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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1902
Page
5
An advertisement urges caution as women pursue jewels and luxury, and promotes Dr Boschee German Syrup as effective against coughs colds and bronchial troubles while noting availability at Wilson Jenkins Drug Co Bryan and reference to Green's Almanac.
An advertisement promotes Quinoria as a four day remedy for chills fever or malaria. Druggists authorize refunds if it fails to cure. Price 50 cents per package. M. H. James, leading druggist, Bryan.
Reports from Shamaka describe about two thousand dead, many homeless, with women and children among the victims. Thirty four villages suffered as a volcano near Marasy erupts, lava and flames issuing from a new crevasse, and the Geonchaika river altered by quake damage. Guards and soldiers with tents rush to aid rescue efforts.
In Sumterville Alabama on February 17 a deadly clash at the jail left Lee Graham dead and three white men seriously injured as Henry Wilson and Julius Goodwin fought deputies and townspeople. The pair seized weapons from Mrs Lane and barricaded the jail house before escaping. both suspects were later believed seriously wounded.
Dispatches from Pretoria report mounted infantrymen trapped at Kilp river were recently returned from home and unused to Boer tactics. Most casualties happened during the British retreat. Major Dowell, commander of the force, was among the dead.
Representative John L. Shepherd of Texarkana Texas is critically ill in his Washington apartments after a heart failure and kidney trouble attack early Sunday. Mrs. Sheppard was summoned to Washington by telegraph as he remained unconscious for most of the day.
Word comes of a fatal shooting near Elgin when two black men fought over work on the Land place. Johnson Miller is dead, the assailant is another Bastrop resident. Both men are reported as residents of Bastrop.
Washington Feb 17 The bill creating a new United States judicial district in Texas with an additional district judge has been favorably acted upon by the House Judiciary Committee.
Harold M. Cole assistant superintendent at the East Helena smelter is dead. Olive Mayne Cole his wife lies mortally wounded from a double shooting. The incident occurred on Monday February 17 in Helena.
A federal suit in Tyler involves 10 000 acres in Leon county near Oakwoods held by Simon Sanchez grant valued at 50000. Plaintiffs Allen et al of Montgomery Alabama sue Mrs M Anderson of Houston Mrs Eliza Mempner of Galveston and Harry Masterson of Houston for trespass to try title over the farm lands.
Leopold Schlesinger once served in Emperor Franz Joseph’s personal guard and fought in the Austria Italy war. He earned three medals from the emperor and another for saving General Dragefelz. Born in Loda n Bohemia in 1839, he died at his daughter Mrs Ralph Victors home in Atlanta on Feb 17.
Washington February 17 The house approved a bill to repeal war revenue taxes after a rules committee rule. The vote was set for 4 o clock the next day with debate expected. Speaker and leaders clashed over amendment rights and the chamber passed the measure 278 to 0. Danish treaty also ratified by the senate without changes.
Milwaukee report shows Prof Kilger, Bible language expert at Atlanta Theological Seminary, says the south has twice as many facilities for black education as for whites. He urges improved schooling for poor whites and cites a need to boost citizenship through better education in the south during a three month northern leave.
Ben Snyder of Albany breaks neck after wagon fall. Moran records five smallpox cases in a single family. El Paso convicts Count de Lucenay of bigamy with a four year prison term. J A Kirgan, veteran Texas editor, dies in Fairfield. San Antonio to host Daughters of the Republic hall of fame. Ashdown mayor H W Allen killed after stepping in front of a train in Texarkana. El Paso Mary Jacobs shoots herself. survival unlikely. Vernon to open cotton mill by June. Pawhusk Oklahoma Indians die after wood alcohol mix. Krebs Indian Territory child drowns skating at South McAlester.
Ernest Matthews a 10 year old boy is arrested on counterfeiting charges in Birmingham Alabama. He and ten companions allegedly followed instructions from an old man and ran a miniature mint near the North Birmingham furnace where crude molds produced spurious silver quarters. Some coins were passed to merchants as Secret Service agents continue inquiries and more arrests are expected. The coins are made of lead and pewter.
Three thousand western cayuse horses gathered from inter mountain ranges will be sent to South Africa for use by the British army. Agents of the British army purchased the animals after weeks of scouting the country.
Dr. A M Hooper reports about a dozen smallpox cases near Lanana eight miles below Nacogdoches on the Houston East and West Texas Railway. The commissioners court refused to take charge by a 3 to 1 vote and the county physician has not acted. The disease was brought from Houston County.
A Nashville dispatch says a report claiming Chancellor Wiggins and others fled Sewanee over anonymous death threats is a fake. In Detroit, Frank C. Andrews was arrested again on a warrant accusing him of misappropriating funds from City Savings bank, now under state examination.
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