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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
2
A fireworks display at Madison Square Garden for a crowd of about 30,000 during airship ascent and election returns caused a panic. Nine men in charge arrested after mortars ignited and sparked a deadly trampling incident leaving 12 dead and at least 50 injured.
The Daily Eagle notes late political activity around the poll tax amendment. Brazos County posts a large majority for the amendment as defeated candidates show goodwill. The piece credits newspapers for shaping opinion and urges voters to support new local enterprises and responsible government.
The Republicans must reckon with a strengthened Democratic majority and a rising push within their own ranks for tariff reform in the next Congress.
Governor Sayers prepares to retire to private life after years of faithful service at national and state capitals. He has been devoted to duty and earned a reputation for honorable public service.
The Republicans retained most contested offices in major races like New York but did not secure a sweeping victory. They faced reduced majorities in many localities and tariff revision is expected to follow.
Work on a Catholic church in Beaumont starts immediately with an estimated cost of $40,000. Across Texas and nearby states, crimes and trials are noted from killings in Shreveport to a jail death in Paris, and other local civic updates.
Republicans win control of both chambers in New Jersey with heavy majorities as results come from Trenton.
William D Haywood secret treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners and Socialist state senate candidate fired twice at James Braemer a special policeman at Eighteenth and Champa streets Denver. The face and arm wounds are not serious and Braemer is recovering.
Effingham Ill Nov 5 Prohibition leader and 1896 vice presidential candidate Hale Johnson was shot Tuesday afternoon at Bogota Jasper county by Harry Harris who then killed himself with poison in jail Harris death ends a dramatic violent incident and removes a major Prohibition figure from the national scene
W m P Cornell a well known Chicago newspaper man dropped dead just after casting his vote at Lakeview town hall polling place.
Springfield Illinois November 5 Governor Yates is very ill his condition is alarming with a delirious state and a 104 degree temperature. He remains a very sick man.
The issue of accepting 165000 from Andrew Carnegie for a new library in Albany was rejected by the population in a show of hands. Separately, in Marshfield Wisconsin robbers blew open the Greenwood bank vault and took 11000.
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