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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1901
Page
2
The Daily Eagle carries standard post office classification and pricing details for subscriptions. Published items reflect a early 20th century local newspaper format with issue date February 9 1901 and publisher Connelly and Carnes.
The legislature passed a bill appropriating 20000 dollars annually to establish a normal school at Denton with free tuition for students. George Washington’s hatchet notoriety is noted alongside Mrs Nation in the opening remark.
The wedding of the young queen of Holland draws global notice while news focuses on the death and funeral of Queen Victoria. The event contrasts royal happiness with somber mourning.
The legislature passed the I. and G. N. consolidation bill requiring the C. W. and B. W. railroad to extend the line to form a continuous Ft Worth to Spring route by March 1, 1905.
A citizen witnessed a rough altercation at a Beatrice Nebraska butcher shop as a butcher and a customer rolled on a saw dust floor. The scene ended with the customer seeking dog meat and the butcher asking if it should be eaten there or wrapped for takeout.
The Eagle reports the death of Dr. B L Lawless yesterday afternoon at 6 o clock. The interment will be at the city cemetery this afternoon at 8 with services at the grave.
Hog raising for market proves highly profitable in this region with several thousand head shipped from Bryan this season. A Centerville correspondent cites Walter Harrison reporting hogs killed in the woods weighing 356 pounds for one, 298 pounds each for two, and 262 pounds each for two, all without any corn intake.
W. H. Thompson, a prominent Alexander resident, died at his home on Thursday February 7 at 7 p.m. He was 69 and leaves a wife and seven children. The funeral was held at Alexander Chapel at 4 p.m. yesterday with many mourners attending. He was regarded as a good man and a great loss to the county.
A list of guests and travelers visiting various cities including Dallas Houston Kansas City St Louis Chicago Nashville Ft Wayne Oil City and Iola. Names include A F Hunt Chas D Golding E Edwards J W Lauderdale H A Woods J H Bate Cecil Porter L P Johnson M W McAfee J L Haralson W D Trublood Joe Lyons Earl Supert T H Castle G B Shaw and more associated with When We Were 21 Company and others.
H and T C announces round trip fares for Fort Worth trips at 6.20 with signing in Fort Worth by Feb 15, and Mardi Gras trips to New Orleans at 13.80 with signing in New Orleans by March 1 1901. Agent W S Wilson provides details.
An advertisement touts Premium Baking Powder as the top product made from French Crystal Grape Cream of Tartar promising butter milk and cake substitutions. It guarantees refunds for unsatisfactory cans and lists Potts Baking Powder Co as manufacturer and John M. Lawrence & Co and Cole Bros as sellers. Additionally there are classified items seeking a middle aged housekeeper, promoting Texas grown garden seed, and discounted lap robes from Buchanans.
News from Chihuahua Mexico reports a catastrophic blast at the San Andres mines in Durango’s Sierra Madre area.87 miners and nearby residents died or were injured as dynamite stored underground detonated. The explosion destroyed the mountain top and buried bodies in a single grave. The San Andres mine is valued at 20 million dollars and has produced vast ore wealth.
General Kitchener's Pretoria dispatch notes a British column destroying supplies at Petrysberg and capturing 300 horses and cattle. De Wet remains north of Smithfield moving east, with a detached force at Pompi siding marching toward Philipolis. Methuen reports scattering the enemy at Lillifontein near Vryburg and seizing 12 wagons and cattle. French is near Ermelo.
Dispatches from Baku report all hospitals crowded with naptha fire victims and fairground sheds housing the homeless after a rapid blaze at mealtime. The fire trapped spectators, and 80 perished as they could not escape.
Albert Cartwright editor of the South African News was arraigned in Cape Town on criminal and seditious libel charges related to a letter accusing Lord Kitchener of ordering troops to take no prisoners. He was remanded on bail of 2000 pounds.
Statistics from a leading fidelity company show defalcations and embezzlements in the United States and Canada totaling 38,090,878 dollars for the past year, up about 3,000,000 from 1899 totals.
Nashville February 8 Republicans in the general assembly adopted resolutions endorsing Senator Beveridge for the next president. The Indiana junior senator replied to the resolutions in a spirited letter.
Salina Kansas February 8 Mrs W H Morrison 19 year old newlywed was accidentally shot and killed by her father Harvey Shaw at their Gypsum City area home, about 20 miles south of Salina.
Fire destroyed a portion of the Mississippi Insane Hospital one mile north of Jackson. Nine patients were injured as the blaze swept through the building on Thursday.
Dallas report states the Independent Order of Odd Fellows grand lodge adjourned yesterday and set the meeting for San Antonio next year with plans announced at a daytime session.
LaCrosse Wisconsin February 8 Mrs S O Davis of Norway Ridge asserts she is an heir of the late William M Rice and seeks recognition of her claim in probate proceedings.
A German professor in Berlin argues that green offers no visual rest or benefit. He says green paper, shades, and decorations provoke nervous disturbance by overstimulating different nerve sets, and recommends dimming all light with smoked gray glasses to soothe the optic nerves.
A narrator and a colonel witness a dogfight near a town post office that escalates to gunfire. Ten minutes after entering a doorway they find two men wounded, one dead, carried away as others escort the injured. The colonel warns watching a dogfight is safest after the fact.
A New York Journal urge to start saving immediately by depositing nickels and dimes to build toward a dollar. It warns against delaying until a salary raise or near a savings bank, insisting action today is the only path to saving.
At a Glasgow railway construction site a clerical observer saw Pat, a laborer, enter a drinking place after being hailed. The priest questioned him, and Pat replied he had only enough for one drink, citing the price as his reason for leaving.
In a Detroit Journal item a citizen refuses a hair restorer offer claiming impossibility. The vendor quips that they do not claim to reverse evolution while an bystander smiles. A brief, odd street scene captures the moment.
A grave marker at South Vernon, New Hampshire, bears a handwritten epitaph lamenting a missing person. The verse asks why she left and mocks fate, noting the speaker and others cannot return.
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