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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1902
Page
2
The Caldwell News-Chron issue prompts a pole tax amendment debate noting unfair voting, tax burdens, and government protections. The Bryan area shows rapid real estate and construction growth with brick, lumber, and new buildings elevating the town.
A London tailor quoted as authority claims no change in style with trousers of today lasting a million years. We know of one pair that will not be worn fifty years from now. if they survive the coming winter, we will be gratified and astonished, says the Austin Statesman.
Sam Reams of Navarro county Texas killed himself. Edward Spere died from a buzz saw in McLean county Illinois. Patrick Garner struck by a Big Four train in Brazil Indiana. Albert King killed by a brake shoe from a freight train near Cleburne Texas. Wickerson family burned to death near Elkton Wisconsin. Robert Mobrey killed by a railroad laborer at Moccasin Springs Missouri. Edgar R. Laughlin appointed clerk at Shawnee Oklahoma post office. Campbell cotton-picking machine tested near Nortonville Mississippi. First National Bank of Denton Texas extended one year. C C Voorhies of Mexico Missouri killed himself at Siloam Springs Arkansas. Fire Chief Kane and five firefighters injured in St. Joseph Missouri fire at Gregg Bros. grain elevator. Rev. G W Briggs of Paducah Kentucky acquitted of stabbing T J Garr. church committee exonerated. J A Huddleston alias Alexander jailed in Little Rock Arkansas for Perry county murder case. Frederick Roberts of Salt Lake City mortally wounds Mrs Charles A Cooper in Pueblo Colorado lodging house and dies. Cooper named co respondent in divorce suit and is a divorcee.
Compress company organized in Compress, Vernon, Texas, led by J. D. Hagler and others with a $50,000 capital stock. The plan is to build and complete the cotton compress in time for next season. A charter has been applied for. This marks another Vernon enterprise this year.
Weatherford Texas November 1 The jury convicted G T Ball of criminal assault on his 14 year old daughter and sentenced him to life in the penitentiary The alleged assault occurred in July of this year with the daughter as chief prosecuting witness.
The strike commission traveled from Scranton to Wilkesbarre touring the Prospect mine, Ashley and Sugar Notch housing areas, and Plymouth on the Lackawanna and Susquehanna rivers. Hearings remain unscheduled with potential venues in New York and Philadelphia.
A Claybourne avenue electric car collided with a Milwaukee St. Paul switch engine at Claybourne and Wrightwood, killing Richard Wilson the motorman and injuring Henry Yeager Andrew Grant and John Patcek. Police removed the injured to hospital as bystanders were shaken by the crash.
President Roosevelt arrived in Manassas Virginia at 430 AM in a hunting party led by Sheriff J T Leachman. The group traveled four miles to hunting grounds then returned for lunch at Henry House and toured the Bull Run battlefield before proceeding to Brandy Virginia to visit relatives of Surgeon General Rixey.
A special commission appointed by the Kansas City Southern railway examined the Port Arthur ship canal and ruled it safe for navigation by vessels with twenty feet draft and up to forty five feet beam. Steamers under twenty feet draft are safe with any beam. Four large oil steamers cleared soon after the announcement.
Official notice from Washington states Monsignor Falconio, the apostolic delegate to Canada, is appointed to succeed Cardinal Martinelli as apostolic delegate to the United States. Falconio will arrive about November 20, succeeding Martinelli who left May 1 to return to Rome.
Richmond Va Nov 1 Advices to State Democratic Chairman Ellyson show only about 15 percent of negro voters are registered under the new constitution. These figures align with other sources indicating low registration statewide.
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