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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1906
Page
8
In Hammon Oklahoma on November 13 unknown thieves stole banker Ww A Horr of Elk Citys grip at a restaurant. They cut it open and took 2000 new pennies Horr planned to deposit at a bank.
Mrs. Mary Hitchcock Cowles wife of Colonel Cowles Fifth United States Infantry and cousin of Captain Cowles US Navy died at Johns Hopkins Hospital of anemia at age fifty five.
Engineer W J McDaniel, for promoter Ed ward Kennedy, completed surveys west and east of the railroads and maps routes through Main Street area. Routes include Knowles Clarke Gentry properties west of the lines and paths to Texas Woman's College and the graded school, with no permanent route yet chosen. City council meets tonight to consider franchises as contract signing looms in coming days.
Chicago November 13 The Rock Island railroad management has signed orders for new equipment valued at 3 million dollars This amount adds to previous orders this year bringing total new rail assets to 6 million dollars for the company and its expansion plans.
Six children bitten by a mad dog at Tyler have been moved to the Pasteur Institute in Austin for treatment as of November 13.
Waterworks at Roffs Oklahoma completed. State Health Officer Tabor visiting east. Taft to push brigade post at Fort Sill. Chicago man Charles Isaacson found dead near Jackson Tennessee. Cheatham of Southern Cotton resigning. George Smith of Dallas dies from auto race injuries. Maurice Gombert bailed in Houston for wife murder. City Marshal Collins hat crown shot off by unknown. Rev. Dr H M Baird dies at Yonkers. Fire destroys three Nolanville businesses. Post office included. Child of Mrs Showalter dies after fall at Trinity hotel.
Bond of Lamar Bethea county attorney approved. Sheriff Nall’s prisoner feed account for quarter ending Nov 12 total 206.70 and approved. Various officers reports for quarter ending Nov 12 examined and approved with noted collections. A new road near the Putz gin requested. Hi Franklin's butcher’s report examined and approved.
King Haakon Queen Maud and Crown Prince Olaf of Norway arrived off Spithead aboard the Victoria and Albert and landed at Portsmouth for a state visit to King Edward and Queen Alexandra. They traveled to Windsor to meet the royal hosts and will spend a week at Windsor Castle.
Albert Taylor of the Albert Taylor Stock company faces a U S indictment for producing the play When We Were Twenty One in Dallas last summer without owner consent. He was arrested at Wichita Falls with $200 bond set for January appearance in Dallas federal court. The case marks an early test under the new copyright law.
Nashville November 13 The Southern Immigration and Educational conference formed a permanent body to be known as the Southern Immigration and Industrial association. Officers elected include President D C Heyward of Columbia South Carolina and secretary treasurer J R McMullen of Gasden Alabama. Next annual convention set for Birmingham Alabama on the second Tuesday in November 1907.
A block of eleven houses in Tyler Texas burned, causing an estimated 55000 in damage with 29000 insured. Mrs Kennedy and children escaped as the roof collapsed. Deaf mute Will Wood credited with surviving due to Stella Hoffman who warned him moments before.
Houston excursion notice lists account No-tsu-oh carnival from Nov 11 to 16 with $3.60 rate and a Nov 19 limit. Special trains to Bryan at 10 40 a m on Nov 13 and 15 offer $1.00 round trip, with limits of Nov 15 and 17 respectively.
Articles of incorporation filed for a new Yankton and Southern railroad from Yankton to Galveston with headquarters at Yankton and an office in Cincinnati. The capitalization is $100,000,000 and the stockholders include J. W. Gamble Isaac Peels Fremont Hill Jesse Lowman Thomas R. Paxton Alfred Hill John Wharrington William Cooper Proctor.
A westbound Missouri Pacific passenger train left the rails near Glen Coe twenty seven miles west of St. Louis as rails spread at full speed. Miraculously all aboard escaped with cuts and bruises while the train plunged into an embankment tearing up 200 feet of track.
In Houston Mississippi on November 13 A E Clements and Hugh Austin dueled on a road. Clements fired a shotgun twice, missing. Austin responded with a pistol and knife, killing Clements. Domestic affairs were cited as the cause.
The fifty-eighth session of the Texas Baptist association adjourned in Waco and will reconvene next year at San Antonio. Rev. Dr. Prestridge spoke to Baylor college students, who attended in a body. Rev. Lee R. Scarborough of Abilene was blessed as secretary of the educational commission.
J R Zimmerman admitted conspiring to wreck a national bank in federal court. He received a two year penitentiary sentence and a $10000 fine. Zimmerman was chairman of the Wooster National Bank board when it failed about two years prior.
From New Bedford Massachusetts on November 13 sources say the Arctic fleet expects a fall whalebone catch not exceeding 20000 pounds. So far the total fall catch across six ships stands at nine whales.
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