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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1900
Page
2
The Daily Eagle notes active push to develop the Llano copper mines and mentions a January business league meeting to advance local industry. It praises Bryan residents for home improvements and urges sidewalk construction in residential areas during the coming year. A cannon cracker incident is reported in dispatches.
The piece argues Christmas is a man made festival most laudable when observed with charity and family reunions. It notes revelry can be misused but praises the season as humanity friendly, feasting, gifts, and church worship on the nativity of Christ, with millions worshipping in churches.
Allen Academy will admit a few more boys at the opening of the second half year in January. The current enrollment stands at 66 with about twenty cities and towns represented. Principals J. WH. and R. O. Alren report the school’s reach extends beyond the state.
For sale land on a Bryan area farm two miles southwest of town totaling about two hundred acres with forty acres timber and the rest cultivated. The acreage includes four tenement houses four wells and cribs and a well producing claim. Also my residence in southern Bryan with a roomy house and ample land. W. W. Griffin invites buyers to call and view. d27
Hobart Clayberg, 17, son of Helena Montana citizen John B Clayberg, was abducted in Kalamazoo on Sunday night by two men. The boy was blindfolded and forced to walk about 11 miles to Mattewan before being released as a storm intensified. The kidnappers telegraphed for help and were sent home.
Omaha reports a man who identified Pat Crowe as the light complexioned figure seen with a woman near the kidnap rendezvous. The same day Ed Johnson, a laborer at the Cudahy plant, was arrested on Miss Maude Munshaw’s description as the dark man but released after proving no connection to Eddie Cudahy’s abduction.
A Manchester Bank robbery was foiled when a Chattanooga telegraph operator overheard the nitroglycerin blast from the bank over the exchange. She notified local telephone users, prompting rapid alerts to Tullahoma. One robber was captured and the $5000 recovered after the news spread.
William J. Bryan plans to respond to ex-President Cleveland's criticisms of the Democratic party at the W. J. Bryan league banquet in Chicago on January 8, the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. The event at the Sherman House marks his first address since his second presidential defeat with speakers including W. J. Stone Carmack and possibly Gov. Beckham.
The H and T C R R offers round trip fares to Texas and Louisiana at one and one third regular rate with a January 3 limit. Colorado Springs Denver Pueblo Kansas Missouri trips Dec 21 22 28 priced at one and one fifth rate with limit January 20 1901. Wilson, Agent.
A list of guests visiting various cities and hotels including Stone Ballinger McCall Davenport Bryson Byars Elkins Calvert Corbett Siddall Hoyle White Flyer Ohm stede Randolph Madisonville Woodward Symms Edna Kieth Jones Harvey McCary Texarkana Bush Hughes and wife Newland Forrester Burrs Cobb Stone Lamb Tipton Gabriel Anderson Dixon Cade Willow Hole.
Father J P Chadwick, former Maine chaplain and Vermont chaplain at Brooklyn navy yard, is assigned to the cruiser New York which will be commissioned February 1. Rear Admiral Rogers requested Chadwick for his ship. Also reports from Sitka Alaska say suppressed excitement and armed marines amid fears of Indian outbreak. In Washington the Supreme Court advances eight insular cases to January 7 hearing including duties on imports from Hawaii.
Ingham county bar petitions Judge Wiest to compel Governor Pingree to appear and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt An interview published in the Detroit Tribune Dec 7 where the governor attacked Judge Wiest and Pres senter Tuttle is the basis of the action The Tribune reporter's affidavit supports publication and the governor later commented on its fairness
Maggie Hoel, about 18, disappeared from her sister Mrs. Charles Beatty’s home three miles west of Pueblo. Evidence of a struggle, large footprints, and signs the girl was dragged along the Arkansas River trail prompted a wide search. Hat and wrap left behind, others say, as men probe nearby reservoirs.
A cattleman named R. Burrows was found dead at his Wichita Reservation ranch with an empty pistol nearby. The report notes a series of violent incidents and disasters including a fatal shooting in Georgia, a bank vault burglary in Texas, and destructive fires across Oklahoma and Texas.
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