Post office declaration at Bryan Texas
A note indicates the material is entered at the Bryan Texas post office as Second Class mail matter.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
2
A note indicates the material is entered at the Bryan Texas post office as Second Class mail matter.
The census starts Friday June 1 and must finish within the month. D R Emerson of Marlin is district supervisor with enumerators named for Brazos county including H F Peverly in Bryan east, F W McConnico west, Wallace Peverly, R R Knowles in Precinct 4, W H Dunlap in Millican No 1, L C Sellers, and others. Enumerators receive population and agriculture schedules detailing names ages birthplaces occupations literacy and home ownership. A manufacturing schedule will be collected by special agents. The enumerators will forward data to the central office.
The department at Washington reports nightly cards showing the number of persons enumerated that day. This enables a careful population estimate to be released around July 10.
Mrs. B P Haas reports receiving a $4090 check from New York Life for a $2500 policy held by her husband S H Higgs, with all premiums refunded. She praises the liberal settlement and notices the date and swift handling through agent R G Tabor in Bryan Texas.
In Pueblo Colorado on May 23 a mob of about 1500 lynched Calvin Kimborn, captured in Denver after he killed two young white girls and wounded his wife. Police were overpowered at the Lighth Street depot to seize him from a Rio Grande train and string him from a telegraph pole near the Grand hotel. the rope broke twice before a third attempt succeeded.
A letter from D. J. McDonald of Harvey Texas describes Amy Ransom a diligent student from Bethel who faces travel and family hardship. He proposes a $50 fund drive by fifty supporters to send her to a summer program at A and M College, with money collected via Bryan Eagle and Brazos Pilot and held in Merchants and Planters Bank.
An earthquake devastated Autlan in southern Jalisco with many buildings demolished and residents fleeing to mountains. Tuscacuesco and Tonita suffered damage while a large lake near Zepotalan drained through a three mile fissure. A tidal wave caused minor harm.
The Cumnock mine disaster leaves 22 miners dead on Tuesday. The mine had prior fatal fires in 1895 and underwent improvements since, with Pennsylvania capitalists owning the property. Other brief items report a town treasurer defaulter, a fugitive murder case, New York delegates to the party convention, a cattleman’s suicide in Ardmore, a 15 year old’s death, Hessian fly damage in Kansas, and bond grants for murder charges in Temple Texas.
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