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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
4
Listing fragment offers parts of blocks near Allen street and Kehoo house in Seton area with parcels including Stanlow cottage and a four block from BX Street brick cistern on premises. Mentions prices 1250 and 20 dollars, multiple lots and city property including near railroad frontage and Otto Boehme property.
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania October 16 delegates from districts 1 7 and 9 of the United Mine Workers unanimously decided to urge acceptance of the presidential arbitration proposal and to return to work if the convention approves. Official call for a Wilkesbarre delegate convention sets ten a m Monday October 20 to act on the president’s terms.
The United States government filed notice in federal court in Topeka Kansas of an appeal in the Missouri Kansas and Texas land grant dispute over title to millions of acres along the railroad right of way. The government claims the railroad obtained land by fraud and misrepresentation and was not entitled under the grant. The lower court ruled against the government.
Panama reports that on Thursday, three years ago, General Uribe Uribe led a revolt in Bucaramanga, Santander. The town was captured, then retaken by General Willimizar, Santander governor. The rebellion soon spread nationwide and continues.
In Rusk County court a Jacksonville physician received 20 days in jail and a $50 fine for unlawfully issuing prescriptions in violation of the local option law.
Union delegates to the mine workers convention will meet next Monday to decide on Roosevelt's arbitration plan. President Mitchell and union officers expect ratification though floor debates may raise objections. The union aims to place all nonworking strikers back in jobs as companies promise to honor supporters.
John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, releases Roosevelt's arbitration plan. He notes executive boards for districts 1, 7 and 9 voted to convene and back resuming work and submitting differences to arbitration by the president chosen experts. He expresses gratitude and hope for a complete, satisfactory, permanent settlement of the anthracite coal strikes.
E. B. Clark, grand chief of the Brotherhood of the Railroad Conductors, in New York for a railroad employee meeting. He says he has not been officially notified of his appointment to the coal strike arbitration commission but would accept. He favors arbitration but not compulsory arbitration and notes the strike has hit home with the public.
Vienna reports the foreign office rejects a Bucharest to London Daily Mail telegram claiming Russia proposed reviving the 1888 Unkiar Skelessia treaty with Turkey. The pact allegedly would bar foreign warships from the Black Sea during war, while Russia would aid Turkey with land and sea support if needed.
In Bisbee Arizona on October 17 a train struck two Mexicans at Guapieta across the line from Douglas. One man died and the other was badly hurt. Train crew members Ed Patterson engineer Fred McDonough fireman George McGorse yardmaster and E H Kidd switchman were arrested and jailed in Mexico. Excitement runs high in Douglas as Superintendent Morgan stops a possible cross border raid to free the Americans.
General Chaffee and Luke Wright of the Philippine commission and acting governor will be guests in Chicago from Manila, October 2. The Union League club will host a banquet and reception for the distinguished visitors during their stay.
Edmond H. Lay, a veteran actor, dies at Bellevue hospital from general debility at age 73. Born in Virginia, Lay appeared in minor roles alongside Edwin Booth and other notable performers.
Theodore Gilman and Anthony Gilman of Gilman Son Co bankers and brokers have assigned for the benefit of creditors to Bainbridge Colby after their failure was announced.
New York October 17. James T. Williamson nominated for Congress by Republicans in Brooklyn's Seventh district to replace General Horatio C. King who declined.
In Denison Texas on October 17 a switch crew miscontrolled six passenger cars from the main line, racing north to strike a freight train. J T Hassell of Stamford was severely injured, his right leg mangled and leg above the knee amputated, with serious condition reported.
A special Cotton Belt train carried the Rusk Iron guards to Henderson after a governor ordered mobilization. Capt. R. L. Coleman led the force which met four militia companies from Tyler Henderson Marshall and Palestine in Jacksonville. James Buchanan, charged with murdering the Hicks family in Nacogdoches county, was placed in the Rusk penitentiary with militia under Judge Davis awaiting further orders and to escort him to Nacogdoches for trial.
Failure of the banking house of Gilman, Son & Co. of 62 Cedar Street, New York, was announced late Thursday. Liabilities are reported under 200000, with no expected effect on other New York concerns. The firm mainly dealt in western farm mortgages and was founded in 1860 by Winthrop Gilman who arrived from St. Louis and Alton, Illinois.
The Sherman Paris Line in Paris Texas reports a meeting of J Williams Sterling Price and B M Long of Paris with C Dorchester and Cecil Lyon of Sherman to discuss an independent electric line between Paris and Sherman for freight and passengers. Ample capital backs the project led by Tom Johnson of Cleveland Ohio.
United States Consul Alonzo J. Garrett of Nuevo Laredo is safe and en route home after delays caused by high water in the Sierra Madre range. His wife Mrs. Garrett received a telegram dated Guanacevi stating he was returning, after being unable to reach a telegraph station.
News in brief covers deaths and legal cases from Arkansas to Texas. Notable items include Dick Jenkins of England Arkansas dying in Pine Bluff from paralysis, Lawrence Kolodziej held in Floresville Texas on a $3000 bond for murder by drowning Felix Gabrisch, and a new Lakeside Texas sugar mill costing $500000 starting operations. Also listed are a Kentucky jeweler's suicide, a court ruling in Smith County Texas on Cotton Belt offices, a fatality on the Missouri Pacific line in Coffeyville Kansas, a large sheep death from mosquitoes near Rockport Texas, and various agricultural and legal outcomes in Texas towns. Prince Henry of Prussia buys an American car.
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