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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1901
Page
4
A critique of fads claiming separate foods for brain or muscles and a call to a balanced diet. The ad touts Green's August Flower and Dr G G Green remedies to aid digestion, stimulate liver and blood health, and boost vitality, sold by Wilson Jenkins Drug Co. and featuring Green's Almanac.
In the western part of the city known as cit park a large property will be sold cheap. It includes one half block ground a 9 room house 3 halls 2 large cisterns 7 hydrants a servants' house barn and other modern conveniences in bon ton part of the city. Also houses for sale very cheap other city properties for sale and farm and ranch lands offered.
Bud Wilson, convict who killed guard R H Naylor at the Yell County camp last September, was hanged in Danville. The trap set at 9 45 pm, the body lowered at 10 05. After the lid was placed the corpse moved, eyes opened, tremors ran through the frame. Deputies carried him back to the scaffold for a second hanging, but the body became rigid then limp. Physicians finally declared death by strangulation.
Governor sends troops to Andalusia to aid Sheriff Bradshaw guarding 22 black prisoners as martial law is imposed. A posse killed three unnamed men near Opp for alleged riot ties, while widespread arms claims sweep the countryside amid heightened tensions.
A Cedar Bayou precinct resident reports cattle dying rapidly from dry murrain. Cows die overnight after appearing healthy, with owners seeking a remedy from state veterinarian Dr Knight. In Oregon, a Portland to The Dalles eastbound train wreck injured engineer Maurice Cavanaugh and fireman Frank Crase, suspected by wreckers.
Judge R B Haughton, commander in chief of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, issued a general order urging camps that have not paid subscriptions to the memorial fund for the women of the south to contribute at once. In Kansas City, Walter Cavanaugh was found guilty of forcing his 17-year-old sweetheart Daisy Wheeler to steal $1200 in pension money from her widowed mother and was sentenced to five years in prison.
In St. Louis on December 7 police raided the rooms of the Southern Telegraph and Money Order Company amid allegations that commissions were placed on horse races. The operation followed ongoing investigations into betting practices and illicit gambling activity connected to the firm.
London reports a wave of domestic infelicities surrounding Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Britain’s royal line. England fears political fallout from the Dutch crisis while rumors swirl about the grand duchess of Hesse and other royal couples including the crown princess of Romania.
New Orleans reports the largest fleet of British transports ever seen in port with seven at the docks and one in mid stream awaiting cargo of horseflesh as India loaded Thursday and sailed that night. The convoy underscores Britain’s intensified shipment of horses and mules to the Transvaal for war.
Colonel Alban, commanding Colombian forces, arrived aboard the British cruiser Tribune at Colon and went to Panama. He dismisses the disturbances at Bocas del Toro as overemphasized and says Jamaicans imprisoned there were armed against the government and have been released.
New York on December 7 reports Herr Drefelt former minister of commerce in Prussia inspecting the immigrant clearing house at Ellis Island. He is in the United States to examine national institutions and will return aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II on December 14.
New York December 7 Paul Blouet known as Max O Rell writer has fallen ill in the city. The condition follows a prior episode during his last visit to America when he was forced to cancel engagements and retreat from public duties.
In Calcutta on December 7 reports say the punitive expedition against the Mahsuds faces strong opposition. After seven villages were destroyed by December 5, Mahsuds regrouped and attacked the British camp at night, killing ten and wounding fifteen soldiers.
Reports say a militia remains on duty in Andalusia to protect jail inmates amid ongoing martial rule. Governor Jelks may keep troops until a trial is held, with a hearing expected within days as residents fear unrest. The item lists other incidents including a $100 robbery in Nebraska, college relocation in Texas, a statue tax exemption in Baltimore, and a fatal stabbing in Kentucky.
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