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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1899
Page
3
Hearne timetable shows east bound departures at 4:39 p m and 3 10 p m with No 1 No 3 No 2 No 4 trains. Eastbound service between Hearne and San Antonio includes arrivals around 11 55 am and 12 50 pm with listed service times and numbers 2458.
Fair with possible coastal showers and cooler air in the north on Wednesday. Local items include visits by Lizzie Seale in Ennis and Mrs. O A Adams in Dallas, house for rent listings, and multiple city watchers noting calls at the Eagle office. A Y M C A course postpones performances to January while a Elijah P Brown lecture is planned for November 18.
Miss Parker entertains the Bryan Quartette Club with old members present and Ada Lee Polk elected a member. The opera discussion is postponed to the next meeting. Cairns of Pontiac visits. Programme features solos by Ivy Carnes and Miss Carnes, readings by Ed Saunders, and a duet by Clarke and McKenzie. Club plans to meet with Mrs. Webb on Oct 30.
List of hotel guests includes EXCHANGE LS Murphey Shreveport Sid France New York E Conkling Dallas J T Swanson Palestine N Porter Chicago H E Adams Virginia J M Hovenbeck New York E Oestreicher New York 8 Steele Allenfarm W P Herms Dallas Tom Lawrence O E Saunders Houston Cole Curtis Oliver Cole Spell City W H Armistead Houston C B Anderson Waco Lon Hudson Troy NY J Feschl Dallas D S Sessions Ennis A L Donovan Dallas Abe Edel Cincinnati C H Higgins St Louis W A Wilson Chacogdoches Joe Palmer Memphis C W Klipsch Galveston C B Anderson Waco D McDonald Houston W A Totey St Louis F G Talbott Carthage J S Kendall Austin P H Worke New York J Allison Louisiana C W Carr Houston Geo M Morse Waco A N Mayer New York R T Hughes Kansas City J A Keigwin Marlin R M Burns Austin
State Superintendent J B Kendall visited the public school yesterday and spoke freely about his satisfaction with the progress. Wooten and Harder have received Condition Powders for stock and poultry. mentions dead shot on chicken cholera. Roadmaster Duncan McDonald of the H T C spent the forenoon in the city. Miss Julia Wallace returned from Franklin visit.
London reports Canada’s final plan for settling the Alaska boundary dispute. The proposition requests arbitration on Venezuela style terms, with 50 years occupancy as proof of title, and requires Skaguay and Dyea to be ceded to the United States if Pyramid Harbor is granted to Canada as a precondition to arbitration.
The navy will test Marconi wireless on Thursday using the cruiser New York and battleship Massachusetts. Extensions will raise masts to 150 feet as signals are sent during sea trials including gun firings to test combat usefulness. Admirals may observe as a step toward adoption by the U S Navy.
New Orleans on October 24 reported a port record as two ships were cleared for disembarkation under U S officials. The total aboard reached 1890 men women and children indicating a major influx.
Washington October 23 The president has named postmasters in Louisiana Houma J M Heggerty Mississippi Frarpont T F Logan Oklahoma Edmund Elta H Jayne and Texas Huntsville Mary S Parish.
The Kansas City and El Dorado railroad was sold to the Missouri Kansas and Texas Rail road company for the amount of its bonded indebtedness 225000. The transfer was announced in St Louis on October 21.
In Bryan Texas on October 24 Bob Ballard a Black man faced a preliminary hearing before Justice Cross. He was refused bond and remanded to jail.
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