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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1905
Page
3
Northbound and southbound train times listed with arrivals at various stations. Local notices report residents in town, real estate ads, a mill remnant sale, new goods at shops, and a disastrous fire in Bedias damaging several businesses with heavy losses.
Retail notices show Wilson & Edge inviting ladies to inspect white linens and various fabrics while Wagner & Brandon promote a mass reduction sale with shoppers flocking the store. Brazos county reports January births and deaths, and local social notes include marriage license for B L Wilcox and Nellie Murchison, plus residents visiting from Edge and El Paso.
In Paris Texas near Maxes Charles Langston a farmer is accused of kicking and beating his fifteen year old daughter Annie until she died. The body was dug up for an autopsy which showed injuries caused the death. The father is jailed amid intense local fury.
In Austin the Daughters of the Confederacy bought eight lots near Hyde Park for indigent veterans’ widows. The lots cost 1200 and a 4000 building is proposed. About 1900 remains in the treasury with trustees named across Austin Galveston and other cities. Also in Galveston three more gambling arrests bring the total to twenty.
H W Fletcher drove a ninety horsepower car to a 100 mile world record in 1 hour 26 minutes 38 seconds at Ormond Florida on a course with multiple turns. He led the field by about three minutes, finishing ahead of Paul Sartor and M G Bernin as the dark horse car from New York started nine minutes back and overtook most rivals.
Johann Hoch of Chicago, arrested in New York on charges of bigamy and wife abandonment after a nationwide search, expressed eagerness to return to Chicago to face the charges. He said he has no intention of resisting extradition and was photographed for the rogues gallery before court.
Washington reports House interstate and foreign commerce committee approves a favorable result on the Mann bill to end the Panama Canal Commission and transfer canal zone governance and construction to the president. Also notes include a Texas suicide, a large bond, an elevator project, and local Texas deaths and legal actions.
Houston account Grand Southern Handicap Shoot held February 5 and 6 with rate set at 395 dollars. W S Wilson serves as agent. W P Brown has organized a New Orleans pool proposing the holding of 2,000,000 bales of cotton.
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