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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
3
No. 3, No. 5, and No. 2 train times listed with arrows. Southbound trains show times. Other items include local visits, a clearance sale at Hunter and Chatham, real estate ads, marriage licenses, and lodge officer installations. Various residents from Waco, McKinney, Calvert, Bryant, and surrounding areas appear along with A and M College mentions.
Ivanhoe Commandery No. 38 Knights Templar held initiation work with Lieut. Gov. Geo. D. Neal A. P. Terrell Ewing Norwood of Navasota Malcolm Carnes of Bryan as new members. Visiting members included Judge T. P. Buffington Geo. E. Siddall and Dudley Brown of Anderson A F Brigance H N Bissell of Nava sota and T. J. Tucker. Gen. H. B. Stoddard led the work assisted by Buffington W. E. Saunders and others. A speech-filled gathering followed at the Exchange Hotel toastmaster Gen. Stoddard.
W M Wolfe of Brigham Young theology in Logan. He renounces Mormon faith after a Mexico trip, claims Woodruff manifesto failed to end polygamy, notes settlements in Mexico and Arizona practicing plural marriage. Wolfe, son of a Presbyterian clergyman, joined Mormonism ten years ago after a newspaper career.
Funeral services for Colonel Robert G. Lowe were held at the family home at 10 this morning with Rev. Dr. Aves officiating. Active pallbearers were from the Galveston News departments and the attendance was large. Interment followed at the Episcopal cemetery. Lieutenant W L Lowe and William T Eustace arrived from Fort Sill and Athens respectively. Floral offerings included a bouquet carried by golf caddies. Telegrams of condolence were received by the family.
In Dallas on January 17 the executive committee of the Baptist Young People's Union of Texas chose Palacios as the encampment site. The selection offers a cash bonus of 7500 dollars, 184% acres of land on the point with 1000 feet of bay front to the east and south, and improvements valued at 1000 dollars. The annual encampment will run from July 3 to 12.
Dan Stuart III a noted boxing promoter is critically ill in New York City with pneumonia. He organized the 1897 world championship bout between James J. Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons at Carson City Nevada and long resided in Dallas, Texas where he owned business property.
Washington Jan 17 Senator Foraker presents a petition from a large body of Indian Territory residents urging separate statehood under the name Sequoyah to become a new state within the United States.
The steam ship Sicilia from Hamburg reports January 14 seeing a vessel bottom up about 200 miles from South Pass. The presumed schooner, about 150 feet long, had a brown bottom and posed a navigation hazard in the shipping lane.
London on January 17 reported large attendance at the first series of wool auction sales with 11,690 offerings, mainly in good condition. In Perry Oklahoma a Ponca reservation farmer, William Haney, was jailed after being charged with fatally shooting his hired man John Cross, who was shot through the neck.
President sent to the Senate the names of J. R. Burke for postmaster at Norman Oklahoma and Elizabeth Kirby Smith for Sewanee Tennessee for consideration.
Lazard, Freres & Co. have engaged one million dollars in gold coin for shipment to Mexico. The day also reports the Philippine tariff bill passing in Washington by 265 to 71, and a violent assault in Dallas where A. H. Burns, a white spy, was severely slashed by a Black assailant.
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