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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1899
Page
2
A Bryan Texas newspaper fragment mocks predictions of the United States collapse remarks by a returned naval officer and a judge. It notes postal details and subscription rates, with a satirical aside about past doomsday forecasts and the supposed rebellion of Indians and American heirs.
A woman professor joins a college faculty of men at Stanford to carry on psychology work for Dr Frank ANGell who will be abroad next year. Miss Lillian J Martin, a Vassar graduate, studied at Gottingen with Dr G E Muller and prepared a 300 page treatise on Analysis of Sensibility.
A household method uses half a cake of laundry soap dissolved in hot water with borax, then kerosene added to form an emulsion. After boiling briefly, the mixture is poured into a tub with boiling water and used to wash clothes by rubbing, rinsing, and air drying.
More than 1 000 cyclists visited St Martin on a Sunday to view the wrecked steam vessel Paris. Hundreds of carriages ferried visitors while hotelkeepers and restaurants struggled to keep up with demand. Fishing boats carried passengers for 12 cents each and one fisherman earned 20 dollars in a day. Visitors arrived from England and France.
London reports cautious optimism as Delagoa Bay route restoration would speed Cape communications. Farquhar’s farm fighting confirms danger, with General White narrowly escaping. Naval contingent from the Powerful aided withdrawal efforts and dispatches moved to Major Adye. Ladysmith fortifications rise, fears of a Boer assault persist as women and noncombatants evacuate south.
Temple Texas November report says Alderman Wallace recovered 298.7 dollars of a five hundred dollar roll after a negro, who walked behind him when the loss occurred, admitted taking the money. The suspect, later caught at the Lam pasas railroad station, confessed and led officers to disposed bills and the missing roll portion.
Denison reports no new solid leads on Monday night’s express robbery as rumors of crews arrests and officer talks prove unfounded. Messenger Concannon shows improvement and doctors remain hopeful for recovery.
News from Lipan reports a grandfather killed his two year old grandchild and then tried to cut his 14 year old son. The boy escaped to a neighbor after being seriously cut. Three daughters fled as shots were fired. the suspect was arrested.
A northbound freight train on the International and Great Northern road derailed about five miles south of here. Engineer John R. Steadman was killed, his body mangled while the fireman was shaken but uninjured.
Austin reports Governor Sayers has issued a proclamation to raise the quarantine against New Orleans due to yellow fever concerns. The action heightens public health measures amid the outbreak signals.
Secretary Foster presented the U S position on the Alaska boundary to the American Geographical Society. He traced negotiations from Russia and Great Britain, noting Britain sought to limit Russian claims and later claimed a 10 marine league strip. He argued Russia sovereignty extended inland, cited the Hudson Bay Company lease, and listed U S actions from 1867 onward asserting sovereignty, including maps, occupation, post offices, revenue laws, schools, and tribal allegiance, with little British protest beyond the eastern demarcation friction.
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