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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1900
Page
2
News notes report plans for a rice mill and a sugar mill near Eagle Lake, Texas, amid broader talk of cotton mill companies forming across the cotton belt. Other items include C K Bell’s anticipated retirement as state Democratic executive chair, wartime reports on the Philippines, Kentucky Democrats, and a January currency minting total of 14,063,000 dollars with gold leading at 11,515,000.
A Salem Times Register poem recalls a phantom corps of unpaid bills marching at night and shadowing the speaker by day. The verses personify debts as loyal, ghostly companions who evoke past pleasures linked to credit days and old financial joys.
A condensed list of arrivals and guests includes A M Rhodes from City and J M Mathes of Houston among notable travelers. Others cited are Henry Cook of New Orleans, O G Rosenburg of New York, B F Bridges of Dallas, C C Crater, Jack Bird of Ft Worth, and E K Byrd of Bristol Tennessee.
London reports General Roberts and his Chief of Staff Kitchener have left for the front amid Boer pressure on Gatacre. Dispatches from Sterkstroom indicate two directing Boer assaults and expect developments as Roberts may supervise Gatacre’s joining forces to reinforce French and prepare a main advance, though a Pretoria move remains uncertain for weeks.
Lord Roberts distributes a manifesto to Free Staters and Transvaalers near the invader frontier offering immunity and farm restoration if they surrender. It guarantees sale of horses brought in and paid passage home for foreigners. Colonial rebels are urged to surrender. Buller reports delay. MacDonald with 4000 men presses at Magersfontein.
W J Bryan reports after a New England campaign that 18 cities and 45 000 people showed growing Democratic sentiment The old men compare modern Republicans with Lincoln era and the youth see fewer opportunities and more wealth favored by the party The union of wealth and limited chances drives youth away. Buenos Aires experiences record sunstroke deaths with 150 Saturday 134 Sunday and 44 Monday then a cooling rain Monday night. Daughters of the Confederacy in Jacksonville call for repealing the monument bill and oppose Union soldiers graves at Olustee due to the soldiers being negroes
Burns Proved Fatal in Kaufman Texas as Mrs. Fritz Boles died from clothing catching fire while burning stalks in a field. News arrives of a separate Rio de Janeiro dispatch reporting Venezuelan troops invading Brazilian territory and repelled after a serious fight.
Washington reports active congressional irrigation committees and a Census Bureau survey of wells dams canals and water rights to quantify irrigation potential. Directors urge response to schedules as irrigation wells rise to about 12000 and canals to 15000 in ten years. Paris Texas notes potato profits from early-market crops while seed prices rise. New York plans a 20 story 460000 square foot office building costing about 4 million dollars to be built by Alliance Realty.
Havana reports say Civil Governor Nunez and General Ludlow will be settled when General Wood hands the military department to the municipality and Ludlow retires from Cuba. Ludlow departs Saturday to consult President McKinley. In Terre Haute Colonel Richard W. Thompson, ex secretary of the navy and lone survivor of the 1541 congress, is critically ill at 91.
William M. Houser, secretary and treasurer of the Globe Democrat and sole surviving son of proprietor D. M. Houser, died at his St Louis home from consumption.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor arrived from New York and was given a reception by Havana workmen at the headquarters.
Washington February 7 the house committee on claims favored the Cooper bill for payment of southern cotton claims. The measure calls for an expenditure of ten million dollars.
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