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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1899
Page
4
Authorities report a planned daytime uprising in Manila’s poorer districts did not occur. Guards were doubled, a force guarded the slaughterhouse, artillery stationed near the native quarter, and three native police were arrested for plotting. Loyalist police helped foil the plot.
Sixty eight thousand dollars was raised in Carnegie half Sunday night for the heathen by the Christian missionary alliance led by Rev. A. B. Simpson. Women tore off jewels and men shed coats as crowds shouted glory to God while contributing to the fund to support missionaries abroad for the year. Enthusiasm remained high despite the total being below recent records.
Negotiations continue between the United States and Chile toward a fresh treaty reviving the Chilean claims commission. Congress will be asked to authorize a president appointed panel to review Cuban insurrection and Spanish war claims, totaling about 30 million dollars. Additional talks involve Russia Guatemala and Haiti over American citizen claims, while Switzerland has yet to respond regarding Delag Bay railway property tied to Portugal.
National and local items report a Skagway Alaska chamber resolution protesting a port lease to Great Britain. The document cites port tonnage and in bond shipments totaling over 50 000 tons with 20 000 tons American goods and more than 2 million dollars in bonded trade from January through September.
Washington reports combined U S forces in the Philippines will number more than 70,000 men with 45 warships when all orders reach the area. The last vessels arrive in Manila by early December, detailing divisions under Gen Lawton and Gen MacArthur stationed on multiple islands. The final ships depart San Francisco on November 5.
Mail from Hong Kong says Baldomero Aguinaldo, brother of the insurgent leader, is imprisoned at Filipino headquarters and to be shot for treason. He allegedly embezzled 80,000 dollars from the treasury with five others and fled toward Hong Kong via Manila before being captured.
Reports from Manila to Birmingham and New York detail a private soldier’s letter criticizing General Otis while praising most troops, a dysentery epidemic in Japan with rising deaths, a Tibetan abdication and Chinese authority reassertion, socialist writer Lawrence Greenland’s death in New York, a Illinois riot case over nonunion miners, a double ballot scandal in Spring Valley, a killing in Wynnewood over a hog dispute, Venezuelan insurgency progress around Caracas, and Yellow Fever new cases in Key West with no recent deaths.
A young Mexican woman was found dead with a six shooter wound to the breast and back. Bloody footprints led to a house where a bloodstained shirt and signs of hurried flight were found. Police investigate foul play and possible homicide.
Victory for Prohibition in Greenville Texas as Fairlie district holds a local option election. Prohibition carried 40 to 1 and will take effect after the legal notice.
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