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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1905
Page
8
In Wichita Kansas on October 18 ex convict Simpson lay comatose with doctors reporting absolutely no hope of recovery. The story appears amid a column of miscellaneous moral and social quips and poems.
Fort Worth, Oct 18. Governor Hogg remained in critical condition Tuesday night as doctors diagnosed cardiac dropsy with fluid in skin and lungs. Dr. C. Walker, a leading surgeon, questioned tapping and advised systemic treatment. Dr. Jameson of Palestine echoed the danger. A transfer to Protestant sanitarium was planned but no room was available.
Edna Texas October 18 grand jury returns six indictments against Monk Gibson each with two counts. He is charged with five murders and one criminal assault on Mildred Lee Conditt daughter. Victims include Lora Lee Conditt killed with an axe and others killed with a knife or iron bar. Form of indictment identical across cases with victim names and weapon specified.
At a directors meeting the Oriental Hotel association awarded a local contractor a contract for a six story annex at Akard and Jackson streets across from the current hotel. The project costs over 150000 dollars and will add 100 rooms excluding the first floor with work starting immediately.
In San Angelo Texas on October 18 Jim Corbett also known as Boston Corbett was convicted of perjury in a pension case and sentenced to three years at hard labor in the Atlanta Georgia federal penitentiary and to pay 100 dollars.
Austin on October 18 reports the Cotton Belt and International and Great Northern will join two more lines appealing Judge Brooks to sustain the Love tax bill.
In Cheyenne Wyoming on October 18 thirty four people were injured and possibly three fatally when a northbound Cheyenne and Northern train derailed on a curve near Horse Creek thirty five miles north of Cheyenne. The smoker and day coach left the rails and tumbled twenty feet down an embankment while the locomotive and baggage car cleared the weak spot.
In Port Royal Franklin County Mrs Alice Hartman and five children were burned to death as their home burned. The husband William Hartman escaped but could not save any family members.
Oklahoma City report says Mrs. A Thomlineson went to a neighbor's home and returned to find her diamonds valued at 400 dollars missing from her house. Muskogee notices warn Creek Nation businesses delinquent on tribal tax will be closed within 24 hours.
The Japan American society hosted a dinner at the Maple Club in Tokio with Baron Kaneko presiding. William Jennings Bryan praised the cordial historic ties between the two nations and enjoyed the pure Japanese style of entertainment.
At Gibraltar on October 18 the British torpedo boat Cherwell was fired on by Moors while anchored between Ceuta and Ceuta. The Cherwell responded with a searchlight but suffered no casualties as bullets pierced her funnels.
New Orleans nears full normalcy after a successful Federal yellow fever campaign. Quarantines lift citywide and rural areas, with fewer cases and deaths reported. President Roosevelt’s visit remains tentatively on schedule, though New Orleans becomes the final stop to avoid fever risk.
Washington reports a presidential proclamation bans export of arms ammunition and munitions from the United States and Porto Rico to the Dominican Republic. An explanatory memorandum notes the act follows consult with the Dominican government and aims to help enforcement against revolutionaries obtaining war supplies.
The whaling schooner Era arrives in New Bedford from Hudson Bay after two seasons with much whalebone. Captain Comer cites a letter from Commander Amundsen stating the Norwegian Arctic expedition completed the northwest passage. natives reported the voyage and the Gjoa planned to move Behring Strait in winter.
News from Wheeler oil field near Ardmore says a new gusher has been brought in by the Santa Fe railway. Experts pronounce the grade better than Beaumont, with supply to be piped here. The well has been plugged.
A tornado west of Milford Oklahoma on October 18 killed two children of E R Anderson. Mrs Anderson and Miss Maud Root were seriously injured.
New York October 18 President McCurdy of Mutual Life Insurance testified before the Insurance investigating committee. He disclosed a literary bureau sent material to press and a journalist paid 28 a year. He defended salaries and noted clerical cuts while executive pay remained, and acknowledged wine was served during a St. Louis exposition reception.
The body of Sir Henry Irving was secretly removed to a crematorium and cremated at dawn. The ashes will be taken to Westminster Abbey and lie in state in St Laith's chapel until the funeral on Friday.
Madrid dispatch says Anjera tribe bandits freed Captain Crowther and Lieutenant Shatton after fearing a British torpedo boat attack. They had been seized at Ceuta.
Leonard Imboden James A Hill C B Wilfley E E Hull Co C Robert W T Camp D M Carey A B Davis and J H Edmondson were indicted by the grand jury on conspiring to steal 1 712 587 dollars from the Denver savings bank.
Altus Oklahoma reports sewer storm damage while Hastings Nebraska resident H J Anderson dies in Oklahoma City. Dallas grants 41 building permits. a Hutchins barn burns, killing a mule. Fort Sill artilleryman J J George dies when thrown from a cannon. Shawnee man J M Warner loses a foot in a train accident and dies. Rosebud Texas man T J Hill dies from gunshot wounds to the bowels. Oscar Wakefield surrenders. Gas flows at Wheeler near Ardmore reach 2 000 000 cubic feet per hour with roar heard miles away. In a Minden Louisiana wreck ex conductor J W Boyd is killed with three others injured.
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