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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1902
Page
6
The Daily Eagle announces T. Nunn as a candidate for re election as Sheriff of Brazos County, subject to voters at the November election. Also listed is W Gillie Mitchell seeking re election as Justice of the Peace for Precinct No 4 Brazos County Bryan precinct.
Vivid activity emerges in Brazos County politics as candidates organize, meetings occur, and community interest grows across local races and issues.
Republican state party chairman Ly on appears positioned to win re election. He faces no strong challenger as he mounts a bid to extend his leadership into another term.
A Wisconsin man reportedly ate fifty roasted ears in a bet. Neighbors planted the man and the corn together.
A Hunt county man sues for divorce claiming his wife’s prior divorce and a rushed marriage show they acted in haste. The action seeks legal dissolution of the union citing the earlier marriage dissolved by a previous husband.
Local appeal calls on Texas congressmen to unite for material improvements at home with the Bra ves River identified as the first priority needing attention.
While the president tours the East praising prosperity troops head to Pennsylvania to quell striking and starving miners, signaling federal intervention amid labor unrest.
Ford Nolan was injured in a nighttime runaway accident in Palestine and later discovered his ear was severed. He felt around for a lost gun when he located the car and realized the injury.
The Greenville Herald notes nearly 200000 Texas men refused poll tax payment, yet most sought voting rights. it argues for a poll tax amendment to ensure every man contributing to government supports public schools.
The first issues in this and other congressional districts focus on straightening and improving the Brazos River and the extermination of boll weevils. The plan aims to boost agriculture and flood control through targeted engineering and pest control efforts.
Mr R K Kirk announces in the Eagle this week for the office of Sheriff of Brazos county. He has lived in Brazos county twenty four years and is a sober industrious citizen. If elected he will track the law and enforce its provisions regardless of friend or foe and asks voters to give his claims fair consideration.
The Palestine carnival blends an industrial fair and fruit show to highlight East Texas progress. Three days of uninterrupted entertainment include grand parades Paine's fireworks and military bands with low railroad rates expected to draw thousands. The event promises free admission.
Listing offers several parcels and houses around the Allen Academy area. Includes 3.25 acres near the school, a small cottage with a tenant house and well, priced at 8750. A six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street priced at 1250. A quarter block near Allen Academy with a fast front priced 250, terms easy. Also 75 feet on Railroad street and lots near the schoolhouse at 8100 each. Various city properties available.
Dr. Long offers free eye tests and free treatment for crossed eyes this week. The eye specialist will also fit glasses at half price during the same period. Office located at Wilson Jenkins Drug Store, 231.
Advertisement offers a four room house with a dug well a good barn and 26 acres suitable for truck farming. Priced at 1250 but willing to take 700 with easy terms. Contact Cliff A Adams 244.
In New York the Treasury secretary authorized Ailes to say large national banks may order additional circulating notes up to the cap of 700 million dollars. Banks have issued only 358 million in circulation, with deposits of United States bonds as security. The plan is precautionary to meet actual demand in a potential shortage, not inflation, and is not to be used unless necessary.
General Nelson A Miles and party including Mrs Miles and aides Colonels Whitney and Maus will depart Washington for the Philippines next Wednesday with stops in San Francisco. The group arrives in time to sail on the Transport Thomas on September 16. Mrs Miles may join him to San Francisco or travel on to the Pacific.
Kate Wagner wife of machinist Rees J. Wagner killed her two children aged 6 and herself at their north Little Rock home on Sunday night by cutting throats with a razor. Bodies found Thursday morning by Mr. Wagner's mother. he is in El Paso for health reasons. no motive known.
In Bluefield West Virginia on August 29, excitement grows as strikers kill John Ruble a blacksmith for Sagamore Coal and Iron Company along Crane and Simmons creeks drawing attention to labor strife and violence in the area.
Three hundred coal miners in the Spadra district around Little Rock Arkansas struck for a ten cent per ton wage increase for mining coal. There is prospect of a settlement.
United States Indian Agent Shoenfelt arrives with a squad of Indian police at Tishomingo to preserve order during the inauguration. Byrd partisans express satisfaction at his arrival and say they will press their candidate’s rights but avoid violence or illegal methods.
F E Vinson was stabbed to death by William Holmes near Cedar Grove ten miles south of Huntington Tenn Holmes had helped a young man named Woodward induce Vinsons daughter to marry him After the marriage Holmes went to Vinsons house A quarrel followed and Holmes stabbed Vinson in the heart.
Beaumont Texas August 29 Louis Ball a bartender was accidentally shot by his friend Tom Fulton while handing a pistol to him. Ball was hit in the stomach and back, removed at hospital, and died from complications.
In Eagle Lake Texas on August 29 a fight near Ramsey's Point left Henry Burschell cut on the hand and Gus Jones dead after being shot in the confrontation.
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