J. W. Batts Real Estate Listings City Property
J W Batts real estate office offers Brazos county land titles for abstract buyers. About 400 acres of postoak land in east part of county at 2.50 per acre. One and one quarter acres near a schoolhouse in southeast town. Small cottage tenant house and well on premises. Six room house and two lots four blocks from Mr Street. Brick cistern on premises. Price 125 dollars. Allen Academy quarter block east front price 250 dollars. Terms easy. Frontage on railroad street. Will sell part or all. Lots near a schoolhouse 810 dollars each. Also other city property.
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Allen
Otto Boehme
Will Gell
Lands for sale near A and M college and city
92 acres first class land near A M college suitable for dairy and hog farm priced at 1000. Various city and creek bottom parcels including 9 acres on Wixon creek Pearson place 49 acres cultivation. inside lots 25 and corner lots 35. Other tracts: 16 acres near city with 6 room house two brick cisterns 4 cultivated acres one mile from city. May trade for city property.
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A. & M. College
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Schurman Advocates Philippine Independence To Nebraska Teachers
Cornell University president Jacob Gould Schurman spoke to 1300 Nebraska Teachers' Association members on Our Philippine Policy. He urged eventual Filipino independence within three years and backed civil service reforms as the islands' military, political, economic, and ecclesiastical challenges were outlined.
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Lincoln, Neb
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell University
Nebraska Teachers’ Association
Civil Service Commission
Central Railroad gets concession to extend Cuernavaca line
Pablo Martinez Del Rio signed on behalf of the Mexican Central Railroad to continue the Cuernavaca line to the Pacific coast. The concession allows building from Organal near Rio de Balzas to either Acapulco or Zihuatanejo as the company decides.
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Laredo
Texas
City of Mexico
Pablo Martinez del Rio
Mexican Central Railroad Company
Cuernavaca
Pacific Coast
Central Company
Organal
Rio de Balsas
Acapulco
Zihuatanejo
Prominent Citizen Slashes Throat in Failed Suicide Attempt
An Austin man, long kept at home for mental instability, was brought to the police station after attempting suicide with a pocketknife. He inflicted only a slight throat wound and remains under care.
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Austin
Death of Sabine Dock Contractor Charles Storms
Charles P Storms a pile driver contractor who did much of the dock work in Sabine Texas killed himself by shooting through the heart in his bedroom. He had no family.
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Sabine
Tex
Charles P Storms
Tragedy on Evansville Pond Drowns Three Boys During Skating
Three youths Tate Living ly aged fourteen W L Mann age twelve and Willis Brown aged twelve drowned two miles below Evansville Ind while skating on a pond. Their bodies were recovered.
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Evansville
Ind
Tate Lively
W. L. Mann
Ase
Willis Brown
Mexican in Wild State Wrecks Wind Lights at Three Salons
A Mexican man in a disturbed condition visited three saloons in Austin on January 2 and damaged the wind lights, leaving a chaotic scene. Police investigated the incident and searched for the perpetrator.
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Austin
Jan
President Roosevelt Hosts Grand New Year Reception
Thousands visited the White House for the New Year’s reception on January 1. The event featured the president and Mrs. Roosevelt greeting all guests, with the cabinet members and their wives in attendance. The Marine Band provided a fanfare as the receiving line formed in the Blue Room. Colonel Bingham led introductions with Major McCawley Captain Proctor and Lt McCoy assisting.
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White House
Washington
Roosevelt
Marine Band
Cabinet
Venezuela Arbitration Prospects Stir International Talks
In Rome on January 29 Foreign Minister Prinetti received through Ambassador Meyer that President Castro accepts arbitration in principle but with an extra proposal Washington rejects. In London January 2 US chargé d affaires White delivered Secretary Hay's note confirming Castro’s acceptance of Hague arbitration on Venezuelan claims. Caracas also reports that foreign powers and Venezuela proposals are said to be easily reconciled.
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Rome
Prinetti
Meyer
Hay
Castro
Hague
Washington
Senor Prinetti
United States
State Department
British Foreign Office
London
White
Foreign Office
International Court
the Hague
Caracas
Venezuela
Bowen
Propped Dead in Pulpit at Sugar Creek Church
Rev. J B McMichael former Monmouth College president collapsed and died shortly after entering the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian church near Xenia Ohio. He was elected Monmouth president in 1878 and served twenty years.
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Springfield
J.B. McMichael
Monmouth College
Monmouth
Ill
Sugar Creek United Presbyterian Church
Xenia
Ex-Speaker Daniels Dead in Guthrie at Fifty
Arthur N. Daniels of Oklahoma and an ex-governor died in Guthrie on Thursday at age fifty. A noted political figure in Minnesota, Illinois and Oklahoma, he moved to Oklahoma in 1889 and secured a claim, becoming speaker of the first Oklahoma Legislature.
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Daniels
Guthrie
Arthur N. Daniels
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Ilinois
Will of cattle king Dan Waggoner filed for probate
Decatur Texas January 2 The will of the late Dan Waggoner cattle king has been filed for probate. The widow and all other near relatives are well provided for. Mrs Waggoner receives two hundred thousand dollars and other estate provisions are noted.
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N Waggoner
Decatur
Tex
Dan Waggoner
Snow blankets Pecos twelve hours in Texas
News notes a twelve hour snow storm hitting Pecos Texas. Other items report the death of the wife of Congressman Dockery in Missouri and a fatal train accident in Rio Vista Texas.
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Pecos
Tex
Congressman Dockery
Missouri
Rio Vista
Luke Walker
Brookston
Lamar County
Texas
Irma Hawkes
Dresden
Tenn
John McKnight
Laredo
Clara Sweeting
Pine Barren
Fla
Paul Lambert
Rockport
Port Lavaca
Nursery
Hallettsville
Amos Strickland
Shawnee
Okla
United States Court of Claims
Washington
Wise County
Pretender Claims War Aim to Free Sultans Brother
The proclamation states the pretendier fights not for himself but for Mullat Mohammed known as the One-eyed, the sultan’s imprisoned brother. Tangier reports the sultan ordered his release and honors for his rank may be paid. The governor met Kabyle chiefs on road safety in their territory. The Spanish sloop Infanta Isabel arrived.
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Tangier
Morocco
Mullat Mohammed
Infanta Isabel
Sultan May Become Shereef and Declare Holy War
Jan 2 Tangier dispatch says if Morocco’s crisis deepens the sultan may flee Rabat and call border tribes to a holy war proclaim himself Shereef and defender of Islam. He would renounce European leanings and seek to retake Fez with new forces. Fez remains calm as Spanish reinforcements are countermanded.
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Shereef
Tangier
Rabat
Fez
Gibraltar
Morocco
Castro's Hague Referencing Proposal May Prevail
President Castro offered an alternative arbitration plan asking that the case be tried by an American Republic. Roosevelt declined to act as arbitrator, so the Castro proposal is unlikely to gain support. The original plan to refer the matter to The Hague tribunal remains the likely course.
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Castro
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Fierce clash between Turkish troops and Bulgarians at Drenovo
In a sharp engagement at the village of Drenovo Turkish forces clashed with Bulgarian troops. A Bulgarian commander was killed among several casualties. survivors escaped after the Bulgarians, barricaded in a house, suffered losses.
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Constantinople
Drenovo Ip Ish
New Orleans Faces Fuel Oil Shortage and Burner Reversions
New Orleans is without fuel oil and furnaces converted to oil burners are being switched back to coal. Only Lone Star and Crescent remains supplying oil but will stop after Jan 1 due to insufficient Beaumont oil.
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New Orleans
Lone Star and Crescent
Beaumont
Explosion at Oak Hill colliery kills three at Pottsville
A dynamite blast in a gangway at Oak Hill colliery one mile north of Minersville, Pa, instantly killed three miners and seriously injured twelve others. The dead are Michael Onder 87, Andrew Onder, and Joseph Prokep. Among the seriously injured are James Patterson Morgan Davis George Bowe and others from Pottsville Minersville Mount Laffee and Duncott.
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Pottsville
Oak Hill
Minersville
Michael Onder
Andrew Onder
Joseph Prokep
James Patterson
Morgan Davis
George Bowe
George Bowman
John Stanton
Edward Kelley
Mount Laffee
Michael Rynok
Duncott
Haebas Corpus Trial For Georgia Murder Concludes In Ellisville
In Ellisville Mississippi a habeas corpus trial over the December 7 logging camp murder of William L. Lawrence of Jonesboro Georgia ended. Dr A J Harper and R T McCormick remain held without bail while W A Harper and John Stonen posted $2000 bonds each. McGee was acquitted. A special term of the circuit court will convene January 6 to try the accused.
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Ellisville
Miss
Wm. L. Lawrence
Jonesboro
Eastman, Gardner & Co
A. J. Harper
R. T. McCormick
W. A. Harper
John Stonen
McGee
Circuit Court
Four Norfolk Boys Die From Toy Pistol Burns
Four boys aged from a mix of white and colored quarters died in Norfolk from lockjaw after burns from blasting toy pistols loaded with blank cartridges. City officials propose a ban on sale of the weapons to prevent further tragedies.
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Norfolk
Great Increase in New York Port Activity 1902
Official returns for the port of New York show a material rise in 1902 compared with 1901. Nearly $18,000,000 more in duties were collected in 1902, reflecting a significant expansion in aggregate business.
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New York
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