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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
1
News reports confirm two additionalAmericans have been captured by Filipino forces during a naval encounter. The incident involves a small boat and ongoing hostilities in the region. Local authorities and maritime groups call for restraint and clarification of the captors’ demands.
Manila reports detail the capture of two officers from the hospital ship Relief by insurgents as American forces shell the shore. Natives friendly to Americans face a terror campaign with murders, arson, and confiscation as insurgents hunt them in the San Isidoro and San Miguel areas.
Four thousand volunteers in Manila petitioned President and War Secretary to be discharged there rather than at enlistment sites and to receive travel pay to the embarkation point. They seek to stay for opportunities in mining agriculture and industry and promise to uphold US interests and aid security if allowed.
STH QUARANTINE Austin May 1 Yellow fever appears in New Orleans. State Health Officer Blunt orders broad quarantine and instructs rail lines Texas bound traffic from New Orleans halted. He cites autopsy confirming yellow fever and directs inspectors at state railroad entry points.
Miss Grillo aged 17 on Royal Street died after illness reported as suspicious last Saturday. Board of health disinfected the residence and an autopsy by a panel of experts concluded yellow fever with no other suspicious cases in New Orleans.
The Havana sanitary department reports yearly yellow fever deaths from 1890 to 1898 with figures: 4, 316, 326, 91, 328, 41, 1617, 1058, 162. So far this year only 4 deaths. Note cites Spanish troops and pension incentives as context for 1896 97 figures. Total Havana deaths from all diseases 1890 1898 sum to 89703.
Joe Williams W B Broocks W A Johns and Pony Reasonover join four others in jail on charges of assisting the Trans Cedar lynching on May 23. General Otis aims to limit army strength to 20 000 with presidential backing. General Wood arrives Havana for Santiago conference with Brooke and others. Iris steamer chief engineer E Roberts dies from carbonic acid gas as he cleans boilers.
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