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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1901
Page
2
The Daily Eagle notes community chatter including a campaign tease for T. M. Campbell, a missionary sermon fund with sixty thousand dollars raised, and light social jests about courtship and fashion. It also mentions editorials on farming and plant improvement, a Kansas editor quote about sport, and a humorous anecdote about a candy promotion.
Knights of Pythias Brazos Lodge No 64 hosted its first semi annual smoker at the castle hall followed by a banquet at the Metropolitan restaurant for about one hundred guests. Speeches and music by Zehnal's orchestra and Prof. Miller highlighted the social event with committee leaders named for arrangements and invitations.
Advertises Rex Dyspepsia Tablets for sour stomach indigestion and heartburn with a money back guarantee if not cured. Priced at 50 cents. M. H James, leading druggist in Bryan Texas, authorized refunds by druggists.
Near Leadville Colorado on October 14 Jesse Sherman a prominent ranchman killed Ed Dorrington 16 and fatally wounded Earl King 17 and James Considine 4 after pursuing them with a shotgun the shooter says the gun discharged accidentally he surrendered to authorities and is charged with murder Sherman and his family are noted as respected residents of the area
A Sunday night shooting on Main Street in Houston left bystander Wiley Jones wounded in the calf. Sergeant John Howard arrested Paul and George Wheat, Robert Pleasants, and Basset Blake, all of Richmond, on assault to murder charges. none of the four was shot.
An incoming Houston and Texas Central train derailed about 80 convicts en route to Sugarland to work on a plantation. A newsboy was robbed of about 85 dollars before guards arrived. most money recovered. He was only lightly wounded in the aftermath.
In Terrell Texas on Sunday Henry Shaw a Black man was shot and killed after a dispute over a business matter. George Townsend another Black man surrendered to authorities the same day.
Palestine Texas October 12 Hou T M Campbell of this place announces he will be a candidate for governor before the Democratic state convention.
Whit Moody was acquitted of murder at Hereford. In Scranton Pennsylvania a street car strike sparked a crowd cluster, with obstructions placed on tracks and stones thrown at halted cars. Strikers urged sympathizers to avoid violence.
In San Francisco at the Ag new stock farm Charles Douglas attacked his wife and his 15 year old stepdaughter with a heavy water pitcher leaving serious injuries. When officers tried to arrest him he shot himself dead. Mrs Douglas was formerly the widow of Hol Agnew a sugar planter in the Hawaiian islands.
Manila reports General Miquel Malvar may have left Batangas to plan operations in Bulacan. Insurgent conscription grows while Batangas police chief and others are arrested for links to insurgents. Major Braganza, who ordered 103 executions, is sentenced to hang. Tensions rise in San Fernando and Bacolor over a soldier killing as patrols tighten.
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on Sunday John Gillet and a miner and his two sons aged 11 and 15 were overcome by black damp in an air shaft at Juniata Coke company near Juniataville. The father died trying to rescue his sons and two other men recovered the bodies after nearly losing their lives.
East Liverpool Ohio reports a 10 million gallon city reservoir burst Sunday causing heavy damage with no deaths but about twenty people with narrow escapes. Estimated losses reach 150000 dollars as the newly completed city reservoir was filled for the first time and taxed to capacity.
Edwin Longenecker aged 21, quarterback for the Brown Preparatory School team in Philadelphia, died in a local hospital from injuries sustained in a football game last week. He suffered a fractured spinal column after a heavy tackle.
An east bound cattle train and a west bound freight collided two miles east of MacKeys Station while traveling at 30 miles per hour. Both locomotives were wrecked and over 20 cars reduced to kindling. Four trainmen were killed.
Rantout Oct. 14. The Bank of Marysville at Potomac, a village 20 miles east, was entered by robbers early Sunday. They used nitroglycerin to blast the safe and took between 1200 and 1500 in currency and silver before escaping.
Lexington Kentucky October 14 two white men John T Doyle and Martin Clark are jailed charged with killing a black man Henry Cambell Each surrendered claiming to have fired the fatal shot The case centers on a deadly shooting in Lexington authorities report that both men face murder charges and are held pending further investigation
Cape Town dispatch reports the pro Boer South African News suspended publication due to martial law restrictions in the region.
Orlando authorities report W. E. Medford, a young white man, arrested on charges of robbing the post office in Orlando on October 14.
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