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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
6
Property listings describe several parcels and houses: cottage and tenant house with well priced at 750, six room house with ground at 1250, quarter block east of Allen Academy at 250, railroad frontage at Otto Boehme property, 2 lots and large two story residence at 2500, plus other city property with easy terms and varying frontages.
Chicago police report progress in the Minnie Mitchell murder case. A woman says she saw a laundry driver, his barn boss, and a man in a Panama hat near Forty-Eighth and State streets the morning after Mitchell disappeared. She identifies them and links the third man to Bartholin.
The Farmers' National Co operative Exchange of Pierre South Dakota files articles of incorporation with 50 million dollars capital to trade grain provisions livestock and produce and to build elevators warehouses cold storage stock yards and related facilities across the business. Indianapolis reports machinist Fortune L Bailey died credited as the inventor of Gatling gun and that Gatling financed its development while Bailey proposed improvements. In Texas Boll worms threaten bottom land cotton near Terrell with potential ruin if warmth and dry weather persist. upland cotton remains less affected.
In South McAlester on August 14 the infant daughter of Rev. and Mrs. E. D. Cameron died from morphine given to the newborn by nurse error. The mother, already prescribed morphine, suffered a shock believed to threaten her life.
Governor Henry T. Gage of California was arrested in Los Angeles after a San Francisco detective served a criminal libel warrant sworn by the San Francisco Call owner. He was released on a writ of habeas corpus.
Considerable excitement follows a report of a new gold reef in August 14 with claims it spans a large territory. Local geologists suspect it continues the Witwaterstrand main series while the discoverer asserts a new field equal in size to Witwatersrand. Johannesburg rushes to the news.
In Charleston West Virginia on August 14 Judge Keller found John Richards and his associates guilty of contempt. Each was fined five dollars and committed until payment or bail. Richards is president of district seventeen United Mine Workers.
Russian four percent rentes totaling 2.31 billion rubles were regularly listed on the New York stock exchange upon application by Morgan and Co. Belmont and Co. Baring Magoun and Co. and the National City Bank.
Louisville August 14 Henry Watterson has returned home and emphatically denies he is a Kentucky governor candidate despite reports to the contrary from his northern and western travels.
Napoleon Fr., magazine writer, reportedly hanged himself by a cord from a door hook in his New York room after a period of nervous prostration. He was 44 years old.
Aug 14 New York reports show virtually exhausted anthracite stocks across major cities. New York dealers say supply exhausted for weeks while rail lines deliver only small quantities, often washed coal. Jersey City retail price is 9 dollars a ton delivered, 8 at yards. buyers operate with conditional orders. Buffalo reports Hillside coal at 5.65 a ton, poor quality. Philadelphia and Reading along with Lehigh, DL&W and DL&W lines halt sales at trestles and close local agencies. Albany inventories under 2000 tons at 6 to 6.25. Delaware and Hudson holds about 1000 plus 300 with a few reserves. No general supply in coal region. what remains is washeries output or small independent pickups. Regular dealers report none available.
In Pottsville and Wilkes Barre a gathering of coal operators and mine superintendents stirred speculation that Vice President Loomis of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western may urge starting colliers in parts of the anthracite region. Warline washery at Duryea resumes as 500 strikers and supporters gather. authorities keep a small deputy presence on site.
Soldiers and gendarmes sealed shut the religious schools at Plougomvelin Plomoguer and Finisterre amid royalist opposition. Peasants Ied to guard Stated sites learned troops diverted to Plougomvelin Plomoguer. Premier Combes reported orders to eject the sisters were resisted, with threats of prosecutions under penal laws.
The Matin ends its claims of a secret engagement involving Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany and Gladys Deacon after a letter from Mrs. Parker Deacon denying prolonged relations. She states the brief forty eight hour meeting at Blenheim produced no such engagement and criticizes the sensationalization.
The Daily Post reports King Edward promised the Treland chief secretary a visit to Dublin Cork and Bel fast by February at latest with a possible November trip. dates include August 14 reference and February deadline.
Sydney August 14 The woman franchise bill has passed both houses of the New South Wales legislature.
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