Train Schedule Snippet with Northbound and Southbound Lines
Northbound trains No 1 at 10 20 am No 3 at 1 27 pm No 6 at 2 15 am Southbound No 2 at 20 pm No 4 at 4 16 pm No 6 at 2 46 am Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
7
Northbound trains No 1 at 10 20 am No 3 at 1 27 pm No 6 at 2 15 am Southbound No 2 at 20 pm No 4 at 4 16 pm No 6 at 2 46 am Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations
Officers Lon Baker and Newsome returned from Georgetown where they testified in the trial of John Ransom, colored, for the murder of an old negro man near Taylor last year. Ransom was convicted and sentenced to death. the negro’s evidence, given after arrest, described the slaying and theft of money. Local society notes, visits, sales, and business items fill the rest of the page.
Details from Port of Spain describe a brutal battle that began Aug. 3 as rebels besieged Barcelona. By Friday government officers and officers were captured after houses were burned and stores plundered. Generals Monagas and Platero led the rebels, with 167 dead and many prisoners. Consulates asked protection. ships were sent to aid.
The board of directors elected new men for the A and M positions. Details on names and terms were announced at the meeting.
At a recent meeting the A and M College board chose three new professors for the institution. W D Gibbs was named director of the experiment station and head of the agriculture department. Frederick S Johnston was elected associate professor of agriculture and Charles Shirley Potts was appointed instructor of economics and history.
A peddlers parade will be held at the home of Mrs. Cliff A Adams Friday afternoon and evening August 15 from 5 to 10 for the Baptist church. Ices and cake will be served. Watch for the list of peddlers names in tomorrow's Eagle.
At New York port Charles E. reports government purchases of 100000 lemon boxes in three weeks as importers refuse to pay duties. Mediterranean shipments now dominate, steamers replace sailing ships, and a surplus with weak demand pressures prices downward. Importers abandon large quantities to avoid duty losses.
Washington announces a reciprocity treaty with Cuba is practically prepared and awaits only finishing touches and signatures by Minister Quesada and Secretary Hay before presentation to the Senate. No fixed date for the November session. the president hopes to resolve the reciprocity issue before the regular congressional session.
New York date Aug 13 Dr Martin Luther Holbrook died at his residence in the city in his 72d year. He was born in Mantua and earned his medical diploma in 1861. He later allied with Dr Dio Lewis in Boston promoting physical culture and hygiene.
St. Petersburg dispatch reports Japanese officers landed guns and built a battery on Kethnesan Island. Corean officials sent to investigate were driven off by Japanese forces amid tension over the Korea area.
In New York on August 13 the boiler of the tug Jacob Kuper exploded near St Georges Staten Island. Four crew members were killed or drowned and two were rescued as the tug sank almost immediately.
Berlin Aug 13 reports a Prussian army order forbids American lard in military kitchens and requires dams to be purchased from domestic slaughterhouses.
News in brief reports a mixed set of incidents across the country. It notes that all suspects in Attorney Smith’s killing in Columbia, Texas, have been caught except one, a shipment of hay from Vinita, Oklahoma, a Denton industrial school bid by D. Mahoney of Waxahachie, the death of Dr. T. B. Hodges of Melissa by illness, Andrew Cruz of San Antonio dying from sunstroke, a farmer near Dumas committing suicide, a forged bank notes factory uncovered in Warsaw, a white worker in Chillicothe striking over racial hiring, and a typhoid outbreak with nearly 500 cases in Chicago.
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