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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1906
Page
2
Pleas of guilty received in county court in cases where all parties are identified as negroes. Orange Williams pled simple assault and was fined five dollars plus costs.
Cleve Sparks fined one dollar and costs for disturbing the peace. John Grays fined one hundred dollars and costs for carrying a pistol. James Brush fined five dollars and costs for simple assault. Lige Reddin and Will Garrett cited for carrying pistol and simple assault. Probate business opened with wills of Capt. S. M. Derden, Mrs. M. J. Tabor, and Mrs. L. Tiebout admitted to probate.
The Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York mails voting ballots to policyholders with a request to return names and addresses for duplicates. The Texas Free Baptist Association meets in Beckville Panola county beginning tomorrow for four days with delegates from Brazos county churches. Bryan church delegates include Walter Lowry M S Edge and J J Tatum. Rev J J Tatum and T A Searcy will also attend. The Bryan church extends a call to Rev Tatum who has served a year and aims to continue serving. he and his family are well regarded locally.
A group of citizens met in Waco and formed a permanent organization to petition the McLennan County Democratic executive committee to meet October 27 and move to resubmit to Democratic voters the question of whether J. W. Bailey should again represent them in the Senate. The document avoids specific charges but claims a large majority oppose Bailey's re-election and will circulate the petition statewide.
The Texas division of the Red Cross association held its annual meeting at the fair grounds auditorium in Dallas. Members assembled at the emergency hospital, escorted by Spanish American War veterans, then moved to the kindergarten booth for dinner followed by addresses, music, and a reception in the auditorium.
Helena Ark Oct 16 The jury in a damage suit from Miss Vitt and Miss Emmons of St Louis awarded Vitt 625 dollars and Emmons 1000 dollars against a Mississippi county farmer Musgrave The court clerk said there would be no appeal and the client would pay the damages
Six hundred and fifty Negroes depart Fort Worth on Tuesday for cotton fields in the territories of west and east Texas. They will be paid one dollar per one hundred pounds picked, a wage aimed at securing needed field labor for local crops.
St. Petersburg October 16 Von Wollant charge d affaires of Russia in Mexico has been appointed Russian minister to that republic
In Havana on October 16 Liberals deny that Manuel Silveria the missing alleged defaulter financed them.
New York reports Mrs Jefferson Davis took a turn for the worse Monday night and was reported dying at midnight. Her family gathered at the Majestic hotel as pneumonia followed a summer Adirondacks rest and a cold upon arrival. Relatives and physicians remained at the bedside through the night. grandson Jefferson Hayes Davis, a Princeton student, was summoned.
Rev. Sam P. Jones of Cartersville Ga died of heart failure in a sleeping car near Perry Ark on Rock Island Train No 4 after leaving a revival in Oklahoma City His wife Mrs Jones and daughters Mrs Annie Pyron and Miss Julia Jones were with him He spoke of attending a family reunion for his fifty ninth birthday day March? He collapsed after drinking hot water and Rev Walt Holcomb aided him at the end
A hurricane near Bluefields Nicaragua caused about 1 million dollars in damage across the coast of Central America. It struck Little and Big Corn islands and shifted terrain, with banana and rubber crops destroyed and plantations blown down. Rama and Port Limon Costa Rica also reported damage.
Former United States senator Joseph Ralph Burton of Kansas refused to discuss the Supreme Court's refusal to hear his case. He told an Associated Press reporter that this is not my time to talk and has asked his lawyers to arrange an early start to his imprisonment.
Robert Branham, a Black man, was found guilty in two separate superior court trials of attempted criminal assault on Misses Mabel and Ethel Lawrence in a suburb of Atlanta on August 20. He was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary on each conviction.
Major E R Quattlebaum customs inspector, a familiar figure in the south, fell twenty feet from the United States barge office to a wharf in Mobile and died two hours later. He leaves a family and many relatives across several states.
In Paris Texas on October 16, news notes that wives and daughters of Roxton merchants who own farms joined the cotton picking. An 83 year old woman carried a stool to the field to avoid loneliness while picking.
Reno Hutchinson secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association was shot and killed by highwaymen at Seventh and Howard streets in the residence section of Spokane Washington on October 16.
John Owens, a Texas farmer, was attacked by a robber on First Street in Waco. Owens grappled the assailant and, after drawing his pocket knife, wounded the robber in the thigh before the robber fled.
Shawnee Oklahoma October 16 Charles J Benson longtime county banker sold his interests to J W Rubey of Kansas City and retired from the presidency of the Oklahoma National Bank ending a fifteen year tenure in the banking business continuous service.
The Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of certiorari in Cumberland Telephone Co. v. City of Nashville. The dispute involved local taxation of the company's property within Nashville and the court sustained the city's contentions.
A Frisco southbound freight struck a burning bridge between Hamden on Goodland L T. The engine and one car cleared the span safely, but seven apple cars tumbled into the ditch as the bridge gave way.
Greensboro Alabama October 16 a fire destroyed the Greensboro warehouse holding more than 1000 bales of cotton causing an estimated loss above 100000 with partial insurance.
The body of Rev. Sam P. Jones, after embalming in Little Rock, was sent to Cartersville, Georgia for interment. A local Masonic escort accompanied the remains to the station. No services were held in Little Rock, but ministers visited Mrs. Jones and her daughters. Mrs. Jones asked Rev. George H. Stuart and E. O. Excell to meet the party at Cartersville.
Roanoke Virginia report says three workers were killed in a premature dynamite explosion at a quarry Monday. Rescue teams recovered the victims as authorities investigated the blast cause and safety failures.
Elgin Illinois on October 16 reports total butter output for the past week at 88 675 000 pounds, reflecting activity in local dairy production and processing facilities.
Large consignments of dead dried flies are being loaded onto the Leyland Line steamer Albanian in Galveston for Liverpool. About 2,800 pounds of insects will be ground for medicinal use by European chemists, shipped from Vera Cruz Mexico.
In Vidalia Georgia on October 16 Will T Gilpin a lumber inspector fatally shot W W McDonald a prominent Douglas lawyer at a hotel. McDonald died about twelve hours later and reportedly stated he did not want Gilpin prosecuted. McDonald had served as mayor of Douglas and was vice president of the National Bank.
Rev. L. R. Scott, aged 66, a Baptist minister and former Confederate soldier in the Third Texas Cavalry Hood’s brigade, died at his Dallas home. Born in Spartanburg District sixty six years ago he served as pastor in Paris Sherman and Corsicana and had pursued missionary work for about six years.
Guthrie Oct 16 Rev B Ober of Custer county seeks delegate to the constitutional convention. He and his wife are both over eighty and married over sixty years. He has promised to walk four miles and preach a sermon on his one hundredth birthday.
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