poison was placed in a punch bowl. Authorities say all the dead belonged to one political faction while opposing faction members who drank the same punch were unaffected.
In Somerville Texas on December 27 a negro woman named Shepard, wife of Chancy Shepard, was killed when a gun, described as an empty gun, fired while a negro boy allegedly played with it as a Christmas gift. The shooting attributed to accident.
Joe Coleman alias Joe Williams, a Black man, was shot and killed at a northeast Abilene dance hall. A single 45 caliber pistol shot shattered the mouth, causing instant death. Oscar Truchart, also Black, has been arrested and jailed in connection with the killing.
In Texarkana telegrams report a negro named Lewis Pettaway was struck in the head with an ax while dancing on the C. H. Moore plantation four miles northwest of Texarkana. He died from the blow. Marcellus Benton surrendered after the incident.
El Paso on December 27 reports Howard Chenoweth, awaiting a fifty year sentence for killing City Marshal Milburn in Silver City New Mexico, was rescued by masked men who overpowered the jailer and locked him in Chenoweths cell. Annena Texas also reports seven year old Willis Gliddens severely burned by caps exploding in his pocket causing burns to the clothing. Ennis Texas Christmas greetings feature Mrs A D Rollins and niece Maggie Crouch visiting from Greenville Indiana, their first meeting in twenty three years.
Frank E. Woods representing When We Were Twenty One arrives late due to locating a mis shelved lithograph shipment for Bryan billboards. The touring show is touted as as good or better than past Bryan appearances and plays the opera house Friday night December 29. Noted local notices follow including Elks feast and oyster roast on December 29 at 8 pm with dance to follow.
Houston report states Sid A. Anderson, a blacksmith badly burned decorating a Christmas tree, died at the Houston infirmary after a night of great pain.
Claburn McKinney a fullblood Indian was killed just outside the city limits with a shotgun. Guy Keel an Indian was jailed. Keel's young son witnessed the deed.
A Fort Towson fire Dec 25-26 destroyed Wilson Bros mercantile and nearby shops, causing about 175000 in losses with roughly half insured. J P Dille, pioneer leader of a local citizens band, died near Quay. President Roosevelt and family plan a weekend visit to Plain Dealing Virginia.
Three men were instantly killed near Brawley Street crossing in Spartanburg South Carolina when struck by a northbound Atlanta bound passenger train. Separately, Washington reports a son born to Secretary and Mrs Loeb on Tuesday December 28.
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