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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1901
Page
2
The Daily Eagle covers Spain's woes with Weyler, the Jeffries Rubin prize fight ban by Ohio officials, returning soldiers asserting Filipinos must be exterminated for peace, and the President's benevolent assimilation plans lacking practicality.
A delegation of senators and representatives including the visiting committee toured the Texas A and M College and Experiment Station last week. They were well pleased with the facilities and expect to recommend favorable action on the Board of Directors annual report recommendations.
After a meeting in Cameron led by Evangelist W. P. Fife the Auditorium Opera House manager and his wife converted. The theatre dates were cancelled, the hall turned over to the Y M C A for a three year contract. I M Bennett reports many lives changed with gamblers burning devices and saloon men closing doors and families taking up faith.
Judge Grubbs reports a House battle over the Girls Industrial College measure. A committee substitute favors the revised bill while a minority supports the original with minor changes. He notes attempts to conciliate by linking the board of regents to existing institutions and cites Bryan supporters as driving the dispute.
Hotel arrivals list includes J T Swanson exchange Palestine. PS Til son College. LC Sellers Millican. E H Hughes Waxahachie. Dan R Sims City. Geo W Hanway W V Hanway Dallas. H E Price Virginia.
Washington Feb 16 Opponents bar vote on the shipping bill this session as Teller of Colorado vows no vote this session. Aldrich Chandler Hanna and Perkins clash over policy while the agricultural bill passes earlier in the session.
President says Congress will convene in extra session once the Cuban constitution is received. Senators weigh ship subsidy fate and oleomargarine action while a general view favors an April 1 opening. Other items note nominations for army volunteers and local oil lease plans, Roosevelt’s telegram on Montgomery, and the death of Gilbert A. Pierce in Chicago.
A fragmented roster mentions individuals including D E Farnham of Hammond Louisiana and J F Tinsley of Garland with others such as R Lewis Thornton D Moore John White Waco Mrs Bertha Lindsey Madisonville EQ Ellis Houston and H F Stock bridge Bremond, indicating a compilation of names or a participant list.
A famed actor returns home at 2 a.m. and spins a long fairy tale about Charlie B. taking friends to supper. His wife calmly reveals Charlie waited to discuss an engagement. The actor clings to his tale, insisting he will not change it.
In Nacogdoches Texas on February 16 a fatal altercation occurred about 12 miles southwest of the town between two Mexican residents. Jose Bustamente died Thursday morning and his companion fled the scene without hat or coat and remains at large.
In a Yale address Justice David J. Brewer says harsh words on Kansas prohibition law and warns money as a factor corrupts politics. He urges graduates and citizens to keep aloof from contamination and to use primaries as the remedy. He prophesies that if commerce rules politics the people will rise to oust those responsible.
Crowds gathered at the rail station awaiting the remains of ex King Milan of Serbia. Funeral arches and mourning emblems decorated the town as the vault was discovered by a centenarian who attended the princess. The wooden coffin had decayed but the corpse and pearl ornaments remained preserved.
Twenty five state bankers from Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan gather at the Grand Pacific hotel Chicago to form a regional association to handle large financial propositions. The goal is to prevent domination by big New York and Chicago banks. In Terre Haute Indiana Mrs Ira Langford leaves twenty thousand dollars to a home for aged women and nearly twelve thousand to the Day Nursery with the rest of a thirty thousand dollar estate going to kind-hearted friends. In London the Duke of Westminster and Miss Shelagh West wed at St Pauls Knightsbridge in a ceremony crowded with notable guests.
London reports the current session will concentrate mainly on military and Irish issues while the king's revenue and poverty relief measures may also demand time.
Kansas City on February 16 reports the death of J. Howard Vaneman Aged 19 son of Dr Vaneman who perished after a coasting accident The death was due to cerebral hemorrhage as a result of the collision with another rider and incident occurred on a local incline
Texarkana Texas to host a new cotton mill while other sites report a Philippine gold discovery of significance. In Louisiana a grain elevator will be built at Westwego by the Texas and Pacific railroad. In Washington DC a Black man George Thomas was hanged for criminal assault. Berlin sees a criminal corruption sentence for Commissioner Thiel. New York mourns S E Wilkinson former grand master of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Henderson Texas notes W W White convicted of murder of Constable Mark Wyatt with a 10 year sentence. Congress debate pushes toward an extra session.
The Texas House engrossed bills restoring county court jurisdiction in Coke county and other measures while the governor objects to an interurban proposal. Observed actions include river road and district reforms, a Falls county road law, and new Fayette Frio county road statutes. Reports detail burglaries and a jewelry theft in San Antonio, plus a Rice Association push for Buffalo exposition kitchen funding. Also noted are moustache fashion trends in London and a Kentucky revival of sight for Rev. J W Iles after years of blindness.
Ex Captain Oberlin M. Carter, U S Army, imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth for harbor contract fraud, loses bail bid as Judge Hook orders return to the penitentiary pending Supreme Court habeas corpus action. Carter protests his innocence and claims higher interests blocked a new trial.
Denison Texas February 16 interurban cars for the Denison and Sherman line have arrived. The 40 foot electric cars feature separate white and black compartments, an observation end, electric heat and lighting, push button stopping, mail and express compartments, and 2000 candle power headlights. The line plans service within six weeks. Crooks at San Antonio February 10 thieves are
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