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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
4
We insure all classes of property including stores, stocks, machinery, warehouses, cotton, guns and country property. Life insurance offered in top companies at lower premiums than many firms. Fire insurance is good, but statistics show life insurance is more important since life risks cannot be burned away.
St Petersburg May 1 The admiralty denies reports that the cruiser Gromobol of the Vladivostok Squadron was sunk. About 800 men aboard Captain Broussikoff said to have sent a wireless message from Vladivostok. Vice Admiral Skrydloff rumored aboard. fate of ship unclear after Vladivostok departure.
Tokyo reports the last naval battle caused very slight damage to the Japanese fleet with only three torpedo boats lost. Togo may forward reports on the engagement and Russian casualties to the czar, and release surrendered officers of several ships. Admiral Rojestvensky was hospitalized. no other captors named due to clerical error. Naval attache Isam Tafleshita conveyed details to the president.
The Pullman Car company replies to a complaint before the state railroad commissioners claiming it is not a common carrier and therefore not under their jurisdiction. The May 31 dispatch from Topeka Kansas notes the company’s assertion in response to alleged excessive rates.
President Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of General Slocum’s monument in Brooklyn with a large crowd. He praises Union and Confederate reconciliation, liberty, and a united nation, noting the shared pride of victors and vanquished alike and the lasting memory of heroic deeds.
In New York on Memorial Day Roosevelt spoke in Brooklyn, unveiling the General Slocum statue and reviewing veterans. A reception followed at the naval branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association with a police guard and a Brooklyn Union League Club breakfast.
National Memorial Day observances in Washington unfold with artillery salutes, veterans processions, and flowers laid on Civil War graves. Arlington Cemetery centers events where Senator Foraker delivers a speech and a Cuban envoy places a wreath on Spanish War sailors’ monument graves.
Memphis observed National Decoration Day with ceremonies in the city and other Tennessee towns. Two Grand Army of the Republic posts marched to the national cemetery where an oration was delivered by Hon. Frank P. Smith assistant United States district attorney. Flowers were placed on Federal soldiers graves.
Mobile May 31 B M Flippin railroad freight export agent for the Mobile and Ohio resigns effective June 1 to accept service with the Missouri Pacific.
The first car of watermelons shipped from Texas this season broke records at San Antonio and Aransas Pass. The car sold for $300, the highest price paid for a Texas melon car at the shipping point. Grower John Donahoe of Falfering, shaper Ray Campbell of San Antonio, and buyer D M Payne of El Paso are named in the report.
A grand jury in San Antonio indicted P. J. Linthicum and G. W. Henry on assault to murder charges tied to Friday morning’s shooting at the San Antonio and Aransas Pass depot. Linthicum allegedly fired two shots at Henry wounding him in the leg, with three bystanders struck by stray bullets. Linthicum was shot at but not hurt.
The Texas State Sunday School association holds its 31st annual convention in Waco with large attendance. Noted speakers include Mrs. M G Kennedy who addressed the opening session on The Child We Teach. Kennedy leads the Pennsylvania State Primary Council and Philadelphia Primary Union.
In Saratoga Texas Bettis a night driller for the Texas Producers Oil company shot and killed 65 year old Smith with a forty four revolver the bullet passing through the brain instant death Smith left a wife aged 17 Ennis Texas plans to form an oil development company to sink wells between Ennis and Trinity River after favorable indications found by oil men.
Jim Williams a colored man pleaded guilty in Kaufman district court to assaulting Mrs. R Jarvis in Terrell about a month earlier and was sentenced to fifteen years in the state penitentiary.
Guthrie May 31 The Orient continues rapid work in western Oklahoma resuming south from Londale with 100 workmen laying track. Twenty miles will complete the line to the South Canadian river and steel for this section arrives daily. Superintendent Foley oversees Oklahoma work and vows summer speed. A contract to John P Hughes of Fort Worth covers seventy five miles of the Orient between Sweetwater and San Angelo Texas twenty miles already graded.
A severe cloudburst hit Snyder Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon, lasting two hours. Water rose to sidewalks and entered multiple buildings, with residents rescued by wagons and teams. no lives were lost.
Louis Gilbert pleaded guilty in Perry Federal Court to killing Thomas Hinton on October 15 1903 and was sentenced to life at Fort Leavenworth by Judge Hainer.
The Southern Cotton association releases its acreage report based on 17 754 individual reports. It estimates 1904 U S government acreage at 31 730 000 acres and 1905 at 25 980 951 acres, a drop of 18.43 percent, with 16.05 percent less fertilizer use. The compilation draws on statistics from state and territorial presidents.
Manila says the Chinese chamber of commerce voted unanimously to align with treaty ports in boycotting American merchandise in retaliation for the new exclusion treaty. In Stanton Texas an affray left Dr J R Vance wounded after twelve shots were fired.
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