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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1906
Page
6
Washington March 19 The House accepted the Grosvenor amendment to the bill abolishing the lieutenant general grade making it possible to promote Generals Corbin and MacArthur to major general The vote was 138 to 101 and the bill then passed without opposition
Chicago Federation of Labor denounces the Chicago Undertakers' association as a poor trust. Delegates vow to bar non union caskets and pallbearers, investigate prices, and push suppression of the trust. Also reports Ouray Colorado miners cut off by snowslides with up to twenty suspected dead and extensive isolation of mines around Camp Bird.
Fire in a tunnel under the East River near New York fills the space with deadly smoke as hundreds of bags of hay and sawdust burn. One fireman dies because hoses could not be brought to the scene without losing compressed air in the air locks.
Charles S. Francis of Troy New York former American minister to Greece will be sent to the Senate as ambassador to Austria Hungary to succeed Bellamy Storer. Francis' father was ambassador to Austria. Also noted is a continued preliminary hearing for John R Walsh in Chicago on bank failure charges, postponed to March 27 at defense request. The American Federation of Labor executive council began several days of meetings in Washington responding to President Gompers call.
Austin on March 19 judge Brooks sustained the state's demurrer over operation of Williams' intangible tax law in the Katy road case. It proceeds to the court of civil appeals. Centerville reports Mat Beughertz sentenced to five years for assault on a Negro woman.
Nicholas J. Dichoff a 23 year old Cincinnati cook was fatally shot by J W Young eight een in a Grace hotel room while visiting with two Cincinnati women Mrs Amann and Mrs Grief They had been sightseeing after a prior quarrel and disturbance at the hotel Young fired a revolver wounding Dichoff and fled with the other two women to Cincinnati locations linked to the parties were given.
A midwest to gulf coast weather system produced heavy rains in the gulf states and Tennessee, snow in the Ohio valley, and freezing in Colorado and Wyoming. Cincinnati had sleet, Chicago and Indianapolis snow, while Louisville faced steady drizzle delaying traffic.
Dallas March 19 The thirtieth annual meeting of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas filled the Dallas opera house with a large crowd. President W W Turney reported membership at 1755 with about 150 new names in the last year while noting strong finances and healthy cattle business. The day featured welcome remarks by Mayor Barry and Judge Aldredge with remarks from Rev George Edward Walk and College Dean John A Craig.
The Times Shanghai correspondent reports Chinese native papers publish the magistrate's head and ghastly wounds after a February massacre of missionaries. Officials say the display was meant to arouse anti foreign passions, while vernacular press hostility grows. Diplomatic intervention is urged.
Six hundred immigrants left Belgrade for the United States with ample funds. In Princeton, New Jersey, ex-president Cleveland turned sixty nine on Sunday while in Florida. Wichita, Kansas reports the heaviest snow of the winter across the region.
William Carr charged with stealing and killing a yearling was taken from deputies near Plaquemine by about thirty-five masked men and hanged from a railroad bridge over the plantation canal. Judge Schwing convened the grand jury in extra session to investigate. Carr had a long history of prior offenses but escaped punishment previously.
A massive snowslide six miles south of Ouray Saturday night destroyed the Camp Bird mine mill tram house boarding house and reading room. One man is confirmed dead and several others are seriously hurt. Property losses run from 400000 to 500000 with about 500 men in the buildings.
Jules Ebernz died Sunday in New Orleans after health officers from Louisiana Texas Mississippi and Alabama autopsied his case at the charity hospital. Officials ruled his death due to cirrhosis of the liver with jaundice and acute nephritis, despite initial fears of yellow fever. Ebernz formerly a jeweler faced reverses after illness began in Lake Charles and led to his transfer to New Orleans.
Milwaukee reports the steamer Atlanta burned to the water's edge ten miles north of Port Washington. Sixty five passengers and crew were saved except one man who drowned. Rescue by Smith brothers fishermen with a tug. The vessel valued at $200000. Warsaw prison riot frees political prisoner Zaleski after warden killed.
Three one legged men and four two legged men fought in Dallas. All were arrested. Other brief items note cattle tick study by J D Mitchell in San Angelo and the death of jeweler T J Dantzler in Corsicana.
Leavenworth Kansas March 19 Caroline von dem Bussche divorced wife of Baron von dem Bussche Haddenhause shot herself at the headquarters of her son Second Lieutenant Carl Frederick dem Bussche of the Eighteenth Infantry at Fort Leavenworth. Lieutenant von dem Bussche is a cousin of the German embassy secretary.
In Arcadia Florida on March 19 a negro woman and two of Jake Simmons’s children were murdered at Pine Land and their bodies dumped into an old well. A bloody knife and gun stock found at the scene are identified as belonging to Albert Simmons, a nephew, who was arrested.
Denver authorities seek Frank Lively, a Denver and Rio Grande telegraph operator, held responsible for a fatal head on collision at Adobe. He reportedly fled to join his brother in Portland, and a subpoena orders his appearance at the coroner’s inquest.
Hundreds of telegrams were sent to President Roosevelt and Congress urging immediate statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The drive came from commercial bodies across major cities in the two territories. Separately, Dallas physician Dr. T. W. Henry died at Scyene and seven men were arrested after a Dallas saloon fight.
The list notes several deaths and calamities including William Hopkins crushed between car bumpers in Virginia and Marion Tynes sustaining severe injuries in a Texas sawmill. It also mentions D J Boles receiving life imprisonment in Mississippi, W H Enoes adopting eleven more children in Kentucky, and other events such as embezzlement bail in Texas, a train collision in Zion City, and a planned 100 barrel flour mill at Enid Oklahoma.
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