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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
2
The Daily Eagle reports Waco will soon have a knitting mill in operation. Other items note a water control plan for the Beaumont oil field and tax enforcement actions against nonpaying district attorneys. The president's sore leg is described as a campaign asset.
Daily notes promise a brilliant program for Central Texas with an entertainment lineup expected to surpass last year. Indications point to a much larger attendance as the event draws broader interest and excitement across the region.
An Ohio school teacher ordered white girls to kiss colored girls to stop a street fight. The remark suggests how context influences tensions and the ease of provoking a quarrel.
The Rock Island railroad engineers surveying north from Houston have linked with the northern line at a nt in Grimes county, about twenty miles from Navasota, and are camped awaiting orders.
This morning W. L. Steele sold to J. E. Farquhar 12 fat corn fed hogs at 16.50 dollars each, totaling 196 dollars. Market watchers say hog prices will not drop for several years.
Washington Sept 24 The Census Office seeks detailed data on irrigation from artesian and surface waters as well wells. It notes 1899 showed about 136000 acres irrigated from wells with crop values from 50 to 1000 dollars per acre. Irrigation aids humid states and western farms, and citizens未 urged to send names to L G Powers for inquiry forms.
A partial readable item reports a structure named Golden Eagle House at Washington described as a complete wreck. No other clear details or sources are legible in the fragment.
Washington reports a dynamite explosion at the Golden Eagle hotel on New Jersey Avenue and D Street at 4 30 am injuring proprietor Louis Brandt and his wife while guests were thrown from beds. Frank McKee, a guest, later killed himself, allegedly seeking revenge after quarrels over Mrs Brandt. McKee, about 28, came from Philadelphia and had recent financial losses.
Governor Sayers, a veteran, rejects discharging eighteen elderly Confederate Home inmates. He asked Captain King to convene the home’s board on October 6 to find lawful means to keep the men housed rather than release them into the world.
Washington reports after noon on September 25 300 insurgents tried to board a Panama bound train at Empire station to capture a Colombian officer. A marine used the musket butt to knock the insurgent officer off the train guards aimed a Colt but did not fire as they fed off.
Yesterday morning two men entered the Bee Hive. One bought clothing worth 10.55 dollars and the other shoes. Both parcels were kept behind the counter. The shoe buyer called for his package, then the clothing purchaser returned for his items and money, claiming no agent was authorized.
Five and a half cents for hogs on the hoof is easy money for the farmer, though bacon price suggests a higher value. The man with ample corn, peas, alfalfa, and good hogs has a buffer against boll weevils and related risks.
New Orleans street car men submit demands to the New Orleans Railroad company seeking an eight hour day and 25 cents per hour on a straight run with union recognition. Pitmen and car washers would receive monthly wages and three days off monthly. conductors and motormen currently earn 18 cents per hour for a ten hour day. An answer is required by 3 p.m. Saturday and a strike may follow if unanswered. Electric workers pledge support.
Richard W. Dey, local representative of Clarence H. Mackey, predicts messages will pass over the Pacific cable within eighty days between San Francisco and Honolulu. The steamer Silverton with the cable aboard is due in sixty days at this port, and a fourteen day transit to Honolulu is planned, with the other end ashore at the Hawaiian capital and dispatches ready by early December.
Report notes fifteen convicts killed during Sayer’s administration and lists totals of 87 under Culperson, 30 under Hogey, 30 under Ross, and 28 under Ireland, contradicting claims convicts were shot down like dogs.
John W Isham a well known theatrical man who toured America and Europe has died at a Whitestone Sanatorium. Born in Utica he was 86 years old.
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