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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1906
Page
4
Washington July 6 plans for extensive maneuvers of the North Atlantic fleet are being matured by the general naval board with Rear Admiral Evans who commands the fleet. Admiral Dewey president of the board sent to Admiral Evans a copy of the programme of maneuvers of the fleet in the Mediteranean.
Vice Admiral Fournier leads planned maneuvers with sixteen battleships before autumn, the largest fleet ever assembled by the United States. A new feature this summer trains ships to practice evolutions without signals to meet emergencies when smoke or damaged apparatus prevents signaling.
A three masted schooner Ella G. Eels from Rockport bound to New Bedford wrecked on Lusby Island in Machias Bay. Captain W A Breen, the sole survivor, was rescued after clinging to wreckage and being swept to rocks. A separate report from Greenville, Massachusetts notes a farmer William Schimmelpfennig killed by an unknown man aboard a drifting barge after refusing a stop at a private landing. A posse pursues the killer.
The Hamburg American steamer Deutschland beat the French liner La Provence by about eleven hours in the New York to Plymouth race. Deutschland arrived at Plymouth harbor at 6 30 p m Wednesday while La Provence lay some 150 miles south of Browhead.
West Baden Springs Indiana July 6 officers seized gambling equipment from the casinos at the West Baden and French Lick Springs hotels. The confiscated property included thirty slot machines ten roulette tables poker tables two faro tables two Klondike tables two wheels dice and keno equipment along with chips cards and dice.
Ray Brown, twelve, dies of tetanus from a wound caused by a blank cartridge explosion. Fred Beach loses an eye in a related large firecracker accident.
London July 5 W J Bryan appeared as a guest at the house of commons Thursday afternoon and was introduced to several members by John Burns as an interested visitor to the chamber.
Wimbledon July 5 H L Dogherty defeats F L Bixley by 3 sets to 1 to claim the international tennis title.
A severe hailstorm near Kenton Oklahoma on the Fourth of July killed about 400 sheep and fatally injured three Mexican herders. One man crawled into the flock to escape, five sheep dying atop him. A Givens ranch road collapsed and ice chunks pelted a table, with a child narrowly escaping.
A two story frame house on Richard Ellis’s Bandera road dairy farm burned, likely from firecrackers. A Mexican girl worker jumped from the roof and was burned but not seriously hurt. Damage estimated at 5000 dollars. The article notes three Fourth of July deaths and ninety seven injuries in Chicago.
Jefferson City July 5 Marion Hedgpeth who received a twenty five year sentence for robbing a St Louis and San Francisco train at Glendale has been pardoned by Governor Folk after twelve years served heading to civilian life.
Information from New York reports the Fabre line steamer America, expected in New York two weeks overdue from Marseilles and Naples, reached Bermuda on Wednesday in tow of the Italian steamer Dinnamare.
About 100 people were dumped into sixteen feet of water when a landing dock collapsed at Lake Manawa, a pleas ure resort near the river. Miss Mary Doersler is missing and a search is underway.
In Topeka on July 5 the Populist state convention ended a bitter wrangle and voted to place a ticket in the field amid sharp exchanges and lingering tension.
Athens July 5 Rev Anson West D D longtime Methodist minister and Vanderbilt university trustee has died. West was widely known across the south for his preaching and service to the church and higher education.
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