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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1901
Page
4
South half of block near Allen academy and one and a quarter acres by the schoolhouse in the southeast. A small new cottage with tenant, well on premises. Six room house with one lot on the west side. Six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street. Brick cistern on premises. Prices 550, 1250. Also other city property.
Ridiculed fad about foods for specific body parts is dismissed. A universal diet supports all body parts, but digestion must be aided by Green's August Flower. Regular doses boost digestion, liver function, blood purification, and general vitality. available at Wilson-Jenkins Drug Co. with Dr G G Green remedies and Almanac.
Chicago dispatch reports multiple wrecks from heavy rains and floods across several states. At Malta Illinois a collision on the Chicago and Northwestern line killed four and injured 29, with cars burned and a sleeping car damaged. Other incidents include a Birmingham street car crash with one dead and ten hurt, Alabama rail incidents, a Virginia landslide wreck on the Chesapeake and Ohio line killing four, and a Illinois Central Diamond Special wreck near Starness Crossing injuring two.
Misses Battle two elderly sisters at Barnett Junction on the Washington branch of the Georgia railroad were robbed of 6000 dollars in gold. The burglars entered at dawn. a lamp was lit and a bucket of cold water was dashed on the lamp holder to overwhelm the women, whom one claimed to have recognized.
John Pinover, a young wholesale liquor dealer from Middletown, New York, fell from the Brooklyn Bridge in the afternoon. He was pulled from the water by a tug and taken to a hospital where he remained unconscious for about three hours. He told doctors he wanted to see if he could jump and live.
Twenty Japanese are reported missing after the Steveston Point Roberts boarding house, built on piles, was destroyed in Thursday morning’s storm. No trace of the structure remains and the location lies two miles from Steveston, making access impossible during the gale.
Pittsburg Texas reports over 100000 peach trees received for planting this season. Local truck growers have ordered four ears of seed potatoes and plan large acreage in cantaloupes and tomatoes. Experienced men are hired to grow plants and teach farmers modern scientific farming methods.
Torrential rains across Georgia Alabama and Eastern Tennessee and parts of North Carolina caused four deaths and heavy property damage. A cold snap followed, bringing high winds and clearing skies. Pittsburgh saw ice gorge damage but no major bridge harm. river traffic disrupted and property losses in the thousands. Schuylkill floods flood Mana Yunk Norristown areas with factory suspensions. basements flooded and residents evacuated. Chattanooga reports 33 feet and rising rivers with 40 feet forecast prompting merchants to move goods from basements.
A two day storm disrupted rail transport in Asheville area. Westbound traffic on the Southern railway is blocked since Sunday due to washed out tracks on the Murphy division while Asheville and Spartanburg division trains are waterbound at Campobello.
Train service from Montgomery is delayed due to washouts. A Louisville and Nashville passenger train from the south hit a washout near Bushy creek, causing engine and cars to derail into the wash. No injuries were reported.
The ship Paul Revere reached New York after 137 days at sea with two crew buried and about twenty gales encountered. Capt. Wilson led the journey from Kobe, Japan, on August 14, with survivors facing peril along the voyage via Cape Horn.
Mr and Mrs Paul G Thebaud of Madison Avenue reported a Sunday jewelry theft worth 50000 dollars. A newly hired valet is suspected. the missing servant and a recommender, the butler, are under police scrutiny as a partial jewel list is provided at police headquarters. Washington announces a diplomatic selection for Madrid.
Two thousand attendees at a Topeka gathering urged England to invite the US president and Denmark's ruler as arbitrators in the war. Resolutions were sent to London. Speakers included David Overmeyer General J K Hudson and others.
South Carolina through its attorney general files a suit labeling the Virginia Carolina Chemical Co a trust and monopoly. The action also targets six large phosphate firms recently purchased by the company in a joint filing.
New York December 30 report Dr Jas Snyder Mackie is ill at his Newark New Jersey home after an apoplexy attack and physicians fear he cannot recover. He is 77 born in Cincinnati in 1824 and has resided in Newark since 1864. Under Lincoln he served as United States commissioner to Bolivia and Chili.
Memphis December 30 D M Ray a locomotive engineer was shot and carried by four men who forced the cab crew to detach the engine and steer toward Cleveland Mississippi Ashley Cook A M Phipps Blackman and Lauderdale are under arrest charged with the murder
Frank H Peavey of Minneapolis, an elevator man, died at the Auditorium annex in Chicago after several days of pneumonia. His physician had recently felt hopeful for recovery before his death.
London report notes 50 British wounded at Zeefontein with 246 prisoners, all released afterward.
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