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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1906
Page
4
Local notices advertise cottages for rent and sale specials in the Monroe area. A three hour house on Main Street is offered for 450 dollars with multiple four room bonuses and full repairs. The ad invites property listings and mentions maps and plats from official records and county tracts, with references to Bryan weekly papers for land listings.
A brief notice states Crown and Briage run a specialty business with office space upstairs above Bur Nowd's store, indicating a local commercial setup.
The Choral Club of Bryan and College held a Friday concert at ii Hall before a cultivated audience, marking the start of a lively musical movement. Mrs McCann and Miss Rhein assisted, with a program of Schumann Liszt Wagner and Grieg pieces, ending with encores and praise for director Mr Lillebridge.
Colonel John Terrill Robeson aged sixty nine, a distinguished federal soldier and long time consular service member under Presidents Grant and Johnson, died in Nashville on Feb. 24. Also reported is the death of Creek interpreter Chilly Morgan in Vulsa, Indian Territory, after a long service on the council.
Washington February 24 the House agreed without opposition to the Tillman Gillespie resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make an immediate report on alleged restraints of trade by certain railroads in coal and oil handling. The measure returns to the Senate for its second action after debate.
In Washington on February 24 the senate committee on interstate commerce voted 8 to 5 to report the Hepburn railroad rate bill without amendment, while allowing members freedom to act on amendments. By 5 to 3 Republicans prevailed, Senator Tillman a Democrat was honored with reporting the bill, marking a Republican committee precedent.
An official telegram from the General Land Office in Washington states the land office at this place will discontinue May 1. Business will be divided between Lawton and El Reno. Douglas Sole Owner in Muskogee Morning Phoenix buys out partners for 12 500 dollars as F F Merriam and C B Day retire. Ben Colbert as U.S. marshal disbursed 664000 dollars and issued 652324 checks over four years, with accounts balanced to a cent and eighty nine prisoners turned over to his successor.
A H Belo president of the firm A H Belo & Co publishers of the Galveston and Dallas News lies seriously ill at his Dallas residence with feared typhoid fever and diagnosed meningitis in this city.
Former Speaker David B. Henderson’s condition deteriorated to critical in Dubuque on February 24, as his health worsened.
The senate committee on interstate commerce ordered favorable report on the Hepburn rate bill on February 24. The action signals approval of the measure aimed at regulating railroad rates and practices and advancing its path through the Senate.
In Houston on February 4, the will of the late Charles Bender Sr. leaves property valued at $500,000 to Lena Bender, including a sawmill and real estate.
Cleburne Texas February 24 Milton Curry a colored man was jailed on a charge of criminal assault involving a fourteen year old Negro girl at her Parker home.
In Los Angeles on February 24 Tommy Burns earned the decision after twenty rounds against Marvin Hart in a closely contested heavyweight bout.
New York Feb 24 At the annual meeting of the Standard Oil company the old board of directors and officers were re elected.
New Orleans on February 24 reports that Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth will visit to see the carnival.
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