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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
2
Ennis citizens learn that local cotton prices differ by market due to freight and home usage. Texas prices around 6 ¾ cents compare with Gadsden Alabama at 7 ¾ cents, where local mills influence value. The note underscores regional price variation for farmers depending on destination.
A reflective note on gradual progress and resilience. Small, steady efforts accumulate, pushing through rough conditions to blossom in time. The passage contrasts patient growth with expectations of rapid flowering.
P K Goree from Midway visits the Meteor and reports he expects about twice the crop from fertilized land compared with unfertilized areas. He emphasizes that good land or well manured soil yields best crops and urges farmers to invest time this winter to improve their land for better returns next year.
All who wish to attend the Brazos Navigation convention at Brenham on October 26 must submit their names immediately. Committees are to file their reports. By order of the chairman C A Adams S R Henderson Remember Wooten Harder seed and feed supplier.
The United States Supreme Court in Washington will hear the Louisiana Texas quarantine dispute next Monday. Attorney General Smith filed objections challenging jurisdiction and alleging the suit mainly concerns private interstate commerce rather than Louisiana state interests. Judge Farrar granted time to file a replication brief, with oral argument set for the same day. A frost could delay the case and defer the outbreak issue to a future yellow fever flare in New Orleans.
Washington October 14 The Supreme Court has practically reached a decision to allow interested parties to file briefs in the express company cases on who pays the revenue tax on packages but will not permit oral argument participation. The move is expected to prevent the October 40 postponement of the test case.
In El Paso on October 18 a federal court jury awarded J. W. Eckman $15,000 in damages for the loss of an arm and leg after being knocked from a caboose top as a wreck train passed through a tunnel. He had sought $30,000.
Paris Texas October 18. The damage suit of A O Watson versus Lamar County for breach of contract ended in a mistrial after court activity since mid last week. Savannah Georgia October 18. Cotton exchange members estimate the cotton crop totaling 10 264 108 bales after consolidation and averaging. Waxahachie Texas October 14. J W Bird fell while alighting from his wagon, his horses bolted and ran over his leg, fracturing it above the ankle.
Officers of the Red D line steamship Philadelphia recount the Venezuela uprising with details from Puerto Cabello and La Guayra. Rebels seized hills around Puerto Cabello as government troops resisted. The Detroit blocked bombardment while the Caracas envoy met General Castro. The insiders note coffee stocks stranded and ships departing light.
In Kingston and Austin reports British Guiana Barbadoes Jamaica and Trinidad rush to use the Dingley tariff reciprocity before the deadline then cool and signaled repudiation Jamaica and Trinidad question the deal while Guiana and Barbadoes fear revenue losses. William Frost claims kinship with Everlyn Collier seeks intervention for the Mexican prisoner in Hermosillo governor declines. Frost accuses Hermosillo authorities of abuse saying the woman killed in self defense.
Two young men Harris Barton and his uncle Fred Barton were riding a buggy with a dog and gun when the dog jumped and the gun fired fatally wounding Harris Barton instantly near Mr Idlett's residence two miles east of Blooming Grove Tex Oct 14. In Spring Valley Illinois Oct 18 about two thousand miners halted work for a coal strike after union dues dispute with Spring Valley Coal Co threatening a 5000 ton daily shortfall until settlement.
Arkansas exhibit cars arrive from Pennsylvania and will be remodeled before carrying Arkansas exhibits to the north and east. The campaign is expected to yield strong results as promoters push the enterprise. Fire at A Ritchie factory destroys six stories on Green Street in Chicago with large losses and possible casualties. Walter Williams of Martindale meets death in a gun accident near Lockhart Texas.
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