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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1905
Page
4
A sale listing offers properties in Hall’s addition including the N. B. Cole block for 750 dollars, a quarter block for 375 dollars, 242 acres Caldwell pasture, and multiple tracts with easy terms. Eight lots near Allen Academy, 52 acres with a residence and improvements priced around 1300 dollars. Bargain framing with flexible terms.
New York on June 19 reports showers and a shift in wind that cut temperatures but left humid air. East Side tenements see the worst suffering as children flood streets in summer wear, prompting police to quell infantile unrest and search for missing youngsters. Parks and Central Park become refuges as mothers and nurses watch over crowded benches and grass plots.
Chicago reports a break in the strike as many former teamsters individually seek their old jobs without waiting for a formal end. The Wenig Teaming Company notes workers request positions, with no talks of resuming deliveries to boycotted firms yet pending broader employer input.
Shreveport June 19 report that a whitecappers notice near Antrim halted work at the Antrim Lumber camp in Bossier Parish twenty miles north of Shreveport. Charles A. Antrim of St Louis, company president, sought help from U S Marshal O Neal for federal aid as labor could not be secured. Negroes are warned not to work.
Paris June 19 Premier Rouvier told Prince Radolin the German ambassador that France is inclined to take part in the proposed Morocco conference if the German and French governments reach a mutually satisfactory agreement on the precise points for consideration. Foreign office believes an agreement on the program is possible.
C. K. Thaisis, manager of a Pasadena drug store, and his wife were found dead in a ranch house near Hendale, north of Los Angeles. A bullet was found in the man's forehead and another in the woman's breast, with powder burns suggesting the woman fired the shots using a revolver.
Gabriel Bellew aged 29 formerly of Amarillo Texas and resident here for months in the confectionery business drowned in the Grand river on June 19. His mother resides at Tishomingo Oklahoma.
Local Muskogee business leaders report paying roughly 14 000 to 16 000 in tribal taxes. The biggest single payment by a firm was just over 800, while the smallest was 2, reflecting a tax amount far below initial projections.
Police in Montgomery Alabama pursue a gang of black thieves loading a hack at a grocery store rear door. The robbers fled and a confrontation ensued. One suspect was killed and Officer Ragland was seriously wounded.
A funeral party returning from a Flatbush cemetery was struck by a trolley at Rogers and Linden avenues in Brooklyn. The coach driver was killed and James C. Dunn his wife and child were badly hurt.
Four hundred people were killed when a gas explosion rocked the Duan colliery at Khartsisk in the Donetz region of Ekaterinoslav. The blast occurred June 19 and involved workers of the Russian Donetz company.
General Maximo Gomez, a veteran of Cuban independence, died in Vedado after a long career from Spanish cavalry service to guerilla leader. Born 1835 in Bani Santo Domingo, he led Cuban forces in the 1868 insurrection and the 1895 campaign that secured independence. He is survived by a widow five sons and a daughter. A Congress stipend of 100000 was handed to a son just before his death, following an earlier grant of 50000.
Mac Stewart, pardoned by President Diaz, arrived in St Louis after traveling from Chihuahua. He had been arrested during a Mexican shooting that led to a death sentence later reduced to twenty years, with half served before executive clemency shortened the term. Confederate veterans pressed for clemency on his behalf.
A man, described as black, attacked Mrs. Permenter at her Caldwell home, grabbing her daughter Rhoda by the throat through a window bars. The daughter woke, screamed, and escaped, as the assailant fled. the mother saw him flee and noted his dark appearance.
A blaze in Paris Texas on June 19 destroyed the water tank coal chutes fuel oil tank and ten or twelve freight cars plus a Santa Fe passenger engine. The engine had just arrived from Cleburne and was taking oil when the flood and flames broke out. Firefighters saved the machine shops and roundhouse as workers fled for safety.
A St. Louis and San Francisco train en route to St. Louis wrecked in Oklahoma City yards. The engine, express, and baggage cars were damaged. Engineer Brinkley and Fireman Fisher died. Express Messenger Jewell was seriously hurt. Several passengers were bruised.
In a rural dance near Moscow Texas two miles away Bud Magar fatally stabbed his wife during an event. Constable J T Goodwin arrested Magar who has given a statement detailing the crime.
A bolt of lightning hit an umbrella Brooks held over himself and sister-in-law Miss Belle Hunt in Shawnee Oklahoma. Brooks was killed and Mrs Hunt was partially paralyzed.
The St. Louis Typographical union repealed its June 8 agreement granting a nine hour day and a $1.50 weekly wage rise for union job printers and abrogated the contract after a vote by about 700 members. A general strike threat looms if Typothetae does not concede the eight hour clause.
In a head on crash on the Western Maryland railroad a passenger train and a double header freight collided near Patapsco, thirty three miles from Baltimore. Twenty three people died and several were injured as engines and cars were badly wrecked. The freight, trying to make up time, reportedly ran at high speed, with the passenger train’s engine and baggage cars affected.
St. Petersburg June 19 Russia finally accepts Washington as the meeting place for Russian plenipotentiaries. The foreign office waives reconsideration at the emperor's personal direction to give Roosevelt's peace proposal full opportunity. Count Lamsdorff informed Ambassador Meyer that Russia would accept Washington after the emperor learned insistence on The Hague could threaten negotiations.
A riot involving about 200 inmates in Reval prison on June 19, said to be due to alleged mistreatment, was quashed with troops. Women among the rioters damaged furniture and windows and fought to escape, but police and soldiers blocked all exits and flogged the offenders.
Shreveport man A Zorn a merchant tailor died by suicide using a pistol. He had suffered ill health for several years and ended his life at his home on June 19.
A marriage license was issued to KE Barefoot and Miss S M Boots of Elk Galveston. Hany G Collins a gateman at Wollam's Lake pleasure resort was shot and mortally wounded Sunday night. Turner Gregg is under arrest for murder. A .38 caliber pistol with one shell exploded was found in his possession.
The supreme court awarded a writ of mandamus in the case of W. G. Raoul v. J. J. Terrell land commissioner. The dispute involves the sale of 35,000 acres of public land in Pecos county and the court fully sustains the right to purchase.
Joe McKinney, a farmer two miles north of Hinckley in Paris Texas, was plowing in a peach orchard when a nearby swarm of bees attacked a horse and stung it to death. The incident occurred June 19.
La Grange Texas June 19 The negro who committed an assault on a white woman near Mulberry in Fayette county has been arrested.
In Tien Tsin on June 19, 600 students from 26 colleges attended anti-American meetings. Ten resolutions urged boycotting American goods, boosting Chinese manufacturers, and circulating anti-American literature. A 50,000 tael penalty is pledged by 200 commercial guild members across 17 provinces if any member buys American goods. Pekin guilds are distributing 10,000 copies of the agreement.
Miss Eleanor Ralph of Louisiana married Captain Masturzi in Rome on Sunday. Senator Pieran Toni and Deputy Baron Deriseis served as witnesses. The bride’s parents and her sister Mrs. Harrison Durant attended the ceremony.
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