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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1906
Page
6
In a vast crowded circus tent in Dallas on March 27 Sara Bernhardt the renowned French actress performed Dumas Camille before an immense audience. The star and company were in thorough touch with their art throughout the production.
French star Sarah Bernhardt staged a magnificent Camille to a large and appreciative audience. The production proved a financial and artistic success, and she plans to use this tent on future tours where no opera house is available.
A janitor at a public school in Atlanta attempted a criminal assault on the fourteen year old daughter of Rev. A. C. Ward inside a cloak room. The girl resisted and screamed. fellow students intervened as the janitor fled, sparking intense excitement in the school.
Auditor Hampton testified that he sent men from New York to St. Louis to audit Water-Pierce Oil accounts and that those workers were on Water-Pierce payroll. The practice was also used while auditing Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
W F Bedford a railway shop employee at Baring Cross near here killed his wife by cutting her throat at 2 PM Monday. He then took morphine, failing to die, and later shot himself at 10 PM. Jealousy is given as the suspected motive.
Denison reports Rock Island will stop coal shipments to Texas from Indian Territory after April 1 due to an imminent coal miners strike. Frisco notified Houston and Texas Central, which now ships coal southward. Other railroad lines had already ceased deliveries.
Three persons injured and property destroyed when a tornado struck south of Billings Oklahoma on Sunday night. Mr and Mrs James Russell critically hurt while in bed Sam Merrifield suffered serious injuries in a similar incident. In California Emma Ledoux also known as Mrs McVicar was arrested in Antioch for killing A N McVicar whose body was found in a trunk. robbery is alleged motive.
A long distance dispatch from Reade's mines fifteen miles southwest of Birmingham reports two dead and several fatally injured due to a premature dynamite blast in the coal workings.
Nathan Smiths foreman on Frazer Bros. plantation in Eagle Lake is shot and killed Monday morning by Jost Speaks a black woman who worked on the same plantation.
Ludwig Mahneke a prominent German politician and former park commissioner in San Antonio died at 12 07 AM Tuesday from pneumonia He was owner of the Mahneke Hotel and an longtime city resident with notable ties to local affairs.
A joint scale committee in Indianapolis after a week of sessions reported a disagreement between bituminous coal operators and miners central district. Miners insist on a 5.55 percent wage advance with unity across Illinois. National officers reaffirm no contract without nationwide increases.
Washington March 27 The house adopted several resolutions to curb useless printing of public documents and to empower the printing committee to set the number of copies and order additional editions, potentially saving the government over 1 million dollars yearly. District Day proceedings included local bills.
In Bucharest on Monday night a major street clash between rioters and troops left two dead and more than 100 injured. The disturbance began over a French language play at the National theater promoted by the Ladies' Charity under Princess Marie. Nationalists gathered in protest and troops fired to disperse the crowd.
Syracuse reports a quarrel between actors Clarence Heritage and Charles E. Graham during the play Arizona. After the audience departed, three shots were fired at Graham, grazing his left cheek and side and piercing his left hand.
Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian Canal Commission sails March 30 for Panama and will stay to April 19 with Pacific Mail officials and Leon Pefferman to discuss freight congestion prevention.
The Los Angeles city council approved a franchise believed to covertly use Goulds' Western Pacific terminal facilities. The steam railroad would include switches and sidetracks with space for sections along the river bed to Aloes street, extending three miles from the eastern city limits.
George H. Horton seventy years old who had just married for the fourth time hanged himself in a dugout near Thomas Oklahoma. An abscess on the brain is given as the cause connected to insanity.
Los Angeles reports Morris Buck, who killed oil heiress Mrs. Canfield, was sentenced on Monday to be hanged on June 1. Buck had sold the property and murdered the wife of the oil millionaire.
Ardmore reports the first annual convention of Christian churches of the Chickasaw nation in session. Meriden theater, biggest in the city, burned Tuesday morning with damage expected at 300000.
Austin March 27 Senator Faulk introduced two bills. One to appropriate 1000 dollars for contingent expenses of a special session and another for 20000 dollars for mileage and per diem of members. A motion to suspend constitutional rule failed 14 to 14. Speeches were made in memory of the late Governor Hogg. The senate confirmed Governor Lanham’s recess appointments. In the house filibustering delayed the Terrell election law correction bill but it eventually arrived and was referred to elections committee. The special committee probingTerrell election bill enrollment met in session. Enrolling clerk J T Robinson testified about erasures and pencil marks in the bill before it reached him.
Washington March 27 John Sharp Williams denounced the Republican stance on tariffs and urged reducing the tariff on hides leather and related goods. He argued Texas would gain by lowering tariffs on saddles harness and shoes and claimed rapid profits from manufactured leather goods would exceed ten years of hides tariffs.
Be it ordained by Bryan City Council the election of mayor and two councilors will be held at City Hall on the second Tuesday in April the 10th day of the month. Election to follow city charter statutes and state law. City Secretary Spell Harrison. March 3 April 10.
Washington reports the Comptroller of the Currency received notice that the First National Bank of West Texas closed its doors on Tuesday. In San Antonio, 200 affidavits were filed against W. X. Carter of Wilson County on charges related to quail trapping, with a $40,000 bond or damage figure noted.
A gasoline explosion in Kane near Bradford, Pa destroyed a large portion of the town. The fire began at the Wickham & Johnson livery stable, killed 32 horses, and burned a dozen buildings including the city hall and Baptist church. Twenty boarders at Mrs Jacobson's house lost their belongings, with about 84 000 dollars in losses and little insurance.
Ringgold Texas reports rapid settlement with over fifty families moving in during the past four months.
Reports from across Oklahoma include hail killing poultry west of Enid and a mad dog bite incident near Lawton with four people affected. Ardmore hosts the spring term of Federal court while the Orange and Northwestern railroad reaches Newton. Tulsa's Tex Bear Reed flour mill sustains $5,000 lightning damage and Kingfisher sees the death of 100 year old Cheyenne elder High Back Wolf. South McAlester consolidates dairy handling, El Paso’s Greene Gold and Silver Mining raises capital to 10 million, and Blacksmiths near South McAlester form a protective pricing association.
Waco March 27 The executive committee of the Texas division of the Southern Cotton association met at noon Tuesday under President R T Milner of Henderson to discuss efforts to secure better prices for cotton products.
Secretary of War Taft testified before the senate army committee in favor of inserting into the army appropriation bill a provision to spend 110000 to acquire an 18000 acre target range near San Antonio Texas.
Mesquite Texas March 27. R G Gassett prominent farmer was killed by a train near Mesquite on Monday. Jacksonville Abilene and Blooming Grove Texas have skating rinks.
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