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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
4
J W Batts real estate agent offers a first class brick five room house with cistern on one-and-a-half lots. Fronts southeast four blocks southeast of the Court House. Only set of abstract books and land titles for Brazos County in office. Price 1400 dollars. Office in the Taliaferro building opposite the Court House. Phone 87.
A Monroe Edge classified notes a line of cottages for rent and short term sale bargains. Listings include slots and 8 room house on Main street for 450 dollars, 35 acres inside city limits, 2 acres with two four room houses, a 9 room house in Al with barns garden and dug well. Also offers maps and plats from official records and directs buyers to Bryan for farm land lists.
Austin Feb 28 The New York Life Insurance company permit to do business in Texas was renewed by State Insurance Commissioner Clay after extra papers and tax payment of 50039 dollars. The report and annual statement had been in the office. The state moved to cash basis and wiped out the deficit with registered warrants. Mutual Life and Equitable permits expected with additional papers.
Georgetown Texas February 28 Tom Young alias Jack Wade convicted of ravishing murder and torture of Alma Reece an orphan girl was ordered hanged at a special term by Judge Brooks March 30 Attorney Shelton of Austin filed habeas corpus and will appeal to the U S Supreme Court if denied Young protested his innocence saying the court has no right to sentence him The case draws wide attention.
The storage house of the Dublin Cotton Seed Oil company burned in Dublin Texas on February 28. Loss estimated at 45000 dollars insured. Fire started in the seed room where about 100 bales of hay were stored. It rapidly consumed the seed house and machinery while fuel oil tanks were saved. Several nearby residences were endangered.
John Burrows, testifying in the Missouri oyster proceedings in Oklahoma City, says Waters-Pierce Oil Co and Standard Oil sent him to Mississippi to visit turpentine refiners and buy their product. He explains shipments went to Standard Oil and Waters-Pierce.
President Harvie Jordan says a May 1 Washington conference will gather Southern Cotton, U S spinners associations and European reps to discuss reforming futures trading in cotton at New York, New Orleans, and Liverpool.
Fort Worth author W O Williams who drafted the intangible tax bill met with Attorney General Davidson in Austin on February 28 to discuss the measure which railroads plan to contest in court. Williams may aid the state when the case is argued Friday. Hubbard City Light and Power seeks charter with 10000 capital and Southern Mills of Dallas applies for charter with 25000 capital.
Shreveport on February 28 Charles Coleman admitted killing Miss Margaret Lear. He said he also killed a negro near Natchitoches, but denied assaulting a woman of his own race at Marshall.
The dry house of R. G. Brown's mill in Longview Texas burned Wednesday morning. Loss set at 4000 dollars as firemen battled flames from a large lumber company tank but the inflammable material could not be saved.
Since midnight Tuesday night over 190 Negroes have fled Springfield Ohio heading for Columbus Dayton Xenia and Urbana as a mass exodus unfolds from the city amid unspecified pressures or conditions.
General Frederick Dent Grant at a Hotel St Denis dinner marked the 305th anniversary of Priscilla Grant founder of the Grant family. He urged the family to unite for government integrity, noting its size and influence. About sixty metropolitan relatives attended with Charles C. Tainter serving as toastmaster.
In Manila a cable from Canton reports growing anti foreign feeling aided by native societies and secret groups. It notes autocratic viceroy hostility to foreign consuls and urges readiness as revolutionary forces gain strength. Chinese regions near Amoy and Yangtse valley face rising anti foreign sentiment with potential outbreaks and preparations by federal troops.
A defective electric light exploded behind the scenes at the San Martin vaudeville theater in Santiago. The fire spread to nearby curtains and the building soon burned. Four people died and three were missing, with five injured and many suffering smoke asphyxiation. Fire brigade and citizens conducted rescue efforts.
Government evidence argued that the decision to testify under oath in the Garfield investigation was left to the packers, suggesting they were not compelled when providing information to government agents.
In Washington on February 28 Senator Foraker abandoned his usual extemporaneous style and read a prepared manuscript as he addressed the senate on the railroad rate question. The house then moved on to the army appropriation bill.
Nashville February 28 3000 students from 600 colleges convene to advance the student volunteer movement for foreign missions. Also reports Billy Mack eloped with 15 year old Ella Guthrie in Arapahoe Oklahoma arrested at Clinton on telegraphic request. Springfield Missouri February 28 railway brake man David shot by two negroes in a race riot leaves hospital in critical condition.
A mob of about 1000 men and boys formed after M W Debrak was fatally shot by Preston Todd and Edward Dean. Kempler saloon looted, the couple fled leaving children asleep upstairs. Fire and looting spread to six houses in The Jungles as troops responded. Sergeant Creager was wounded by a brick. Dean fled to Dayton.
P T Hughes 26 from Lincoln Nebraska caused a fire by overturning a lamp during a nervous episode. Hughes and J A Courtney 5 jumped from third floor windows to escape flames. both fractured skulls and in critical condition. Hotel clerk R B Dyckman seriously burned. two others burned while fleeing. One hundred twenty five guests unharmed.
Roanoke, February 28. D L Traynham, arrested for murdering his father J B Traynham, died of fright on the Lynchburg bound train. Autopsy found no poison. He leaves a widow and newborn child.
A trolley car with twenty four passengers was stranded in a snow drift between St Louis and Clayton from Monday noon until Tuesday. They had only two loaves of bread and a basket of eggs shared among them. By nightfall some passengers walked two miles to Clayton while others waited. rescuers arrived by a snow plow.
In New Orleans on Feb 28 two armed black highwaymen entered Frank Botto's isolated Gross Point store on the Texas and Pacific line. They killed Botto, fatally wounded his sons aged 14 and 13, shot at Mrs Botto who escaped to raise the alarm, then robbed the store and fled. Two suspects were arrested at Port Allen.
New Orleans marks Mardi Gras as a legal holiday with no markets. Reports include the death of former Galveston Mayor Fisher, war on South McAlester cider joints, W. G. Simmons killed in a Paris Texas runaway, Will Marshall wounded in Hugo Oklahoma Territory, John Scharbauer purchasing 45 080 acres in Pecos County at 1 25 per acre, Hiram Mahaffey robbed and throat cut in Abilene, and Thomas Young condemned in Georgetown for assault of an orphan girl with a March 30 hanging date.
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