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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1902
Page
2
The Ft Worth packing plants plan to kill up to 5000 hogs daily but say Texas hog supplies are scarce this year. A Texan supply will take time to build, so farmers are urged to plant hogs to profit as prices rise. Also noted are upcoming visits by Chicago merchants to Texas towns and rising college attendance among farmers' children.
The A and M cadet team and the University of Texas played a landmark game in San Antonio, lasting over two hours with both sides scoring no touchdowns. A and M used the same eleven throughout, no injuries reported, while seven freshmen entered for the varsity. The Houston Post lauded the effort as among Texas’ best. Next game set for Fair Grounds Monday afternoon against Trinity, a strong team in the state.
Reports from City of Mexico and southern states describe ashes raining over San Juan Bautista Tabasco Comitan Chiapas Palenque and Salina Cruz as locals fear a volcano near Paloque has awakened Indigenos report fire and smoke from a hill in Guadalupe Sierra while observers link activity to a broader volcanic awakening in the West Indies and Central America
The treasury department ordered El Paso customs to refund duties paid by General Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles on personal effects from a Mexico trip. Otis argued the items were exempt under a recent ruling by Secretary Shaw.
In Greenville Texas on Monday during a rainstorm a lightning bolt hit the home of BE Summers, tearing the flue and knocking down the stove pipe. A stove pipe joint struck a pillow on Mrs Summers bed. The Holmes residence also suffered a struck flue and damaged stove. No one was harmed in Mr Holmes’ home.
Advertisement for J and G N excursion to the San Antonio Fair from Bryan with dates October 17 18 25 28 and return tickets $6.15 round trip and $3.00 special sale. Also offers postpaid California Big Trees picture by mail for 15 cm stamps from Houston Texas describing Maricopa forest and cavalry scene.
The government announces hunting seasons and prohibitions: Deer Sept 1 to Jan 1, Turkey Sept 1 to Apr 1, Quail Oct 1 to Mar 15, Prairie Chickens Aug 1 to Feb 1. Antelope Mongolian Pheasant killing forbidden for another year. Fire hunting lamps nets traps banned. Killing buzzards crows tree birds prohibited. Seining fish Aug 1 to Jan 30. Meshes under two and one-half inches set nets dynamite or poison forbidden.
Col. E. J. Sanford died at his Knoxville home aged 71. A Connecticut native, he lived in Knoxville for fifty years and was a leading Tennessee industrialist, president of the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad with extensive coal interests and wide business involvement.
Washington October 28 It is stated that the customs congress proposed by the Pan American congress will meet in New York January 15 1903 Thirteen republics have announced their purpose of sending delegates The sanitary congress will meet December 1 The coffee congress is now making good progress in New York.
Northbound Mississippi Valley line derailed after striking a drove of cows. Engineer Harry Kehlman of New Orleans and a negro tramp were killed. Fireman Monroe H. Hughes fatally hurt. Passengers escaped unharmed.
News in brief reports General DeWet will depart Europe next Sunday for the Transvaal. Miners in Scotland demand a 124 percent wage increase. A Baltimore style fragment mentions a jewelry house vault robbery in Chicago.
A long envelope addressed to Er L McCauley containing accident policy papers is lost. Return to the Eagle office for reward.
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