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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1901
Page
2
The issue notes postal status and publication details for Thursday September 12 1901. It lists Connelly and Carnes as publishers with weekly and monthly subscription rates and standard post office classifications.
Total enrollment for September 1900 shows 178 male and 198 female students, totaling 376. The district notes a rise of 7 additional boys and 11 more girls, with the 9th and 10th grades increasing by about double last year’s level.
Hotel arrivals list includes JD McGill Corsicana J Block Dallas Otto Willbrandt St Louis Frank Cincinnati Abe Labry Galveston W P Rickey J HL Hull St Louis A P Schwarz Chicago W H Forrester Navasota W M Foster Omaha J W Rainey Bon ham A M Brooks Waco ES Gar rett Hearne J H. McGregor Well born E W Dehl St Louis T G Morris Marshall D Pennington Taylor A J Edwards Millican J W Shannon Bedias W K Symms J S Symms Millican Oliver Stark John Lloyd Macy E L Angier Huntsville R J Gerdes Lee Richardson W R Thompson.
Advertisement for Rex Dyspepsia Tablets promising cure for dyspepsia indigestion sour stomach and heartburn. States druggists refund money if not cured. Priced at 50 cents. M H James leading druggist Bryan Texas.
The Bryan Business League held its September meeting with President W. E. Saunders presiding. A sprinkler proposal funded by merchants and supported by City Council was approved to cover Main Street. The committee on railroads and street lights asked for more time. Reports on the Free Baptist College and the Girls Industrial School showed progress, with local phone link between Bryan and Mumford noted as a concern.
A Bryan Texas meeting of the Bryan Business League adopts resolutions denouncing the attempted assassination of President McKinley and expressing sympathy for him and his wife. New officers are elected, committees named, a banquet planned for General Stoddard, and routine bills approved.
The Texas House condemned anarchism in a lengthy debate and unanimously urged states to pass suppression laws and Congress to tighten immigration. The body also accepted a Sterling Robertson oil painting and approved two suspension of rules appropriation bills totaling 45 000. The session moved to consider the general appropriation bill while the Senate did no morning work.
The senate finished its two year appropriation at about 65.7 million dollars. Pension totals are 300 thousand in the Senate bill versus 580 thousand in the House. Senator Davidson secured 15 thousand for Galveston quarantine officer residence, but the fumigation vessel request of 65,840 was not restored to the 45 thousand allowed. The senate will pause as the house debates its version amid light opposition.
The September 1 1900 monthly agricultural report shows corn at 51.7, with declines in August and lower year comparisons. Wheat and oats conditions vary by state, with Georgia and Alabama seeing shifts, rice improving in Florida and Texas, and Louisiana rice above seven year means despite regional declines elsewhere.
In Denton W H Matthews reports success killing Johnson grass by cultivation near Argyle, claiming one half bale per acre from the treated land after using a grabbing hoe. In San Angelo Albert Gonzales and Buenita Arrendando, both five, suffered fatal and severe kerosene stove burns respectively, in a fire incident. In Waco 200 young trees across parks and streets died from a prolonged drought that began in June, with hackberry hit hardest.
Coleman Texas September 11 The death sentence was passed on John Pear for the murder of an old German near Brownwood last spring He is to be hanged publicly at Coleman on October 22 The condemned man denied guilt and asked for a public hanging Texarkana Texas September 11 The Cotton Belt train robbers remain at large with little hope of capture Beaumont Texas September 11 Frank J Clark fell from a second story window and died Fort Worth Texas September 11 Joseph Johnson remanded to jail without bond Pittsburg Kansas September 11 Big Four companies offer 65 cents a ton mine run coal for an 8 hour day with concessions Four thousand men in Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma affected
Fort Gibson Oklahoma September 11 The Tahlequah district special election chose Charley Sanders for the Cherokee lower house by 188 votes over Jay Clark. The Downing party gains a two vote majority on joint ballot in the legislature.
Mrs. Carrie Smith was burned to death at Sipe Springs Texas when her clothes caught fire from burning trash. Warns that Negroes loafing in Decatur must leave the town.
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