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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1905
Page
3
The page lists I. & G. N. schedule details with southbound No. 1 arriving at 4 35 p m and northbound No. 12 at 9 10 a m. Additional lines show North Bound and South Bound trains with times and destinations. The rest of the column includes local notices and ads for hats sales valentines and various residents visiting Bryan from nearby towns.
A. P. Buchanan and Miss Susie Graham were married Wednesday evening at Brightlight Free Baptist Church with Rev. W. T. Wood officiating. Both families are prominent in the Bethel community of Brazos county. The bride has Bryan schooling ties and many Bryan friends. the groom is known in Bryan as a salesman and Bryan Light Guard member.
About 2 am a blaze destroyed Sheriff R. M. Nall’s barn and stored feed including forty bushels of corn, a ton of alfalfa, a ton of cotton seed hulls, and two tons of cotton seed. The origin could not be determined. Loss on the barn estimated at 250 to 300 dollars with 150 dollars insurance possibly remaining in effect.
Albert Patrick, under death sentence for William M. Rice's murder, asks a new trial by contesting the cause of Rice's death. He claims embalming under certain conditions can cause lung congestion, challenging the chloroform poisoning theory. The Medico-Legal Society will hear the questions, with a report due Feb 15.
Police across several towns were asked to arrest Rube Waddell pitcher for the Philadelphia club on assault charges tied to a dispute over a board bill. He is accused of striking his father in law Edward Ross with a flat iron and knocking Mrs. Ross to the floor with a chair. Ross suffered multiple injuries including the loss of six teeth. Waddell has been living with the Ross family since December.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company raises wheat rates from interior points to Fort Worth Galveston and Houston from 66 to 75 cents per 100 pounds effective Feb 15. Officials say long hauls are unaffordable unless larger tonnages are shipped.
Mrs. Hon ora Sharp widow of George F. Sharp and former wife of ex judge W L Pierce died in San Francisco on Thursday. She left 200000 for a gateway memorial to her first husband at Golden Gate Park and 75000 to charities including 25000 to the Salvation Army. Estate valued at 300000.
Pittsburg report notes C A Potts fined sixty dollars and sentenced to forty days in jail for violating the local option law. The county court docket lists more than 100 similar cases. Judge Hodges is reported as dying in Paris Texas on February 9. John Hoch was formally delivered into Chicago custody on February 9.
Choctaws paid off at Boswell in Indian Territory. Texarkana reports several holdups. Five inches of snow in Purcell, Indian Territory, as Canadian River freezes near Purcell. Fire destroyed a racket store and saloon at Waukomis Oklahoma. Good roads meeting planned in Muskogee this spring. Cold weather killed hundreds of cattle in western Louisiana. Noah Alex, 100, dies at Telico near Hanis. City Tax Collector Smith of Muskogee posts a bond of 218000. Oklahoma City Guthrie interurban work to begin March 1. Texas Bankers Association holds 1905 session in Dallas June 14-15. Registrar McKnight of Lawton lands office injures leg. Lawton company granted franchise to furnish natural Scholastic population of Oklahoma City up 300 in a month. J C Balse, Galveston flood survivor, dead at El. About 100 smallpox cases in Miles, Texas with no deaths. First National Bank of Benjamin, capital 25000, new Texas institution. Palestine Texas electric lights down in darkness. Nocona Texas Truck Growers to plant hundreds of acres in potatoes. Durant North Texas and Indian Territory Poultry show features 200 birds.
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