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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1898
Page
1
The British admiralty orders every seagoing warship to have crews at full strength and directs mobilization readiness. Four torpedo boat destroyers with boilers to be updated are recalled to reduce stores. Officers on leave and unemployed are told to be ready for reserve commissions. The cabinet is to convene to seek an early France Fashoda statement.
An Irishman smashed a Punch office window on Fleet Street with a umbrella after a cartoon showed John Bull threatening a French organ grinder who refused to depart. He shouted Vive la France and was arrested. Asked if he was a Frenchman, he said No I am an Irishman and If I were French I would have blown down the place.
Manila dispatch says Rear Admiral Dewey's seizure of Aguinaldo's steamers angers natives and alarms locals. Chinese thieves target residents, while American troops suffer minor ailments and volunteers complain about food after arrival in the tropics.
A Manila officer’s letter to a war department officer describes 17 000 troops in the city with 600 sick in hospital. He notes slow exertion due to climate, troops patrolling streets against insurgents, and calls Manila a beautiful country that should never be returned to Spain. Typhoid dysentery and malaria are present as oppressive heat continues. General Otis is said to work too hard and oversee every detail.
Paris reports a sharp shift in public mood with defiance toward Britain over Fashoda. Paris government backs resistance while Russia signals support. London plans a grand Kitchener banquet as Sudan casualties rise among Grenadier Guards. An Irishman voices rising indignation amid the turmoil.
Weather bulletin reports frosts across infected districts including Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana with Mobile at 40 New Orleans 46. Record low temp trends show early frost dates but note a colder spell may hinder yellow fever spread.
Memphis officials lifted the six week quarantine declared for yellow fever, reopening the city to travel from elsewhere. The move ends a period described as the souths most rigid entry restriction, with no arrivals allowed from any part of the world. In related items, Arch Baur a colored man was lynched in Tompkinsville Kentucky after attacking Annie Morrison, and Private Basil R Steed of the First West Virginia regiment received six months in the penitentiary for absence without leave.
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