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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
2
The Eagle reports the Texas State Fair will run at Dallas from September 29 to October 14, 1900. Notes on local topics include Wood County judge candidate R. M. Smith, late cotton deadlines with good crop prospects, and Boston barber shop health regulations requiring sterilization and strict cleanliness.
The undergraduates staged a school term ending program at the opera house amid favorable weather and illness. Students from first through ninth grade performed songs recitations drills and a Columba tableaux with costumes and flowers. Graduates listed include Edna Zuber Esther Boatwright Lucy Beard Myrtie Conway Mamie Sims Lilla Graham McInnis Robt Batte Claud Bell with graduation tonight at 8:45.
A list of hotel arrivals includes S J Beeman New York L Isaacs E A Wallace Rockdale I Iverson San Antonio E H Astin Mumford O E Jacobs Rogers Prairie A L Bowers Palestine W J Robinson St Louis J W Byars Calvert John Cross Houston C H Higgins St Louis F L Rucker Waco E D Eddy M P Biggers Waco CENTRAL C I Coffinn Itasca J P Lloyd Reliance L M Cook Mesa W M Cook Keith Joe Zimmerman E R Lloyd Kurten A W Shealey Thomas Shealy Reliance P N Causey Wellborn Mrs N A Mott Miss Lula Post Kurten. Also an rental notice: For rent cheap until September 1 the building formerly occupied by me next door to John M. Lawrence & Co. Apply to Burt Norwoon.
The Republican state convention opens at 2 PM in the Louisville Auditorium to elect delegates to the national convention. No governor race action due to pending US Supreme Court Kentucky election cases. Capt. H. S. Irwin named temporary chairman. Likely at large delegates include Ex-Governor Bradley Governor Taylor and Albert S. White with a fourth among Boering Denny or Deboe. Governor Taylor arrived from Indianapolis.
The remark notes that Clark resigned an office and then was appointed to succeed himself, drawing attention as a notable maneuver from the western region.
Topeka May 17 The Republican state convention nominated W. E. Stanley for governor with the rest of the state officers also renomated by acclamation. Resolutions pledge support for McKinley and endorse national and state administrations. Kansas City May 17 delegates at large named for Philadelphia and a full state ticket listed with Joseph Flory as governor among others.
Dispatches from London and Cape Town describe General Roberts entering the Transvaal with no engagements yet. Reports cite Hunter occupying Christiana, Rundle near Clocolan, and Mafeking patrols with Eloff and 90 men captured, while Buller’s division nears Dannehauser and Mafeking forts withstand a federal assault with reported British casualties.
Paris bankers borrow 16 million dollars from New York lenders to finance exposition year projects. The loan via Bank of France to be repaid in installments over about three weeks, with weekly sums near 3 million. Also notes related embezzlement case, streetcar strike talks, and Dewey's return.
William Huermann, one of San Antonio's oldest residents and a prominent Mason, died in the city on May 17. He was long active in local affairs and in Masonic circles.
In San Antonio on May 17, the Grand Army of the Republic and Confederate Veterans announced plans to jointly celebrate Independence Day in the city.
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