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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
5
The Texas senate adjourned as a high court for Governor Ferguson's trial after a short session. No member could be sworn in under the rules, so Chief Justice Phillips of the supreme court was to be asked to travel to Austin to administer the oath at tomorrow's session.
A chaotic Saturday in the county and city ends with Frank Tardio’s arrest on Main Street after a shooting that injures a man named Essex Taylor and prompts a chase involving several Italians. Essex and others provide conflicting accounts while shoplifting and drunken incidents also surface.
Houston Aug 26 the Harris county grand jury indicted 34 negroes for murder who participated in the rioting last Thursday. The panel also investigated Sheriff Hammond for turning custody of prisoners to military authorities after murder charges were filed. Citizens in Washington urged removal of the Eighth Infantry negro company stationed here.
Associated Press dispatch from Washington reports Texas delegates in Congress urging Secretary Baker to remove and keep out of the state all Negro troops including those drafted. A Houston, Texas, notice states martial law will be lifted tomorrow and the situation is regarded as well in hand.
Telegrams from all parts of the country pour into the White House praising President Wilson's reply to the Pope's peace note. The nationwide reaction marks strong support for the administration's stance on peace efforts.
Senator Strickland introduced a resolution in Austin directing Wilbur P. Allen of the board of regents to resign within three days or impeachment charges would be filed by the house. The measure was referred to the state affairs committee. Governor Hobby appointed W. H. Daugherty of Gainesville to the board to fill the vacancy caused by the senate refusing to confirm W. G. Love.
Washington August 29 The senate finance committee agreed to amendments raising war profits tax to more than 33 percent from 26 percent to fund higher taxation. The change would lift the tax yield from 562 million to 1.06 billion dollars and constitute a third of the total bill’s taxes.
President Wilson told the national council assembly in Moscow that the United States will extend every material and moral assistance to the Russian government. He spoke on August 27 and emphasized Washington's support for Russia during the wartime period.
London reporting a serious riot at Bjornborg Finland where Finns clashed with Russian garrison soldiers for hours. Several killed or wounded according to Central News Agency.
President Wilson rejects the pope's peace proposals saying peace cannot rely on German rulers and must be backed by the will of the German people and universal justice. He warns that accommodating Prussian power risks renewed world domination after the war.
Aug 29 reports say a Russian division abandoned Fokshani positions and retreated in disorder while enemy forces continued advancing on the Romanian front. In the Oituz valley Von Mackensen's troops stormed hills and captured Munsellul, pushing back foes. about 1000 prisoners and three guns taken.
Thirty German nationals arrested by federal officers near Tripp in Hutchinson County were bound over to the federal district court for trial and released on $5,000 bail each. They were charged with signing an intimidating petition to appoint Peter Norbeck as administrator of the selective draft law in the state and protesting war taxation.
Ed Meineke aged 27, one of the policemen killed in Houston, was a Brenham former citizen who left town six months ago to join the police. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Fritz Meineke of Bellville and nephew of August Ebers of Brenham.
President Johnson of the Business club learned from the state highway commission the steps to petition for an east west highway through the county. A tentative Gonzales San Augustine route passes Giddings Smithville Bryan Madison and beyond linking major highways and promising increased travel through Bryan. The commission provided a map and urged formal petitioning to secure designation.
An Atlantic port reports a British schooner commanded by a 97 year old skipper and carrying a crew of youngsters under draft age is en route to the port, per advices received by agents on Tuesday.
Kansas City August 29 Thomas P Flynn of Chicago was chosen president of the American Federation of Catholic societies succeeding John Whelen of New York.
Floresville city council awarded the 7500 city hall project to Stephenson and Lil lie of Floresville. Work will start immediately.
In Nacogdoches Texas on August 29 Judge V E Middlebrook was in California and unaware of a governor's election call. Friends put his name on the state senate ticket without his consent or knowledge.
Copenhagen reports the pope's peace note will be the main topic at a Berlin meeting this afternoon with Imperial Chancellor Michaelis and officials from Prussia Bavaria Saxony and Württemberg participating.
Steamships arriving from Bergen report hundreds of drifting mines off the Norwegian coasts with an extensive field believed adrift. Mines are also seen off the northern coast of Norway and the Arctic Ocean, according to Associated Press reports from Copenhagen dated August 29.
A Christiania telegram to the Morning Post reports the Norwegian steamer Kongsli, sailing from St Nazaire bound for the United States, sunk off the Spanish coast. The British paper notes the incident occurred near the Spanish shoreline with loss of the vessel.
A Copenhagen dispatch reports the Norwegian steamship Frigga sunk by a German submarine off an unspecified area. The crew was saved.
In Austin on August 29 the Texas Senate in executive session rejected John L. Ward of Temple and W. G. Love of Houston as university regents. George W. Brackenridge of San Antonio was confirmed to replace John M. Mathis, who had resigned. Acting Governor Hobby is expected to name two more regents to fill Ward and Love seats. The session also confirmed multiple other state appointments.
The Texas House approved the university appropriation bill, $1,629,000, by a vote of 87 to 6 with four present and not voting. An amendment by Bertram aimed to ban state school funds if a saloon operated within four miles of five miles. Acting Governor Hobby’s signature is still required to enact into law.
Paris reports Captain Guielo Laureami, an Italian flyer, establishing a new world long distance record. He flew from Turin to Naples and back nonstop, covering nine hundred twenty miles.
German counter attacks yesterday drove the British from an indentation in the German lines northeast of Frezenberg on the Flanders front. Paris reports violent artillery fighting on the Verdun front between Avecourt and hill 304 and on the Aisne front.
O P Hall departs for Waco to work as an adjuster for a private company while Mrs Hall and children stay in Bryan. R W Howell becomes manager of Howell Wholesale Grocery, replacing Hall who has led the store and the Bryan Calvert bianca, and remains vice president.
Houston August 26. The Twenty fourth Infantry negro soldiers who took part in Thursday night’s shooting, which left seventeen dead, were sent from Houston toward Columbus New Mexico early today. Thirty six of the battalion are charged with murder. General Bell arrives to investigate and plans to try the sixty four negroes in Harris County.
Washington reports President Menocal of Cuba suspends all export duties on copper and iron ore shipments to the United States. The move may ease trade, reflecting warming ties as Cuba seeks to boost exports to America.
Orders for 1,074,000 gas masks to equip the army were awarded to a Philadelphia manufacturing company, according to an official announcement dated August 29.
Washington Aug 26 President Wilson wrote Secretary Baker that the drafting of married men who are heads of families should be carefully examined to avoid mistakes and expressed the view that single men should be taken where possible.
Washington, Aug. 24 The government's shipbuilding program calls for 1270 ships of 7,908,000 tonnage. Estimates were sent to Secretary McAdoo to base a request for a new billion dollar appropriation.
Robert Berka and Miss Christine Bandesky have filed for a marriage license, indicating plans to wed. The couple presents their intentions for the civil ceremony and registration in the local records.
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