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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1899
Page
4
March 6 dispatches describe a cyclone near Madisonville Tennessee killing three and wounding twelve with fifteen houses and several barns destroyed. Communications were cut as winds and hail damaged orchards and crops while other cities report floods, storms, and fatalities across Ohio Kentucky and Georgia.
Washington March 6 The war department court of inquiry held a brief session before its western start to inspect Chicago Omaha and Kansas City packing plants One witness Lieutenant Frederick L Munson Ninth Infantry testified about canned roast beef and bacon rations in Cuba and after Santiago He said sickness followed after the surrender and the army stopped using beef The inquiry adjourned to meet in Chicago on Thursday
Paymaster General Carey plans a Cuba trip next week to pay off the Cuban army. He will carry $3,000,000 to Havana, with $1.5 million in silver and the rest in gold or bills. American officers will disburse funds under Carey’s direction after transferring funds from the sub-treasury.
The transport Roumania has reached Santiago with 130 soldiers who died in Porto Rico. About 980 graves lie near Santiago, to be uncovered over two to three weeks. Most interred are regulars. Ludington leads the work, graves were marked, and bodies may be sent to relatives or buried at Arlington with 18,000 others. Nearly 1000 may be interred at Arlington near the White House. Military honors are likely at ceremonies.
Reliable reports from cotton counties in the state show much of the 1898 crop unpicked with thousands of bales remaining in fields. On big plantations along the Arkansas river pickers work with plowmen in the same fields. Some cotton was turned into winter pastures as cattle devoured bolls. In Lonoke county large 500 acre fields stand unpicked due to weather and shortage of labor. Much cotton is now worthless and a total loss to planters. Paris notices Prince of Wales visits Elysee improving Anglo-French feelings. Kansas City rumor of a change in railroad presidency found baseless. Beef inquiry court plans Chicago Kansas City Omaha visits.
News in brief covers D P Ewing’s suicide in Tyler Texas by morphine, a restaurant thief stealing a parrot in Abilene, a fatal burn of Mrs Pearl Smith in Gause, drowning of Mrs John Hutchinson and two children on the Kentucky River near Owsley, a Houston woman asphyxiated by a gas heater, a St Louis saloon closure order, Augusta Compress receiver appointment under bankruptcy, Natchez hull and cotton seed loss by fire, a union meeting for wage rise in East Tennessee and East Kentucky, and Mrs John A Clark and three children exposed to rat poison with the woman dead and children near death.
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The Eagle offers a full line of legal blanks including Affidavit to Account and various deed and mortgage forms. Prices start at 10 cents each with discounts for larger quantities available from the Eagle office.
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