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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1902
Page
4
A detailed view on eye health stresses careful lens selection and expert fitting. It warns against cheap decentered lenses and urges prescriptions from qualified eyesight specialists. The text notes that most eye trouble arises from delaying glasses and that age is not a sole factor in the need for eyewear.
London reports fear that the Atlantic shipping combine will weaken British naval strength and commerce. Questions will probe terms for British lines, crew recruitment duties, and potential impacts on navigation laws as ministers answer in Parliament. The St James and Westminster Gazettes offer opposing views on the move and self interest as a corrective.
Paris reports a fresh mission to attend the Rochambeau monument unveiling in Washington on May 24. President Loubet will be represented by Lieut. Col. Meaux Saint-Marie along with Paul Renouard the artist and Michael Lagrave of commerce ministry. The battleship Caulers will transport the delegation, leaving Toulon on May 5.
A Friday night gale caused extensive Chicago damage. Windows shattered and roofs torn. rider J M Cloud was knocked from his bicycle and trampled by a horse. watchman Simon Teron injured by a fallen smoke stack at Barber Asphalt site. John Marphy saloon demolished at Whipple and Van Buren.
Topeka April 26 The Santa Fe offers the new Albuquerque hotel to the Seventh Day Adventists to establish a Battle Creek style sanitarium. The Albuquerque hotel has struggled financially and the offer aims to attract travel for free treatment if it opens. Adventists have not yet acted.
Augusta Georgia May 26 reports a two week old cotton mill strike likely to end in a day or two. A conference between the King mill strikers committee and the manufacturers association has been set, and an arbitration board named. Its decision will bind both sides. Once King mill issues are settled the lockout in other mills will be lifted.
Martin Lynch, under arrest for the murder of his wife, died by hanging in his county jail cell in Cleveland. He tied a sheet to a door knob about three feet from the floor and strangled himself after seating himself on the cell floor.
Four thousand five hundred dollars, half the balance needed for the Winnie Davis memorial hall, is donated by the General Education Board of the Southern Education Conference to Georgia women. The plan funds 50 three year scholarships of fifty dollars yearly at the Georgia State Normal School, doubles 46 scholarships already offered by Georgia women, and extends for three years all new fifty dollar scholarships contributed by Georgia women before January 1, 1903, capped at fifty.
Pittsburg beat Chicago 2 to 1 as Tannehill and Smith allowed 2 runs while Chicago had 4. Philadelphia defeated Boston 8 to 4 with Willis and Kittredge pitching. Cincinnati topped St Louis 18 to 9 in a high scoring game with Summers Curry and Bergen driving runs. New York and Brooklyn split a 7 to 6 affair with Kennedy and Bowerman on the mound.
In St Louis Cleveland beat St Louis 16 to 2 with Wright Bemis Reidy Maloney on the batteries. In Washington Washington defeated Boston 15 to 4 with Townsend Drill Hastings Warner handling pitching and catching duties.
A pistol duel at the Wigwam gambling hall in El Paso leaves Morris J. Rosenfield dead and Special Policeman Clarence Walhington severely wounded. Walhington surrenders claiming self defense as an old score is said to have sparked the shooting.
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