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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1906
Page
6
Ignace Paderewski announced to come to the United States for a concert tour next season. The famed pianist has not performed in public here since his breakdown earlier this year.
A year ago next month the pianist rested at his Swiss home to compose. He may perform in Cuba and Mexico en route to this country. if not he will open his season in the East in December. Mme. Melba is also due back next season.
Captain L P Goodale of Buffalo based firm F C Goodale & Co was found unconscious on Hamilton street at the foot of a stairway late Wednesday night and died soon after. His skull was fractured and investigators say the motive was not robbery as money and a valuable gold watch remained in his pockets.
National Irrigation association based in St Louis plans to support Representative Smith in Washington by sending speakers across Texas and the Southwest to promote the reclamation act. Smith asked the group to aid in passing the bill applying the act to Texas.
A special committee under Premier Witte coordinates troops and police to handle revolutionary and agrarian outbreaks. Police and rural guards are strengthened. St Petersburg police gain 100 officers and 1300 men at an extra cost of 404000 dollars. A military train stood ready at Nicholas railroad station on Thursday.
President Roosevelt will reappoint W. C. Bristol as United States district attorney for Oregon after previously withdrawing his nomination amid charges. Officials concluded the accusations were not well founded and Bristol will again appear before the Senate.
Six foreigners arrested in Duluth are believed by police to have occupied the Minneapolis house where six Bulgarians were found murdered early Tuesday morning.
Hon. Marshall Hicks of San Antonio and his brother Dr E M Hicks arrived in Washington after spending days in Baltimore where Dr Hicks underwent an appendicitis operation.
Brief notices report El Paso plans to spend 300000 on paving streets. Sheriff Barrett of Cook County Illinois died in Chicago. Domingo Garza killed near Matamoros with slayer at large. Dover New Jersey Masonic temple block valued 200000 destroyed by fire. Cotton on Floresville Texas farm frost damaged. A Stockbridge longtime Viveans Texas postmaster died in his chair. Jim McKinney suicides near Neches Texas by chloroform.
Six Bulagrians were killed in a brutal attack at 245 Tenth Avenue South Minneapolis in a tumble-down shack. Bodies found with throat cuts and slash wounds. five bloodstained bowie knives and a hat nearby. Police link men described as Italians or Greeks to the killings and suspect robbery as motive. A drayman’s account places the suspects en route to Duluth with twelve packages.
Advices received from China via the Empress of Japan report revolutionaries planning an anti-dynastic coup at Pekin. Caravans of arms and ammunition bought from Belgians are moved from Tientsin to Mongolia. Gendarmes discover a parcel of bombs at a Pekin depot causing court consternation.
In Mexico City on March 29 arrangements are nearly complete for the National railway to acquire the Hidalgo and Northwestern railway from Gabriel Mancera and others for 6 200 000 dollars. The deal awaits ratification at the shareholders meeting Monday.
In Warsaw on March 29 the planned election of delegates to the electoral college failed almost entirely as only four of 114 factories selected representatives. Workmen opposed the national parliament.
Chicago March 29 The Board of Trade will be closed on April 3 for election day.
Dr. Tabor state health officer returned from Europe with his wife and said the health officers conference will be held in Washington on April 16 at Surgeon General Wyman's request. The meeting aims to arrange a uniform maritime quarantine.
Little Rock results show Honeff Davis leading with about 20 000 vote margin for United States senator and Little leading in governor's race ahead of rivals as of noon Thursday after Wednesday primaries.
Mobile March 29 Officers of the steamer Mary report severe conditions along the Alabama river from a rapid overflow. Low lands for 100 miles are submerged two to six feet with crops damaged and cattle slaughtered. Rain continues, boats carry news of mounting losses among cattlemen and logmen as fuel and hay run short.
Hampster New Hampshire March 29 William Welch claimed as the oldest surviving Union Army veteran from the Civil War and the oldest Mason in America celebrated his one hundred sixth birthday on Thursday.
Action of scale committee to restore the 1903 mining scale in the Central district for two years and to restore the day wage and dead work scale of 1903 in the Southwestern district. An 8 cent per ton advance at basing points was also approved.
In Chita East Siberia on March 29 Governor General Rennankempf commuted the death sentences from a court martial on thirteen postal workers involved in a recent strike. They received varying terms of penal servitude and some were exiled.
March 29 report from Kennard Mills Texas describes John Hawton and Chester Taylor in a fight resulting in Taylor struck on the skull with a scantling and dying.
Shawnee Oklahoma March 29 Mrs Emma Himsted a longtime Shawnee resident and pioneer dies suddenly at home. Her death ends a life tied to the early development of the city and its civic memory.
Glveston reports Willie Sims a Brooklyn youth who came to Texas to work on a ranch was sent back home. The incident reflects migrant labor movements and local enforcement actions during the period.
In Shreveport on March 29 a plan to organize a one hundred thousand club is announced, aiming to gather a large donor or membership group for community support.
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