Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904 Page: 2 of 4
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Alpine Avalanche.
I. M. OARNMff. Publisher.
ALPINE, - . • - TEXAS
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Mr*, Maybrlck, it fa said, helur np
A uiert< au citizen, will return r.oon to
(lie United States.' ‘i
The three thousand schoolteachers
in the city of Chicago havo had a all*
01 y raise of $60 per year.
Work has been commenced on a
ran plant at Cleburne The plant will
Ve modern in every feature.
W. N. M< I^od and D. F. Bonner have
qualified a» receiver! of tbo Kirby
l.umbcr Company, giving $60,000 bond.
Over nine hundred hook and Jol*
printers in Boston and vicinity went on
a str;ko Monday demanding Increased
pay.
Miss N K. Sumner, cashier In a Chi*
rago woman's realaurant, resisted a
hold-up until help cauio and saved $200
iy her bravery.
Charles Spivey, who lived ten miles
from Cliecolah, 1. T., was murdered,
lobbed of $1(000 In money and his body
turned In his house.
It Is reported that the Mexican (lov-
arsmrnt win Increase the garrison ar
Naar l.uredo to 600 men and station
with them a mllllmy hand.
A brick hiillding, three stories high,
lo coat $3600 Is to be built at Texar-
kana to be used by J. 11. Amcus ft Co.
for an lee cream factory.
Nellie, the 8-year-old daughter ol
Mr. and Mir. Charles llnyzIc of Sher-
man, died from blood poison, the re-
sult of a nail wound In the foot.
The contract lias been lot for tho
erection oj the new Cumberland Pres-
byterian Church at Mineral Wells anil
work on the same has already been
commenced.
It Is announced that beginning tho
first of March five rural free delivery
routes will be put on out of Cleburne
and all airaiigemeuts are aiow being
perfected for that pn-poso.
At Count II Bluffs tho residence of
l’eter Christlunaen wan burned early
Tuesday moinlng and his live children
pei I slier) In the building and his wife
was so badly burned that eho will die.
William lliirgesa, who brought the
Marschal Ni II rose to this country, In
(trail from pneumonia. Ilia greenhouses
on l.ong Island were among the lurgest
In the United States.
Mrs. Melinda Adamson, aged eight)-
I wo years, a resident of Collin county
for over lifty years, died at her home
near Chanvbersvlllo, after an Illness of
several month* duration.
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Two freight trains on the Kansas
City Southern collided near Mlnden,
l>a.. smashing both engines and crush-
ing Engineer Craig and scalding Fire-
man Macklln, both of Shreveport.
Canada's railroad commission, which
began Its official Ufa Friday. Is com-
posed of three Judges, or commission-
ers, a chief commissioner and two aa-
eodntoa, and will possess functions
and exercise powers of far-reachinn
character. , .
The Iasi vestage of the American
occupation of Cuba disappeared Thurs-
day when the flag \vc:» lowered from
the barrack* and tho Inst battalion of
American soldiers marched to the
Triscorn la pw*r and boarded the
United States army transport Sum
ner.---—--—
A $100,000 FIRE IN HOUSTON.
Irivcry Stables and Horses Burned-Several Persons
Believed to Have Perished.
Houston, Tax as, Feb. t.—Amid the
rush of flames, the screaming of ateam-
ers, hoarse shout* of firemen and the
roar of falling walls, thousands of dol.
lara’ worth af property was swept
away In an hour's time this morning.
One-half the entire block from Ban Ja-
cinto and Caroline streets, fronting
Prairie avenue, has been swept away
and a dozen houses In the vicinity of
the conflagration have been more or
less damaged. Beyond question It is
the most severe Are that has visited
Houston since the destruction of the
8t. Joseph Infirmary in 1894, when the
block bounded by Franklin and Con-
gress and Ban Jacinto and Caroline
streets was laid In ruins.
The fire originated In the second
floor of the buildings occupied by the
Johnson and Westail ft Wiliams livery
barns. This Is confirmed by the state-
ment of W. D. A Iverson, who was one
of the flrst to reach the scene of the
tire. The Johnson barn fronted on
Prairie avenue and the Wests)] ft Wil-
liams barn fronting on San Jacinto
tsiwet, connecting in the rear. Mr.
Alvcrxon stated that the blaze appear,
ed to bo In the feed room, and with a
flash spread to every part of the build.
Ings. The Central lire station was lo-
cated on the corner of San Jacinto
and Prairie, and Is now a mass of
smoklug niit.s. It is a monument to
tho spread of the flames. The high
wind that prevailed fanned the blaze
and for a time it appeared that the he.
role efforts of the firemen would be In
vain, and that the block bounded by
Pruirie and Ter.as avenue and Saa Ja-
cinto and Caroline streets would fol-
low the doomed brick structures where
the flames started. At one time no
less than six frame 'louses were on lira
at the same time.
When the Are was seen to bo beyond
control ,the flrst evidence of the seri-
ousness of the conflagration was ap-
parent. A stampede of frightened
hors.-g rushed through the streets, lib-
erated by the employes of the livery
barns. The heat was intense. Crowds
were driven back from the seething
mass and could only add to the ronfu-
siou by tho babel of their shouts. Car-
ried by the wind An brands soared
through the air like birds of evil and
THE RUPTURE HAS OCCURRED.
JAPAN’S PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED.
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Russians in Corea—Japs Capture Merchant Vessels.
Troops of Both Nations Moving.
In a fight at Wilton, a Kentucky
mining town. Deputy Matthew T. Mel-
ton shot and killed David Thomas
Fletcher and fatally wounded k man
named Brock The troublo waa over
serving a writ. Melton fled.
The three-year-old child of John Bar-
ber of Norman. Ok., and tko three
year-old child of Edward Hauler of In
■alls. Ok., war* burned to death. The
former was playing with matches, and
the latter waa with children about a
fconflre.
Roma Christian, a negro, waa shot
•ad killed bwo miles south of Camp-
bell. a shotgun being the weapon weed.
Ram Vladas,-colored, surrendered.
The govern meat will Issue the cotton
ginning report, February A
WiiauB.Frederick, of Duaalien. N V
it »• said, bos been paid IU.M0 aj a
comptmwtte to a damage amt for la*
Juriaa la b railway aecldaaL Ilia Ilfs
eras saved ealy by ahia grantag hts
•oaMod body, la which procase cm
places of cat Ida were
Diplomatic Relations Between Japan
and Russia Hava Been Severed.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 8.—Count Umi-
dorff, Russian foreign minister, has of-
ficially Informed Russian representa-
tive* abroad that Japan has decided
to break off negotiations with Russia
and withdraw her minister and whole
Japanese legation from St. Petersburg.
The Russian foreign' minister thereup-
on ordered Russian Minister Baron de
Rosen and his staff to leave Toklo.
TLs semiofficial messenger publish-
es the following elrcular telegram,
dated Feb 6, which has been sent out
by the Russian foreign minister to
representatives of the Russian govern-
ment abroad:
"Actlrg under Instructions from his
government, the Japanese minister at
the Imperial court has presented a
note which Informs tho imperial gov-
ernment of the decision of Japan to
break off further negotiations and re-
call her minister and entire staff at
the Japanese legation.
_!lln—consequence of this, his luipe-
rial majesty has lv?a pleasod to order
that tho Russian minister at Toklo,
with his whole staff, shall leave the
capital of Japan without delay.
"Such an attitude on the part of the
Toklo government, which has not
■oven awaited the arrival of the an-
swer of the Imperial government,
which waa teat off during the last few
day*, throws the whole responsibility
for the consequences which may arise
from the rupture of diplomatic negoti-
ations between the two amplree on
Japan.'
Japan’s Action.
Toklo, Fab. 8.—The severance of dl-
plomatlc relations between Russia and
Japan appears to be a step toward war
and when the ministers of Ruasla aad
Japan withdraw from their respective
paste, quick and deeislva action la ex-
pected. When Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs Koasura, oa Saturday, notified
Bnron de Rosen, the minister of Rus-
sia to Japaa, of the determination of
Japan to sever diplomats rotations, he
la reported to have declared to him
that Japaa ie tired of Raasia'a delay,
tvaaloas aad Insincerity, and had de-
for blocks away the rain of fin and
•she* resembled a driving storm or
blinding bllzsnrd. Half dressed men
and women and screaming children,
driven from their homes. Riled the
streets.- Household goods were piled
indiscriminately everywhere, and the
distressed.owners sat on the curb and
watched the angry flames eat their
way Into the rooms they were wont to
call home or the flood of water ruin
them. It was n scene of Indescribable
confusion and excitement lighted by
the lurid flames, and all conversation
was drowned by the crackling timbers
and falling walls as the lire spread
with great rapldliy from end to end of
the block.
The burned portion consisted of two
two-atory brick structures, with the
exception of a two-ntory residence on
the corner of Prairie and Caroline
streets, and all were tenanted by liv-
ery barns or carriage stocks, with the
exception of the city Ore department
and the rooming houses and one lodge
room on the second floor of a portion
of the buildings. The presence of bay
and feed stuffs, the open construction
of the barns, the consequent draft that
fed the (lames, all mitigated against a
speedy control of the Are. The work
of the firemen was complimented on
every hand. They battled against
great odds, and that they succeeded In
confining the Are to half a block with
a slight scattering to houses that wer
ignited by the fierce beat that swept
upon them In blistering fierceness by
the wind that prevailed from the north
Is much to their credit.
A conservative estimate places tha
damage at not less than $100,000, with
Insurance not aggregating one fifth of
the loss. Wild rumors were current
that lives had been lost In the flames,
but there was nothing to confirm this
report. A score of valuable horses
were burned, and a vast amount of
harness a large number of fine equlp-
ag«s. The telephone service will be
crippled for a time, and the stringing
of wires will be work for days to come,
as the great net work at the Central
(Ire station was cut early to admit of a
proper fighting of the flames. The
city’s loss to Its fire alarm system will
•fgregato $5,000.
elded to take independent action for
the conservation of Japan’s Oriental
interests. During the final negotia-
tions, Japan's repeated requests for an
answer were treated in a most unsat-
isfactory manner. Japan waited until
convinced that it was useless to wait
longer, and has now ended the discus-
sion. The Indications are that there
will bs no formal declaration of war.
Japan will publicly define Its position
and parposes, and the foreign office
has prepared a new statement, which
will probably be annonuced today.
Today Japan will unquestionably
■leze Korea, and although Russia has
previously Intimated that It would not
interfere in view of that course, her
present attitude in the developments Is
eagerly awaited.
London, Fab. 9.—In a dispatch dated
Nagasaki, Saturday, Feb. $, and which
was delayed by the censor, a corre-
spondent of the Daily Telegraph as-
serts that Russia deliberately precipi-
tated tha crisis by secretly dispatch-
ing, a few days ago, from Port Arthur,
transports loaded with a full division
of troops and escorted by a fleet, and
landing them near the Yalu river, thu*
occupying northern Korea.
Japanese patience became exhaust-
ed and yesterday Japan moved her
chips and took unrestricted posses-
sion of certain merchant vessels, in-
cluding the Sbelika and Manchuria.
The correspondent continues: “Two
other Russian vessels were siezed and
escorted to Sasebo, Japan.”
The Telegraph says it supposes the
slezures occurred at Masampko.
Paris, Feb. 8.—The papers here pub-
lished on high authority the report
(flrst circulated In Berlin) that Ja-
panese warships have captured some
Russian merchant ships In Chinese
waters. The report lacks confirmation
In official circles here, as well as in
Berlin,
London, Feb. 9.—The Che Foo cor-
respondent of the Dally Mail cables
that sixty Japanese transports are
landing troops at various points in Co.
rea, from Masampho to Fusan on the
south, to Kusan, Mokpho and Chemul-
po on the west.
Seould Is to be occupied and the
landing Is covered by a torpedo divis-
ion. The main body of the Japanese
fleet, the correspondent says, will sail
In the direction of Port Arthur.
London, Feb. 9.—la a dispatch from
Toklo a correspondent of the Dally,
Mail soya the JiJI Sbampo has receive*
a telegram from Fuean, Corea, de-
claring that the firing of guns waft
heard to the east of Koje island tabout
25 miles southeast of Fusan) at •
o’clock Saturday morning.
Washington, Feb. 9—Secretary,
Moody has received a cablegram from
Lieutenant Commander Marsh, the
American naval attache at Tokio, au-
nauncing the departure of a naval di-
vision from Japanese waters for Che-
mulpo, Corea.
China Is in Fear.
London, Feb. 9.—A dispatch from
Tien Tv>in from a correspondent of the
Standard says a Russian force Is re-
ported at Kalgln, in Pe Chi Li, mean
the great wall, and tnat preparations
are being made for 'he flight of the
Chinese court and the removal of the
imperial treasure, as it Ib belt Russia,
will descend on Pekin.
Interference Arked.
Vienna, Feb. 9.—The Austrian
peace association has athked President
Roosevelt to intervene in the Car
Eastern troubles, under the terms of
the international peace tribunal at
The Hague.
To Protect China.
London, Feb. 9.—The Fails corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail bays that
France has a greed, with other power*
to land troops in China directly hostll-
itie s l .-gin, in order to insure neutral-
ity of the middle kingdom.
BALTIMORE’S BIG FIRE.
Losses Too Great for Calculation*** Will Be Over
One Hundred Million Dollars.
A Braksman’a Suicide.
El Paso, Texas: Oscar Black, a
young brakeman in the employ of the
Mexican Central railway, died from
the fleets of a dose of Carbolic acid.
The coroner’s verdict waa suicide.
Black had been here only a few weeks.
Embassy Dess Not Know War Intended
Berlin: The Russian Embassy here
has been Informed by Count Lauis-
dorff, the Russian foreign minister,
that the Russian government does not
know whether the breaking off of dip-
lomatic negotiations by Japaa is pre-
liminary to war or not. Anxiety pro-
vails at the embassy.
Chance to Qet Away.
8L Petersburg: A dispatch from
Vladivostok says the Japanese com-
mercial agent there, acting under or
dera from Toklo, has issued a circular
laforaalng the Japanese residents of
the country that those who wish to
leave assy proceed to Japan on board
tha British steamer Afridl.
Baltimore. Md., Feb. 9—Baltimore
Is staggering under a fire loss which
no one has the temerity to put in fig-
ures. The important commercial dis-
trict is blackened ruins, laid bare by
a conflagration which raged without a
momentary check from 10:45 a. m.
Sunday until late in the afternoon yes.
terday. At 3 o’clock the city, officials
again breathed freely, it was agreed
the flam.es were under control. They
had raged twenty-eight hours In spite
of almout superhuman efforts put forth
by the best Are lighting forces which
more than half a dozen cities were
able to muster.
The city Is overcast with gloom.
The only lights In the burned district
are those in the smoldering ruins. The
only lights in that section which es-
caped destruction are from the cor-
ner gas lamps. The stores are closed
in every street. The darkened ave-
nues are full of Jostling people, talk-
ing on one subject. Apparently there
Is but one cause for gladness and this
Is that there Is no homeless. The resi-
dence portion of the city escaped.
This phase of the situation relieved
the officials from any thought other
than property.
Appearance of Ruins.
With the Are under control the
blackened waste which lies in the
wake of the s.ea of flame presents a
view terrible In Its pyrotechnic gran-
likened best te
oceans of great coke ovens, each shoot-
ing out its thonsand tongues of flames
from pyramids of brick, stone and ce-
ment.. Where the fire, has died- out
nothing remains but blackened waste,
from which rise hundreds of towering,
insecure shafts of the same color.
Thers are all that are left of what
were once handsome structures.
The loss will not be accurately esti-
mated for weeks, for business men,
prosperous yesterday, are poor today.
Expressions heard among tpei'we me*
as they look into the pollapsed proper-
ty, reveal an astounding numbor who
were only poorly protected by insur-
ance.
Over 9100,000,00a
Insurance companies have opened
temporary offices in the Lexington ho.
tel, but their representatives decline
to estimate the loss. The answer of
one is typical of all: “it is too big.
Make it above $100,000,000; that’s the
best we can do.”
Body Waa Torn to Pieces.
Dallas, Texas: The body of an un-
identified negro was found on the Cen-
tral railroad tracks Sunday night tora
to pieces by a southbound train. Tha
police discovered two auspicious toclo
In gholes in the head, suggesting that
the man might have been shot and
laid on the track!
P»Ige. Texas: Mr. Alvin Schulta,
•bout 12 years of age. while working
in a wall about six miles aoothwaat of
on list Saturday morning, waa
over come by poisonous gases aad died
ho could bo taken out. Mr.
Bohalta won a young mu of good char
Bffter. Mis rnulaa ware laid to mt
la ttra Prairie earner,.
New Orleans Panic.
New Orleans. La.: Cotton men say
there Is a secret behind the panic, and
that It lsaked out Monday. The big-
gest bull here (and It Is not Brown) la
said to have precipitated the decline
by unloading, and he hept it up in a
wild effort to save hiaaaelf. He made
the boost that he would break every
one of the Mg bears here. Monday
they got him oa the hip and forced a
settlement on their own terms. It bad
been agreed by the fature brokers that
they would rally and support the mar-
ket. but the condition of this waa not
made public nattl Monday. It was
that this bull get out of the market.
He was supposed to be at the end of
hla rope aad he acquiesced and turned
over it,®©* halos, the remnac of hla
holdings. That alone represents a toss
of over a million dollars to him This
makes tha second time this particular
ball has eoraored the aaarket. aad had
a fort on* of aavaral millions Am hla
grasp, only to see At wiped out ia one
Mg stamp.
Forty-three in Roping Contest.
Laredo, T.cxas: One of the feature*
of the Red Men’s celebration on Wash,
ington's birthday at Laredo will be a
grand roping contest with, forty-three
cowboys entered and $600 in prise*
being up.
Killing at a Dance.
Kerrville, Texas: At a negro daaco
Saturday night Jim Aahkey was shot
and instantly killed and Mrs. Butler,
(laughte rof Aahkey, eerlousiy wound-
ed In the thigh. Nod Coleman waa ar.
rested and Jailed by Sheriff Moor*
about 2 o'clock/Sunday morning.
Clearing Land for Laredo PoetofRee.
Lerefio, Texas: Work on clearing
off and removing the houses oa the
block recently purchased by the gov-
crutent lor a federal building was
commenced Monday.
Chappell Reftmed BalL
IMllaa, Texas: J. M. Chappell, ao-
omed of killing W. C qfaOahmi at tip
latte’s office several weeks ago, wap
refused bail aad — manilul to Jail.
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Carnes, J. M. Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904, newspaper, February 12, 1904; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803550/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend).