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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1901
Page
4
The Baptist church ladies host a baby show at Mrs E J Fountain's residence on Saturday March 30 at 3 pm. Babies under five compete for prizes in age groups from under one to four to five years with separate awards for prettiest and finest boys and girls. Music and refreshments. Admission 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children.
Austin reports House and Senate spent days on appropriation bills and measures. The constitutional amendments committee favored a four year term for most state officers, with certain exceptions. Senate passed minerals bill and venue reform for railroad damage suits. House clarifications on real property possession and Confederate land certificates advanced. Local bills acted. Dillard resignation letter read. Hill denounced a Shreveport article. sine die adjournment resolution debated.
Governor Odell signed the bill renaming Sing Sing village to Ossining New York. The prison remains Sing Sing Prison and will keep its name while the town plans a new railroad station on prison grounds. The village population is 1343 and the change aims to remove the stigma of a penal town. In Washington the Spanish war claims commission received the full list of Cuba insurrection claims totaling about 30 million with major losses by John E Brock and others.
In Liberty on March 26 Warton Branch W B Duncan and W K Wall engaged in a fight at a saloon. Duncan a longtime constable and deputy sheriff died beside Wall who was his son in law after being shot. Branch a lawyer from Galveston Dallas area was jailed in Houston on a murder charge.
Western Nebraska and eastern Colorado endure a severe blizzard that leaves thousands of cattle sheep and horses dead or dying. Carcasses litter gulches and ridges as survivors seek shelter and rescue crews struggle to reach stricken areas.
Cape Town reports rising European casualties from bubonic plague among Tuesday victims including three soldiers from different corps and a navy worker’s death at Simonstown. Eight other colored cases and two Europeans, plus another native death, are noted from the area. Berlin reports student army enrollments exceeding two thousand and executions for disobedience. A widow of Stephen Mallory dies in Pensacola. In Berlin rumors deny a royal Austrian marriage, and no truth to Kruger lectures in Paris. Beaumont, Texas notes a new oil well rivaling Lucas’s.
Monroe Edge, Land Agent, advertises a wide range of property in Bryan and surrounding Brazos County areas. Offers include frame houses from five to fourteen rooms, five to seven acre tracts, a large boarding house, farms near Wixon Creek, and multiple sales on Madisonville road, Allen Academy vicinity, and city parks. Page notes exchange options and easy terms, urging calls to Webb Bros. office.
Government forces in Oaxaca plan an assault on Chan Santa Cruz in Yucatan within the week. Maya defenders have moved families to Chunamich, where Chief Yada is said to be headquartered. Indigenous forces reportedly received renewed ammo and food from Belize traders during recent days.
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