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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1906
Page
5
A lengthy string of items from the Bryan area notes train schedules, shop displays, visitors, employment, and social notices. Names such as Carter, Cavitt, Hodges, and Wilson appear alongside local stores, schools, and upcoming events amid a bustle of daily life reports.
Regular meeting of Brazos Lodge No. 64 Knights of Pythias is set for tonight at 8 30 o clock Attendance is urged. George A Adams is the clerk commander.
Dallas architect Flanders attended a Methodist church building committee gathering last night and expressed satisfaction with the church’s progress to date. The notice also lists candy prices, Jewish New Year closing hours, and various local notices about laundry, emblems, and school pins.
Havana reports 2000 government soldiers under Colonel Betancourt mass at Matanzas. They expect orders to march on Havana. Rebels have resumed destroying Cuban Western Railroad property, a British enterprise. An important bridge at Santa Cruz near Taco Taco and smaller bridges in the district are wrecked. Trains reach Artemas but no telegraphic communication beyond.
A Kuhn, Loeb & Co representative said reports of selling Baltimore and Ohio Railway stock to Union Pacific are premature. Negotiations for sale are underway but not completed. The statement confirms rumors of E. H. Harriman seeking a large B and O interest, with Harriman holdings in Chicago and Alton and control of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific.
Leon county Texas voted wet by twenty one. Dallas Daily Dispatch debuts as new Dallas afternoon paper. Judge J K Helton died near Meridian at ninety. A laborer drowned off a Port Arthur dredge. Mrs J W Abbott committed suicide near Campbell with carbolic acid. W B Ochiltree died in Houston. Hardeman County approved fifty thousand dollar courthouse bonds. Arthur Bushnell lost a finger in Monterey Mexico. National Negro Baptist convention meets in Memphis and will next year meet in Washington. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen renamed to Firemen and Engineers. E J Smith died from injuries after horse threw him. Ben Killingsworth with arm severed in Longview gin.
Reported as vague news of a northbound Rock Island train plunging into the Cimarron river between Dover and Kingfisher Oklahoma. Engineer and fireman feared drowned. a bridge collapse on the Enid and Anadarko line near Isabella Ringwood noted amid record rainfall and washed-out railroad beds.
Wichita reports a Rock Island wreck eight miles from Hennessey Oklahoma with 225 persons said to have been carried into the Cimarron river. Only six reported safe and the status of others is not yet known.
In a broad expansion push under President Ripley, the Santa Fe Railway begins upgrades to its main line. Plans include a Silver City to Winkelman tunnel bypass to ease steep grades, potentially enabling a Galveston through route. Concurrently Hill interests contest Harriman’s held districts in central Oregon as the California Northeastern purchase by Southern Pacific signals broader railroad strategic moves. Officials of the San Francisco Idaho and Montana road report large contracts and surveyed routes, with construction soon to start.
Jack Kinsky a brakeman on the Katy local fell between cars during coupling at Plum thirteen miles south of Smithville and was cut in two. He died instantly leaving a widow and two children.
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