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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1906
Page
1
Mrs. Jefferson Davis widow of the Confederacy’s president dies at the Hotel Majestic in New York City at 10:25 p.m. after a week of illness from pneumonia triggered by a cold from her Adirondack summer. revival hopes faded Monday with a worse outlook.
The long illness of Mrs. ABS Jefferson Davis ends with her death at a city residence. Attendants include Dr Gustava Webb and Dr Robert H. Wylie. Family members present include J Addison Hayes and Jefferson Davis Hayes. funeral plans call for Richmond, Virginia, as the final resting place alongside the late Confederacy president.
Texas Cattle Raisers' Association petitions the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging higher car rates from Texas to New Orleans after cancellations by Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway International and Great Northern Railway and Texas and New Orleans Railway. They seek just and reasonable through rates to limit livestock damage.
Thousands of women from Japan Australia and over fifty countries gather in Boston for the triennial World’s Convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Delegates will hear speeches from noted temperance leaders including Miss Agnes Slack and Mrs Dorothy Howard as Wednesday is devoted to devotional activities.
Seven states send drill teams to the Pythian biennial encampment in New Orleans with Wednesday performances by Scilian company No. 1 of Kansas City A L Vigo company of Vigo Indiana and Battle Creek company of Battle Creek Michigan. Open air religious services are held at City Park race track conducted by Chaplain in Chief Lewis as convention business sessions begin.
The Society of the Army of the Cumberland gathered in Chattanooga for its forty first annual reunion with several thousand veterans from the North, led by General Gates P Thurston as president. Senator Foraker delivered the night address after serving in the Eighty-ninth Ohio. Auxiliary reunions including the Sixteenth Ohio drew hundreds of members.
Fort Worth October 17 Texas Bricklayers' Association will demand that every state local receive 75 cents per hour. The move targets higher wages for journeymen and aims to raise overall earning standards for bricklayers across Texas.
The state house flag in Austin is lowered to half mast on October 17 in memory of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. The observance marks a formal mourning gesture by state officials.
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