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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1905
Page
6
An advertisement touts ENSURANCE and Buy Life Insurance Policies covering fire tornado and like insurances. It promotes affordable rates with various indemnities including accident and sickness coverages and livestock life insurance. It also offers cotton incentives for holders in town or on farms.
The trial of United States Senator Burton of Kansas saw letters and telegrams between Senator Burton and attorney Thomas B. Harlan introduced as a feature of day two. The defense objected to their relevance to the indictment.
Government witnesses identified letters from Harlan to Senator Burton dated November 18 1902 discussing Rialto company counsel terms and a monthly salary of 500 dollars. Burton replies noting two complaints against Rialto from Albany New York and promising due process. Four $500 checks from Rialto to Burton while in Washington were presented and endorsed.
Six young men from Gladewater returning by hand car after a circus in Longview were struck by a freight train at dawn. Herschel Cabaniss was cut to pieces and the others leaped to safety, their wrecked hand car strewn along the road for about 100 yards.
State Health Officer Tabor received resolutions from the Jefferson County Medical association praising his fearless effort to keep yellow fever out of the state and denouncing as false a report of fifteen cases in one county. Judge Terrell conferred with the governor on a possible extra session, with no action announced. Insurance Commissioner Clay urged policyholders to attend Friday San Antonio meeting to form a permanent organization.
A leak in an ammonia pipe in the cooling rooms at Houston Packing Company asphyxiated Steve Johnson and seriously affected seven other Black workers in the same department. The injured were taken to a hospital. H. A. Halverton, former alderman, sues the city for 1500 dollars over the new charter and commission form of government. The suit could cost the city about 150000 dollars if successful, affecting twelve aldermen.
Senator Depew's rambunctious friend was named in the New York insurance probe as W. S. Manning of Albany. John A. Nichols testified he paid Manning to abandon his actuary work, via retainer funds and concealed vouchers, to protect Manning and suppress information harmful to Equitable Life.
Albany November 22 W S Manning of this city reacted angrily to news of his name in the New York investigation saying if they want to hear from me they should call me before the committee. He adds the inquiry should focus on the insurance department and its officials possibly knowing or being incompetent.
King Charles of Portugal arrives in Paris to reciprocate President Loubet’s Lisbon visit. He is greeted at Dauphine station by Loubet and Premier Rouvier and escorted to the foreign office. He will stay three days with state dinners opera gala military review and a hunt amid elaborate decorations.
The cotton market opened steady with a 4 to 5 point drop as trading surged on disappointing cables. Bulls stayed cautious while shorts fueled the lift, days high mirrored Tuesday's close before activity waned midmorning. Weather in the South is favorable and receipts are heavy, with private wires noting firm sentiment for higher prices.
Dave Sims, a Black man who killed R. F. Jones at his home near Baugh station, was lynched by an armed mob shortly after midnight. A posse captured him Tuesday night, he confessed, and he was taken to Baugh station before being hanged from a tree. the crowd then returned to Coahoma.
The Liverpool cotton market opened Wednesday excited and 33 to 36 points higher due to ginners' report and higher American prices. By noon values were 32 to 63 points over Tuesday's close while fluctuations remained normal. In New Orleans the market opened unchanged to 1 point down with an early decline of 7 to 8 points.
Patsy Lavin, arrested in Kansas City on November 5 from tips from Waco Texas, was freed from the county jail after Texas prosecutors dismissed the Rockdale post office robbery charges. Lavin’s reputation among post office inspectors and U S secret service men stems from aiding in the 1901 St. Louis Union Station robbery case. Jerry Kohler and John Fickley were later convicted. Finckley received a life sentence and Kohler a long term.
Four special trains transport 600 Rancho del Paso horses to New York valued around 1 million dollars with insurance near that figure. The shipment costs about 60 thousand dollars for transport. John Mackey and W H Shedaker traveled in the last car of the fourth train, each train led by a foreman with two grooms per car.
In Hitchcock Oklahoma Jimimie Bluid a Cheyenne Indian and J H Hobbie were killed after Hobbie and his brother hunted rabbits on Bluid's allotment. Hobbie fired at a rabbit then was ambushed a second time. he died fifteen minutes later. A shot then tore off Bluid's head. Hobbie leaves a wife and one child.
The earliest horseshoe forms began as leather boots for heavy war horses. Greek, Roman, and Persian war horses often went unshod with hoof hardening methods used. Metal horseshoes appear in Pope Leo VI's era, died 911, but earlier metal shoes are found in sixth century tombs. Eastern shoes were circular with flanges clamping the hoof sides.
Havana reports police seized sixty Remington rifles in a raid on a house near San Juan de Martinez Pinar del Rio where fifty anti government conspirators were gathered. Colonel Julian Cruse a notable local figure was arrested and will be tried.
Chicago news report says Frank Vochla was arrested on suspicion of killing stenographer Maude Reese Tuesday night. Police say the suspect was injured with fresh cuts on his head and face during the escape when he dashed through a window.
The Lord Dufferine, bound from Port Talbot to Galveston, had its main shaft break on Tuesday and was towed to Queenstown by the Capalla from Calvestor for Liverpool.
Washington officials report the exchange of the ratified treaty between Russia and Japan has been postponed from the previously set Wednesday date.
Mrs. Lola King at the National hotel reports $250 in gold certificates stolen. Police issued a midnight search warrant for a nearby house occupied by a black man but found nothing. The money, all in twenty dollar gold notes, was allegedly hidden under the room matting.
Dallas November 22 Baptists re elected Rev Dr W H Parks of Morgan as president of the Baptist Missionary Association. Officers include Vice President H B Pender of Greenville Recording Secretary L L Sams Ennis Treasurer R L McCuistion Carthage and correspond ing secretaries J M Newburn Jacksonville and S J Anderson Dallas The association secured 15000 for the Texas Baptist University.
Mrs Joe Sanbourn faced a brutal assault after telling a tramp she was unsure about feeding him in Muskogee on November 22. She was knocked down and suffered a head gash in the attack.
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