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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1902
Page
5
The article previews Buffalo Bill Wild West exhibits with life-savers on furlough performing a breeches buoy rescue scene. It highlights the Atlantic coast-guard crews and a mounted street display to demonstrate wreck communication and rescue methods during the march of the parade.
The last day session in Macon Georgia featured Prof John Hyre statistician speaking on world agricultural products. The resolutions committee favored establishing farming institutes in each state to work with the agricultural department. The union dispute resolutions were reported unfavorably and ship subsidy endorsement fell short. Several cities pressed for 1903 congress including Cleveland Detroit Buffalo Richmond Denver and Rock Island.
Riots erupted in two Chicago quarters on Friday injuring several. At the Ritchie box factory 500 workers and allies blocked streets and fought guards to reach striking sisters’ replacements. In the Ghetto bakers and supporters clashed with police. four taken to hospital amid tensions over Yom Kippur work.
Gainesville reports the site for an eighty thousand dollar government building has been selected the Honeycut lot on California Street opposite the Lindsay hotel with a price tag of fifteen thousand dollars. Other wires note a robbery in Evansville and multiple local deaths by suicide and violence across the nation.
In New Orleans October 11 the street car strike deepened as Gov Heard and Mayor Capdeville failed to broker settlement. The union rejected a twenty cents per hour ten hour day proposal by a large margin, while militia units were mobilized. Negotiations continued with arbitration eyed for wages. railways oppose arbitration.
Blocking of railroad yards leaves three trains stranded with dead locomotives in Neuvo Laredo. Officials vow to fight the strike, while Gov Sayers dispatches state rangers and U S Marshal Hanson arrives to guard the mails. Violence reported in Monterey as strike spreads.
E Lloyd, aged man tried in Abilene Texas for killing Charles Wright, was acquitted. Wright had allegedly tried to elope with Lloyds daughter. Also, Will Brigley convicted of forgery in Nacogdoches to eight years. John Hansen near Alton Iowa shot his wife during intoxication. she is expected to die. Kate Skelly of Pekin Illinois drowned after a trap door gave way under her while sweeping a cistern platform. She was 62.
A. B. Chinnof & Todd dry goods owner and Confederate veteran is shot dead by two burglars in his home at 3:30 AM. His son Asa fires at the intruders, is wounded, and the assailants flee as police and citizens search for them.
Congressmember John L. Sheppard of Texarkana died in Eureka Springs Arkansas after a long illness. The funeral will be held in Texarkana next Tuesday with a House committee to attend as notified by the speaker. He fell ill in Washington while serving in Congress and spent much of the year at watering places seeking relief.
Sam H. McGary publisher of the Beaumont Daily Journal was arraigned on contempt before Judge Martin. The district court heard extensive testimony all day. Judge Martin imposed a $100 fine plus costs of 3.25 for articles published on Friday the 3rd.
Emporia Kansas October 11 James Pendleton mayor of Gentry Missouri convicted of bigamy and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Pendleton used the alias Codas Morris to wed Grace Obley of Emporia and later posed as John Cox to bury a coffin in Orlando Oklahoma and spread word that Morris was killed in a runaway. Pendleton has a family in Gentry.
Frank Jones deputy United States marshal was tried in Muskogee Oklahoma Territory and acquitted of murder in a record breaking proceeding. Thirty one witnesses testified in two hours while the jury delivered verdict in four minutes after a trial lasting under four hours. Jones shot Jack Howard at Checotah during an arrest attempt on Sam Baker.
President Mitchell arrived in Wilkes Barre and refused to talk about a New York trip. Strike leaders seek AFL aid, noting its near two thousand members as the strongest trade union. They expect an appeal to all labor groups to back the miners in their fight.
In Birmingham at a conference with President J. C. Mayben of Sloss Sheffield the mine workers and management agreed on assessments for anthracite strikers and all miners will return to work immediately.
Ellen Stewart, reportedly born in 1770 and living through the Boston tea party era, died at the Home for the Aged and Infirm colored people. A former slave and mother of four, she claimed to have witnessed events in Virginia and Kentucky as well as the First Continental Congress era. Officials say she was born in Virginia and died in Chicago.
Three masked men stopped the Pacific coast express on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line four miles west of Lincoln. They used explosives to wreck the express car and rifled the safe securing about 1500 dollars. Passengers and trainmen were unharmed. A pursuing posse with bloodhounds tracks the robbers.
Henry J. King, who visited the New York Foundling asylum on July 17 and shot sisters Angela and Cyrilla after they could not disclose his parentage, has been convicted a second time. He faces up to fifteen years on two counts. King has claimed for nine years that wealthy parents abandoned him in the asylum and that attendants hid his identity.
Promoters report failure to form a 60 million dollar southern mill consortium as letters announce the abandonment. Less than twenty five percent of mill owners favored joining the scheme.
In Utrecht on Friday General Botha refuted rumors that Kruger stole state funds and stated the ex-president contributed his own money to the Boer cause.
Strike of 1200 press feeders in New York book and job printing trades has involved 550 pressmen and nearly halted business in many plants. The stoppage could delay many magazines and periodicals from appearing on schedule.
In Kountze Texas on October 11 the jury in the State versus J W Collier charged with the murder of E C Phillips in Montgomery county last year returned a verdict of not guilty. The trial had moved to Hardin county on change of venue since Tuesday prior.
Erie road chairman Thomas announces no conference with the public will be held Tuesday and confirms Friday statement as definite.
New York October 11 Henry J Rose the theatrical man who shot and killed his wife two weeks ago has been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree. He will be taken into court on Monday to plead.
New York Oct 11 report says the torpedo boat destroyer Stewart reached between 27 and 29 knots during builders trial on Long Island Sound between Fort Schuyler and Greenwich Conn.
Former U S representative P T Glass died in Ripley Tennessee at age 78 sources say. He served in Congress decades ago and was a prominent figure in regional politics.
Chattanooga Oct. 11 The state factory inspector ordered several factories in the city to cease employing children and most affected workers are girls under 14 years old.
The Virginia grand division of the Daughters of the Confederacy has decided to purchase General Stonewall Jackson's home in Lexington for a memorial hospital. They appeal to the society for aid in the project.
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