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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
2
Texas politics nears the San Antonio convention as Brazos County gains 11 votes. The Daily Eagle notes limited campaigning beyond a few districts while Texas focuses on industrial progress and a distant political battle.
The article notes that London's underground railway, six miles long, is a marked success and that New York plans a similar rapid transit project. It argues that as cities grow the need for underground systems will expand and other cities will follow London's lead.
The Humphries mob's penitentiary sentences leave seven wives without husbands and forty-one children fatherless, in addition to Humphries widows and orphans. Had any mob member weighed the cost, Henderson county might have spared this dark page in its history.
Readers note extreme heat affects northern and eastern areas with higher risk of prostrations and deaths, while Texas enjoys relative safety. Authorities urge awareness and hydration during the ongoing hot spell.
Dr C F Simmons of St Louis has purchased the Bell ranch in Live Oak county, acquiring about 60,000 acres in a substantial Texas land deal.
A brief observation notes men in the East adopting shirt waist styles for driving and going bareheaded, while the fool killer withholds his fire. The line suggests urban fashion and a measure of public calm in a time of danger.
Rey Tucker leads a company of young men and boys at Kernole park for the San Juan parade and battle. The unit lists Jeff Cole Joe Carnes Albert Loughridge Terry Loughridge Luther Gregg Gentry White Charlie Brietz Marvin Baker Charley Stately Edgar Haws Homer Pearson Oliver Pate Victor White Dick Davis Elmo Pearson Jeff Dillard Ollie Tabor Will Harmon.
Arrival list includes A P Wilson Houston W P Hearns Dallas JC Mayo Richmond A A Farley Baltimore C FE Hothmans Dallas T Davidson Waco JS Mc Neel San Antonio H Miller St Louis M P Biggers Waco. Banners in black and white or colors for celebration day advertised by Ted Birch Central Hotel. 29.
Cable dispatch reports American troops first to enter the imperial city and reach the palace gates after Che Foo action. Sixth Cavalry with about 400 English and Japanese rout Boxer bands outside Tien Tsin. Casualties include six American and several killed in several days of skirmishes. Napoleon?
An Aug. 20 dispatch from Taku reports Allies fighting near Tien Tsun on Aug. 19 and six miles south of the city. Bruce notes heavy road marches and boats used to move guns. Pekin remains in turmoil with districts under multiple foreign officers. The Japanese occupy the imperial palace and several hundred troops are killed or wounded as rescuers free missionaries and converts.
Washington reports General Chaffee will report operations and needs, transferring decisive control from Minister Conger to Chaffee due to Conger’s fatigue. Conger to return home for rest as the Beijing and Taku dispatches note continued fighting and Japanese capture of the imperial city in Peking.
Cablegram from Che Foo lists Pekin Tung Chow Pang Chuan and Lin Ching mission stations as saved with families. Names include W S Ament O B Ewing Ada Haven Nellie Russell J L Mater Mary B Andrews Jane Evans Abbie Chapin Chauncey Goodrich and others.
Jim and Tom Swan killed their stepfather John W Triplett at his Cache home near Newport Arkansas early Sunday. Sheriff Walker arrested them and jailed them after the shooting at about 1 am. Triplett had been in town Saturday and returned home about 9 pm. the motive remains unclear with the boys claiming the stepfather shot first.
The official twelfth census return shows Chicago city population at 1,698,575 in 1900, up from 1,099,850 in 1880. The 1890 to 1900 rise amounts to 598,725 or 54.44 percent, while 1880 to 1890 growth reached 596,635 or 118.58 percent.
In Rome on Aug 22 Field Marshal Count von Waldersee met King Victor Emmanuel for breakfast then laid a wreath at the tomb of King Humbert at the Pantheon before departing for Naples to sail to China. London reports from Aug 20 say Allied forces clash with Chinese near Taku and at Tien Tsin on Sunday.
In Jessamine county near Marble Creek John Thomas, a Black man, was fatally shot with buckshot by white merchant Mitchell Gum after an altercation last Saturday. Thomas, who struck Gum, is reported to be dying from his wounds as Gum fired both shotgun barrels.
London reports from Gen. Roberts dated Aug 21 state Lieutenant Colonel Sitwell’s reconnoiter near Ventersburg met the Boers. Two British soldiers were wounded while Lieutenant Spedding Davenport Surtees Watsor and a medical officer along with 14 men were missing.
Through secret intelligence agents the British learn that Louis Schalkburger and 8000 Boers have assembled at Machadorp with the whole of the Boer artillery, including heavy pieces formerly at Pretoria.
United States Consul in Bombay reports to the state department that cholera is raging there amid crowded conditions and public health concerns. The message notes a rising toll and calls for assistance and precautions.
A Charleston Illinois dispatch reports that a storm two weeks earlier and heavy rains last week have nearly ruined the broom corn crop across the Central Illinois belt, threatening local harvest prospects.
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