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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1901
Page
4
Chicago details the coroner's inquest on A M Doremus, employer of the Doremus laundry killed in Monday's boiler explosion. Experts say lack of water caused the blast. Victim Theodore Van Helden dies, nine dead. Doremus in police custody.
Reports from across the state list 16 fatalities including Mrs Rufe Hammuet John Turner a Pine Prairie boy J A Wooley of New Castle Pinkney Watson and infant colored Becks Mrs Mollie Davis Rock Hill Olivier Roberts 14 Rock Hill Charles Bowling near Paragould Seven miners Huntington men in a flooded mine John Fitzgerald Booneville drowned near a swollen creek Greenway lost buildings at Osceola Piggott Paragould heavy damage reported with no lives lost.
Rumors in Birmingham claim the three largest southern industrial firms Tennessee Coal and Tron Sloss Shef field Steel and Republic Steel and Tron combined with about 93 million dollars in capital and debts. They own 28 pig iron furnaces one steel mill two rolling mills and mineral lands across Alabama and Tennessee.
Thirteen year old Frederick Windbiel, son of saloon keeper Peter Windbiel, is arrested for robbing his father of over 4000 dollars. His aunt Annie Sproul and her husband are also under arrest. she reportedly confesses the plot to seize the family savings. The pair allegedly urged the boy to take the money to secure his future, then to hand it to them for safekeeping until he reached adulthood. A telegram was sent to German authorities to apprehend Sproul’s husband after he fled to Germany.
Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont travels to Cuba for about two weeks. The move is seen as signaling administration doubt about official reports on sentiment there. Reports of agitation in Cuba clash with dispatches from General Wood and Horatio Rubens under the military government. In Italy blood rain and a Sahara dust storm affect Rome and Naples, reddening the sky and driving residents to churches.
London report states Mrs Maybrick’s mother Baroness de Rouques has worked with lawyers to frame a petition for royal pardon. The move persists despite Edward VII’s accession, with a hopeful note on clemency possibility. A separate dispatch claims government expects Boer general Botha to surrender soon.
Advices state 75 sailors mutinied aboard the Albany cruiser at Hong Kong last month over pay and liberty. The mutineers were placed in irons and sent to Cavite for trial. In Texas Hurley McClung, 11, son of J S McClung, accidentally shot himself while hunting near Terrell.
A Monroe real estate agent lists numerous city lots and houses for sale or rent in Bryan area. Properties include 4 to 7 room houses, large hotels, vacant blocks near Main street, College street, and Allen Academy, with prices from 200 to 3400.00. Also offered are farms and country properties on Wixon creek, Bryan road, and near Kurten. Call to consign or inquire.
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