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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
1
The Texas Supreme Court affirmed a Trav is case against the Shippers' Compress and Warehouse company. The court held the 1895 anti trust act valid for charter annulments but not for penalties. It ruled competition remained with 70 other compresses outside the defendant.
National guard units reported for duty in Paterson to protect silk mills and dye houses after Aga attacks. Mills opened early with armed employees and no police or fire units present, while crowds were dispersed by mayoral orders restricting street gatherings. Non union dyers assisted bosses at two dye houses amid tense security.
The United Irish league plans a coronation dry day as a day of mourning for Ireland. Clare Mor ris Mayo district council votes to fly a black flag over the council chamber on June 26 and 27 and invites other councils to join in celebrating what they call the coronation of the English king and his government with links to famines ships coercion and castle rule.
Detectives arrested a man identified as Thomas H. Walker of Cincinnati on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The arrest followed a letter from Chief Postal Inspector Holmes of Cincinnati alleging Walker and W. W. O'Hara ran a turf commission on a cooperative plan in Cincinnati and vanished in late May.
Shawnee announces Guthrie Hatleyville and Tecumseh lines of the Choc taw system have not passed to Rock Island control due to a procedural hitch. The extensions exceed 200 miles and would have shaped future southwest operations.
Union Hill New Jersey June 20 Every silk factory in Union Hill with one exception is closed the owners decide not to resume operations for the present due to Thursday’s riotous disturbances.
Wilkes barre Pa June 20 Extreme quietness prevails through the strike region. Strike headquarters show a deserted appearance as leaders except President Mitchell are scattered through the coal belt. No change in coal company work forces. few if any men are being brought out in this valley.
Patrick Gilday of the District Miner's Union orders reduction of bituminous coal shipments from northern and central Pennsylvania to aid an anthracite strike. Miners are told not to work more than four days a week after an interview with President Mitchell.
Two Northern Pacific passenger trains wreck near Staples Minnesota on June 20. Engineer Scott and Schultz fireman Ramussen baggage man Moeller and an unknown tramp were killed. Fireman Montgomery express messengers Gibson and Piedrick and passenger Harry Ziegler of Hammond Indiana suffered serious injuries.
Tacit disposal report from Rome says Cardinal Rampolla assured Bishop O Gorman that the Vatican accepts Taft plan for friar lands on all main points, with dissent only on minor points.
Johann Most, convicted of printing an incendiary article in his newspaper during President McKinley’s assassination, is sentenced to one year in prison. The Court of Appeals confirmed the lower court’s judgment.
Officers scour roads and trains across the region seeking the murderer of Miss Bartfield whose body was found in Choctaw county Alabama with throat cut. The crime is traced to a man named Charles Odop and a desperate struggle is noted.
At the National Association of Upholsterers convention in Chicago on June 20 an advance of ten percent on all upholstering work and quarter frame manufacturers articles was voted. Attendees reportedly represent over sixty percent of global output.
In Havana on June 20, a mood of disappointment grows as the Cuban senate is unlikely to pass a reciprocity bill. Citizens have largely abandoned hope for relief, awaiting relief only if the president negotiates a direct reciprocal treaty.
A 4000 ton shipment of bituminous coal from Wales sails to New York as an experiment. It is planned to be marketed at five to five dollars fifty cents per ton.
The Supreme Court has issued an opinion in the People versus the county clerk of McLean County upholding the constitutionality of the appointment act of 1901. The ruling clarifies that the act remains valid under state law.
San Franciscans who wagered about 150000 on the safe arrival of the German bark H. F. Glade risk losing their money if the overdue vessel does not reach by next Wednesday. The steamer left Oct. 19 with wheat and barley for Europe and is now 243 days overdue. Local gamblers suspect foul bottom for the delay and hazarded large bets on its return.
The jury for Jessie Morrison’s third trial for the 1900 murder of Mrs Ollie Castle in Eldorado Kansas has been selected and testimony begun. Morrison killed Castle by slashing her throat with a razor. the first jury disagreed, the second convicted Morrison and sentenced her to 10 years, a verdict later reversed on technical grounds.
In London on June 20 Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford interrupted the navy estimates discussion in the house of commons. The Conservative member challenged the government amid the ongoing naval funding debate.
Anthony H. Sherman cashier of the Merchants bank in Newport Rhode Island shot himself in the head. The wound is believed mortal. The bank, a private institution, has closed.
Shawnee Oklahoma June 20 the mayor and four aldermen of this city have been suspended by the judge.
A critic denounces the navy's admiralty structure as rotten and wasteful, arguing broad inefficiency endangers the empire. He cites commissions of inquiry as proof and calls for sweeping reforms.
Guthrie Oklahoma June 20 authorities of Pottowatomie county investigate the death of Arthur E Pelore aged 14 near Shawnee. It is alleged that several companions tried to treat him with the water cure by submerging him in the Canadian river until his stomach filled with water. He died a few days later.
At Harvard University class day exercises in Cambridge Massachusetts Roscoe Conkling Bruce of Tuskegee Alabama delivered the class oration. Bruce a Black student plans to pursue educational work in the southern United States.
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