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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1906
Page
6
The Carmelina captain reports Havana fugitive Senor Silveira and his family were landed at Puerto Cabello from Havana on Oct. 2 after arriving from Puerto Cabello to Caracas, confirming earlier reports.
A blizzard swept Amarillo Texas and surrounding plains on Monday with winds near sixty miles per hour. Sleet and snow covered grasslands and cattle stood in good condition as the cold intensified from Childress, fourteen miles south of Amarillo, toward the region.
One of the alleged revolutionists arrested in Ciudad Juarez last Friday night is Japan Sarabia, reportedly a publisher of Regeneracion printed in St. Louis. He was caught in Juarez disguised as a tramp with two other Mexicans. They are being sent to Chihuahua.
Vice President Fairbanks was warmly welcomed in Tulsa by a cross party reception and Hoosier club. He addressed local issues from the Grand Opera House urging balanced capital restrictions to protect citizens as Oklahoma builds its state economy. The street speech was cancelled due to rain.
The Texas and Pacific and the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio railways plan new service west of Abilene and San Antonio. G H and SA will run a double daily west of San Antonio by Dec 16, with equipment ordered. T and P will add a through train west of Abilene by Nov 4, with preparations complete.
The will of Daniel O Day, Standard Oil capitalist, who died in France, was filed Monday. His entire estate goes to his widow and twelve children. Mrs. O Day will receive income of $325 000 during life unless she remarries. New York Oct 2
In Dallas on October 93 the Woodmen held a parade along Main and Elm with about a dozen bands. North Fort Worth camp displayed axes while in the fair grounds auditorium officials spoke at Woodmen day 4 events drawing large crowds.
Dallas Oct 93 Senator Bailey said in conversation he planned shipping his Kentucky horses to his Cooke county farm.
The October 93 State Association of Electricians named President N. H. King of San Antonio Vice President A. Ss. Gorman of Fort Worth Secretary Treasurer C. S. Vickers of Dallas and Conductor S. T. Sikes of Houston A committee was appointed to secure legislative enactment of a license law and efforts continued in Fort Worth.
A pistol duel at Hoffman Mississippi left Arthur Ingram and B L Howard Jr both wounded and believed fatally, after a dispute over crop division. They are brothers in law and residents near Durant. The clash occurred four miles north of Durant, reported by a Memphis based correspondent.
On October 23 Groveton Texas residents forming a law and order group gave bootleggers and gamblers an hour to quit illegal businesses. Seven of nine complied and others were evacuated with doors nailed shut. Owners were told not to rent for illegal use following the assassination of Detective Meyers.
The Sunset Limited derailed on the South Pacific near New Orleans on October 23 injuring about forty Black passengers, with one killed immediately and others fatally hurt. Three white passengers were injured as mail and baggage cars and an engine left the rails.
A masked gang held a Sawyer North Dakota crowd at bay for three hours while two robbers blew open the Sawyer State bank and seized 4500 dollars. Over 300 shots fired. a citizen was wounded in the head but expected to survive as the robbers were cornered six miles north amid ongoing fighting.
Galveston Oct 23. Henderson returns from work to find his wife Rose Aife hanging herself in a doorway at 5 30 p m. He, a carpenter, reported the scene after discovering her in the doorway. Butter sales for Elgin Illinois were 671 600 pounds in the past week.
Briefs note Norway's parliament in session and various local tragedies and accidents across Texas Oklahoma and surrounding states. Incidents include a calaboose fire in Terrell Texas a body found near Calvert Brazos River a suicide near Vallia church New a lad and deaths from fight and accident in multiple towns.
Chaos erupted as the play The Clansman opened at Walnut Street theater with a protest by local negro clergy led by Mayor Weaver. Police and patrol wagons swarmed Ninth and Walnut as ministers demanded cessation and crowd control was required to disperse the mob. A negro man tried to incite trouble in the gallery and was arrested amid the unrest.
A Herald cable from Caracas reports Manuel Silveira, the Cuban banker, arriving Oct 10 in Venezuela while charged with absconding with $1,000,000 from J. M. Ceballos & Co. He rented a fashionable house and appeared well received. He says he left the firm solvent with assets of $1,500,000 to cover $700,000 owed, and feigns astonishment at the allegations.
New Orleans reports the amended constitution of the supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias adopted. A key change grants the uniform rank a voice in nominating its major general, to be approved by the supreme chancellor before the lodge votes. The age limit remains at twenty one. Other amendments were approved.
The Supreme Court sustained the U S circuit court ruling denying jurisdiction in Sullivan versus the St Louis Brownsville and Mexico Railway case. Sullivan sought to stop the railroad from removing tracks from his control in Bexar County Texas claiming a railroad law violation.
An eastbound Midland Valley train wreck seven miles west of Claremore Oklahoma injures about twenty people. Reported seriously hurt are Mrs F D Clary and several others from Arkansas City Kan Rockford Ill Pawhuska and nearby towns.
A white citizens proclamation in Jonesville orders all idle residents to work or depart, following threats against farmers by Black residents. One assailant was whipped after capture, escaping during a church panic caused by a dash into services. In New York, the Board of Elections sides with Independence League over use of the party name and emblem, with Supreme Court appeal planned.
New York reports the cotton market opened steady with a 1 point decline and a 1 point rise in response to overseas cables. Prices showed minimal early movement as traders awaited further guidance from global trends.
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