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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1902
Page
7
Listings of northbound and southbound trains with arrival and departure times, plus local notices. Reports on people visiting, business updates, and changes in shops and banking renovations. Local events include bread and buggy ads, family arrivals, and upcoming early closings for summer.
Dr Todd of Bethel visited the city yesterday while Brazos bottom corn is for sale by R M Gordon. J G Loftin from Allen Farm arrived yesterday and Mrs J J Adams left for Taylor. Chrysanthemums for sale by Mrs M H James. John Cavitt from Wheelock also here yesterday. Cross walk repairs underway and housing requests appear. Ed Crenshaw recovering from a grip attack. Deens improving after illness.
The DeMoss Lyric Bards, five performers, will present a church benefit for the Methodist congregation. They perform on forty five instruments and come highly recommended by state press.
The Texas Bakery reports strong patronage for its new oven and home bakery goods. The salesroom is finished, commodious, and neat, inviting customers to call on Otto for bread and related items at 61-tf.
Burt Norwood, a leading Bryan dry goods dealer, has left for St. Louis and Chicago on a spring buying trip. He plans to purchase heavily and attend personally to orders to satisfy trade needs. Lost opal ring set. reward offered. Rev E L Shettles returns from Dallas meeting with architect Flanders about a new Methodist church. W O W council invites full attendance tonight.
A. E. Batson, sought in connection with the Welch Louisiana massacre of six Earl family members, is jailed in Princeton. He arrived after a visit to his mother near Sikard and offered no resistance, refusing to discuss the crime and planning to return to Louisiana without requisition. Batson was formerly a hired man on the Earl property.
Chatto Harjo Crazy Snake and nine followers were sentenced to Fort Leavenworth for two years and fined 2000 dollars each for conspiring against the government. They led the Snake gang opposing Dawes commission allotments and territorial government affairs. Leaders named include Gilbert Johnson Chetka James Abraham McIntosh Louis Mitchell Louis Harke Squirrel John Timothy George Simmons Little Tiger.
Paris Texas February 27 Dock Morton an 18 year old resident living with his brother in the Broadway neighborhood south of Paris committed suicide with a double barreled shotgun. He disengaged the guard aimed at his breast and fired sending the load through his body and igniting his clothing. The wound killed him instantly and an inquest conducted by Justice of the Peace Deweese found no motive.
Captain Young of the Mallory line reports the steamer Denver from Galveston and Key West anchored at the Swash and Gadney Channels junction. He says the Denver is helpless and a tug is requested, with the pilot noting it may be aground. The Comal reported towing the Denver when leaving Key West last Saturday.
Paris Texas February 27. A defendant indicted for impersonating a city police officer was arraigned and, on his attorney's motion, the indictment was quashed and the case dismissed. The court ruled the statute does not cover impersonating a policeman and is defective for this offense.
J E Skinner of Clarendon Texas perished in a house fire that consumed the residence with his wife away. He returned home late and was believed to have fallen asleep with a lamp burning causing an explosion and fatal flames.
The passage advertises Quinoria with a druggist refund offer if it fails to cure fever malaria or bills. It notes M H James and Bryan druggists as vendors. Rex Dyspepsia Tablets promise refunds for indigestion sour stomach and heartburn. It mentions a $2 per day hustler inquiry and Mrs Lee J Black returning to Navasota. the March district court term begins Monday.
Senator W. W. Turney sells 2500 head of 1 and 2 year old steers to Urmston, Baird & Patterson of El Paso. The cattle on Turney's Brewster and Presidio county ranches will be delivered May 1 at Marfa for about $40,000.
El Paso Texas reports Rudolph de Lucenay found guilty of bigamy a second time and sentenced to three years. The prior trial was annulled on a technicality and yielded four years. his plea was insanity in both proceedings.
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