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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
6
A package of property is offered including one and one third lots and a five room house in a reputable neighborhood two blocks from Main street. The asking price is $1 000.00.
Algeciras March 28 Ambassador White and other members of the American delegation to the Moroc can reforms conference received widespread compliments for their sagacious intervention. The move is credited with solving the last major difficulty and enabling a final settlement of a delicate issue. Austria's police proposal prompted opposition from Germany and other delegates.
Andrew D. White and colleagues draft a new scheme in which the inspector reports simultaneously to the sultan and the diplomatic corps at Tangier. The corps would guide the Franco-Spanish police framework, ensuring conference decisions are carried out and foreign interests protected. The conference adopts the plan provisionally awaiting French ratification.
The National Baseball Commission in Cincinnati on March 28 adopted penalties for clubs that cover up players. First offenses incur fines from 200 to 1000 dollars by class, with repeated offenses leading to six months suspension from protection of the national agreement and free agency until reinstatement. It also prohibits a national agreement player from managing a club without release from his current reservation.
The joint scale committee of bituminous operators from Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania reported a disagreement to the joint conference of the central competitive district. After a three hour session the conference adjourned with miners and operators unchanged in stance. The present wage scale expires Saturday.
In Bluefield West Virginia on Tuesday night a church social at the Coaldale Methodist Episcopal church ended in a deadly confrontation between rival factions. Benjamin Capelin was killed instantly, his wife gravely wounded, and others injured. Two unknown assailants fled after the gunfight.
A negro named Andrew J Owens was found dead about two miles south of Hughes Springs Texas. He appeared to have died ten days or more earlier. He had been whipped some time before and was not seen since the beating until his body was discovered.
Logan Journal reports that National Bank Bryaminer Logan has been appointed receiver of the First National Bank at West Texas, which shut its doors on Tuesday.
Paris Texas March 29 Ed Jordan a negro was jailed on a charge of statutory criminal assault. Indian police have been recalled from Sapulpa Indian Territory where they had gone to remove intruders from town lots.
Tr. Walker of Ardmore shot Myrtle Smith and Grover Record in Dallas freight yards near Chestnut street after skating at the fair grounds rink. Walker then turned the pistol on himself, dying instantly. Record was wounded in the back and not expected to live. Miss Smith grazed in the hip as she fled. The trio had a prior rivalry and Walker had been employed by the Santa Fe.
A Texas special committee heard multiple witnesses on March 28 about erroneous enrollment of section 120 in the Terrell election law. Enrolling clerk Robison denies receiving Love’s instructions, while Love claims detailed guidance. The session tested theories of how the error occurred with Robison, Mrs. Robison, Holton, Hawkins, Lewis, Love, Browne, Carswell, and Speaker Seabury among those examined.
Corsicana March 28. The Navarro county jail on the poor farm caught fire and four prisoners died in the blaze. The deceased are John Williams Bill Rutherford Ed Bruner and Charles Blackburn. Arthur Williams was badly burned with doubtful prospects of recovery. One inmate allegedly started the fire to escape as guards found the flames too late.
Rev W G Cowell former pastor of the Lamar Presbyterian church in Lamar Colorado was jailed in La Junta after a hurried transfer from Lamar to avoid a lynching. He had been arrested in Waxahachie Texas and brought back for trial on immoral conduct charges. Crowds of several hundred men faced the streets, and Cowell waived examination, admitting guilt before being moved under guard to Las Animas and then taken by train to this city.
Daniel Newell a prominent Stone township Woods county farmer killed himself by drinking aconite. He showed his wife an empty bottle and told her he had taken it. A physician arrived too late to save him.
El Paso reports Louis Grimm, a former well known baseball player, was killed by a live electric wire in Juarez, Mexico, on March 28. The death is reported as an accidental electrocution.
Austin club hosted an informal evening for members of the legislature on Tuesday night amid a cordial social gathering.
Austin March 28 Senate sessions stir as Sen Hawkins proposes a three member committee to probe relations between certain state officials and employees who are stockholders in the Capital Bank and Trust Company of Austin. The move a rise in tensions with Senator Hanger opposing and the chamber adjourned at noon without action.
Revised estimates list about 800000 in damages from the Wednesday dawn fire in Johnstown Pennsylvania. Major losses include Swank Hardware building 250000 Fisher and Co wholesale liquors 150000 Wild building 140000 and related property losses across Geise Henderson Bernard Nees and Johnstown Daily News Publishing entities with stocks and buildings valued in the tens of thousands.
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