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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1903
Page
4
Governor Lanham rejected house bill No. 21 amending article 31 of the Penal Code, arguing the measure would permit a woman to wed her stepfather after her mother's death and a woman to marry her daughter's husband, undermining public policy and morality. He urged discouraging such intermarriage and said the proposal offers no benefit to sanctity or felicity of marriage.
British expedition under Colonel Moreland with 1200 West African frontier forces occupies Kano on February 3 after sharp fighting. Two British officers wounded. Kano emir flees to Sokoto with 1000 horsemen. 12 British soldiers wounded. about 300 enemy killed. Price on Captain Abadie’s head cited.
Landon Wyly of Camden Tennessee was found dead in his room at 218 Front Street Memphis. A glass containing laudanum and a vial of poison lay beside the body. He had been in the city a few days seeking work and was about thirty, son of Captain J Harris Wyly of Camden.
The Pervenir claims General Uribe Uribe killed General Juan Navalderram in a heated dispute. A Kingston dispatch via the Para from Colon says Uribe Uribe died by his own hand on January 30, creating a clash of accounts on the Colombian commander's death.
In St Louis on February 14 the grand jury interrogates Arnold & Co, using seized books and staff testimony. Evidence suggests Post Office Inspector Diece urged a fraud order, but an influential postal official’s letter was used to countermand the recommendation.
The notice lists several parcels for sale including 105 acres near the courthouse with pasture and cultivated lands priced at 1500 dollars and 400 acres of post oak land at 2.50 per acre. It also mentions a quarter acre near a schoolhouse, a six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street for 1260 dollars, and other city lots with prices from 100 to 500 dollars.
The listing markets 92 acres near A M College for dairy and hog farming at 1000 dollars. It mentions 31g lots on courthouse square with a seven room house and outbuildings at 2200, various city lots from 25 to 35 dollars, 69 acres on Wixon Creek with 49 cultivated, creek bottom land, and options including 9 acres with a six room house. Also 24 acres cultivated one mile west, I G N R RB line through property, asking 1500 or trade for city property.
Laredo Texas and New Laredo Mexico host a two day celebration February 22 23 featuring Spanish bull fights cattle roping parades torchlight events and military drills with naval fireworks pageants and flower carnival. Excursion rates and Monterey Mexico tickets with stopover at Laredo offered. contact D J Prior at G N R RB Palestine Texas for details.
Washington reports BE J Arnold and Co of St Louis closed its local branch. About 200 subscribers here held vested amounts ranging from fifty to five hundred dollars in the turf investment scheme.
The Chinese news mail reports the new Chinese minister Cheng Tung Liang Ching arrives with a large suite of seventeen officials, plus twelve young men studying in the U S at their own expense. The group includes descendants of Sun Chia Nai and other distinguished families, signaling a notable delegation for a foreign post.
Cheyenne reports an intense cold snap following a Wyoming blizzard. Stockmen fear heavy sheep losses as temperatures drop below zero across the state, with some areas twenty five degrees below. The Southern Pacific near Laramie struggles with snow drifts while Dillon notes twenty foot snow covers. A round trip of fifteen miles took twelve days by horse and sled, in the heaviest snowfall remembered.
A Dawson report states the thermometer plunged to sixty six degrees below zero, described from Seattle dispatches dated February 14. Extreme cold grips the region as weather conditions set records.
Judge Thomas sentences W. H. Kimball of the Seventh National Bank to a $5000 fine for conviction on overcertification of checks drawn to H. Marquand & Co. Kimball pays the fine.
Judge Jeff Truly and District Attorney Ratcliffe lead a crackdown in Franklin County Mississippi with thirteen arrests and warrants for twenty two more. Knoxville reports consternation as authorities press the case against alleged whitecappers and prominent men.
Mazatlan Mexico reports two plague deaths on Friday with forty four patients in the lazaretto. Over two hundred thousand dollars has been received from charities across the republic, enabling the local committee to fund extensive relief efforts.
Guthrie Oklahoma February 14 The senate called up the cattle quarantine measure from the house and defeated a motion for a second reading and committee reference. The vote is regarded as a test. The Sabbath breaking punishment measure and Mr Blakeneys bribery penalty were passed unanimously.
John D. Rockefeller has returned to Lakewood and is staying with his son in law and daughter Professor and Mrs Charles A Strong at their cottage on the lake drive. Two watchmen guard the Strong cottage at night.
Jamestown, Feb 14 17 year old Warren Grover killed himself by shooting through the head. The youth was an incessant cigarette smoker and this habit is cited as a probable factor in his death.
A lone highwayman robbed a telegraph operator at Faxon Oklahoma on February 14 taking 200 dollars. The incident occurred as the operator worked at the line office under the alarm of a highwayman. Local authorities investigated the crime.
Dover Del Feb 14 The regular Republicans agree to back Addicks faction to elect two senators of their political faith but refuse to vote for Addicks themselves.
Raids and arrests reported near Ardmore and Red River County. An accidental self‑inflicted death near Kosse. Rail plans from Lake Charles to a trunk line. Four assailants wounded Dr Clark Coleman and his father in Red River County. A deceased unknown Black man found near Beeville with a temple wound and $43 on him. Conductor Frank Hughes killed by a train at Longview. Elias D. Wartz found shot in Oklahoma City. Ray Love killed by a back‑shot in Oklahoma City after a man allegedly drew a revolver. Mrs Worsham and infant severely burned in Red River County. H L Rogers in Dallas evaluating electric railway routes to McKinney and Waxahachie. John Beavers shot near Chigota. ambiguous lines amid garbled notes.
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