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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1914
Page
7
Six killed twenty six missing and thirty injured as a seven story Missouri Athletic Club burns from 2 am with losses at three hundred fifty thousand dollars. Bank vaults beneath the ruins hold nearly a million and a half in cash while a search for the missing begins later tonight.
Guests credit a hero with guiding their escape as flames trapped occupants on the fifth floor. Twelve men slid down a rope of two sheets to reach a store roof, while cries for help echoed as the stairways burned and one man was carried to safety. A jumper suffered a broken leg.
In the Senate today Senator Fall pressed for military protection of foreigners in Mexico. He cited a self gathered list claiming more than a hundred Americans have been killed murdered or outraged in the last three years in Mexico.
The Sacred concert at Carnegie Library yesterday afternoon featured Prof. H. W. Reed's pupils and the Harmony Quartet with Mrs. Danforth Eve lyn Sanders Reed Whittaker and Miss Hazel Hewit pianist. Additional solos and duets by Mrs. Stuart Horne Hubbard Lillian Tidrow Annie Belle Batte Mary Shelburne Florine Batte and Marshall Bullock complemented the program.
Two cars of negroes moved toward Galveston to board a chartered boat bound for South Africa. They join about six hundred Oklahomans choosing to return to their native land and help form a Congo river colony.
Dallas political figures formed a "Constructive Democrats" group to hold precinct and county meetings April 4 and 6 and a Fort Worth convention April 14 to nominate a Democratic candidate opposing Colonel Thomas H. Ball. Governor Colquitt offered to call a short Legislature session for a majority nomination amendment.
January and February report from the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. It highlights the society as a valuable correlating force, always alert to materialize plans and movements that advance the church.
The church society highlights the study class led by Mrs. A. M. Waldrop studying The Methodist Armor by Hilary T. Hudson. It notes about fifteen members, aims to enroll more, and reports January February finances of 111.30 with 7.00 spent on clothing and 177 visits to the sick or strangers.
To prevent blood poisoning Bioply at once the wonderful old reliable Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil, a surgical dressing that relieves pain and heals at the same time. Not liniment. 25c. Sic. $1
Dr. M. E. Weaver leads a two week revival at First Baptist Church with Dr. George B. Butler joining from Beaumont. Morning sermons focus on Salvation and Saving the Lost. daily services held at 7 45 p m and 10 a m with one baptism by letter and another at evening service.
The Bright Light Church cemetery committee bought county iron fencing that formerly enclosed the courthouse. It will be erected around the church cemetery and repainted to improve appearance and protect the graves from stock depredations.
New York reports Matthewson’s new salary with the Giants at least 15000 dollars yearly. The note also thanks Rock Prairie friends for support during a bereavement from Mrs. James Cooper and others.
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