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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1899
Page
2
A Bryan Texas page notes mail status and editor credits, then quotes opinions from The Philadelphia Ledger Indianapolis Sentinel and Mexican Herald. It comments on Alger, Edison steel hardening, cotton machinery growth in Mexico, gold standard debates, and Latin American finances with political and economic critique.
The New York Journal of Commerce reports 353 trusts or combines at end of February 1899, with stock and bonds totaling $5.83 billion, up from 200 the previous year. Common stock about $4.25 billion, preferred $870 million, and bonded debt $714 million. A Baltimore Sun quote adds that much manufacturing capital is combined to suppress competition under tariff protection. For Sale Jersey cow with young calf. W. T. Ford, 108.
Harvey notes very nice weather with cotton planting in progress and a fear of replanting due to a cold spell from the prior Monday. Event updates include Rev J M Bullock at a regular appointment, Rev J A Wadsworth sermon, Bright Light church singing, Bethel visits by Prof R L Pounds, and social visits by the Subers. Unity Debating Society reports growing membership after three joins. upcoming entertainments at McSwain home and Dr Todd's. Miss Edna Weedon closes Wixon school, Bethel school attendees include Miss Beard and Edna Weedon. Marion reports threshing machine trust securing options on Huber and Marion Manufacturing plants to close smaller mills and maximize large ones. Huber stock at $300 per share.
Three full blooded Choctaw Indians confined in the United States jail at South McAlester were received into the Cumberland Presbyterian church in a jail ceremony. Jesse Moore and Elam Johnson face murder charges, while Martin Fo peta stands for perjury. In Union City Tiptonville area Joe Tipton and Tom Hines Jr. quarrel leads to Tipton firing, Hines returning fire and wounding Tipton in the abdomen. Sherman Still Improves after pneumonia recovery. ex secretary Sherman convalesces in Washington.
In dense fog the passenger steamer Stella en route between Southampton and the Channel Islands struck the Casquet rocks near Alderney and sank within ten minutes after a boiler explosion. The Lynx and another steamer rescued boats carrying about 95 survivors. reports later indicate around 60 were drowned. The Stella carried 210 passengers bound for Easter holidays in the Channel Islands.
Washington reports no new Samoa details by noon as officials await a missing Kautz cable from Sydney. A proposed joint high commission by Germany, the U S and Britain dominates talks, while Berlin notes U S goodwill and German press debate. In Elkhart Indiana Elmer Post of the Grand Army of the Republic denounces the return of a captured battle flag and plans to send resolutions to state and national commanders.
Paris reports from Havana claim Major General Brooke governor general of Cuba is undecided about how to allocate the eight million dollars offered by the United States to Cuban troops and has ordered the coin shipped back to the United States.
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