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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1906
Page
6
Real estate firm touts selling 2000 acres in days as proof of market strength. They highlight investor interest and urge more property listings from Bryan to Brazos County. Demand targets homes from 500 to 1000 dollars with future circulars to promote properties.
The American Red Cross forwarded three hundred thousand dollars by wire on Monday to James D. Phelan, chair of the relief committee in San Francisco. He was advised another million dollars was at the committee’s disposal while Judge W. W. Morrow, president of the California Red Cross, noted the funds.
Dr Edward T Devine reports Red Cross policy pivots to sending money rather than food and provisions for earthquake victims. He notes a detailed tally through April 28 of supplies received en route or ordered including stoves forage lumber flour meat and various stores from multiple carloads and ships.
Mayor Schmitz urges donations of cash clothing and provisions to support the war effort. Funds to James D. Phelan, supplies to Major C A Devol at the Presidio wharf San Francisco.
San Francisco records two slight earthquake shocks an hour apart on Monday morning, part of a series since the April 18 quake with no damage or major alarm. Other brief items note Secretary Bonaparte's non serious indigestion, a near silent Shamokin mining region, a Dallas altar cloth theft, and a Lexington bartender shooting.
Police Commissioner Blaylock resigns in Dallas. Dallas resident Mrs. B R Anderson robbed of 215 dollars in diamonds. Farmers Union buys 10000 dollar Everhart gin near Bells Texas. Choctaw girl loses right arm in accident. General Kuropatkin defense in Russo Japanese war. Ex cashier Goll convicted on nineteen counts. steamship line planned Port Arthur to New York. Religious orders split 1 million dollars in Philippines friar lands. rattlesnake bite helps boys near Haskell Texas. Lightning kills John Herg near Erie Pennsylvania. Katy Railway reports 4783 cattle carloads hauled April 29 on Fort Worth division.
In Chicago Zion City Dowie, amid a 2500 audience, denounces accusers and demands names of those who claim he misused funds. He defends himself, recalls family betrayals, and lauds wife’s “noble qualities” while criticizing Voliva followers at a concurrent revival.
Texas League results show Fort Worth 4 Cleveland 3, Dallas 5 Greenville 0, Waco 5 Temple 1. South Texas League games end Galveston 2 Houston 2, Lake Charles 4 Beaumont 3, Austin 1 San Antonio 0. Southern League tallies Memphis 7 Little Rock 5 and Shreveport 4 New Orleans 8. National and American League scores feature Cincinnati 11 Pittsburg 6, Chicago 4 St Louis 2, Cleveland 10 St Louis 3, Chicago 2 Detroit 1. Durrett escorted back to Montgomery to run the team with Mullaney interim and Curtis joining as first baseman. jury in Roanoke couldn't agree in murder case of Maurice Francis.
A large white cat crawled into the pipe organ at St. Luke's Lutheran church in York Pennsylvania on Sunday and halted an anthem until the cat was found by the organist and a search was conducted.
In Leming New Mexico on April 30 a pistol duel in front of the post office left W H Dicktey superintendent of city schools wounded in the side and Superintendent Duff of Luna County school killed. A battle of flowers event is planned in Mexico City Saturday.
West Texas markets show substantial cattle trading after Amarillo convention with multiple consignments sold to prominent buyers. Slaughter Long 8. two-year-olds head to Pioneer Cattle Co. of Montana. Pitchfork yearlings and Masterson twos attract buyers. prices vary from $15.75 to $21. Other major lots include McElroy two-year-olds to American Livestock and Loan Co. at about $18, and Scharbauer Reid, George D Elliot stock to the same lender. Additional consignments from Horshoe, Garrett, El Paso, and Deming attract sale activity with unquoted prices.
Congressmen Broocks Burgess and Moore of Texas along with Pujo Randell and Brousseau of Louisiana have accepted invitations to attend the Intercostal Canal convention at Lake Charles La on May 22. Minority Leader Williams sent Garner of Texas to object in Williams absence to unanimous consent until the statehood bill is acted on. Mr Stephens of Texas sought consent to order a reprint of a pending bill but was blocked by Texas colleagues.
Two letters reached the railroad commission by April 30 regarding a passenger fare reduction proposal. One writer opposed the plan while the other questioned why only a single route was being targeted. Officials had expected many letters in support when the notice was issued.
Chicago's city hall has settled due to excavation for the nearby county building. Entrances were roped off to prevent pedestrians from being harmed by falling coping and cornices. Foundations on the south end on Washington Street sunk several inches and the building leans toward the site of the future structure.
A severe rainstorm began Sunday night and continued into Monday morning. Three thousand feet of Rock Island railway track on the main line was washed out near Addington, a freight train derailed with no injuries to crew. Crops washed away and all streams overflowed in Indian Territory thirty miles from Red River.
El Paso reports that Vice President Corral of Mexico attended a Ciudad Juarez bullfight held for San Francisco relief. General Baldwin of the U S Army Mayor Davis of El Paso and other notables occupied boxes during the event.
Cleveland reports the death of Henry C. Rouse aged fifty six after a two week illness of pneumonia. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway and president of several western railways.
Houston reports prolonged drouth alarms planters as rain fails to allow seeding. Farmers consider artificial flooding in districts lacking irrigation ditches to avert losses and maintain crops.
A detail from Manila dated April 30 reports Moros on Samar island engaging Pulajames, with thirty Pulajames killed in the clash.
A Salem dispatch notes Sheriff Shaver died from his gunshot wounds after a Saturday ambush by outlaw Frank Smith during a capture attempt near Woodburn. He becomes the third victim in the outlaw's blood trail as authorities search for Smith.
Denver April 30 Mrs Dorothy Towne dies from injuries sustained after her husband James A Towne attacked her with a hatchet in a jealous frenzy last week The case connections extend to Chicago authorities as the tragedy concludes with her death and the husband’s earlier act noted in reports.
Father Thomas Sherman son of General Sherman leaves Fort Oglethorpe with Twelfth cavalry escort tracing his father’s march route to the sea. Cavalry detachment follows to Atlanta and Fort McPherson then continues to the sea. Meanwhile, Interior Department drafts new oil lands lease rules for Indian Territory. Other items note a $10,000 bond for torture by rebot pokers in Chicago, land sales in Texas, a five year sentence for Ab Knowles in Meridian, and a mob hanging at Rienzi Mississippi.
Mrs. A. B. Stoddard, a prominent local woman, was criminally assaulted in Appleby Texas. Suspect A. P. Gayne was arrested and moved first to Nacogdoches then Houston as a mob gathered, reportedly reaching 300 in number with various weapons.
Dallas police arrested twenty four Black men in the eastern part of the city near the union depot for gaming with dice during Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
Terre Haute April 30 Mrs John Diston of Grand View has given birth to two pairs of twins in eleven months, a remarkable sequence that drew local attention and questions about possible family history.
About 700 people in Bellevue Texas and nearby areas face destitution as of April 30 with scarce food and basic needs reported by local officials and relief groups. Widespread poverty and hardship drive appeals for aid and supplies.
Lady Phyllis of London Bystander denounces the modern doctor as a tyrant who imposes medicinal torments during illness and a burdensome preventive regime when well. She argues that physicians have gained excessive control and that people have become faddists.
Dallas acquires eleven new street cars while Antlers I T plans a $30 000 planing mill. A storm damages areas between Atoka and Oklahoma City. Texas Savings Bank will begin business in Houston with $100000 capital. Major Dan Egbert resigns after 11 years in Austin. Roosevelt praises baseball and plans to attend games.
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