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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1906
Page
4
Wonree advertises rental cottages and sale opportunities including an 8 room Main Street house for 450 dollars, several acres within city limits, four room houses, and a 9 room repaired house with barns, garden, and well. It promotes maps from official records and urges buyers or sellers to contact Us, noting farm land listings in Bryan papers.
About one hundred and fifty Americans celebrated Washington's birthday in London with a dinner under the auspices of the 16. The event occurred on February 23 and gathered ex patriate attendees to honor the national figure.
The Mascotte brings Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth and Edwin V Morgan the new American minister to Cuba to Havana February 23. Attaches of the American legation and Cuban officials greet them on deck and on shore. Congressman Gavin welcomes the minister and notes Cuba’s pleasure at honoring Longworth's daughter.
Warren Mitchell, a young inventor from Lawrenceburg Indiana, died testing a device to prevent skating deaths on thin ice. His light waist framed contrivance extended three feet each side and failed when his body was submerged after an obstruction caused a fall through the ice at Tanner Creek.
Pittsburg Feb 23 Thirty persons were hurt when a 200 pound dynamite charge exploded at Carnegie Steel Duquesne plant struck by a steam shovel. Crane man Harry OBrien aged 30 is fatally scalded. two Hungarian workers are in similar condition. Six others are seriously hurt and hospitalised.
In Austin February 23 the Browne murder trial featured Roland Browne admitting he killed Congressman Pinckney and his brother Tom Pinckney. He testified revolver volleys erupted as Pinckney and Tompin× fought. Browne said he acted to defend himself amid the deadly exchange. Many character witnesses followed.
Austin, Feb 23. The Texas railroad commission decided matters from last Tuesday and Wednesday. It adopts western classification where lower than Texas, plans a future own classification, upholds switching charge in Fleming vs Santa Fe, adjusts salt soap rates after hearing, preserves 33 cent maximum for soap, sets a 3 cent cotton differential from north of Beaumont to Sabine Pass and Port Arthur, disclaims rice rate proposal, orders a Harbin depot, and approves oyster shell rates under set terms.
Professor E C Lewis of Forney longtime principal of the Lewis Military Academy died in a hotel room in Dallas. He had just arrived from Denton and four letters to Forney and Erie Pa were found on a table. He was widely known as an educator and had suffered from consumption.
Nashville on February 23 reports the Tennessee Breeders association elected officers and set a spring race meeting at Cumberland Park. The Tennessee State Fair association now controls the property and dates April 11 to 21 have been assigned by the American Turf association.
Pekin dispatch says the court is nervous over possible trouble as anti-dynastic sentiment grows. The Chinese foreign board president fears an anti-dynastic rising while the German legation tightens its guards due to anti foreign placards in Tien Tsin.
Washington February 23 The senate in executive session confirmed postmaster nominations for Texas H C Butler Anson L Barkley Fort Worth C J Lewis Clarendon and other appointments.
Berlin February 23 the reichstag approved the final reading of a bill extending Germany reciprocal tariff rates to the United States by a large majority.
The queen of Italy will undertake a May visit to the United States. Dallas plans a 60000 natatorium. The Cuban health department reports yellow fever absence. Senator McCreary read Washington’s farewell address in the Senate. Johns Hopkins in Baltimore marked its thirtieth anniversary on Thursday. Sg. M. Hallmark, formerly near Smithville Texas, was shot and died at Ada Oklahoma. A Tyler Texas store owned by George Hyman was robbed of 100 dollars. Mary Jackson, a negro, was arrested. H R Green says he ordered over 106000 roses for his Dallas greenhouses and will grow about thirty acres.
Johann Hoch was hanged at Cook County jail after a long pursuit of his alleged multiple wives killings. He claimed innocence, though arsenic was found in one victim and testimony led to a murder verdict. His execution followed repeated legal delays and reprieves.
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