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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1898
Page
3
An OCR fragment lists times and train movements with directions east and north bound. Entries include No 1 No 2 No 3 No 4 leaves and arrives at various times such as 12 50 p m and 4 89 p m. The text is garbled but indicates a timetable excerpt with multiple car numbers and directions.
George Deaton of Ledbetter and several visitors from various towns arrived in the city yesterday. Miss Adai Board, Prof. J. C. Nagle, Major W. R. Cavitt, H. B. Steele, Father Litnora, Major T. E. Durham, David Shirley, and W. J. Riley were noted in town.
Manila files reveal Maximiano Rosales and Julian Reyes claim General Weyler aided in looting about 1.3 million dollars in Mexican silver from the Philippine treasury. Rosales and Reyes were imprisoned as scapegoats but say they were punished for others crimes. Major General Otis ordered treasury book examinations.
Social items show Mr and Mrs W W Sangster returning from Navasota. Visitors include Miss Minnie Bullock Reliance and Mrs W C Finley Mexia with daughter Mrs J Webb Howell. J W Benson John Dyess and Coon Williams came from Harvey yesterday. Listings include roof painting by Dodson with four year guarantee, 218 House For Rent near Main Street, two building lots for sale with Mrs C M Proctor, and Bishop Gallagher arriving from Galveston for confirmation at the Catholic church. Also references to Emmets Pharmacy and a horse saddle and bridle offered by J W Gregg at Garth Howell Webb lumber yard.
Pekin, Nov 4 The Chinese foreign office promises are ignored as signs point to a concerted troop movement near the capital. Kang Yi the Manchu official influential with the dowager empress is strongly anti foreign and instrumental in reestablishing bow and arrow exercises. Yuan Shek Hai, commanding foreign drilled troops at Tien Tsin, is said to have funds to raise his division to 30000 men and may act in line with foreign ministers views.
Honolulu dispatches report the accidental electrocution of Thomas Mannan of San Francisco, a member of Company I, New York Engineers and a hackman, on Oct. 22. Private Gertz of San Francisco narrowly escaped death when a live wire appeared and a fireman pulled him away from the current. Mannan died instantly from a 1000 volt shock. Gertz was saved by the fireman’s intervention. Mannan, Tennessee native and pressman by trade, had served in the Third Battalion, Second Volunteer Engineers.
Crowds fill London streets as General Kitchener, in full general’s dress with Egyptian sash, rides to Guildhall to accept freedom of the city and the sword of honor after his victory at Omdurman. About 500 spectators, including Lord Rosebery Lord Halsbury and the lord chancellor, observe the ceremony with city dignitaries and families.
The chamber of deputies reopened in Paris with a crowded assembly after the Oct. 95 adjournment that followed the cabinet’s fall. New premier Dupuy read the ministerial declaration amid strong show of animation.
Columbus Ohio November 4 Charles Nelson a colored man was electrocuted at the penitentiary for the murder of James Zimmerman a groceryman at Bowling Green who refused to lend him money.
General Roy Stone reports Porto Ricans unhappy with U S governance. He cites desire for US statehood in training, free trade, and current duties on imports. He notes plantation fires and calls for cavalry and a Porto Rican civil guard. He also supports an electric railway system for the island.
Seventeen Cuban prisoners released from Ceuta and sent to the United States arrive aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm. They will be repatriated to Cuba at US expense. Fernando Sierra, fluent in English, interprets for the group. Many faced life terms or 30-year sentences. 470 men from the war crimes in Cuba were confined.
In Lancaster county Nebraska Charles F. David W. and George K Brown ask Receiver Hill of the defunct Lincoln Savings Bank to stop selling $15,000 in life insurance policies pledged to secure a lien. They claim disposal endangers their lives and cite past reverses leading to pledging policies. Judge Holmes set the hearing for the current term.
Peter Wade of Stark County Illinois was struck and killed by a train. Divide Colorado reports its business section wiped out by fire. Charles Rumbke a prominent grocer in St Joseph Missouri has disappeared from his home last Friday. Near Kamiah Idaho an armed Indian was killed by a silvertip bear. Marsden cellulose works Owensboro Kentucky will ship 160 tons of cellulose to Newport News for battleship construction Kentucky and Kearsarge.
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