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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1906
Page
1
Sir Chentung Liang Chang states there is no uprising against foreigners in China but warns miscreants will be crushed and communities wrecked. He accuses Germans of aggression and says China will handle its own affairs, urging the Christian world to allow self-rule.
Rose Elmer aged seventeen an inmate of Bethany home Glendale Ohio died from burns after self imposed penance to atone for scalding a three year old inmate Lillian Fears while reading a bandage The girl tried to cauterize her arm but knocked over boiling water and clothing caught fire leading to fatal injuries
Memphis reports the state supreme court ruled the ice-Ligan antibetting bill unconstitutional. Racing will proceed at Shelbyville and Nashville this spring. The bill passed both houses and was signed by the governor amid a heated legislature fight. The Memphis Jockey Club will race only if the ruling stands. Secretary MacFarland says stakes are filled and the meeting could be historic.
Boston marks the wedding of Miss Alice Roosevelt with a city wide salute. Mayor Fitzgerald ordered bells to ring for five minutes from public buildings and many churches at noon Saturday.
Vienna reports Emperor Francis Joseph sent a cordial congratulatory telegram to President Theodore Roosevelt on the marriage of his daughter Alice to Congressman Longworth.
Governor Lanham announced plans to convene an extra legislative session on Monday March 26 after meeting newspaper correspondents in his private office in Austin. He declined to reveal any specific items for the call, saying details would come later.
Lee Shubert of the Sam and Lee Shubert company confirms talks to open theaters in Dallas and other Texas cities. He notes negotiations are preliminary, names cannot be disclosed yet, but says deals may close soon and Texas venues will receive Broadway caliber productions from New York.
In answer to Comptroller Stephens the attorney general holds county tax collectors may receive ten cents commission on each poll tax receipt or exemption issued, not fifteen. Based on Section 10 of the Terrell election law. The question came from N. W. Hampton, Gonzales County tax collector.
County Attorney O. H. Cross filed district court suits against every railroad entering Waco except the Texas Central for failing to provide suitable male and female closets at county stations. Total claims amount to 66000 dollars with penalties of 100 dollars per week. Katy 18000, Cotton Belt 12000, International and Great Northern 12000, Santa Fe 9000, Sap 6000. Law took effect July 15.
Berry Tillman, accused of fatally shooting prominent Freestone County farmer Hamilton, who employed him, returned from South America and was arrested after a yearlong pursuit by the farmer’s son.
Fort Worth on February 17 reports the marriage of Hec A. Mceachin editor of the Fort Worth Daily Mail Telegram and Texas Stockman Journal to Mrs Roxanna Mace known as Vernie Tawson. The ceremony took place Friday evening at the bride’s North Fort Worth residence.
Mineral Wells Texas February 17 Major J D Beardsley plans a new building costing 250000 dollars. The structure will house a bank and offices with construction starting soon.
Mrs. George Allen wife of a local banker in Grand Saline Texas shot herself fatally. Reports say the couple had separated and she went to his boarding house where she used a revolver to take her life.
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