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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1902
Page
2
John W. Sydnor, a prominent cotton clerk, collapsed on Main Street and died shortly after. he was 44, a native Texan with family in Houston. Sydnor had spent the past season in Bryan buying cotton and his death stunned relatives and friends.
In Bryan residents learned that Lewis T. Shields, nephew of H. W. Shields, was acquitted by a Richmond court the day before. The charge stemmed from the killing of a man named McGee at Duke in Fort Bend county last year. R. R. Knowles, who testified at the trial, has returned home.
General Fitzhugh Lee spoke in Houston last night to a crowded Great Auditorium. Fans, Confederate groups, and military members greeted him with two receptions. He recalled Cuba, the Maine explosion, Evangelina Cisneros, and meeting Funston, with humor and vivid detail.
The remains of Mr A B Ballard were brought to Bryan from Sabinal yesterday morning. Funeral services were held at the home of W W Harris at 3 p.m. by Dr J D West. Interment followed at City cemetery under Maccabees auspices. Arcade Hotel now open and ready for business. Mrs Collins, proprietress, asks public patronage. I have bought a line of drummer samples with good items in fancy and lace hose at wholesale prices. W J Coulter.
The new president impressed the faculty and students as farsighted and fair. Dr. Houston will attend an educational meeting in Athens, Ga., as representative of the A. and M. College, then return to assess work and methods for his duties. James Dum opens an optical office in the Smith building opposite the city hall after recent training in Chicago.
A list of names and locations appears under Exchange Tucker House and Central headings. Individuals include A C Dever Brenham J 8 Gudhue Columbus C M Woodard Atchison James Spargo Calvert J W Singleton Waxahachie I Block Galveston Bernard Baer St Louis H F Martin Memphis A B Lloyd Kurton C C Faulks Houston Jas Wilson Jr Edge C N Davis Brownwood Mrs McDonald Bedias M B Moss New York G E Coleman St Louis G W Maxwell Tola L Powell Palestine Hermann Berger L&GN.
H J C offers round trip tickets to Dallas for the Confederate Reunion in Dallas. For trains passing Bryan April 21 at 2:17 a.m. tickets $4.30. for April 22 and 23 tickets $5.40. Continuous passage both ways with final leave from Dallas by April 26, 1902. W S Wilson, Agent.
From Hoer sources in The Hague a partial outline of peace terms discussed in Pretoria includes a British resident commissioner with a Boer executive, district divisions with British officers and Boer committees, veto rights, Johanneburg to be retroceded, indemnity of at least £10,000,900, disarmament after Boer prisoners return, no taxes, bilingual schools courts and documents, garrison costs borne by Britain, and Boer leaders retained where possible.
Beall is declared the winner in the Fifth Texas District with a county lead of about 180 votes. Wooten notes irregularities in Hillsboro and other boxes but concedes protest is unlikely, given Beall's control of election machinery. Wooten predicts a future rematch if defeated fairly. Beall returned to Waxahachie amid festivities after a Hillsboro victory celebration.
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