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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
6
Gloversville New York September 19 Lucius V Litteaur congressman issued a formal statement refusing to accept renomination by the Republican party. He cites personal reasons and states he will not seek another term. The move shocks local Republicans and leaves a vacant district choice.
Republican Representative Lucius N. Littauer nominated in the Thirty second district. President Roosevelt met with Congressman Littauer at Oyster Bay last week. St Louis Wins. American League club defeats New York 7 to 2. Other scores include Cleveland 8 Washington 5 and Philadelphia 8 St Louis 2. Cincinnati 4 Brooklyn 2. Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 0. New York 2 Pittsburg 2. Boston 6 Chicago 4.
At Cimarron river wreck site near Dover Oklahoma two people are confirmed dead with many still missing. Sixteen injured remain, with two possibly dying, as searchers probe submerged cars and drifted victims along a twenty mile stretch. Full casualty count expected to take days.
A Frisco freight train plunged into the South Canadian river near Lawton causing the engineer and two brakemen to be missing. The fireman was found eight miles south of the bridge severely injured while the conductor was rescued. Wrecking crews work the river as reports list several possible fatalities and missing travelers from nearby Dover and Lawton. Names include H L Littlefield, Mrs Zells’s three year old, Gammon, Owenton, and Frank Cullen among others sighted in debris or downstream.
Twenty six elephants from a circus were unloaded at the Rock Island wreck site near Dallas and used to construct a pontoon bridge to aid crossing plans for southern engagements. S. J. Tucker of Rock Island in Dallas reported the Fort Worth offices confirmed the elephants’ assignment.
Oyster Bay and Denison dispatches report President Roosevelt extending the eight hour law to all public work under any government department chiefly affecting river and harbor improvements. Special agent J P Hollis from the bureau of corporations arrives to tour the state and investigate corporations including the packing house scandal.
There was no opposition to W. R. Hearst in the Erie county Democratic primaries for governor, and the Buffalo delegation will be instructed for him. In Washington, Captain Sutherland warns a revolution is imminent among Santo Domingo forces. In El Paso, James Cox, a Pecos Valley rancher, and his horse were killed by lightning.
In New York on September 19, Herbert Parsons won a sweeping victory to lead the Republican organization in New York County, backed by Roosevelt and Governor Higgins, while Charles F. Murphy clung to Tammany Hall leadership by a narrow margin. Mayor McClellan and allies nearly toppled Murphy, with county conventions likely to decide later. In Kings County Brooklyn Senator Patrick H. McCarren kept Democratic control as Timothy Woodruff won Republican strength with Roosevelt's support.
Winston-Salem September 19. For over an hour and a half W. J. Bryan addressed thousands in response to Secretary Shaw's tariff remarks at Salisbury last week. Bryan called Shaw the prince of Standpatters and accused his arguments of being second hand garments from his own party. Tens of thousands heard him in Salisbury in the afternoon.
Concord Sept 19 Charles M Floyd of Manchester was nominated for governor after a nine ballot Republican contest in New Hampshire Winston Churchill led the rival Lincoln Republican club but Floyd prevailed as the victor in a tight delegate race.
Miss Laura England, daughter of D P Hagland, was killed near Wimberly fifteen miles north of San Marcos when thrown from a buggy and kicked in the head by a horse returning from a party. Two others in the buggy were only slightly injured.
The actress Bernhardt briefly felt homesick during a tour in eastern Europe and planned to return to Paris. In Bucharest her impresario sent a telegram promising a grand reception by nobility and leaders, with a torch light procession. Sixty men in dress did arrive, but they were staged by the advance agent at 36 cents per head.
A historic note discusses life saving during fires prioritizing rescue over firefighting. It explains ladders nets and escapes, the pace of life saving, and the risks to firefighters. The second vignette cites Faraday and his assistant Anderson, who dutifully kept stirring a pot all night after being ordered to watch it.
A collector notes humorous misplacements of a golf ball in odd spots. Items include the ball in another player's pocket after 200 yards, in a cow's mouth, on a clubhouse roof, behind a painting, in daisies, and cloaked by a cottage wall. The cow moved the ball 276 yards toward the hole before returning it, and the owner claimed a 397 yard drive from its resting place.
Records from St Thomas Hospital London for 1570 show during harvest season the poor received daily three pints of beer for two months plus a quart at dinner and a pint at supper with a monthly return to the old ordinary allowance. Almoner and steward were instructed to buy only the best buffe without bones and without marybon, with no other buffe purchased.
A dictation by Mrs. Randolph and Aunt Phronie from the Pittsburg Dispatch reveals wage expectations for a cook and waitress. Aunt Phronie quotes two dollars per week if she only cooks and serves, plus an added charge of a dollar and four bits if she must cook for a larger family and handle table service.
A playful reflection declares that love turns the world and one’s thoughts in circles, suggesting love is the force that makes life feel dizzy and bright rather than ordinary.
A fragmentary quotation frames beauty as inaction by a butterfly and praises deep sincerity as the first trait of heroism, attributed to Carlyle.
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