Real Estate Offered by J. W. Batts Agent
listings include 400 acres of postoak land in the northeastern county for 2 per acre. Additional 1.25 acres near a schoolhouse. a six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street. brick cistern. price 1250. One quarter block east front near Allen Academy. railroad frontage. Otto Boehme property. lots by school house at 100 each. Also other city property and easy terms.
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Mx Street
Allen Academy
Otto Boehme
Land sale notes around A M college and city plots
The notice lists multiple properties for sale or trade including 92 acres near the A M College suitable for dairy or hog farming, a seven room house with barn and outbuildings by the courthouse square, a two story Pochila house, north western city lots with interior and corner pricing, 9 acres on Wixon creek Pearson place, and 49 acres in cultivation with creek bottom land one mile west of the city. Also mentions I and G N R R passing through land and options to trade for city property. Other lands are noted as too numerous to mention.
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A. & M. College
Courthouse
City
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
Chaffee Says He Would Have Seized $80 Million Treasure
General Adna P. Chaffee told a Hamilton club dinner in Brooklyn that, if President McKinley had not forbidden it, he would have seized a treasure valued at $80,000,000 in the Forbidden City while commanding American forces in China. He planned to hold out for indemnity and return the rest to the Chinese government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
McKinley
Adna P. Chaffee
Hamilton Club
Brooklyn
Alexander Hamilton
China
Forbidden City
Coldest Places Report Subzero Readings Across Midwest
The thermometer dropped to four degrees below zero in St. Paul and Lacrosse and Moorhead, Minn. while Huron S D stood at twelve above. Kansas City saw a fifteen degree fall in twenty four hours and Chicago registered a zero by Saturday morning with a gradual warmup thereafter.
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St. Paul
Lacrosse
Moorehead
Wis
Moorhead
Minn
Huron
Northwestern
Kansas City
Newspaper Ban Denies Anniversary Banquet in Russia
A St. Petersburg police order stops a banquet planned by Russian journalists and literary figures to mark 200 years of the first Russian newspaper. Police warned four committee members they would be expelled if the event proceeded, underscoring press suppression by the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the Times
St. Petersburg
Mercury vapor lamp praised as eye soothing lighting advance
The mercury vapor lamp invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt was demonstrated in London with Lord Kelvin and other scientists and railroad and business leaders in attendance. The device uses a vacuum tube up to six feet long with mercury vapor raised to high incandescence and is noted for exceptionally soothing light.
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New York
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Hewitt
London
Lord Kelvin
Williams elected editor and business manager for missions
Nashville Tenn Jan 10 The executive committee of foreign missions of the Southern Presbyterian church has elected H F Williams of this city editor and business manager of the missions to succeed D C Rankin who recently died in Corea Beit Very Tl Cape Town Jan 10 Alfred Beit the well known South African financier has had an apoplectic stroke at Johannesburg and is reported to be dying Dr Jameson passed through Queenstown on a special train bound for Johannesburg
Atrocities Report Alarms Rise as Macedonians Flee
Private advices from Macedonia describe daily circulating rumors of horrific atrocities and note large-scale flight of civilians from the region amid escalating unrest.
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Vienna
Macedonia
Hobson Not to Be Transferred to Navy List
Washington January 10. The naval affairs committee votes five to four not to report the bill authorizing the transfer of naval constructor R. P. Hobson to the retired list.
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Hobson
Washington
Jan
Naval Affairs Committee
House
R. P. Hobson
Daughters Die in Blizzard West of Sisseton
In Sisseton Nebraska? Actually Sisseton North Dakota two twin daughters of Ole Thorsen, a local farmer twelve miles west, frozen to death during a blizzard after wandering all night. Both fourteen years old. In Salzburg Austria Archduke Leopold Ferdinand offered 600000 dollars to renounce all claims to the estate.
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Sisseton
N. D
Ole Thorsen
Here
Salzburg
Austria
Leopold Ferdinand
Saxony
Big Blaze at Bristol Destroys Produce and Tobacco Houses
Bristol Tenn Jan 10 a major fire consumed M B Ambers produce house and Frank Winstons tobacco house both structures were completely destroyed. Journalist No More New York Jan 10 Col A B Defreece once publisher of the Mail and Express is dead at Pellican Manoa.
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Bristol
Bristol, Tenn
M. B. Ambers
Frank Winston
New York
A. B. Defreece
The
Mail and Express
Pelican Manoa
German envoy Sternburg meets Buelow before Washington move
Berlin January 10 Baron Spech von Sternburg newly appointed charge d affaires of Germany at Washington conferred with Chancellor von Buelow for two hours. He will be received by the emperor Tuesday or Wednesday and sails January 20 on the Hamburger Auguste Victoria for New York. The Cologne Gazette denies links between Hollenden’s retirement and Roosevelt’s Venezuela dispute or ill US Germany relations.
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Washington
von Buelow
Berlin
Baron Spech von Sternburg
Germany
Hamburg
New York
Cologne
von Hollenden
Roosevelt
United States
von Holleben
Pauncefote
Prominent Coal Dealers Face Special Grand Jury Action
State's Attorney Charles Deneen ordered a special grand jury after a committee from the Illinois Manufacturers' Association provided information. The panel, seated this morning, will probe the high coal prices in Chicago. Twenty deputies served summonses for seventy-five veniremen and subpoenas to key dealers believed to form a coal combination.
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Chicago
Charles Deneen
Illinoia Manufacturers’ Association
Gox Woman Remains Silent On Indianola Situation
Minnie Cox the Indianola postmaster declined to discuss Washington dispatches that the cabinet would not accept her resignation. She refused to answer if she would return to protect bondsmen if the government holds them liable.
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Gox
Indianola
Birmingham
Ala
Minnie Cox
Washington
Restarador En Route From La Guayra Under German Flag
The former Venezuelan gunboat Restarador, now flying the German flag, passed La Guayra heading to Puerto Cabello as the British cruiser Ariadne and torpedo boat destroyer Rocket arrived. Berlin reports President Castro accepted allied arbitration as a long step toward settling the dispute.
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la Guayra
Restarador
Puerto Cabello
Ariadne
Rocket
Berlin
Castro
Foreign Office
Fort Worth Gunmen Shoot Man at Gate and Escape
At about 7 p.m. in Fort Worth two footpads fired on James M. Wilson at his gate on Macon Street, wounding him with five shots and robbing valuables including a $600 diamond stud and a $500 watch. Neighbors aided him as the attackers fled, exchanged shots with Will Lowry, and left after exclaiming only a dog had been killed.
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Fort Worth
James M. Wilson
Maconestreet
Wilson
Will Lowry
Dunne Named Coadjutor Candidate for St Louis Diocese
Dallas reports Bishop Dunne of this city was named first choice by the St. Louis diocese electoral college for coadjutor bishop. Second choice was Coadjutor John J. Glennon of Kansas City, third choice Bishop Sebastian B. Messmer of Green Bay. Final selection goes to suffragan bishops and Rome. A bankruptcy petition was filed in Henderson for the Wittermark bank, now under U S Marshal Eason. A Wettermark bond set at 1000.
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Diocese of
St. Louis
Dallas
Dunne
John J. Glennon
Kansas City
Rome
Henderson
Tex
Wittermark Bank
United States
Marshal Eason
Tyler
A. Wettermark
B. S. Wettermark
Nacogdoches
Special Election Required After Lanham Resignation
Austin Jan 10. Governor Sayers will order a special election in the district as soon as he receives Congressman Lanham's resignation. The law requires a special election for a dying or resigning congressman, not an appointment.
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Austin
Sayers
Lanham
United States
Gipson Fatally Fires Over Cotton Dispute in Texas
In Texarkana on January 10 J C Gipson shot and killed Ben Fung a colored man during a dispute over cotton. Fung advanced with a drawn shotgun after Gipson warned him to stop Gipson was placed under a $1000 bond which he posted promptly.
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Tex
J. C. Gipson
Ben Fung
Mr. Gipson
Gipson
Verdict against railroad for twenty thousand damages
In San Antonio the Forty fifth district court awarded P. F. Monahan $20,000 against the International and Great Northern railroad for personal injuries from an accident at Davenport Station in April 1901. In Big Springs Walter Long, 12, killed his brother Willie, 10, with a pistol while playing at home, near here.
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San Antonio
International and Great Northern Railroad
P. F. Monahan
Davenport Station
Big Springs
Tex
Walter Long
Willie
Here
Henry Long
Orient Announces 100 Mile West Oklahoma Rail Extension
The Orient railroad plans an extension from Barton to Lawton via Hobart and Cooperton in western Oklahoma. The 100 mile line will traverse the Wichita mountains mining regions.
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Orient
Guthrie
Okla
Orient Railroad
Barton
Oklahoma
Hobart
Cooperton
Lawton
Wichita Mountains
Death of Captain W. E. Gleason at Fort Leavenworth
Captain W. E. Gleason regimental quartermaster of the Sixth Infantry died at Fort Leavenworth Kansas of pneumonia on January 10. An additional earthquake shock reported at Ashkabad on January 10 caused no further fatalities.
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Leavenworth
Kan
W. E. Gleason
Sixth Infantry
Fort Leavenworth
Ashkabad
Russia
Andijan
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J. W. Batts
Sumer
Brazos County
Monroe Edge
Carrizo Springs
Garrizo Springs Mineral Water Company
Texas
E. O. Dewitt & CO
N. M. McDougald
Munn & Co
Scientific American
NN & Go
F St
Philadelphia
Gray
Wilmington
General Wilson
Delaware and Hudson Company
James H. Torrey
Scranton
Torrey
Indianapolis
Big Four
Moro
Ill
Bethalto
Headon
Tom Corrigan
Engineer Hendricks
National Livestock Association
Caracas
Tucacas
Curacao
M. P. Exline Co
Dallas, Texas
South
Bryan Eagle
Soe
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos
Texas Railroad
G. N
Texas’ Createst Railroad
L. Trice
V. P
John Wittman
Bes
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