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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1898
Page
3
Local notes report travel times on the railroad between Hearne and San Antonio and list a flurry of town visitors and notices. Tennessee's Pardner, a play starring Arthur Alston and a strong company, is announced for the Grand Opera House on October 19, with theatregoers urged not to miss it.
The itemized column records Dr. T H Hairston to visit his Bryan office on Friday October 14, a Mrs Calhoun endowment from the colored Odd Fellows, a canceled Boy Wanted appearance due to a Pardners contract, a list of out of town visitors, a Lost blue roan colt 18 months old with reward, and chatter about a prospective Bryan cotton factory. It also notes tributes from Col Thomas D Ranson and August Prinzel, death of Henry Breda, and various Leon county visitors plus community notices.
The notice lists six marriage licenses issued to pairs including Jim Wilson and Jennie Persons, Elisa Samuel and Zelle Turner, W. C. Reinhardt and Francis Croker, R. E. Mears and Della Hays, Willie E. Nettles and Annie H. Thompson, and A. S. Brown and Ella Ranchet.
The Bryan audience can see Tennessee's Pardner on Wednesday October 19. The comedy drama, faithful to Bret Harte's mining camp tale, is bright, clean, and well acted by a balanced cast. Arthur C. Alston's management has sustained the show's two season success.
The Washington monument has withstood multiple lightning strikes with its aluminium tip connected to the ground by copper rods. An 1585 event saw five strikes in 20 minutes with no damage, while a later 1585 strike fractured a top stone but left overall integrity intact. The piece notes the obelisk location makes it a prime lightning attractor yet protected by design.
In Virden Illinois a miners strike led to a brutal exchange after a Chicago and Alton special train carrying about 200 southbound miners reached the stockade near the mines. Detective D B Kiley was killed, and several others wounded as both sides fired from train, stockade towers, and surrounding streets.
A New York Post piece notes that many wooden clocks in America are painted to show 18 minutes past 8 as a memorial to Lincoln. It argues the tale credits a single craftsman whose practice became a tradition, but facts show Lincoln was shot about 10:15 p.m.
A country couple visits the parsonage door seeking marriage, with a bashful bride and groom echoed by a boyish usher in a humorous domestic moment. A French writer lists composers and ages, noting many live long lives and average musical celebrity ages hover around 67.
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