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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1899
Page
4
The Hite legislature’s Senate and House move to business in earnest in Austin. Lawmakers set priorities and outline early agendas as sessions commence.
In Austin on April 25 the Texas Senate passed the Dallas city charter after defeating all amendment motions. The day saw final passage of related measures including antitrust postponement, Fort Worth charter amendments, and various bills on property, timber sales, and state finances as the House and Senate debated appropriations and legal questions. The Samoan commission arrived in San Francisco en route to Apia aboard the Badger.
An explosion of benzine at Fleet's Chemical Works in Philadelphia on a April 95 date killed two men and fatally injured a woman, with many injured and extensive property damage. The factory was wrecked and nearby buildings suffered severe damage as fires and blasts spread, leaving others unaccounted for.
Col Robert G Ingersoll publicly condemns the lynching of Black Georgians noting outrages done in the name of justice. He calls the perpetrators “savages” and a disgrace to the nation, asking how white citizens can tolerate such acts and demand protection of all in peace and war.
New York April 25 Kipling sues G P Putnam Sons for copyright damages over the publication of his Departmental Duties and the Ken of Kipling in their editions. He has not included early poems in Outward Bound edits being compiled by himself. The Putnam firm allegedly drew his ire by including the Ken of Kipling, a brief life history.
Report from Madrid cites severe neglect in returning troops from the colonies. Soldiers are left unpaid for over a year and half starved, with confiscation of tobacco smuggled back and seized by authorities under the tobacco monopoly.
In Champaign Illinois students burned an effigy of Governor Tanner after his veto of part of the university appropriation. The act followed anger over the veto and a protest at the university. In Paris the Matin reports Countess Esterhazy has begun divorce proceedings from Count Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. Washington reports Senator Hanna arrived to discuss the Speakership. Grovenor unlikely to run.
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