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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1901
Page
1
General Cordia states he seeks to be in touch with ongoing situations in the Philippines. He emphasizes readiness to engage with current events and coordinate with local authorities as needed.
Memphis reports 25 miles of new track ready between Weatherford and Parkersburg Oklahoma Territory with officials claiming Amarillo work progresses at three miles per day and target to reach by year end. Other items note a fatal runaway in Cush ing and a boy’s death near Ripley after a barbed wire collision. Anti trust affidavits flow to Texas secretary of state as firms object to notary fees. A fire partly destroys a tenpin alley building in Mexia insured.
Mike Cran was killed on the steamer Krata in Black River near Pocahontas Wednesday night by a pear buyer from Tennessee named Phillips. The killing arose from a berth dispute aboard the boat. Phillips is jailed. London dispatch notes July 14 clashes near Jourviakte resulting in 7 killed and 2 officers and 17 men wounded.
Report from St. Petersburg on July 18 states a military balloon exploded during operations near Schluesselberg. One person was killed and 20 injured, with several believed fatally. A second item notes U S registration totals reaching 55,160 after releases at El Reno and Fort Sill.
A 6.2 million dollar donation from Andreselene funds 66 libraries as part of a major philanthropy. The American Sugar Refining Co announced price cuts on refined sugar by 5 to 10 points and reduced hard grades by 5 points. General Dan Butterfield died at Cragside, Cold Springs, New York.
In San Francisco on July 18 a clash between strikers and non union workers at Dundon Iron works led to F A Pagendan and Fred M Cliff firing into a crowd. William Dunn was wounded in the leg but the injury is not dangerous. The men were followed home from work and stones were thrown after they warned strikers to disperse.
Wilkesbarre Pakistan? actually Wilkes-Barre Pa July 18 The second day of the stationary firemen strike leaves 65 000 idle in the anthracite region from Duryea to Nanticoke with 33 000 idle miners and rail crews suspended on coal branches No coal to haul The Lackawanna region shows 40 000 mine workers but many are not idle The tie up is complete Hoisting engineers meet and hear striking firemen have support from those present
After nine weeks of idleness Rochester municipal workers resume tasks as nine bosses sign the agreement. Contractors mostly concede, with 20 cents an hour for an eight hour day, time and a half for overtime and double pay on holidays, and two holdouts.
Five hundred men and boys at Hickory Ridge colliery Shamokin Pennsylvania walk out after Union Coal refuses permission for a union committee to inspect workers cards on company lands. The strike begins July 18.
Warren July 18. The National Steel company furnaces at Miles have reached a settlement and 350 men have resumed work.
Topeka reports rains Tuesday night and Wednesday lifting drought and promising corn yields of at least 50 million bushels with potential for more. Eastern and central Kansas receive good rains in towns including Emporia Hiawatha Clay Center Ellsworth Salina Atchison Sylvan Grove Great Bend Quenemo Ottawa Fredonia Osage City with amounts from one half to two inches.
Advices from points across middle Tennessee report a long drought broken by general rains. Crops benefited greatly though many areas still need additional showers. West of Dover rainfall was especially heavy, promising a good stand for crops.
In Kansas City on July 18 the preliminary hearing began for Frank Holland and Thomas Robertson charged with assaulting Vernon Newton and Miss Grace Davis. Victims testified their account was untrustworthy but Newton was struck. A mob of about 2000 gathered last Friday to break the jail and lynch the defendants. the hearing was not finished.
A head end collision between a northbound St. Joe and Grand Island messenger train and a Santa Fe local freight near Gower Missouri results in the deaths of engineer F. Becker and express messenger W. A. Floyd and leaves 14 others injured, none seriously.
In Pekin, disorder and lawlessness have surged since policing was handed to Chinese authorities. Nightly burglaries by large bands of depredators are reported. German military authorities plan to withdraw all troops except a permanent establishment early in August.
Corsicana dispatch reports Lewis Emory, a Black man, arrested on murder charges for the fatal shooting of Ben Lott at Birtletown last Friday.
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