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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1899
Page
1
Paris papers report cabinet plan to pardon Dreyfus with decree to be signed September 19 and army officers urging clemency. A World dispatch from Rennes quotes Commandant Carriere saying a pardon is certain and that soldiers most want to end the long Dreyfus affair.
Mrs. Lulu C. Jenkins of Chicago files three federal suits seeking 25000 dollars in damages for the 1897 Versailles lynching of William Jenkins Henry Sheatter Clifford Gordon Lyle Levy and Burt Andrews. The actions target Sheriff Henry Busching bondsmen and 60 Ripley county citizens claiming negligence and mob participation.
Washington reports General Otis cabled to the War Department requesting extra staff officers for the Philippines. He seeks one judge advocate general two assistant adjutant generals two inspector generals eight quartermasters nine commissaries of subsistence and two engineer officers. The adjutant general asks bureau heads to designate duty officers before the next active campaign begins. Vienna flood toll rises as Scharding on the Inn floods. Ebensee and Steyr residents flee. houses collapse burying a man and child.
Herron, an American rescued by cowboys from Mexican officers near Naco, reports 74 cowboys camped to rescue two men jailed in Mexico. Colonel Kosterlitzky and 40 riders guard the area, with a predicted fight likely.
The young son of Dr. R. H. Blair of Dallas, visiting W. H. Stewart’s Grapevine prairie home, was kicked by a horse and suffered a severe injury with the skull laid bare. He remains resting comfortably.
Chicago Sept 15 labor leaders denounce trusts as enemies of society at civic federation session on trusts and combinations. Col Bryan and Rourke Cochran to share platform. debate over speaking order sparked tensions while resolutions call for public ownership of utilities and federal and state anti monopoly actions. Brune found dead in St Louis at 30.
Funeral services were held at St Bartholomews Episcopal Church for Cornelius Vanderbilt. The report notes a lifeless body recovered from a dwelling associated with Curtis Wilson and Brune family history, with mention of heavy drinking and quarantine affecting Texas and Pacific railway passenger trains Nos 51 52 on the New Orleans Pacific division Nos 53 54 continuing as before.
Twenty one cases of smallpox are reported at the pesthouse southeast of Argyle. The patients and all exposed are kept in strict detention.
The I G N excursions offer trips to Cincinnati for the National Convention at the Christian church October 13 to 20 with tickets on sale October 10 to 11 and a round trip fare. Another trip to Austin for the United Daughters of the Confederacy October 18 to 19 with tickets on sale October 17 and trains arriving the morning of October 18, with sales ending October 21. Very low rates. All details from D J Price G P and T A Palestine Texas.
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