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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1902
Page
4
The program includes football kick and punt events, a 16 pound hammer throw, 440 yard dash with one heat, pole vault, high jump variants, 880 yard run, broad jump types, sack race, three legged race, tug of war, and relay races.
General Pearson says evidence found near Chalmette shows four young men solicited to join British ranks on American soil. He named Nicholas Gray of 815 Common Street, William Conway of St. Charles and Upper Line, and Thomas B. Nolan of 3749 Chestnut Street as corroborating affiants.
Peter Van Vlis singen appeals to President Roosevelt arguing that British mule traffic violates the Washington treaty. He cites Queen Victoria’s neutrality proclamation of 1898 and lists several treaties designating horses as contraband of war, including U S Bolivia Brazil Colombia Haiti Peru Sweden and Norway pacts.
The fragment reports a local event at Beaumont Texas on April 19 involving two wells breaking loose. Specific details, causes, and outcomes are unclear from the OCR snippet. No other names or organizations are readable.
Vea companys burst the gate valve Thursday night on a hill gas well and ran wild for hours. Eighteen men were disabled by gas but none seriously hurt as a lake of oil formed and fires were extinguished. Valve broke under about 250 pounds pressure. Earlier the cap blew off the Treadway well on block 28, a second runaway started, but control was quickly achieved with no serious damage.
The Texas state oratorical contest in Waco on Friday featured Fort Worth University Georgetown Southwestern University Trinity Austin College and Baylor. Roy L. Smith of Fort Worth won first honors and R. E. Goodrich of Southwestern second. First honors grant the right to advance to the Southern contest. Spencer Sharp was elected president and Sherman chosen for next year’s state event.
In Gober, Texas, a baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Pick Biggerstaff reportedly arrived with two fully developed baby teeth. Attending physicians extracted the teeth after birth, an unusual occurrence noted in Bonham county.
In Houston on April 19, brakeman Louis H. Mulvey and freight conductor James Dow of the Texas and New Orleans road confronted a negro highwayman in the Fifth ward. Mulvey was wounded in the chest and arm while Dow, after a heavy blow, helped fend off the assailant with a railway iron until the attacker fled.
Will Peters, 2 miles north of West, was struck and killed by northbound passenger train No. 2 as he walked facing the oncoming rail. He had just stepped off the track but did not move far enough. His family resides near Gerald.
To House Builders. Having secured the agency of Yale and Towne Manufacturing I am prepared to show new designs in front door and other locks. Kindly call and see my line. 118 J Allen Myers.
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