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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1905
Page
6
An advertisement touts Dr Behrens as a mental science healer who cures chronic and acute ailments from rheumatism to cancers using subconscious vibrations and Life Force. It claims pain relief in 15 to 30 minutes without contact and offers free consultation. 44-
Houston testaments from May 15 1905 praise Dr. Behrens for curing LaGrippe rheumatism paralysis and gland trouble in multiple patients and a mother and daughter note relief from headaches and neuralgia. The letter set includes names Joe Middleton J P Scober J K Smith Ben Meyer F Wilson and Mrs Lemans with addresses and office hours.
The New York Court of Appeals denied Albert T. Patrick's motion for reargument in his murder conviction and death sentence for W M Rice. Senator David B. Hill filed the motion on October 2. The decision leaves Patrick with potential executive clemency and Hill hints at Supreme Court appeal.
Strikers halt machinery at an electric light plant plunging St. Petersburg into total darkness. Reports say Red flags fly at Khar korf while mobs smash factory windows and the League of Leagues spreads across the city with agents raising funds for agitation. In Warsaw troops were ordered to shoot armed agitators. A separate note describes a hospital car exhibit in Chicago by Southern Pacific with an oper ating room, a dietary kitchen, and adjustable berths.
A Louisville Southern train fell fifty feet from a bridge into a creek seven miles from Lexington, injuring several passengers but causing no reported deaths. The tender, baggage and smoking cars were wrecked while the bridge collapsed. Engineer A. Phillips escaped injury by yanking the throttle and steering the engine across the damaged span.
In Chicago Adolph Perbahner leaped from a fourth story plate glass window to escape warrants on conspiracy and fraud charges tied to his real estate and loan business, dying instantly on the pavement near the city hall. In New York William Travers Jerome was unanimously nominated for district attorney by the Republican county convention.
Thousands attend the opening of the State Fair of Texas in Dallas as Governor Lanham dedicates the new Exposition Hall and Auditorium. A 500 child chorus sings America and a parade precedes the formal ceremony. President Keating and Mayor Barry address the crowd.
Dr Hal Walker Manson 64 died in Rockwall Texas after a career as a physician and journalist. A Rockwall Sentinel co proprietor and former 1897 legislator he served in the Civil War with General Early and lost a leg. Surviving him are Rev C J Scofield Dallas and the one other veteran of their company.
A fire at 1 a m Saturday razed the Hood-Hoo planing mill in Galveston Texas along with several nearby houses owned mainly by African Americans. The Moore and Goodman mill, incorporated at 10 000 dollars, faced total damages estimated at 10 000 to 12 000 dollars.
Oct 28 report from El Paso says the dome on Monterey’s great cathedral collapsed and crushed the church, a landmark built in 1792. In Eagle Pass, Louis Zertuche, agent for the Mexican International railway at Bajan, was accidentally killed when a pistol slipped from his hip pocket.
A group of African Americans in San Antonio Texas raised funds for Monk Gibson's defense and retained Attorney Greenly to represent him.
The Creek Indians council meeting in Okmulgee ends without backing a standalone state movement. It passes resolutions affirming faith in the government to honor treaty pledges and deems the Aug. 21 convention at Muskogee not representative. Miss Alice Roosevelt has returned to Washington.
A light snowfall touched Oklahoma City on Friday. Reports note a series of local incidents including a rail accident near Greenville South Carolina where a fireman was killed, a man wounded by a gun in Plano Texas, and a fatal hit by a train near Strawn Texas. Also listed are a sheriff sale in Letitia Oklahoma, a capture of a mortgage, and a townsite sale of 120 acres to Hammond Bros for 885 dollars.
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