Daily Eagle price notice and date
The Daily Eagle issue dated Wednesday December 5 1900 lists subscription prices: one week ten cents and one month forty cents. No further content appears readable from this OCR fragment.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
2
The Daily Eagle issue dated Wednesday December 5 1900 lists subscription prices: one week ten cents and one month forty cents. No further content appears readable from this OCR fragment.
The Krause-Taylor company presented Michael Strogoff last night, surpassing the first night in success. Jack C. Taylor impressed in the title role with solid support. The Woods family and other cast members were noted for their performances, and the children’s Cake Walk in the Sky drew interest. Tonight the company offers The Arkansas Traveler, followed by Old Pards in California-themed settings, with nightly shows and a 2 30 matinee Saturday.
Oscar Wilcox reports Frank Wilson was shot by a Black man named Crockett Evans after a minor dispute on J. W. Coulter’s plantation on Brazos bottom. The shot grazed the horse and Wilson, lodging in the neck and jaw. A third bullet pierced clothing. Wilson rests and is expected to recover in about ten days. Authorities seek Evans. Caldwell and other locals react with indignation.
Miss Jennie Howell hosted a stylish 9 to 12 o'clock gathering at her parents home in Bryan. About thirty couples attended to welcome cousin and guest Miss Stella Howell of Navasota with music conversation and an alliterative telegram writing contest awarding prizes. A salad course with chocolate followed in the elegant, spacious residence.
H. and T. C. sell round trip tickets to Houston for 3.30 dollars. Travel from December 9 to 13 with fare valid for return on or before December 16, 1900.
Special rate announced for evening trains on December 10 and 11 with a $1 fare. Tickets valid to depart Houston by 10 40 p m December 13, 1900. For trains at 3 55 p m 9 41 p m December 12 and 3 a m December 13, fare $1. Leave Houston by 10 40 p m December 15. W S Wilson agent.
Oscar Booz, a first class cadet, was forced to drink a spicy mixture after being challenged to a personal duel. The academy defends hazing as customary and will not discipline the cadets involved, though Booz lies dying in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
Nashville reports Putnam county excitement over the murder of Thomas J. Whittaker of Monterey by his 22 year old grandson Jack Whittaker. The victim, longtime county official and hunter known as the Old Man of the Mountains, was killed after denying a mule ride. The grandson, drunk, cut his throat and was captured near Monterey. he is jailed in Cookeville after being shot twice. Austin note adds railway plans extending the Missouri Kansas and Texas line toward Tampico via Brownsville, with high officials surveying the area as a gulf port possibility.
Mitchell S D reports Editor Bride was awarded 700 dollars after suing 40 citizens over a newspaper plant destruction nearly five years ago. About 10 defendants were cleared as not tied to the act, while others faced no judgment. The case hinges on allegedly offensive articles.
In San Francisco on December 4 two more victims injured in the Thanksgiving accident died Monday raising the death toll to seventeen.
Four men and a boy died instantly when a central boiler in the Chicago and Northwestern powerhouse exploded late Monday evening. Eighteen injured, some fatally, as the blast sent a ten ton boiler toward depot tracks and damaged the Ashland limited train cars. Loss pegged at about 100000 with depot power and dynamo rooms wrecked. Investigation continues into the cause after prior inspections showed the boilers in order.
In McLennan county Texas a jury found R A Price guilty of compelling Colonel McClelland to sign notes and checks totaling 4500 at gunpoint. Price received a five year penitentiary term with a motion for a new trial filed and likely appeal to higher courts. The crime occurred near West McLennan county last October.
Dallas reports indicate Pate Baines, once a constable, was murdered in a shocking act on Elm Street. He ran burning, eyes burned out, clothing saturated with turpentine and oil, and died an hour later after making a dying statement to the state’s attorney. Suspects saloonkeepers J W Chapman and Eugene Faulkner were jailed in Fort Worth. Durant Oklahoma Territory records a gambling house shooting where John Adams and P B Fleming were involved. Fleming died, Adams severely wounded.
Lansing report says General W L White of Grand Rapids was found guilty of complicity in state military frauds and received a 10 year prison sentence from Judge West. Separately in Harrisburg Reverend William Heard Day a leading African Methodist Episcopal Zion church figure dies at age 72.
The United States gunboat Wilmington has arrived at Port Said on December 4 on its voyage to China.
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