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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
3
Train schedule notes No 104 Northbound departs at 4 4 p.m with close connection to main line No 101 Southbound arrives 7 10 p.m No 102 passenger to San Antonio leaves 7 0 a.m No 108 passenger from San Antonio arrives 4 00 p.m and links with No 104 schedule indicated for the day
Northbound No. 5 departs at 1 27 p m then 2 15 a m. Southbound No. 9 leaves at 2 00 p m. Southbound No. 4 at 4 16 p m and 2 46 a m. Southbound No. 6 also listed. Trains Nos 8 and 4 are fasts stopping only at principal stations.
An assortment of notices and advertisements include fresh grapes stock schedule at H. Shields, guests of Mr. Pryor, private school opening Sept 1, new W L Douglas shoes at Norwood's, prayer meetings at the Christian church, eye ear nose throat services, rooms for rent, Mrs. Sims hosting, job asks, sale on men pants at Burt Norwood, I N G N engine accident repairs, Times Democrat giveaway by Postmaster Haswell, Annie L. Berryman’s music reopens Sept 1 teaching piano guitar mandolin, and related local business items.
Miss Sue McLelland resumes her music class in Bryan on Monday September 1 teaching piano violin guitar and mandolin. She explains an illness kept her from calling personally and notes this is her thirtieth year teaching in Bryan tied to the grad ed school. All patronage will be appreciated.
Coulter's offers a two day sample sale Thursday and Friday August 23 and 24 at 229 45 W Coulter. Businesses, shoppers, discounts advertised in brief notice from the retailer.
Work on the new fair grounds buildings proceeds satisfactorily. An auditorium two stories high with exhibits and merchant displays on the lower floor and an audience chamber on the upper floor is planned along with a horse barn, a cow barn, and a poultry house. Grounds and stalls are being readied in first class condition before the fair.
A small ad promotes old reliable cook stoves from the Darling and Bucks lines. The seller, J Alien Myers, invites customers to examine before purchase.
M Koelseh of Bryan Texas warns that no person should sell his wife on credit to his account. Public notice dated August 20 1902.
Miss Florence Fox of Moscow Ohio wires acceptance for the music teaching position at Bryan Academic and Collegiate Institute. She is a Hillsdale Music Conservatory graduate from Hillsdale Michigan.
Express Safe and Aban Spokane Wash Aug 26 The west pound Northern Pacific train held up at Sand Point Idaho 65 miles east of here at 11 o'clock Monday night The robbers seven forced the engineer to stop the train then uncoupled the baggage car They compelled the engineer with a revolver to pull up the track about three miles where they tried to wreck the baggage car with dynamite The explosions failed to work and after fifteen minutes the robbers decamped allowing the engineer to return to the train Two other thugs guarded the train keeping passengers inside by firing revolvers No attempt to molest the passengers and after the engine came back the robbers left The train then to Spokane The train was heavily loaded
Dr W B Phillips head of the state geological survey reports rich quicksilver veins in Brewster county Texas during the annual survey. The vein lies about 50 miles northeast of Boquillas near the Rio Grande and roughly 50 miles east of the Terlingua district. The discovery may signal a major new quiet silver field extending across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
Fisher Island New York August 26 signals exchanged between Papatree Point Watch Hill and Fort Trumbull New London as the army readies for the war game to begin next Friday at midnight. Activity seen from Hill Road but fort remains off limits to approach.
Barney Nirdlinger and Charles Rea filed a petition to enjoin the Jennings mayor and officers from interfering with their liquor business and to obtain $1000 damages. The dispute stems from the Jennings city council's failure to fix the saloon license amount after the ward voted for license, with authorities deeming liquor selling illegal until council acts.
Bloodhounds chase two men suspected of stealing a Choctaw locomotive from Shawnee Saturday night. The engine was abandoned about two miles from town after a pursuit of over a mile. The motive remains unknown.
In Nacogdoches Texas on August 26 Lige Price and Henry Randall, both Black men, fought over craps at Sand Hill church fourteen miles east. Price was shot in the body with a .45 pistol and died Monday morning. Randall surrendered in town and is jailed.
The First National Bank in LaVerne SD was robbed of 3800 dollars in silver on Sunday night. Robbers entered the basement then moved upstairs and cut a hole in the vault through its side steel. The chest remained closed with silver stored in sacks inside the vault outside the safe.
A comparative statement for the year ended June 30 shows the New York post office and its stations paid out on domestic money orders 29,829,801 dollars, up 25 percent from the previous year. Payments to offices nationwide totaled 23,431,324 dollars.
A fight in Ousley county Kentucky left Jesse Nuey and a man named Allen dead and five men and one woman wounded. No witnesses besides participants provided details and they refused to offer more information.
Herbst Hill Co longtime LaSalle street brokers and members of the New York and Chicago exchanges and the Chicago board of trade have fallen to Clarence Day as receiver Liabilities are about 200000 dollars in Chicago August.
Fred West of Boston died at Saratoga from sandbagging after leaving a club house near Broadway. Two men beat him and robbed him of several thousand dollars. Rio Grande rises alarmingly in New Mexico with Rincon flooding feared to wash away towns. Las Cruces dams and ditches may fail to dissipate the flood.
Albany Aug. 26 Gov Odell spoke against any tariff revision in the Republican platform and rejected Roosevelt’s call for federal supervision of trusts. The governor’s stance frames intra party dispute over economic policy and antitrust oversight.
E L Turner a merchant in Mahank Texas was stabbed in the side near the heart. Warren N Ray a saddler was arrested in connection with the incident.
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