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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1906
Page
3
Five room house in first class repair sits on one and a half lots facing southeast four blocks southeast of Court House. Price is 1400 dollars. Purchaser to view property and arrange terms with owner.
Real estate offer lists include a main street lot with a two bed room house for 450 dollars, 95 acres inside city limits, 2 acres with two four room houses, and a nine room rural property with barns and well. Maps and plats from official records show locations of every tract. buyers and sellers urged to contact for listings in Bryan weekly papers.
Shreveport reports Governor Blanchard plans to return from Baton Rouge Thursday to witness the execution of Charles Coleman. He will sign the death warrant on arrival. Monroe militia detachments are relieved while three companies remain at the jail ahead of the hanging.
A party of five men was shot from ambush in De Ridder Louisiana. Ed Ganschmann was killed while Simon Bilbo and Lee Galloway were wounded. Jane and Sam Rager, arrested, admit planning the shooting. An attempt to storm the jail failed as the prisoners were moved.
Advices from Venezuela report President Castro pledging to humble France and expel the French from Venezuela. He says he will then target Americans Englishmen and Germans, claiming they are worse than Chinese and will clear the country of foreigners. He is very bitter toward Americans he accuses of exploiting his nation.
Four hundred children in St. Mary's school hall in Alton Illinois faced a panic when celluloid film ignited during a moving picture show. The blocked exit caused a rush and about fifty children were injured in the scramble to flee.
John H Hodges admits dragging his ailing wife from bed breaking her left arm and shooting her in the breast while she lay on the floor His nineteen year old son tried to intervene and was knocked down Mrs Hodges had recently begun divorce proceedings.
Austin February 26 Roland Browne charged with the murder of the late Congressman Pinckney and his brother T C Pinckney at Hempstead was acquitted on a change of venue after a two hour and fifteen minute jury deliberation
A section of the Southern railway near Atlanta reports a wreck in which a car carrying 3,500 chickens bound for New York from Dallas was struck by two trains. About 1,500 chickens were killed and roughly 500 escaped in the incident on February 26.
In Chicago an altercation between Chief of Police Convoy and Mayor Hale of South Chicago left the chief probably fatally hurt. The report notes an advance in a related market item from New York, with cotton market activity described.
Boise dispatch reports James McFarland received a long confession from Orchard detailing plans to murder former Governor Steunenberg and naming conspirators including J L Simpkins. Orchard claims twenty six murders tied to a Western Federation of Miners plot and asserts no clemency offers were made. In a separate note, Bat Nelson saved a woman and two children from a runaway horse at Blue Sulphur Springs, leaping to stop the horse and being dragged before halting the danger.
American Delegate White believes harmony will prevail on international bank issues. Happenings condensed report from El Reno Oklahoma notes a wolf hunters club, sugar shipments from Mexico, jail oversight in Ardmore, a completed $20,000 Lancaster Texas school, a suicide confession in Atlanta, and multiple local incidents across several states.
New Orleans reports the Rex carnival has filled trains, hotels, and streets as crowds surge past prior attendance records. Up to 10 000 people reportedly reached the city Sunday and again Monday with visitors arriving by special trains private cars and boats for the naval parade and Rex landing.
Ambassador Tower presented President Roosevelt's congratulations to the German emperor and empress on their silver wedding anniversary in Berlin. The emperor thanked him and noted the marriages of Miss Alice Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth and the Duchess Sophie to Prince Eitel Frederick, slated for Tuesday.
The West Nashville sub post office was robbed early Monday as the safe was blown open with dynamite. Police report several hundred dollars in money and stamps stolen.
United States Supreme Court reverses the Southern California circuit court, ruling railroad companies may designate shipping routes for fruit after leaving their lines. Justice Peckham reads the opinion in Washington on February 26, siding with all southern California railroads in the citrus fruit cases.
Berlin says Germany will grant further concessions on the Moroccan question if France also yields. The move aims to ease tensions between Berlin and Paris as both sides assess concessions and counteroffers.
A series of brief items reports J F Hughes dying in Oklahoma City, Houston pioneer Nicholas Randolph dead, a new Frisco hospital planned for Tulsa, and I T Houston overrun with beggars. Also noted are a carbolic acid suicide at Humble, an oil lease division at Muskogee agency, Tuck Miller killed by locomotive, Quanah Gin plant fire at Chillicothe, J W Cole struck by train in Birmingham, stock theft in Oklahoma City, and Jim Felton’s accidental death in Buffalo Bayou.
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