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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
2
The Texas legislature delayed July 8 enactment of a new cotton law requiring public gin records. Ginners must record receipts and owners, mark each bale with owner initials, and buyers may not alter marks. Violators face fines up to twenty five dollars.
In Macy Texas August 8 the community reports a fish fry at Davis Lake with a good time. A protracted meeting will start next Saturday night at Shiloh Baptist church and likely last two weeks. Ganaway siblings from Wealthy attended a barbecue near Tabor. Etta and Lula Parker visited Mrs. Selma McDonald. Tiger Lily patent medicine ad notes Quinoria claim to cure chills fever malaria in four days with refund if ineffective.
H. and T. C. announce an excursion on August 18 from Bryan at 8:05 a.m. Tickets to Marlin cost 1.00 and to Waco 1.50. Return requires travel on a special train from Waco at 6:30 p.m. and from Marlin at 10:38 p.m. arriving Bryan at 2:55 a.m. Agent W. S. Wilson.
Tickets on sale for Buffalo Pan American exhibition daily. Chicago summer session educational institutions. Louisville Knights Templar triennial, August 24 25. Palestine area meetings August 23 24. Marlin year round fares one and one third. World famous hot well sanatorium resort. Low rates for all events. Inquiries D. J. Price Palestine Texas.
Rex Dyspepsia Tablets promise a money back refund if they fail to cure dyspepsia indigestion sour stomach heartburn and related symptoms. The ad cites authorized druggists and lists M. H. James as Bryan Texas's leading druggist. Price 50 cents per package.
Lost near Bryan Texas two black and white byp hounds. Reward offered to Houston Cole. Contact at Bryan address for information.
Local notice offers a White Flyer bicycle for sale at a low price. Interested buyers are directed to apply at the issuing office for details and purchase.
The London and North Western Railway reports its worst year since 1863 with six month net earnings dipping sharply. Shareholders fear reduced profits across British railways as mining and industrial sectors falter and coal and grain traffic volumes remain weak.
The world watches as Shamrock II is unveiled at the Erie basin. John E Spears praises its above water lines as the finest and swiftest yet seen, while cautioning that underwater proportions remain unproven and may differ from expectations.
Weather reports say a strengthening storm at the river mouth drives hard winds along the coast. Mississippi rises two feet in New Orleans ferries raised, Port Eads winds 48 mph and debris wire down. Tennessee flood climbs near 50 feet, with rains across east Tennessee and impact on coal regions.
The State of Texas issues a four week public citation in Brazos County to non residents including Hirlam Cosby J C Webb and others to appear September 2 1901 in the Brazos County District Court Bryan Texas for a suit filed August 8 1901 by W Syms against multiple defendants over alleged invalid deeds to land once held under Alfred Whittaker. The clerk J W Batts signs. Intriguing court notice concludes with a drug store ad.
Justice O German rules that handing over a bank check does not assign bank funds and that withdrawing credit with a second check before payment of the first does not amount to larceny. Dr Adam H Straub freed on habeas corpus after grand jury proceedings in the Northern Pacific corner case. Also, Finkelstein and Magget obtain injunction against United Garment Workers of America Henry White Jacket Makers union and officers to stop intimidation of employers and prospective workers.
A Shanghai dispatch reports Russians have asserted czarist suzerainty over New Chwang, abrogated Chinese laws, and barred natives from appealing disputes to American or British merchants and missionaries. All disputes must go to Russians for settlement.
Government estimates place the winter crop short due to drought, totaling about 60 million bushels. Governor Yates asks Illinois dental board to resign. Consul Edmund Z. Brodowski of Solingen, Germany, dies.
Senator W A Clark of Montana in New York denies reports of talks with E H Harriman and an Oregon Short Line handover plan while building disputes with Los Angeles to Salt Lake City face court intervention. Meanwhile retail clerks unionists are assaulted in Great Falls and Lipton departs for the United States amid acclaim. A Nebraska woman protests a wife sent to the Philippines to teach, asking the War Department to recall her.
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