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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1906
Page
6
J W Batts offers two properties in Brazos County. A six room house with quarter block for 750 dollars in a good neighborhood and easy terms, opposite the court house in the Taliaferro building. Also a five room house with one lot, brick cistern and waterworks, two blocks from Main street for 800 dollars.
In New York on Friday at Gravesend Race Track the jockey Bertrande Freishon was killed when the horse Joe Levy fell and tripped Sonoma Belle, crushing Freishon. Jockey C Ross suffered a fractured skull riding Louis H, with Burns on Sonoma Belle also involved. Freishon, about 17 or 18, was a New Orleans native.
A. Graham Elliott Jr. did not die in Atlantic City as a telegram suggested. Messages from Fidelity Mutual Insurance and others caused early condolences before a Dallas correction revealed he was recovering from malarial fever. His secretary and family clarified there was no death.
In Columbus on Friday Sweet Marie lowered her own record and set a new course trotting record with a mile in 2 02 flat before a large crowd. She beat Crescius’s 1901 mark by a quarter second, racing with a runner beside her and no wind shield. Fractional time and prize money appear in the report.
Secretary Root landed from the cruiser Charleston at Panama City and was greeted by Mayor Ossa and officials. The assembly met in a special session, and Root pledged U.S. interest in Panama’s independence. He spoke to praise Panamanian progress and relations.
Rev. Frank Cornelius a Baptist clergyman was shot in the head and killed on his front porch in Dupont Georgia on September 22. Police investigated the fatal shooting with no immediate motive disclosed.
In Fort Worth on September 22, sign painter Buster McGuire was killed by two gunshot wounds. Foster Lewis, a known citizen, was held in connection with the shooting. his bond was set at 5000 and he posted it after a preliminary hearing.
Cape Girardeau Missouri September 22 Judge Pollock overruled the motion for a new trial and sentenced Charles M Smith to three years and six months in Fort Leavenworth with a 5000 dollar fine plus costs Charles M Smith Jr received twenty years in prison and a 5000 dollar fine Ben Stone and Ben Fields each one year and six months with 100 dollar fines W Lee Rogers and William Woods each two years six months and 190 dollar fines Floyd Woods two years six months and 100 dollar fine James Smith and Rex Smith were acquitted.
In Mexico City on September 22 services were held for Rev Dr Nevin who died Thursday. A Major in the U S Army and longtime rector of the American Episcopal church at Rome for 37 years his body was embalmed for shipment to Lancaster Pennsylvania. He was born in 1839 in Allegheny Pennsylvania and served in a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil War. He was a close friend of Bishop Potter of New York.
A Havana dispatch quotes insurgent General Ernes to Asbert warning that without peace Palma's administration the revolutionists will attack all property to force American intervention. Albert asserts U S aims not to annex the republic and credits President Roosevelt with aiding justice. Two cruisers Minneapolis and Newark arrived in Havana on Saturday.
Austin Sept 22 Superintendent R M Worsham submits the biennial report showing 1171 inmates with 642 men and 547 women. Fifty seven deaths occurred. Pasteur department treated 254 cases with two deaths. Patients came from Texas and several neighboring territories. dog bites caused most cases. Receipts 2410, disbursements 1039.
The comptroller says the department handled 97,622 letters and pieces of mail in the year ending Aug 21, up 10,771 from the prior year, with total mail activity reaching about 115,000. Political chatter names Chilton as a possible U.S. senator while Rep Blanton vows to push his pure food bill next legislative session.
Fort Worth dated Sept 22 a Santa Fe section hand H B Sanders was ground to death under a freight train after boarding a switch engine and slipping. The brutal accident left his body mutilated beyond recognition. In other news Marion Lawson sold a 20000 acre Midland county ranch to D C Giddings of Bonham for 70000 dollars.
Sheriff Hammonds and forty deputies raided twenty or more saloons and gambling houses in Lawton on Friday night by order of District Judge Gillette after a grand jury report. About $15,000 in gambling paraphernalia was seized and at least fifty gamblers left the city since the raid.
The Leyland Line steamer Irak will sail from Galveston to Liverpool with 23,000 square bales of cotton valued at $1,250,000. It stands as one of the port’s largest and most valuable shipments.
President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad is ill with whooping cough, believed contracted from his grandchildren. He remains under care in Philadelphia on September 22.
A report in the Journal of Commerce claims Swift & Co. aims to take Armour & Co. business. J Ogden Armour, head of Armour & Co., reportedly wants to retire from turbulent packing trade life. Armour & Co. formed in 1900 to absorb Armour’s business. capital is $20,000,000.
In Birmingham Alabama on September 22 Hon W J Bryan was honored with a city parade and a 300 cover luncheon. The Bijou Theater was packed to hear him speak on railroad regulation and possible government ownership. He also spoke to workers at Gelder s hall and dined with Colonel and Mrs J W Tomlinson.
A powerful bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg suburb near the Narva gate, creating a large hole and shattering nearby windows. Three well dressed men threw the device and fled before police arrived. no casualties were reported.
The proposal calls for a new ecclesiastical province comprising the dioceses of Galveston Dallas and San Antonio and the Brownsville vicarate with Galveston serving as headquarters. Bishop Nicholas A Gallagher of Galveston would be archbishop of the new province. Odessa reports the first field court martial sentencing a terrorist Jew Turle to death for killing a policeman.
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