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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1899
Page
2
The Daily Eagle was entered at the Bryan Texas Post Office as Second Class main matter indicating official burden and mailing status for the publication.
The J A O club held a Tuesday meeting at Miss Kate Parker's with most members present. Officers remained the same as the previous year, debts paid, treasury healthy, and dues reduced to five cents per meeting. The club will meet Monday at 3:30 p.m. with chaperone Mrs. Howell. Separately, tobacco planting is planned for Montgomery county with 0 to 2600 acres expected. The Treasury Secretary notes 8 national banks in operation as of September 9, 1898, with total resources of $4,003,11,044.87 and loans and discounts at $2,172,519,610.51, up from October 1897.
The text argues that people in the Eastern States are dedicated to commerce and oppose both democracy and expansionism, labeling them as ardent expansionists whose motive is to protect their own commerce at the expense of liberties and the nation.
Honorable Justin Morrell, recently deceased, first pressed agricultural education before Congress. His 1862 land grant bill, approved by Lincoln, created agricultural and mechanical colleges in every state and spurred later laws. Texas A and M seeks stronger equipment, especially in agriculture, amid calls to honor Morrell and advance industrial education. Farm and Ranch notes McDuff Simpson tomato seed offer at R. M. Wilson’s store.
The government steamer Pansy found a stern fragment of the naphtha launch Paul Jones on Braton island along with a smashed yawl. No bodies were recovered. Among the pleasure seekers were Florence Taggart and Margaret Woodland, with others from Indianapolis and Saint Louis. The blast, likely from the engine, tore the yacht in two and wreckage confirms all on board perished or were drowned.
In Austin Jan 21 the House reported favorably Kennedy bill requiring a $25 000 bond with six sureties plus bond for his chief clerk, Lillard bill on unlawfully disposing mortgaged property engrossed, 39 bills introduced, condolence for ex Representative Burns adopted, committee to inspect Confederate home named. Senate had little business, confirmed Samuel D Harlan as superintendent of public buildings and grounds, adjourned till Monday. Galveston prize fight talk subsided as Choynski left for Chicago and rangers returned home. San Antonio county court paid 3809 for legal work to secure refunding bonds approval. Montgomery Alabama reports Dr John Read dead at 80, inventor of iron shell used in Parrott gun. Little Rock Stuttgart railway sale for 56000, road to be extended.
Memphis reports confirm the decedents from the steamboat wreck are Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Keath of Creston Iowa and Dr. W. G. Murray formerly of Allentown Kentucky. The bodies will be interred in Memphis.
The Cameron Herald reports that newspapers statewide question how to end prolonged litigation from Texas constitution defects. Editors wonder whether the legislature will push costly amendments or authorize a convention to rewrite the document, noting last year’s nearly $200,000 spent on amendments with four of five defeated.
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