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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1899
Page
2
Mayor Harrison presided as the city council adopted a special committee report on finances. The committees were empowered to hire an engineer and superintendent and to purchase tools and teams for street work. A canvass of the business district favored starting Main Street work. Script will be paid at par. For Sale Gent le buggy horse by H V Shields.
Miss Janie Lewis visited relatives over the weekend. Died Friday night, W. Young of Clay Farm, buried Saturday. Baptist supper fundraiser netted 35.33 for the preacher’s benefit. Edna Duram and Alice Dunlap sisters returned home, with Mary Dunlap heading to Hunt County for Hamp University. Wagner reports successful eye operation in Galveston. Walter McLeod, Dave and Henry Crawford back. Brazos County approved as home. Sam Meredith ill but improving. Rev. E M Myers and wife visited Wesson. Knox Williams sick again. Correspondent.
Classified brief seeks a second hand buggy at a very low price. Apply today to C A at this office. Advertisement also notes seeds and feed at Wooten and Harder for all kinds.
The light rain during the past week revived grass but did not provide enough stock water. Mrs. W. B. Isbell is on the sick list and the infant son of Mr. John Bloxson is quite sick. Charley Rice of Liberty is improving after illness. W. P. Hoge killed eight wild geese with two shots last Wednesday. Mrs. Alice Robertson of Bryan visited relatives on the Prairie. Maxwell and Hoge left Friday for Dallas.
At a Monday afternoon meeting the Daughters of the Confederacy resolved to raise funds to erect a monument over the grave of Colonel Briscoe G. Baldwin. They will hold a tea next Monday afternoon at Mrs. J. J. Adams residence with admission ten cents.
Help wanted notices advertise a traveling role with a manufacturing firm offering 30 monthly plus expenses and a promotion path. Additional openings in the order department are listed. Apply at G. T. A. care of Eagle office in 285.
The St Andrews church Aid Society moves the tea to Thursday afternoon at Mrs F A Lee's home with Mrs W S Wilson and Mrs J A McQueen assisting. Admission ten cents. Everyone invited.
At the end of 1898 the world had 2,029,893 miles of telegraph and telephone lines in use. Of these 167,800 miles were electrical submarine cables and transoceanic links, while 328,417 miles served telephone connections.
General Lawton orders boats to haul subsistence and ammunition up the Rio Grande while water remains too shallow for launches. About 20 American prisoners are reported moved north. A Filipino officer says troops lack ammunition and prefer not to return to camp. San Isidro to be governed civilly. 100 men of the Thirty-fourth arrive as scouts. Recon at Santa Rosa shows enemy entrenched and river bridges down.
Secretary Long orders several battleships to be laid up on home stations to meet manpower demands in the Philippines. The Indiana at Brooklyn and the Texas at Norfolk will be first among ships retired, with crews reassigned to duties in the Philippines and officers moved to other commands.
Athens authorities and Texas Trunk Railroad officials reached a settlement on right of way and depot grounds. Construction will begin at Cedar Creek in Kaufman County within two weeks and move toward Athens as quickly as possible. In Monterey Diaz backers hold mass meetings praising his administration and ruling out opposition from Reyes.
In New Boston Texas on October 24 the jury found Simon Hayes guilty of murder in the second degree for the Ira Smith killing dated July 14 1899 and sentenced him to seven years in the penitentiary. In Chicago on October 24 Walter Farnsworth confessed to bigamy claiming forty two wives worldwide with four in Chicago and admitted many aliases.
Guthrie Oklahoma Territory October 24 Chief William Scott a cowboy died after an exhibition of revolver twirling when his finger slipped and the weapon discharged the ball entering his body.
In Bardwell Kentucky on the Brown place two miles south of town brothers Tom and Bud Williams were killed when a horse kicked them simultaneously. One was struck in the forehead and the other in the stomach, the injuries causing instant deaths.
San Antonio reports conductor Bo hamian was held up and robbed by two masked men on a street car late Monday night. He says he recognizes one assailant and will file charges.
Kimberly dispatches say all is well and that there is no fighting in progress.
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