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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
2
Connelly and Carnes announce J. E. Mooring as a candidate for re election as Mayor of Bryan. Dr B H Harrison is a mayoral candidate. J B Stevenson seeks Alderman seat in Bryan. T A Searcy also listed.
The state livestock quarantine line is void. Texas and the South show deep solicitude for the ill Judge John H. Reagan. San Antonio appears set to host a permanent military camp of instruction, with Texas insisting the camp should be established there.
A contemporary urges immediate street sweeping and debris removal from yards to curb spring germs and vermin. Wilmon Newell, formerly with the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster, has joined Prof. F. W. Mally as an assistant entomologist at the A and M College and begun duties.
Judge Martin R. M. Wallace, a pioneer Chicago figure and police magistrate for thirteen years, died aged 74 after illness began February 12. A Civil War brigadier general and US assessor under Grant, he became noted for refusing a $75,000 bribe from the whiskey line during the era.
A London correspondent reports that the Alaska boundary dispute between the United States and Canada may be settled by arbitration. Negotiations show no final stage yet, but trend favors arbitration as the practical method to adjust the frontier issue with potential treaty terms under consideration in Washington.
The Texas Supreme Court reversed the Dallas Court of Civil Appeals and upheld the district court in City of Dallas vs Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway. The case centered on forcing the street railway to pay a franchise tax after the company sought a temporary injunction to stop tax collection for operating its cars on Dallas streets.
Druggists are authorized to refund money if Quinoria fails to cure chills fever or malaria. Price is 50 cents per package. Mr. James, the leading druggist, Bryan.
The Sons of Veterans in New Orleans and Gretna nominate W. Mel Fayssoux for commander in chief to succeed Haughton of St. Louis. They push New Orleans as next Confederate reunion location. Miss Margaret Allison of Lake Charles named sponsor.
The document presents a bank statement showing capital stock paid in surplus and undivided profits, notes outstanding, deposits, and time certificates. It is sworn by J. W. English, president, before Notary Public Robt. Armstrong on March 7, 1902, with attestations from college faculty and Parker.
After March 15 complaints will be filed in all cases of violation of sanitary regulation regarding draining waste water into the streets. W. H. OLIVER.
In Dallas on Thursday night, ten cottages covering about a block and a half were burned down along with all belongings. Loss estimated at 12 to 15 thousand dollars. The first blaze started around 11 15 p m at C Jordan's residence on Pecan Street from an unknown cause. A boy and a woman suffered burns but were not seriously hurt. In Beaumont, Beaumont Ironworks employee Ben Pearson, about 40, was found murdered and dumped in the Neches River three miles below the city, with head injuries indicating a homicide.
In Lake Charles Louisiana the 9-year-old daughter of R J Kendall was found Thursday in a vacant building near the Southern Pacific telegraph office with her throat cut in an alleged attempted assault. Police have not yet apprehended a suspect or a crew. Washington March 7 The White House released a statement denying any change in the presidents stance on Cuban reciprocity.
Judge T S Reese of the Texas attorney general office has gone to Washington to press Texas Greer county refund claims before the court of claims. The move seeks repayment of funds Texas paid while Greer county was part of Texas.
In Marshall Texas on March 7 Deputy Sheriff R A Burnett and Charles Austin were acquitted in district court of killing Tom Walker who resisted arrest and assaulted Sheriff Mander during the incident.
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