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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1906
Page
2
Mrs. Maggie Patterson was shot dead on her front porch at Avenue D and Seventeenth Street in Birmingham. Frank Bissett, her brother in law and a locomotive engineer, is jailed on murder charges with a severe bullet wound claimed self inflicted in a later statement.
The general deficiency bill carrying about 11.6 million dollars was passed by the Senate on Thursday night in Washington.
The Cassidy Southwestern Commission of Fort Worth, member of the Fort Worth Livestock Exchange, pleaded guilty to anti trust violations and on Friday paid 7500 to the court treasury. The amount was turned over to the attorney general and deposited in the state treasury.
George Maxwell, engineer of the Colonial Express from Boston to Washington, died of heart disease while the train ran toward Philadelphia. Fireman James Hackett discovered Maxwell at his post with his fingers gripping the throttle. the train had departed Trenton on schedule and did not stop between there and North Philadelphia. Maxwell was 45 years old.
Chicago faced a record heat with 93 degrees at the observatory and near 98 on the streets. The heat and humidity caused death and illness as workers endured peak sun. Four people died and fourteen more were rushed to hospitals or homes for care.
John Mitchell arrives from Indianapolis to confer with the Southwestern Coal Operators' association in Kansas City. Differences exist in the Novinger Missouri district over railroad conditions and profit under the Kansas City agreement. Arkansas districts dispute the miners law, arguing the Kansas City agreement violates the statute.
In Washington on June 29 during debate on the railroad rate bill conference report Senators Bailey of Texas and Tillman of South Carolina exchanged a sharp exchange over Tillman’s denouncements of lawyers. Bailey called it demagoguery while Tillman defended respected attorneys but condemned what he called shysters and those who pack political conventions. Intense feeling flared briefly.
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