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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1902
Page
4
Brazos county land titles provided. 40 acres pasture land near town with water stock. Prices from 15 per acre to 1250 for cottage and two lots. One quarter block near Allen Academy east front at 250.00. 75 feet front on Railroad. Parts offered. other city property available.
Lamar Bethea lists 12 acres near A and M college suitable for dairy and hog farming at 1000 dollars. Additional parcels include 69 acres on Wixon creek with 49 cultivated, creek bottom land, and 29 acres with a six room house and two underground cisterns. Several city lots priced 25 to 35 dollars, plus a two story house and multiple outbuildings, with offers to trade for city property.
Berlin reports indicate Germany seeks an official apology and security of German interests after its Caracas legation was attacked. France asserts priority for its claims, while Britain and Italy may accept monetary settlement. The United States may offer good offices to ensure repayment but will not pledge forceful collection.
Caracas reports quote President Castro furious denial of any acceptance of the Anglo-German ultimatum. He says arbitration remains unsettled and Venezuela will not act until the U S legation's arbitration proposal is answered. Also notes German cruiser Falke captures Venezuelan schooner Victoria at Lake Maracaibo and blockade dates.
Owen McCarton a wealthy recluse of Oceanic New Jersey died at seventy after spending thirty years confined to his home by an election bet made during the 1872 Grant Greeley contest. He never left his dwelling by day for decades though his house once caught fire five years prior.
The grand jury in London has returned a true bill against Colonel Arthur Lynch MP Galway for high treason connected to the South African war. Trial likely to begin January 20. Also reports heavy snows delay trains in El Paso and a Bank of Mullins burglary in Marion County with $5000 stolen.
New Orleans Dec 19 The Louisiana railroad commission ruled railroads must provide cars within ten days from written notice This decision marks a major ruling and will aid rice shippers who have long complained of car shortages and delays.
Hastings Mich December 19 Mathias H Utzler alias John Brantling pleaded guilty to murdering Mrs Robert Garrison in Johnstown Monday morning He admitted ravishing his victim after death Judge Smith sentenced him to hard labor for life in Jackson state prison
The body of Carl Finley of Palmar Texas was found about half a mile from Texarkana Arkansas. Death was attributed to exposure. Finley was traveling to Tennessee to visit relatives.
In New York on December 19 Dr. Lorenz conducted a clinic at Cornell University Medical College where a little girl with severely clubbed feet was treated. The doctor lifted the child and, with a brief finger pressure, set both feet flat and straight, prompting lengthy applause from a large crowd of inspecting parents and police reassurances.
The czar pardons fifty-nine students exiled in Siberia for rioting on his natal day. He allows their return but confines them away from towns with high schools and places guardians with their families to ensure proper surroundings. Sixty two previously pardoned students are noted.
In Reading Pennsylvania on December 19 Antonio Tadca i a seventeen year old Italian was acquitted after claiming self defense for shooting John Trayer Edward Hartman and Samuel Sitsel on July 4 while they assaulted him after attempting to pick a fight with him as he played a street piano. All three men died.
In Scranton hearings before the strike commission James Elias testifies an attempt was made to blow up his house. The building was damaged and his wife beaten by striking miners' supporters. Counsel for non union men cites boycotts against Wilkesbarre merchants instigated by strike workers.
E W King of St Louis travels to enter a Mexican dungeon to free about 150 railroad workers jailed in Mexico. King was imprisoned in January 1900 with a train crew after a Mexican fatality and released. He says the state department assists him. In Houston R Drain was beaten on Thursday night. He may die with twelve arrests made as he and a companion were mistaken for detectives while going to sit with a corpse.
A jury in Elizabethtown awarded $6000 damages to a caddy who lost sight in one eye after David Flemming threw a golf club at him on Lake Placid links last summer. The caddy had sued for $10,000.
Department of Commerce report favored by the House committee on interstate commerce after a 5 to 3 vote. The labor bureau provision was kept on a tie, and the rest of the bill proceeds. Bridge collapse in Memphis kills farmer J. D. Brewster and his team during a flood. Ambassador Tower presents credentials to the German Emperor in Berlin with embassy staff present. Civil engineer J. W. Barrigio is stabbed to death in St. Louis by M. Morton.
The schooner Lizzie Haas of New Orleans under Capt. John Milleit foundered on December 11 in a heavy gale off Wine Island in the Gulf of Mexico while bound from Grand Canyon to New Orleans with a molasses cargo. The crew escaped in boats.
Proclaimed President General Nord is declared head of Hayti by the army. He has taken possession of the palace in Port au Prince.
Mrs. Mattie N. Trice, widow of Berry Trice a McLennan county pioneer and former First National Bank president, died in Waco from stomach cancer on December 19. The family’s prominent local ties span banking and early county development.
Terrell Texas December 19 E S Horn principal of the high school has resigned Miss Jasmine Sadler of Taylor is named his successor.
Secretary Hay presented the latest Venezuelan correspondence to the cabinet and received unqualified approval. The Topaz seized by Venezuelans at Port Cabello and bombarding forts arrived at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Peruvian officers in Lima propose sending their names to Venezuela’s president to offer services if the crisis worsens.
New York reports the death of General Peanuts, a Japanese performer two feet one inch tall aged thirty eight. In Andijan, Russian Central Asia, an earthquake kills nearly 1000 people, mostly native Turcomans, per dispatches from St. Petersburg.
A heavily loaded lumber car on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad ran down a steep grade near Wetmore and crashed into a lumber car on a siding. Engineers Murphy and Diefenback were killed. Firemen Crane and Kane and Brakeman Davis were injured.
Albert E. Swift, 53, a Buffalo businessman famed as the originator of the Johnstown flood at the Pan-American Exposition, died suddenly of heart failure in a Turkish bath.
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