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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1902
Page
3
The notice lists passenger trains with departure and arrival times. No. 101 bound south to San Antonio leaves at 7 10 p m. No. 102 bound north to San Antonio leaves at 7 30 a m. No. 108 from San Antonio arrives at 41 00 p m.
The notice lists Northbound No. 1 at 10 20 a m Northbound No. 8 at 1 27 p m Northbound No. 6 at 2 13 a m Southbound No. 4 at 2 00 p m Southbound No. 4 at 4 16 p m Southbound No. 6 at 2 04 a m Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations.
Local notices list items for sale and in town visits. Norwood’s advertises belts hats silk and bonnets while Cole Hardware offers heaters. Individuals such as Dr Curry of Benchley and G B Risinger are noted visiting the Eagle, with buyers seeking a white farm hand and a Cleveland bicycle also advertised.
Local visitors include Vice-President C H Markham and staff on a tour of inspection. Community items urge framing at Carter's Studio and announce church services by Rev J A Freeman. Classifieds list clerical job, sale of furniture, lost ring reward, and various local visits and departs.
The notice contrasts government pensions for soldiers families with Coast Guard Life Savers who perish in service. It highlights an exhibit at Buffalo Bill's Wild West showing breeches buoy rescue techniques by Life Savers on furlough. Includes unrelated local ads and notices about eye doctor, buggy for sale, visitors, housing, Rosh Hashanah, and Baylor College attendance.
R G Tabor traveled to Calvert yesterday. Dr West left for a presbytery meeting in Houston. T P Simpson of Reliance visited Eagle. A sale ad notes twenty seven inch China silk at Norwood's for 50 cents a yard. Mr and Mrs 8S H Allphin and Mrs R V Kernole visited Calvert Sunday. Frank Myers and Alonzo Carter returned from Dallas and McKinney. Mrs C M Doss and children left for Alvin with Miss Petty. Miss Lula Aaron returned to Houston after visiting Mrs Julius Levy. A carload of Celebrated White Crest Flour was just received. John M Lawrence & Co. Mrs T P Boyett and son T P left for Ennis Dallas and Fort Worth. Mr and Mrs Jas H Wooten returned to Hearne after visiting Mrs Wooten.
The 1898 to 1899 pension rolls remain under one million with 999 446 names in July. Soldiers number 733 809 and widows and dependents 260 637. Total disbursements for the year reach 137 506 268 dollars with operating costs of 3 500 529 dollars.
In New Orleans on Sept 29 the entire street railway system shut down as unions prepare for a strike. Electrical workers establish headquarters while linemen and other unions mobilize near barns. The company sought 900 workers and mayoral police per car, later withdrawn. Arbitration discussed but no peace by midnight.
A fresh storm hits Santa Maria, Sicily, destroying many houses as stormy weather continues across the island. Reports indicate about 200 people perished at Modica, with Sortino’s village largely ruined.
The storm drowned forty three people and destroyed many lives as water rose twelve feet inside a church. Children perished and looting occurred amid ruins. Estimated total damage exceeds 2.5 million dollars.
Police officer J. B. Murray faced a mob of Negroes while investigating Saturday’s riot in which a Barber streetcar worker was shot. Murray fired after being assaulted, wounding a man, and the crowd disarmed him before citizens intervened. Several arrests followed.
In Memphis on September 29 Joseph Emera of Vicksburg Miss shot and seriously wounded Rosa Borodfsky before wounding himself, a suspected love affair motive cited.
Vice President George G. Ward of the Commercial Cable company arrived on the Celtic and said the United States could open cable communication with Manila by July 1903. He spoke on landing in New York, outlining expected progress in maritime telegraph links.
W B Anderson of five miles from here brought a cotton stalk to Marshall measuring 10 feet 6 percent inches in height. It is described as the tallest stalk ever seen in the city, but it bears no matured bolls.
The situation on the isthmus remains unchanged. Free transit between Colon and Panama continues, and American marines and blue jackets are still traveling on all trains.
Thomas Hawkes a Paris theatrical manager died at the city hospital from hemorrhage of the lungs in St Louis.
James Murray of Galveston is arrested and charged with smuggling and assaulting a customs inspector. August McNitzky of Denton died from apoplexy. The Corean emperor is not dead as reports claimed last week.
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