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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
4
J W Batts real estate agent offers 40 acres pasture land with water in Brazos county and town properties. Includes a cottage and well on one parcel with prices around 1250 for a six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street. Other city lots near Allen Academy and railroad frontages offered with easy terms.
Listings describe 92 acres near A and M College with dairy and hog farm potential priced at 1000. Courthouse shares and seven room house with barn and water well offered. Additional city lots northwestern corner lots and multiple acre tracts along Wixon creek with cultivable land, R R access, and trade options up to 1500. Numerous lands available for sale or trade.
In Caracas on December 25, Lopez Baralt, minister of foreign affairs, told an Associated Press representative he had not been informed of a British declaration of war. He said Venezuela hoped for settlement and would submit to arbitration but would resist the blockade if needed.
The Red D line steamer Caracas cruised toward La Guayra while the Merica travels from Willemstad to Maracaibo to test the Venezuela blockade. Locals blame De Riva and von Pilgrim-Baltazzi for shelling Puerto Cabello forts as envoys face possible demonstrations. President Castro heads to La Victoria.
Berlin reports in the Vossische Zeitung that the crown prince beat the crown princess and their June crisis followed Professor Guiron becoming her children's tutor. The princess considered divorce. Dresden sympathy favors her, while the crown prince allegedly tormented her.
Laura Biggar was acquitted while Dr. Charles C. Hendricks and Samuel Stanton were found guilty of conspiring to gain the entire estate of Henry Bennett, Pittsburg capitalist. The jury deliberated overnight and allowed verdicts separating the defendants.
A New York dispatch notes President Roosevelt did not visit Cove School in Oyster Bay for Christmas, citing pressing duties. Principal Miss Provost received a signed autographed slip and a letter from the president explaining his absence. Telegrams expressing gratitude and birthday wishes followed.
New York and Brooklyn railroad officials pledged rapid service upgrades after Mayor Low's request. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit company announced 240 additional cars and six car trains on Sixth Avenue, plus more on Ninth Avenue. Manhattan's Metropolitan Traction remained noncommittal.
D Bakley chairman of the Republican state committee reports by telegram that President Roosevelt will visit Denver about mid March. The trip will then proceed to New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Lacrosse faces a severe blizzard with a broad Dakotas to Minnesota storm. The heavy snow delays railroad traffic in and out of the city as crews cope with the winter storm conditions.
London reports a winter setback in Britain's cotton industry as eighty five Lancashire joint stock companies with capital totalling 25.2 million dollars and 6.7 million spindles post a net loss of 7150 dollars for the year.
Crown Prosecutor F. T. Congdon says Dawson Yukon had fifty eight degrees below zero with little snowfall. The Yukon river opposite Dawson stayed open despite the severe cold conditions and brief stretch upstream.
Colonel William B. Shonts died at his Los Angeles home on December 25. He served in the Civil War as a member of the One Hundred Thirty-first Pennsylvania volunteers and was promoted to colonel in 1862.
The pope conducted mass in his private chapel on Wednesday night and wished all present a merry Christmas. He joked about his health, asking if he looked ill after Tuesday. The benediction was delivered personally.
Betty Lieter narrowly escaped a deadly stampede on the plains near Sheridan Wyoming after a horse bolted and the herd charged. A rider with a broncho and a strong arm plucked her from the ground as the cattle closed in, saving her life.
Survivors of the Elangiye steamship wreck in the Indian Ocean are said to have drunk each other's blood to survive. Eight sailors aboard the raft, rescued by the Penguin, reportedly confessed to cannibalism after four and a half days at sea. The stewardess died from exhaustion and blood loss amid the ghastly practice.
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