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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
2
The Daily Eagle notes Alabama in the gulf storm path this year and cites political talk on U S expansion. It mentions J P Morgan proposing to take laboring men as stockholders in a large steel corporation as a potential development.
I and G N excursion fares apply to Buffalo to Pan American Expo daily sales. Chicago session for educational institutions. Louisville Knights Templar meeting August 24 25. Palestine area events and Marlin year round tickets at one and one third fares. Low rates offered. contact D J Price Palestine Texas for details.
Advertisement for Rex Dyspepsia Tablets promises relief from dyspepsia indigestion sour stomach and heartburn with a money back refund if not cured. Offered by M H James a Bryan Texas druggist.
Robt. F. Smith of College Station Texas invites bids to gather 5000 bushels of corn with an average haul of half a mile. Proposals must be addressed to Smith at College Station.
The Eagle reports a Bryan meeting at the courthouse this afternoon at 3 o'clock for potential organizers of a local truck growers association. All parties interested may attend whether or not they plan to join, to discuss feasibility and business prospects of forming the association.
The Texas Inventors Union offers a liberal space in the Main building for patented articles at the Dallas Fair. Inventors who cannot afford large exhibit costs may apply by letter to receive a tested location and display service. A $5 fee covers all display costs for the entire term. write to Sec Texas Inventors Union Box 570.
H. and T. C. offer round trip tickets to Marlin for 1.00 and to Waco for 1.50 for trains passing Bryan at 8 05 a m on August 18. Return must use the special train from Waco at 9 30 p m and from Marlin at 10 88 p m on August 18 arriving in Bryan at 2 55 a m. Agent W S Wilson markets the trip.
Mrs Fannie Reese Pugh announces Mrs Pugh's School for Girls will open Monday September 16. Only students in grades six and up admitted. out of town pupils welcome with good board. Tuition five dollars a month in advance. Apply at 114 45 Bryan Texas.
A gulf coast cyclone wrecked Port Eads and Shell Beach with high water and winds. Wires down from Port Eads to Burns. ships like the Chamberlain, General Reis, Burns, Velasco reported lost or sunk. casualties feared along the river from Burns to the passes.
Last from Mobile reports a tropical storm ripping along the gulf coast leaves Mobile cut off from the outside world. Water floods the telegraph office to over three feet with the Associated Press operator signaling from atop the switchboard as wind hits fifty miles per hour. The business district is deserted and hope for word fades as the storm intensifies toward night.
Passages describe a storm moving toward the bay area with summer resorts and homes in its direct path. Fears persist for life losses on Mississippi sound islands near Fort Morgan as the low-lying areas rise only four to five feet above normal water.
San Francisco reports Arch rock, a major navigation obstacle between Alcatraz Island and Lime Point, was destroyed using over 80 tons of nitroglycerin. The underwater rock, several acres in size, shattered with an electric blast, sending rock and debris across the bay and creating a 1000 foot water column. Large fish kills followed the explosion.
Philadelphia reports a 2 million capital increase for the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf railway to extend from Tecumseh south and west toward Amarillo Texas. Construction has begun and aims to connect with the Fort Worth and Denver line for through traffic to Denver. Partial segments may open before March. full through service by May 1. The Tecumseh branch taps cattle country.
The Central Asphalt and Refining company of Beaumont is chartered with 2,000,000 capital stock. It will refine crude oil into asphaltum and by products at Beaumont. Incorporators include Charles A. Towne of Duluth and Martin Howard, Frederick W. Short, George F. Culner, James A. Fullenwider of Chicago Ill, Stephen M. Scott of Beaumont, Harvey J. Hopkins of Buffalo N Y.
J O Watson assistant postmaster was shot and killed at the Rockdale post office. He suffered two wounds from a Colt revolver. Lee Batte of Cameron surrendered and, after an examining trial before Justice Kennon, was admitted to bail of 5000 dollars. Family trouble caused the shooting. Batte and Watson were brothers in law.
The Democratic state convention in Harrisburg nominated Judge Herman Yorkes of Doylestown for attorney general and Representative Amrow J. Helm of Meadville for state treasurer. Resolutions passed without debate to block a Quay candidate and an anti Quay fusion ticket.
Har ley Lewin was arrested in South McAlester on charges tied to the Missouri Kansas and Texas train robbery near Caney. George Brown allegedly confessed a seven-man network. suspects to be tried and bound over. In Jamaica a British steamer reports heavy fighting near Panama and Colon. several wounded. Washington confirms a warship will sail to the Pacific isthmus, possibly the Ranger, after orders stop at San Francisco.
Vicksburg Mississippi August 46 Judge H F Simrall former chief justice and notable figure in reconstruction days died at his home near Vicksburg at age 64.
The postmaster general orders two new sub stations for Houston and Washington on Oct 1 to handle money order and registry transactions and postal supply sales. London dispatches discuss Windsor fight inquiries noting possible shootings of British wounded by Boers.
Brazos County District Court issues citation summons for nonresident defendants in a land title dispute involving Alfred Whittaker, Alfred Gee, and others. The petition seeks to nullify deeds and clear clouded title with process, costs, and relief, returnable September 2, 1901 in Bryan Texas. Toilet articles and lotions advertised at McDugald's drug store.
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