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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
6
An 85 acre farm on Pitts Bridge road offered at 800 dollars for 30 days. Valued at 15 dollars per acre with rent for 1906 included in the sale price.
Waco on June 21 reports the death of Frank L. Carroll at age seventy five after a lingering illness. A liberal donor to religion and education he gave Baylor University a chapel and library building valued at $200000. Survived by his widow and six children including George W. Carroll Monroe W. Carroll and William M. Carroll with two daughters Mrs J F Keith and Mrs Minnie B King.
Philadelphia report details a launch with six aboard that capsized when one man stepped on its side on Wednesday afternoon. Four men, named John Sewall John S. McCann John Hannigan and Chase Keenan, drowned in the incident while two others escaped with minor injuries.
Sheriff Lyon arrested Ben Kirby in Bullard Texas on a Dallas warrant accusing him of burglary at Sanger Bros in Tyler. Silk valued at $4,000 was stolen from the firm's warehouse around June 4.
A severe hailstorm struck Fort Worth on a Wednesday afternoon, with hailstones up to a man's fist. Nearly every residence and business suffered shattered windows, rain flooded streets, and the Rosen Heights baseball park grand stand was demolished.
Dr Joseph Kornitzer famed for scientific research and introducing new medical methods died in Socorro New Mexico at age eighty He was an early adopter of electrolytic treatment for tuberculosis and gained international reputation He came west seeking his wife's health.
El Campo Texas June 21 the Texas Woman's Press association held its thirteenth annual session with president Mrs Cornelia Branch Stone of Galveston presiding. A large attendance heard timely papers read. University of Wisconsin grants Doctor of Laws to Dr David Franklin Houston UT president at commencement.
New York June 21 forty sacred bulls from India arrive destined for Texas. They are immune from fly pest and remarkably clean with short horns and humps on their backs.
In Louisville on June 22 Dr S A Bradley the local livestock and meat inspector ordered 2400 pounds of pork loins held in cold storage to be sent to a fertilizer works The storage company officials would not identify the owner of the meat Bradley is inspecting packing plants to ensure proper operations Also in Springfield Illinois Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Richard Ivans case at Chicago ruling no reason to grant a longer record or new authority in the murder appeal
At Gravesend during the final race on Wednesday Escort and Penguin fell on the paddock turn. Jockey Brussell riding Penguin was cut about the head and feared to have a skull fracture. Jones on Escort suffered a broken collar bone.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children docked aboard Juno and Talbot at Trondhjem on June 21 for coronation preparations. They were warmly welcomed as the Danish royal yacht Danneborg and the Tromp carrying a coronation embassy entered the harbor. The king greeted his brother Prince Christian of Denmark warmly.
A mutiny at Sevastopol began with fortress artillery troops refusing orders and being disarmed. Two more battalions joined the revolt and seized guns on the north shore batteries, but loyal regiments soon appeared and the mutiny collapsed, with troops returning to barracks.
A parliamentary commission returning from Bialystok reports mass testimony urging immediate prosecution of subordinate police and military officers for complicity in the massacre of Jews. It states mob violence could have been halted by energetic police and troops intervention.
In Los Angeles on Thursday L. W. Ketring fatally wounds his divorced wife and her niece Miss Bessie O Day after asking the wife to return home. O Day reaches for a phone to call police when Ketring seizes the instrument and shoots both women, authorities say.
A fire in an amusement hall at the state hospital for the insane in Middleton Connecticut killed the silk mill superintendent who was watching the fire and crushed by a falling wall. The hall valued at $20,000. Inmates were moved to another building to escape the blaze.
The Hamburg American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sailed for Europe with 575 first class 300 second class and 200 third class passengers, the largest cabin count outward this season. Also notes wage gains for Fall River cotton operatives and a blaze of other items including a murder verdict against Tlaxcalan Indians and a resignation of J A Albright from Mutual Life.
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