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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1898
Page
3
The schedule lists train times between Hearne and San Antonio with No 9 train leaving Hearne at unspecified time and No 10 train arriving Hearne between 3 and 10 pm. Additional notes show arrival times around 11:55 am and references to the &T timetable.
Galveston visitors include H Rypinski and F E Mistrot. Miss Emily Purcell left for Kentucky. Judge John N Henderson from Austin. Various notices for rent and services appear including Troy laundry, real estate near cotton yard, and telegraph/telephone ads. Also mentions Prof McInnis, Senator Perry J Lewis, and Marlin trip. Community updates on maps, deaths, ads, and insurance agents.
Honored visitors including Henry Mitchell and Joe Cavitt from Wheelock join the farmers congress in Falls county and Waco. Local activity ranges from flower studies and theater to tax adjustments and crop reports from Brazos and Madison counties.
Judge and Mrs. Spencer Ford hosted a refined gathering last evening for Mrs. Josie Ford Kendrick and Miss Decima Kendrick. Guests included Mrs. Wm. Masterson of Richmond who led the music as ices and cakes were served to the company.
A list of individuals and cities appears, including J W Moses in St. Louis and L H Garnett, J F Green in Oakland, Bart Moore in Waco, David T. Weiss in New Orleans, C H Jones in Galveston, J L Ball in Detroit, Perry J Lewis in San Antonio, among others.
Notice records a sale of a 4 year old, 144 hand black mare by W H Newman before W H McMichael at Brazos county Texas. Appraised by P T Moon and B F Moon at $15.00 with date June 22 1898. Also lists numerous names under Ladies Gents and Foreign lists, and a Bryan post office letter advertisement fee.
Washington July 14. General Wilson chief of engineers issues orders for removing or exploding submarine mines in Atlantic Gulf and Pacific harbors and rivers where commerce requires. Officers are to keep cables boxes anchors and casemate equipment in place ready to replace mines. explosives and mine cases must be on hand.
General Merritt reached Honolulu en route to Manila. Warship movements include the City of Para arriving July 5 and the Monterey and collier Brutus departing July 1. Bandmaster Watson of the Thirteenth Minnesota hospitalized with typhoid. Monadnock and Nero return with repairs delaying six to seven days.
J T Closs and A W Buchanan are announced as candidates for county offices in Brazos County. Closs seeks re election as justice of the peace precinct four while Buchanan runs for county treasurer in the November election.
A dispatch from Adjutant General Corbin reports the Seneca left Siboney for Fortress Monroe with 85 sick and wounded soldiers aboard. Other items note German positions on Irene and pending troop movements in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
The Italian government plans to use force to collect the $250,000 arbitration award for Italian citizen Eristo Cerruti from Colombia. Rome has ended diplomatic talks and ordered Admiral Candiani to proceed to Carthagena to seize the customs house unless the seizure is deferred, despite U.S. efforts to avert a crisis.
A Republican era essay extols Texas Rangers as a disciplined force ready to defend against Spain without federal aid. It praises their endurance, horsemanship, and marksman skill, arguing 10 000 rangers on mustangs could overpower European cavalry and deter invasion. A London Zoological Society anecdote about a cat sharing dinner closes the piece.
Reports from Washington to New York on July 14 recount medical praise for Dr. Carl Rudberg of the royal Swedish navy and his frontline care, notes on Captain Clark Watson's staff appointment, Meeks's reappointment as U S district judge, a fatal Racine plant fire, a dog bite fatality in Minco, Baptist seminary leadership resignation, Populist gubernatorial nominating fight, Murfreesboro fire losses, Leutgert case exceptions, Laflin and Randal explosion deaths, and a Cincinnati water tunnel tragedy.
A man named Elihu Sams was shot and killed by another man at William Penn in Brenham Texas on July 14. The incident involved a Black man as the victim and another Black man as the shooter.
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