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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1902
Page
3
H T Co lists Northbound No 1 at 10 02 am Northbound No 8 at 1 27 pm Northbound No 6 at 2 13 am Southbound No 2 at 2 00 pm Southbound No 4 at 4 16 pm Southbound No 6 at 2 46 pm Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations
Local items list stock at Norwoods Norwood s offers include walking skirts silks hats broadcloth and bonnets with prices And Cole Hardware advertises new lines like walking bats and Heaters Mrs Knoblauch and Mrs Clarke Winslow are noted returning from Reisel and Galveston respectively Billy Minter and T S Minter appear with notices A Cleveland bicycle for sale and a desk for sale at the depot Read s Drug Store promotes handkerchief extracts And new rolls top desk advertised near I G N depots Louis Thibodeaux returns from guarding convicts at Fort Bend county Offering deep lots near Graded school and urging bids from buyers
The Bachelor Girls Literary Club marked its first anniversary Friday afternoon from 4 30 to 6 at Miss Edith Rhodes hom e Vice president Miss Harbers stood in for ill president Miss Read. After business a contest of Southern Authors with Miss Lucy Beard winning a ping pong handkerchief was held. Refreshments of wafers and cream were served and the group thanked Miss Rhodes for a pleasant and profitable afternoon. The next meeting will be hosted by Miss Board.
A merry evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harris celebrated Miss Louise Harris. Miss Maggie Mc Dougald and Miss Nellie Tabor organized the event for about twenty five guests. The parlor and hall hosted music games and conversation with orange ice and cake served by Miss Louise Harris and Miss Maggie Mc Dougald.
The Madisonville Meteor reports gratitude from the Methodist Sun day school class No 3 and its teachers to the merry-go-round proprietors for a successful Friday night benefit despite bad weather. W A Scott of Larrison leaves for Bryan with two race horses to compete at the Central Texas Fair. Two weeks remain until the Central Texas fair and local framing and tailoring offers are advertised.
The district court granted divorces in both White and Colored dockets. Listed are White-August Wellmyer versus Minnie Jordan Wellmyer and Amelia Allen versus Tom Allen among others, with several pairs including Nina Greer versus Geo Greer and Fanny Jones versus Harvey Jones. The record also names Josephine Henderson versus Fd Henderson and Lucy Price versus Marshall Rice in the colored docket.
On St Patrick's Day seven Atlantic Coast Guard Life Savers drowned when a boat overturned near Cape Cod while trying to rescue a wrecked barge crew. The Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show features a Breeches buoy rescue demonstration using government loaned gear, set for October 18.
Present term concludes after five days with all cases disposed except State vs Tom Williams. Death penalty given for Tobe Price’s criminal assault. other sentences include Dennis Watson fined 75 dollars for aggravated assault and Williams 25 dollars. mortgaged property case two years. Kennedy burglary two years. Ira King criminal assault five years.
Washington reports the supplemental treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations was ratified by overwhelming majorities. The pact allows coal lands totaling 500000 acres to be sold at public auction, bans leases of coal or asphalt lands, and reserves up to 640 acres for sulphur springs. It also addresses enrollment of Mississippi fullblood Choctaws and descendants with patented lands and lets Chickasaw freed men pursue rights in the court of claims.
Nantes France Sept 27 Commandant Leroy Laduric of the Nineteenth Infantry was court martialed and dismissed for disobeying an order to assist in closing schools He admitted disobedience but said his conscience forbade participating in anti religious measures and evicting women stating such actions were not army duties
Counsel for Rebecca J. Taylor, dismissed from the war department after criticizing policy in the Philippines, have filed a demurrer to Secretary Roots answer to her petition for mandamus to restore her to a clerkship.
In a statement from District President Nichols Michael Grimes a former mine foreman is accused of leading a movement funded by coal companies to bribe workers for 2500 dollars each to vote to return to work Grimes denies the charge.
Tamar Pioneer A Gresham, a Paris Lamar County resident for almost sixty years, died at his Short street home. His wife had passed away five weeks earlier.
A compilation of brief, sometimes fragmentary reports: suicides by Charles King in Kansas and Robert Ogden in Missouri. a train wreck attempt near Texas. arrests including Robert Legow in DeKalb and Walter Stultaman in Pawnee. lamp waterworks accident impacting Gatesville area industries. acquittals including Guy Hinton in Beebe and Walter Neil cases. papers throttled by forces in Gonzales Texas. General Chaffee’s return to the United States planned within a week. Wallace Grant in Newport Arkansas. numerous business and political notes including Philippine policy, Newfoundland gale damage, and spin mill consolidation. ship and quarry accidents. strikes by coopers in Illinois. drownings and a physician dispute in Texas.
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