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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1909
Page
1
The legislature opens its thirty-first biennial session and begins work on new bills and committee assignments. Lawmakers gather to discuss state governance, budget priorities, and policy goals for the coming two years, signaling formal start of sessions.
The Thirty first Texas legislature convened in biennial session with a quorum in both houses. Secretary of State Davie presided in the House and Lieutenant Governor Davidson in the Senate, while residence visitors were restricted to specified floors. Kennedy led Mobley 67 to 63 after speeches, and Frank Hornbuckle won the Senate sergeant at arms post 16 to 15. Senator Paulus proposed a constitutional amendment to keep occupation taxes in the collecting county.
In Oxford Ohio Mrs Millie Donnelly was found shot to death in her home with a note from her husband Frank Donnelly claiming farewell and asking the body be sent to his sister in Shelbyville A telegram from Hamilton reports Frank Donnelly entered a Marshall office with his throat cut wrists bleeding and three pistol wounds to the head He died or was dying at a hospital leaving the case a grisly double tragedy
Washington reports that Zapata County Texas cast 429 votes for Taft Sherman electors in the recent presidential election. Texas Secretary of State W R Davie confirms the countyual vote, a unique record in American political history. In Waco Dalton Falkner, a leading Texas fruit grower, died suddenly at age 63 from a heart failure.
In Paris Texas on January 12 the homes of James Tucker and G T Thompson burned. Firefighters faced stiff challenges fighting the blaze due to freezing temperatures.
Lufkin January 12 an officer left for Hillsboro to secure Ada Hall a Negro arrested there charged with killing a Negro in Lufkin eight years ago.
Miss Jenna Deisher a Mount Carbon teacher acted quickly when coal gas from a leaky stove pipe overcame thirty five pupils and herself. She carried four children outside and, after returning for a fifth, collapsed from gas. neighbors and Pottsville physicians later revived all students.
Snowfall stretches across Missouri Kansas and most of Oklahoma with temperatures dropping to ten below in Topeka and three below at Port Smith Arkansas. Omaha reports sixteen below and St Paul twenty below as Texas sees its coldest ten years while Springfield Missouri records ten inches of snow.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on January 12 Flora Jackson allegedly shot and killed her husband Samuel Jackson and then fatally wounded rival Rose Simmons at the Simmons home. Jackson is arraigned before the justice and bound to district court on murder charges.
The French liner Polyresien from Marseilles bound for Yokohama struck and sank the Dutch steamer Djamdi at a Singapore wharf. Seven native sailors drowned in the incident.
Senate session on the Brownsville affair drew a large crowd including many negro attendees as Senator Foraker renewed his defense of black soldiers, insisting on lawful conduct and questioning the use of funds to secure evidence. The gathering filled the galleries and drew members from both chambers, underscoring the high public interest in the issue.
Senator Foraker denounces the use of a $3,000,000 emergency fund for private detective work in the Brownsville affair. He urges reinstatement of dismissed soldiers and questions the payment of Herbert Brown and William Baldwin for investigating the shooting by the Twenty-fifth regiment in Brownsville on August 14. The senate passes a resolution demanding itemized expenditures from the Treasury.
The ceremony in Raleigh on Tuesday welcomed W. W. Kitchin of Roxboro to the governorship. Thousands attended as the parade led by sixteen military companies and civic groups marked the transfer after his twelve years in Congress.
Two carloads of horses bound for Texas were burned when a fire swept a Colorado Springs livery barn on Tuesday. The blaze spread to adjoining structures and investigators believe the fire was incendiary.
Sherman Texas January 12 The Texas Swine Breeders association sits in session with President Moulden of Collin county presiding. After this meeting the Texas Corn Growers association will convene here. More than 100 displays for the corn show have arrived.
Citizens in Pecos Texas raise 35000 to back a Pecos Toyah Valley railroad linking to Halmorhe. The line will open 300000 acres of rich farmland, with M D Swine Sart saying construction starts March 1.
A friend buys a ring and arranges an inscription with a deadline. The jeweler delays, a long court wait ensues, and after hours the verdict favors the plaintiff. The usher corrects the mood, and the judge finishes with a late decision amid a comic scene in London Strand Magazine. The Bloom on the Egg shows a wife’s note on egg bloom misinterpreted as freshness versus lime dust linked to pickled eggs.
A riddle from Jhansi asks to divide 150 by 0 and add two thirds of 10. The solution yields CoLENSO with hints like C100 L-So and EN two thirds of TEN, ending with SO.
In Bluefields West Virginia a second explosion struck the Lick Branch mine on January 12. Rescue teams could not enter at 1 PM due to extreme heat and officials feared more than 100 miners had perished. Most workers are American.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas paid Grayson county taxes totaling 14365.83 as anti prohibitionists collect poll tax data in Denison area. Port Arthur protests a channel plan while engineers defer to a rivers and harbors committee. Atlanta reports Taft banquet hosts thirty possums and three cooks from Judge Park of Worth county.
Representatives of the Southern Commercial congress close a deal to purchase St Matthew's Roman Catholic church property at Fifteenth and H streets Northwest. The group plans to raise an endowment fund of 1,000,000 dollars and erect a twelve story office building. A separate San Juan Islands report notes a stronger earthquake shock with damage in Point Stanley Lopez East Sound Olga and nearby areas but no casualties.
Tulsa Oklahoma January 12 Mayor Rhode has called an election for February 16 to select city commissioners under the new digger. Tulsa was the first city in abama to adopt a commission for government.
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