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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
4
President Edwin Gould of the Cotton Belt railway and his party visited Fort Worth to inspect the road's property ahead of a possible extension of the line from Gatesville to Hamilton, a key objective of the trip.
Sir Edward Grey has been returned for the Berwick-on-Tweed division of Northumberland with the largest majority of his career. The results reflect a broad Liberal wave from Wednesday elections across the country, seen as a typical Liberal success.
Advertises a 150 acre farm with 70 acres cultivated and a peach orchard for trade. Describes rich black soil, high yield potential of bale per acre, fenced property and timber. Offers exchange for a place in Bryan and warns others may act quickly.
Washington January 25 Stephen Decatur great grandson of Commodore Decatur was dismissed from the navy by Secretary Bonaparte for hazing.
Austin Jan 26 The Texas Supreme Court sustains the act creating the county auditor office in answering certified questions from the Galveston court of civil appeals in Sheriff A R Anderson v John B Ashe Harris county. It holds county commissioners cannot approve warrants rejected by the auditor. The railroad injunction cases were argued with no immediate decision. Lone Star Salt Co. v Texas Short Line Ry reversed and remanded over contract delivery obligations.
Victoria BC January report recounts Valencia steamer's distress before sinking off Cape Beale. Captain Johnson kept command, ordered boats lowered, and crew aided passengers as boats and life rafts failed. Five sailors reached shore, praised lighthouse keeper's help.
In New York on January 25 the Hapgood criminal libel trial opened. Defense counsel read Mrs. Clement Moore’s denial of contributing to Town Topics and refusing autographs. Collier’s J R Collier testified about misdeed toward Alice Roosevelt and Hapgood’s editorial reply.
Denison January 25 Joe Hanan stockman reports large wolf packs attacking livestock in the Chickasaw region. A cattle herder named Hoover escaped a charging pack with his fire. Wolves, bold as in early days, killed thirteen steers owned by Frank Wilson on the Washita River area.
Advices say a large prairie fire burned over Crosby county and adjoining areas in Texas on January 25. The fire devastated your large ranches including Winfield Scott and Stg Robertson and the Currycomb ranch, burning a strip more than thirty miles wide. Grass is needed badly as the blaze rages.
Constante Levi and Petro Forcaski, alleged secretaries of an anarchist organization with headquarters at Baird, Pa, were arrested near West Elizabeth after a raid that yielded incriminating letters and weapons. The president and a member of the group were captured along with literature threatening assassination, and officers continue to search for other members.
San Luis Obispo California January 25 The Bank of San Luis Obispo the city's oldest financial institution shut its doors Thursday morning by order of the bank commissioners.
A. V. Grove, a Katy brakeman, had his left foot severed by a car in the Denison yards. He was injured in the incident reported on January 25.
Algeciras session on Wednesday accepted all articles of the committer on contraband report and referred them to economic questions. The Spanish delegation submitted all preliminary proposals. The draft convention for tax reform in Morocco contains no sharply controversial points.
Victoria reports fifteen survivors from the steamer Valencia wreck after 154 aboard were exposed to freezing conditions near Klanway rock. Seven passengers and eight crew members survived while the death toll reaches 184, marking the North Pacific’s worst loss since 1875. A later salvage attempt by tug Lorne and the Egeria failed as the sea vanished the wreck.
General Frederick D. Grant urged immediate steps to establish January 19 1907 as a national memorial day for General Robert E Lee at the Confederate veterans camp banquet in New York. F Hopkinson Smith praised Old Plantation Days and condemns black suffrage as the century’s greatest crime.
Violence erupts between Hip Sings and On Tangs in Chinatown with several men killed or wounded. Police arrest multiple suspects as a crowd gathers on the Bowery amid the gunfight.
At 3 30 Thursday morning the physician attending General Joseph Wheeler abandoned all hope of recovery and expected his death within hours. The report came from New York and concerns the ailing general in his early hours.
London report shows Liberals leading with 311 seats, followed by Unionists 129, Nationalists 81, and Laborites 47 in the latest results through Thursday.
City of Mexico reports the Mexican Anti Alcoholic league waging a campaign against pulque shops as of January 25. The drive aims to curb alcohol outlets and influence local commerce and public order.
Rev G T Black died in Quanah Texas from a natural cause. Onions around Larredo escaped heavy damage from a late freeze. Mrs Nelson Fite burned near Chappell Hill died from injuries. A thrashing machine factory will be built at aid Oklahoma. A fishing boat near Laredo was wrecked and a man drowned. Major B I Hackett appointed commissioner at Antlers I T. Secretary McNabb says fruit unharmed. Near Lawton Grover Holderby injured by shotgun discharge. In Denton John Moody fined 100 dollars and jailed thirty days for carrying a pistol.
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