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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1905
Page
6
The report covers a Mrs Tyler and Mrs Davis hosting a jam packed afternoon of music, readings, and refreshments with about 45 ladies present at a Dallas jetty suite. It notes a Forty-two party hosted by Miss Hilda Tarlton and a Home Missionary Society reception at Mrs Lem Br Hall with pledges, prayers, and a salad course.
Cavitt and presented by Miss Jennie Howell. The married lady's prize a spoon holder went to Mrs De Maret by Mrs Sam M Winters. The high bid prize a picture was awarded to Mrs Pryor presented by Mrs W D Cox. All the ladies cut for the consolation prize a pearl handled house fan and Mrs Pryor won again. The hostess served pressed chicken olives batter thin biscuits gelatin in orange peels and chocolate. On February 22 St Ursula's Literary Club will give a lecture and music recital to raise funds to furnish their club room at Villa Maria. The club has secured Rev J M Kerwin of Galveston for this occasion and promises a rare treat in both oratory and music. A reception for Father Kerwin will be held that afternoon. Miss Adams will entertain the Bachelor Girl's Club on Thursday afternoon complimentary to Miss Weaver of Dallas. Cards will be issued Monday.
A New York Central collision near Whitesboro left two trainmen dead and about twenty injured. The westbound boiler exploded during an eastbound Buffalo special, sending the thirteen-car train off the rails into fields and snow. Rescue work amid freezing conditions saved several passengers, including Judge Warren B. Hooker who sustained severe injuries.
Hillsboro Texas will gain cold storage with three cooling rooms 12 by 18 and 14 by 18. Louis Haberzettle, manager of the Home Ice factory, has ordered brick and modern equipment and work will start immediately. The facility will switch from coal to an oil burning system.
The Boothe line steamship Amazonese, aground about eighteen miles down the island, was successfully floated without damage after three stout tugs aided in its rescue. The vessel was in a precarious condition before freeing.
Laredo on February 4 reported Mayor Sanchez found his private safe broken into after a clever combination burglary. The thief took money jewelry and valuable papers leading observers to suspect a scientifically minded intruder.
C A Walters a colored school teacher at Burnett Texas shot himself through the heart dying from the self inflicted wound A note to a friend suggests he feared legal trouble over erroneous school reports.
J J Whitaker aged fifty eight of Pine Bluff Arkansas died from injuries after falling on a Hillsboro Texas sidewalk on February four.
Summary of brief items noting Diaz's return to the City of Mexico. planned construction of three bridges near Lawton Oklahoma. death of James Selden Miller a Dallas pioneer. a Houston casino restaurant fire valued at 6900. Wiley Dawson suicide in El Paso. Bank of Talihina Oklahoma Territory organized with 25000 capital stock. earthquake felt in Baton Rouge Louisiana. 111 people jailed in Muskogee last month. baby of L D Holliday burned at Haileyville Indian Territory. Abercrombie well at Humble Texas flowing 500 barrels daily.
President Roosevelt informs Secretary Hitchcock that Indians have a moral right to funds for educating their children in schools of their choice and directs the Interior Department to continue the practice unless Congress or the courts intervene. He also urges passage of the Lacey bill to authorize allotment of annuities in severalty.
New York February 4 A dramatic rescue at a fire scene saw Engineer Cooley bail from a swaying engine after a collision with a delivery wagon. He clutched the boiler pole and grabbed the reins to halt the frightened horses, saving lives though badly burned and collapsed from the effort.
Reports to the weather bureau on Saturday describe unusual meteorological conditions across the nation. A severe cold spell grips the north central states while warm rains hit the west of the Rocky Mountains and Arizona and southern California receive near yearly rainfall. Snow and sleet reach the east coast and Gulf states as forecasts show no quick warmup for the next thirty six hours.
An uprising broke out in Buenos Ayres with bands attacking police posts and an arsenal. Posts were repelled and two regiments reportedly mutinied. The government quickly moved to suppress the revolt, declaring a state of siege for thirty days and mobilizing the national guards.
Charles I. Steel a wealthy retired developer in Bensonhurst L I shot himself after receiving a legal summons during his fifty fifth birthday dinner. He died shortly after from the self inflicted wound. His two grown daughters and elderly mother witnessed the incident and the family was celebrating before the fatal shot.
Police in Bellingham Washington captured three men named Walter Packwood Fred Smith and Fred Miller suspected of a two year counterfeiting operation. They confessed to a local plant capable of $40 per hour and to raising $1 bills to $10. A vast amount of spurious currency is believed circulated.
The president sent to the senate postmaster nominations for Louisiana Nannie O Hamilton Pollock and Charles W Lyman Rayne Oklahoma Jos A Randolph Waukomis Texas Wm I Rogers Conroe J Musser Seymour Henry L Sands Alvord Jos Folm Hondo. Nineteen carloads of crude oil from Clay county Texas were shipped to Corsicana for refining.
The desk reports Maxim Gorky and seven others allegedly released provisionally after arrest January 28 as eight members of the delegation to Interior Minister Sviatopolk Mirsky. The government intends to bring Gorky and seven others to trial on political charges.
There is no improvement in Poland's labor situation with 40 090 striking men in iron and cotton centers. Street parades and intimidation are reported, while disturbances at Lodz have not resumed after a deadly volley. A railway station near Sosnovice was destroyed, and Warsaw's forty two sugar factories joined the strike.
A St Petersburg dispatch reports Lieutenant General Grippenberg, commander of the Second Manchurian army, has handed in his commission to Lieutenant General Mylo due to ill health.
In Oklahoma the senate rejected a bill by Alexander to legalize H H Meese election as Beaver county probate judge. Meese a harnessmaker and bootmaker was serving a second term and had defeated Tom Bralwood. Alexander argued to legalize the election though critics called the appointment unlawful since the probate judge must have practiced law for three years.
Sacramento reports State Senator Frank French and three colleagues facing bribery accusations. French allegedly attacked Detective George T. Tichenor in the capitol rotunda striking him above the eye before bystanders intervened. no further trouble occurred.
Hans Peterson of Corn Valley endured eight hours pursued and treed by timber wolves near La Crosse Wisconsin with the temperature twenty degrees below zero. Rescuers found him wedged among tree branches unconscious with both hands and feet and his face frozen. Doctors fear amputation of his feet and fingers.
An immense floe broke from the Illinois bank of the Mississippi Friday night and drifted toward the city water works intake. It smashed ice guards and screens and jammed the intake, reducing capacity by about two thirds as officials struggled to keep the large pipe clear.
A Newport Arkansas dispatch reports Newton Allwhite, who confessed participation in the Christmas murder and assault on Mrs Amela Mauld, has been sentenced to twenty one years in the penitentiary. His father was lynched after the elder Allwhite confessed.
Three inches of snow blanket Hot Springs grounds on February 4 delaying horse races and related events. officials postponed the program until conditions improve.
A roundup of incidents and plans across Texas and nearby areas includes a Juarez fire causing 15000 loss, E H Cundiff found dead with throat cut near Alvarado, a 10000 school project at Roxton may start, and a Brooklyn fire displacing 36 families. Also noted are a Fort Worth suicide, a third postal car for Texas and Pacific built at Marshall, a governor’s sister death in Indian Territory, a child burned near Hillsboro, Hunt county January deaths and births, New York bankers buying 75000000 in Southern Pacific bonds, Katy line expansion, Lamar County births and deaths, A Marcus fined for Sunday shirt use, and Shreveport Waterworks suits withdrawn.
Galveston Feb 4 The steamer Amazorese ran aground on Galveston Island and rested easy all day Friday as authorities assessed the situation and possible salvage options.
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