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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1906
Page
4
The Hague July 21 Queen Wilhelmina fell ill Monday night and suffered a premature delivery. The royal health setback casts gloom across Holland and means there will be no heir to the throne at this time.
The Metropolitan hotel in Paris Texas burned in the early hours. Most guests escaped via fire escapes with only three rooms unoccupied. Some guests injured by glass while jumping from a window. Building valued at 25 000 dollars with half insured, furnishings valued at 5 000 dollars insured for 2 500. unexpected damage to occupants Dallas traveling men among survivors.
Six lives were lost in Chicago and nearby waters on Monday due to bathing accidents. Two boys drowned while swimming, one man died attempting to rescue a swimmer, another man fell from a bridge while fishing, a fifth died from injuries after striking a timber while diving, and a sixth drowned while rushing to catch a ball during a baseball game.
Henry Clayter a Black man from Irvington Kentucky was arrested in Chicago while about to marry a white woman he eloped with. He was brought to Louisville for safekeeping amid reports of a mob forming to lynch him.
Miscreants placed a steel brake beam on the track at Canaan to derail the Elks' special returning from Denver. The engineer spotted the obstruction in time, preventing major damage. the train was delayed about ninety minutes while authorities investigated.
Land Commissioner Terrell says four million acres of school land have been sold by the state since last September. In Austin on July 24, County Commissioner Nixon of Precinct No. 2 died suddenly at his residence, aged fifty seven, once a New York Tammany Hall leader.
Anadarko Democrat plant in Anadarko Oklahoma was sold at public auction to satisfy a mortgage. The plant, formerly owned by L. T. Russell editor of the Ardmore Democrat, was bid in by B. S. Nixon for 2590 dollars.
Fort Worth July 24. The trial of W. E. Hawkins for criminal assault on two young girls is postponed after a sheriff finds the cell key broken. Mount Union Pa July 24. An explosion at Jesse Q McClain’s powder and dynamite house near Robertsdale kills four and injures five.
Fort Worth and Cleburne battled in a nineteen inning Texas League game against Waco, ending with no runs as darkness halted play. DuPree pitched for Fort Worth and Dixon for Cleburne, allowing nine and six hits respectively.
In Dallas on Monday the Waco club led by Manager Hickey played under protest after a disputed decision by Umpire Bailey. The home team won 4 to 1. Hickey said his club would not play any more games with Bailey officiating. Also listed are South Texas League scores: Lake Charles 10 Austin 2 and 4 Lake Charles 2 San Antonio 6 Houston 4 Galveston 8 Beaumont 6.
In the Southern League at Nashville on Monday Pitcher Buchanan baffled New Orleans as thearon club failed to score. Nashville scored one run while Atlanta led Shreveport 1 3 Little Rock 3 Birmingham 1. In the National League Brooklyn 4 Chicago 3 Pittsburg 7 New York 1 Boston 5 St Louis 3. In the American League Chicago 4 Philadelphia 0 Philadelphia 5 Chicago 0 Washington 3 St Louis 2 in thirteen innings. Boston 3 Cleveland 1 New York 4 Detroit 2 Bartley Bought. Montgomery Alabama July 24 The Montgomery Baseball club bought the release of Pitcher Bartley from the Philadelphia American league club.
The Great Northern west bound engine expresscar and smoking car plunged into Diamond Lake near Camden, twenty miles west of Spokane after rails spread in a tunnel. Nine men in the smoking car and the engine crew were drowned. a day coach passenger died in a gas tank explosion. The wreck caught fire but was extinguished. the remainder of the train stayed on track.
In Shreveport on Monday the Kan sas City Southern freight engine No. 85 toppled after hitting a herd of cattle near the yards. Engineer Frank Andrews of Shreveport was crushed to death while fireman George Norton was injured. Andrews was among the division’s most veteran engineers.
Joe Gans of Baltimore won the decision over Dave Holly of Philadelphia at the end of the twentieth round in Seattle. In Corsicana a heavy wind blew down eighty oil derricks and displaced a residence from its foundation.
Two Singer Sewing Machine company factories were blown up by dynamite in nearby towns. Four people were injured in one blast and six in the other. Also reported is the destruction by fire of a dredgeboat owned by Lee Kimball built in Mobile at a cost of $75,000, which had been at Pearl River, Louisiana.
Raleigh reports twenty-two killed and twenty-three injured in a head on crash between Hockingham and Hamlet on the Seaboard Airline. In Natchez Eugene Moody was fatally shot in Ferriday pool room. D H Britton, son of a planter, was arrested in Dry.
President Roosevelt reviewed Republican congressional campaign plans with Speaker Cannon and Sherman at Sagamore Hill. Attendees included Loudenslager McKinley Penrose and Loeb. Sherman said NY headquarters would run the campaign with Taft Shaw Cannon Beveridge among speakers.
A condensed roundup notes Ursuline academy in Dallas received a large telescope while a new Dallas military company formed with fifty six members. Nearby camps report rattlesnakes killed by soldiers at Camp Mabry and a fatal hand injury at Denton. Kentucky cases include ice price restraint indictments in Cincinnati with fifteen counts against ten people and five firms.
Crown and Bridge work described as a specialty with an office upstairs over Burt Norwood's store.
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