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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1903
Page
3
The timetable lists northbound trains from Houston to Bryan with departures at 7 11 and 9 30 p m and arrivals around 10 18 am 1 65 pm and 12 50 am. It also shows southbound trains from Bryan to Houston with afternoon and early morning arrivals and a connection at Hempstead to Austin.
No. 104 northbound passenger leaves at 4 25 p m with close connection to main line and G N going east and west. No 101 southbound passenger arrives at 7 15 p m and leaves next morning.
Post office hours listed for general delivery registry and money orders open 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mail for midnight trains closes at 9 p.m. Sunday hours are 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 4:15 to 4:45 p.m.
Local items note H Hodges from Wellborn and W Newman of Hearne visiting Bryan yesterday. House for rent near business district advertised. contact Mrs J C Williams. Also listing three gallon Jersey milk cow for sale by Chas Knoblauch. Simply delicious Honey Comb note.
Mrs. Green the agricultural department scholar arrives to Texas to join Prof. Green and settle in. Mr. R. M. Nall reports finding ten dollars in bills and seeks the owner, with Mr. Shaw the likely claimant. Weather eases wood shortage and prices ease. T. L. Hayden injures himself and returns home to Marquez for recovery. W. R. Nash proposes a local Farmers Institute in Edge county. Oswald Turasek, Bryan machinist on the battleship Kearsarge, visits Bryan. Beatrice Hearne returns home to Navasota after browsing Bryan. A seven room house with twenty acres near Allen Academy is for sale or rent. Residents from Madison county visit.
In London on February 24 the House of Commons passed a censure amendment against War Secretary Broderick over army organization and spending. Conservatives including Mr Beckett led the attack, calling the reform scheme unsound and costly, while Mr Broderick defended his plan amid strong opposition. In Louisiana, a Kansas City Southern train near Leesville was halted after intoxicated whites attacked a black passenger car. one Black man was killed and three whites injured before authorities ejected the rioters.
At a stockholders meeting in Jennings Louisiana on February 24 a charter was adopted and E P Rowson was elected president. The railroad will run from the Gulf of Mexico to the state northern boundary where it will connect with another north south line.
Five year old Annie Longino, daughter of Governor Longino, fell from a second story stairway in the executive mansion and sustained injuries likely to prove fatal. The governor was away at Mardi Gras in Natchez and was summoned home by telephone.
To Be Ren notes that owing to Mayor Capdeville s legal action against the Frisco Railroad, field engineers in New Orleans were recalled and a Galveston bound line will be run.
Opinion urges a free dairy lecture at the opera house at 10 a.m. Aimed at promoting dairying, railroads fund experts to travel Texas lines to boost farm prosperity and shipments. Citizens urged to attend, merchants, farmers, teachers and others invited to fill the hall.
Fort Worth reports that beginning March 1 trainmen and conductors on the Texas and Pacific road will see wage hikes. Freightmen will gain about 15 percent, while passenger men receive roughly 12 percent.
Constantinople February 24. Tewfik Pasha, foreign minister, told Austro Hungarian and Russian ambassadors that the sultan had agreed to adopt the reform scheme for Macedonia.
San Antonio February 24 Winnie Cotton six years old and daughter of W N Cotton was assaulted at her Sherman street home. William Rogers fifteen is jailed charged with the crime.
Paul Grinstead editor of the Times in Wathena Kansas was fatally stabbed by a drunken man named Frank Warner. The killing shocked the community and authorities arrested Warner on the scene.
Former Alabama citizens may mail their names and old county or place of residence to H. G. Benners Greensboro Alabama to receive a souvenir of their old homes. Prompt replies requested by postal card.
A list of brief notices reports Sallie Jones a negro lunatic died in Houston jail a reform school will open at Norman Oklahoma Joe Soderstrom drowned in Birg Creek Osage nation Grandma Davis aged 105 died at Bynum Hill County Arbor Day state departments at Austin closed A canning plant planned at De Leon Comanche County J A Taylor sold cotton at Wynnewood I T for 9 cents per pound Marion Sansom to be president of new national bank in North Fort Worth Deed forms for Creek Indian lands to outsiders filed at Muskogee Engineer Hinckley resigned after surveying all Indian Territory town sites Junius Taylor and Oscar Brown colored involved in a row near Wharton Texas with a serious head wound Major W H Crank Houston bar member died a Confederate soldier and Virginian by birth He leaves four sons including Lt Kyle Crank who was with Hobson at the Merrimac sinking and another son is W C Whitney's private secretary The Elberta peach crop is damaged around Tyler Texas
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