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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1902
Page
2
The Daily Eagle notes Beaumont plans a new tank car factory. Other items include remarks on Drake’s cake, St Louis World’s Fair director decisions, Pan American Congress disruption by earthquakes, Texas rice industry growth, and census figures for US colonies and overseas personnel.
Three representatives of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad visited Madisonville on Wednesday. Two were freight agents and one an official asking for local statistics on Madison County, cotton ginning, and related data. They traveled from Trinity to Madisonville and returned the same route, surveying the country along the Katy line.
Report from Denton County Texas notes wheat thrives despite scant rain as moisture reportedly rises from unseen sources. Deep soil remains damp enough to nourish roots while creeks fill and Little Elm reports flow at the McKinney road bridge. Theories point to lower earth strata filling upper voids amid drought.
A regional voice warns young men and boys against loafing and cigarette use. The speaker urges hard work sawing wood at two bits a cord over idle loafing and cursing the government, arguing smoking harms breath and appearance and that the youth is a cipher with the rim knocked off.
A. C. Noack Jr. showed a $2000 draft from the Ancient Order of United Workmen for the life policy of W. N. Norwood Sr., who died at his home, illustrating the red tape in collecting life insurance.
A Navasota Examiner note lauds quick insurance return to Navasota while warning England’s agricultural decline. The Farm and Ranch digest argues neglect of farming and tenant farming threaten England, risking food imports and naval supply in future conflicts as the country relies on foreign harvests.
The Pan American congress cleared atmosphere with approval of compulsory arbitration and The Hague agreement. William S. Buchanan proposed annexing minutes from sessions to show Chilean arbitration stance. cordial Chilean Mexican relations restored and Walker Martinez incident closed satisfactorily. Conference aims to close within a week or ten days.
Natchez Mississippi Jan 18 Tom Glenn a Texan working on the Texas and Pacific railway in Concordia parish Louisiana shot and killed Allen Tige D Carpenter at 930 pm Friday night Carpenter a brother of J N Carpenter a wealthy local figure was 59 and a quarrel over a trivial matter preceded the violence Glenn fled to the county jail amid threats of lynching
Frederick Kin, special agent of the Children's Aid Society of New York City, found homes for 13 orphan boys aged eight to seventeen at the Christian church in Howe Texas on Friday. The boys had arrived on the 8:45 train from New York. The remaining members of the party of 30 were sent to Plano.
In a cave-in at the Ida mine near Joplin four miners died and another was fatally injured with several others seriously hurt. The deceased are John Simmons, Arthur Roberts, Bruce Westfall and Don Ostott. The accident was caused by a premature explosion.
In Coffeen Illinois on January 18 a horse and buggy stopped at Hart's livery barn with no driver. Inside the buggy lay the dead body of Gerry Clifford from near Donnellson and Fred Brockman in a dying condition. Brockman shot Clifford and then killed himself.
Grat Crockett, charged with shooting Harrison Lewis at Forney Thursday night, surrendered to Marshal Joe Keller in Terrell Texas on January 18. Keller took him to Kaufman and jailed him to await an examining trial.
Dallas January 18 Jeff M House a local druggist filed a general assignment with the county clerk for the benefit of creditors W H Lewis named as assignee The facilities and assets are valued at about 4000 dollars
Two unmasked men robbed a saloon gambling room at Fourteenth and Douglas in Omaha stealing a cash box and $200. Police captured them ten minutes later and found all stolen money on the pair, who admitted their identities and claimed the gamblers were to blame. Named suspects Frank Williams and Frank Jones.
The New York and European Steam Ship Company pledges a four day crossing by using turbine engines to reach 30 knots. The plan includes faster mails via Queenstown, with deliveries in three days and seven hours, cutting two days from current times. The firm seeks pier privileges and broader port plans to execute the project.
Dr Victor C Vaughan announces the national committee expects adoption of a German style credit system in all large U S medical colleges by September. The plan allows students to move between schools and study under top professors without current delays, giving access to premier teaching across the country.
Peter Maher Tom Sharkey were arrested at the request of the Law and Order society and held on five thousand dollars bail to keep the peace. They appeared before the magistrate and were discharged as no over act violation of prize fighting laws was found. James H. McFarland promoter of Friday nights bout was also released with no complaint.
In New York on January 18, Andrew Carnegie is to be joined as a party in a $2,000,000 suit brought by Robert Stafford heirs against Carnegie’s sister-in-law over Cumberland Island Georgia. The action seeks title to the island, which Carnegie and his sister-in-law have developed into a park and mid sea home. The Stafford heirs claim arose by accident. the property cost Carnegie $45,000.
W. J. Gaines of Atlanta bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church and Garland Penn secretary of the Epworth league with a delegation of 20 other Negroes invited President Roosevelt to attend the congress to be held in Atlanta next August representing various denominations and advancing the colored race's spiritual moral and educational progress.
In Des Moines the boiler of a Rock Island passenger locomotive exploded near Victor, Iowa on January 18. The engineer and fireman were killed, the brake man and two porters seriously injured, a Pullman car left the track and rolled down an embankment, while no passengers were seriously hurt.
The War Department reports 365 insurgents surrendered to Brigadier General James F. Wade at Cebu on January 14. On January 15 they were sworn in at Tagbilaran, Bohol, marking a pacification step in the region.
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