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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1901
Page
1
In Topeka on February 8 Mrs Frances E. Nation sparked a 80 strong group of followers armed with hatchets planning a 3 am raid on city joints. She balked at the last moment claiming she would go this minute with any one woman and smash a joint, then walked away.
In Topeka Carrie Nation faces dismissal of charges after a joint smashing case as she leads followers in singing. She later addresses the legislature urging stricter saloon laws. Across Indiana a woman named Mrs Creal destroys a saloon front with a hatchet. In northwest Missouri a fierce snowstorm disrupts streetcar traffic as heavy precipitation hits Central Kansas and Kansas City.
Washington reports a new wireless telegraphy system by the weather bureau led by Willis S. Moore. The test at Cobbs Island, Potomac River, signals ships 500 miles out with future coastal stations at Roanoke, Hatteras, and Cape Henry. Read by sounder with dots and dashes and aims for land use milestones.
Reports say the Denver and Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western lines may unite or align closely. Union Pacific and other majors denied sought control, while Gould interests reportedly gaining in the Missouri Kansas and Texas. Union Pacific plans 40 million dollar convertible bonds to finance Southern Pacific stock purchase. In Ohio, three masked men robbed an Andover bank, bound the watchman, blew the safe, then fled as onlookers gathered.
A Vienna dispatch reports former Servian King Milan is ill with pneumonia in London and his condition is described as dangerous. The report highlights the seriousness of his illness and the location of care in London.
Federal prisoners from the Indian Territory will hereafter be sent to Leavenworth Kansas instead of Columbus Ohio. A Havana Cuba lumber yard saw mill and 14 houses were destroyed in a fire with losses around 700000. Nicholas Michals and his wife were badly beaten by robbers in Chicago. the burglars netted 300 cash and 2000 in negotiable paper. In divorce action, the wife of actor William M. McDowell is granted a decree.
The brief items report a Justice barring a marriage, Texas lodge relocation talks, a train fatality in Galveston, Wichita Falls cleanup orders, Oklahoma City planning a new city building, Tishiminga Bank formation, Rolla White acquittal in a Kentucky murder case, and a Logansport youth suicide tied to drinking remorse.
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