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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
4
Ten days after a football game John Gordon died from injuries in Sullivan Indiana according to HAPPENINGS CONDENSED. Other brief items note Jack O’Brien to challenge Jeffries and the death of Dr. J D Parsons in Dallas.
Abraham Hummel was rearrested in New York to allow the district attorney to question the Supreme Court's right to admit him to bail. The issue will be argued next Saturday. Also from Jamaica and Albany reports include Dowie arriving in Port Antonio and a proposal to ask forty million dollars for 1906 barge canal work.
J W Batts Officee in Talisfer:o Building opposite Court House Phone 87 offers the only set of Abstract Books of Brazos County Land Titles. 632 acres for sale about twelve miles east of Bryan. About 500 acres is first class posteak land with rest in the Navasota bottom. Price 1100.00.
Advert says Kodol cures indigestion by using natural digestive juices and tonic properties. Claims it cleanses and strengthens stomach mucous membranes. Customer testimonial from S S Ball of Ravenswood, W Va. bottles priced at $1, trial size 50 cents, prepared by E O DeWitt & Co Chicago, distributed by Emmel & Maloney.
John C. McCall, secretary of New York Life, testified in the insurance investigation that he met Andrew Hamilton in France and found him seriously ill, unable to undertake a voyage for two months. He presented a physician’s certificate and obtained Hamilton’s statement on expenditures from funds entrusted by the insurer.
Boston reports the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor will celebrate its 25th anniversary in February. About 70,000 societies and 3,500,000 members worldwide, with unions at local, county, state and national levels, mark the milestone. In two years, forty-six states and three Canadian provinces grew by over 10 percent. Hawaii up 116 percent and the movement expands to the Philippines. Ten thousand societies report $500,000 in gifts.
Shreveport December 27 B W Summers a well known planter was shot in the back while riding with Clyde Besaier a friend in the country near his home Summers was brought to a sanitarium here and will die the ball passed through his body Besaier was riding behind Summers when a Winchester rifle carried by him discharged in an unknown manner and struck Summers.
New York December 27 During testimony Howard K Stokes third vice president of the Bankers Life Insurance Company of New York corrected a misquote claiming expenses exceeded premium income He stated that in 1904 premiums totaled 785000 with 283000 expenses leaving nearly 360009 paid to policy holders and 220000 added to assets
Three Memphis financial institutions Merchants' Trust Company American Savings Bank and Trust Company and Mechanics' Savings Bank failed and shut their doors on Wednesday. Receivership appointed for Merchants' Trust with John P. Edmondson named. Directors cite over loans on discounts, assets pledged as ample to pay dollar for dollar.
In Austin on December 27, it was learned that State Health Officer Tabor would tour Europe after about eighteen Galveston leaders sent a $1,000 check plus steamship passage for him and his wife. The gift thanked him for controlling yellow fever amid the recent New Orleans epidemic.
Houston dated report says William Gregerson, a white man held for assault on Deputy Constable Holder’s daughter, is returned to Beaumont for grand jury. In jail he refused to speak as many women sought to visit. The Colored Teachers’ State association met at Trinity Methodist with large attendance and notable interest.
In Smithfield Texas on December 27 two marriages occurred in a rustic setting. Miss Ora Hamilton married B Turner and Miss Rose Hamilton wed Evertt Mahonny. Rev Weathers joined the couples at the couples’ conveyances. The double ceremony ended with a country dinner and plans to reside in Venus.
Ernest Turman the negro charged with attempting to assault Mrs. Bateman near Quitman on Christmas day has been brought to Dallas by Sheriff Ray and Wood county deputies and placed in Dallas county jail. Mrs Bateman aged seventeen and recently married, positively identified Turman as the intruder.
Washington Dec 27 Mrs W R Smith wife of Congressman Smith of Texas was operated on for appendicitis the disease was far advanced and the lady is dangerously ill Culberson Appointed Cadet and Naval Academy Nominees Dec 27 Senator Culberson named Glover S Johns of Fowler Bosque county to a cadet ship at West Point and Lewis Hancock of Austin to the Naval Academy at Annapolis Cannon Called Dec 27 President at horseback ride Short Term Treasury Bonds Dec 27 minister of finance in St Petersburg authorized issue of 200000 court martial for Midshipmen Coffin and Vanderveer Annapolis Md Dec 27 to be tried by court martial
Albany woman Mrs Alfred Wiltz reports a three days old daughter born about 116 days after she had a son. Doctor George T Morton verifies the claim. Navy dispatch from Puerto Plata notes gunboat Dubuque's departure for Montecristi. Cumberland and Presbyterian subcommittee meets in St Louis to plan union. New York bids for subways considered. An unknown man's body found on a Frisco track near Cement Oklahoma. A waiter seriously cut Ben Franklin in Ardmore restaurant.
In Normal State Shanghai on December 27 British Assessor Twyman reopened the session midweek with police present but no extra guards. The scene was described as normal and orderly with no unusual incidents reported.
Notes and Queries recount a Basex superstition about a breeding stone near Brentwood with a growing pebble in a cup shaped cavity. The tale sits among a Civil War era account of mutineers at Cawnpur, a Maine judge mocked by an Irishman, and a Boston Herald retelling of Irish wit in Augusta.
In a village near Gillingham England a female canvasser for a local candidate confronted a wife who revealed her husband had promised to vote for the rival in exchange for trousers. The wife accepted a sovereign and disclosed she herself had promised her husband the trousers. The minister of religion vouched for the episode’s occurrence as a credible anecdote.
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