Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1903 Page: 2 of 4
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Alpine Avalanche.
J. M CARNES, Publisher.
ALPINE, - - - - TEXAS
ALL OVER TEXAS.
The scholastic census of Gainesville
Is 1668.
Will Chambers of 1' mo was killed
by lightning.
Charles Dees was killed In a run-
away near Terrell.
J. C. Kennedy was seriously Injured
In a runaway at Weston.
The Decatur rifles have received
their new khaki uniforms.
Another test well. Is to be put down
at Brownwood In search o* oil.
Officials at Paris declare that snow
fell at that place Sunday afternoon.
Gov. Reyes of Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
was acquitted of Impeachment charges.
Jim Gooch, a fireman on the Santa
Fa, lost a foot by being-run over by
a train at Temple.
The Retail Grocers and Butchers’ as-
sociation of Texas will convene at
Waco on June 9.
Cooper Sheftell, a Texas and Pacific
conductor, lost his left hand In an ac-
cident at Marshall.
Two cattle trains had a rear end
collision at Kenedy. Both conduc-
tors were slightly Injured.
Charles Ellis of Laredo was killed
by an International and Great North-
ern train near Cotulla.
The First Congregational church ol
Fort Worth has been organized with
forty-three members.
Clay Simpson, aged ten years, was
seriously Injured at Decatur by being
dragged by a calf which he was at
templing to lead.
A cyelone at Haskell seriously In-
jured Mrs. II. C. Scott and child, A.
U. Jones and wife. Much property
was destroyed.
Mrs. Stolla P. Dlnsmore died at Sul-
phur Springs. She was formerly vies
president of the Texas division of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Tho Jefferson Iron company has re-
ceived an order for twelve carloads of
Iron to be shipped to Ohio and Illi-
nois
The total vote polled In launpasas
county In the prohibition election her*
Saturday last Is as follows: For pro-
hibition 684. against prohibition 658.
Majority for prohibition 26.
A special from Port Arthur says
that W. Weldman, an oiler on the
steamer Maverick, was run over and
Instantly killed by a switch engine In
the Kansas City Southern yards. *
Michael Rocus. aged sixty-three, a
G. A. R. veteran, committed suicide
Wednesday morning. He used a cap
and ball pistol and was found sitting
In a chair In his room.
’ Attorney General Bell filed suit In
behalf of., the state In tho district
court at Austin against (he heirs of
8. M. Swenson to recover 10,880 acres
of land In Brewster county, title to
which was held under the famous Bib-
son certifies for clearing the Bernard
river and Caney creek.
' Reports from Western Texas do not
Indicate any intention on the part of
cattlemen to pay the Increased price
demanded by the land commissioner
for the renewal of leases now expir-
ing.
Michael Racus, aged 03 years, a
Grand Army veteran, blew his brains
out at San Antonio. He has no people
here and his only known relative Is
his aged mother, who lives somewhere
in Iowa.
Jews at Odessa and vicinity have
been systematically arming themselves
since the massacre at Kishineff.
Thd twenty-ninth annual convention
of the American Bankers’ association
la to be held In San Francisco, Cal.,
on October 20-23 next.
Whit Easton, a section hand on the
Houston and Texas Central railroad,
fell from a rapidly moving handcar
(4 gnd received hurts which may develop
seriously. He was taken to the com-
pany’s hospital at Houston.
The State Department has no pres-
ent intention of making any move in
the matter of the Panama canal nego-
tiations until the Colombian congress
meets June 20 and has given some
evidence of its disposition toward the
treaty.
RECOVERING THE DEAD.
Victims of the South Carolina Disaster Still Being
Pound—Relief Badly Needed.
Charlotte, N. C.: Three thousand
idle men, women and children who
have been employed at the Clifton
mills and several thousand other per-
sons, who are also without employ-
ment, were gathered around a wreck
of the three Clifton mllla at this place
yesterday. Several hundred re wait
Ing for the company’s stores to be
opened, many of these being without
necessities. They sound a note of dis-
tress that may be general.
Several bodies were recovered this
mornlag. Mrs. Maggie Dobbs was
found alive on an Island three miles
below here, with her two children
dead. One little boy was carried away
from mill No. 2. floated safely about
twelve miles down the river, over the
dams at Pacolet and was drowned
Just as he was about to be rescued.
Reports today Increase the death
list for mill No. 2, and twenty people
are said to be missing. Their bodies.
If recovered, aro apt to bo found
many miles below here.
The action of the company's offi-
cers here and at other mills Is admir-
able. Without any time for prepera-
tlon, they find themselves facing the
more serious conditions that ever
confronted tho managers of Industrial
enterprises, hut they are showing
Hempstead Feara Riot,
ftempstead, Texas: The local
option agitation has reached the
critical stage and there is great
anticipation of serious trouble at
this place. While the night was
passed In quiet, the town was
sleeping on arms, and, if the de-
termination to close the saloons
Is carried out, mob violence and
perhaps bloodshed Is expected, as
the two factions are prepared to
take decisive action. *
cheeful fronts and are endeavoring to
maintain the semblence of order
among the operatives.
Some, but few, of the operatives
will leave Clifton today to secure
work elsewhere. So many mills are
shut down that work is scarce.
Relief that Is Imperative must come
directly and must furnish bread and
meat to employes at the three Clifton
mills.
The estimates made yesterday put
the total lose at Clifton and at Pac-
olet at 32.600,000 or $3,000,000. The
loss to the county and to private
property holders will probably in-
crease thfh amount another million
dollars.
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MADISON LEVEE BROKE.
Fifteen Men Killed and Escape
of 150 More Cut Off.
St. Louis: Word has been
received that a levee near Mad
Ison, on which gangs of men
were working, gave way and
that fifteen men, employes of
the American Car and Foundry
works, were probably killed.
About 150 men. It is reported,
are Imprisoned on a section of
the levee that Is slowly crumbl-
ing, and cscapo has been cut
off.
Closed up the Office.
Mexico City: With an order from
the first corVect ional judge, the po-
lice today presented themselves at
the office of the Illustrated comic pa-
per, El Padre del Ahulzote, and con-
fiscated the entire Issue of the last
number, which contained articles’
against, and caricatures of, the high
officials of the government. The es-
tablishment was also closed up. The
editors have not been Imprisoned.
Boll Weevil Depredations.
Beevllle, Texas: Much complaint
of boll weevil is coming In from all
sections In this part of the State.
On some farms they are said to be In-
festing the cotton by the thousands,
while In other places only a few have
been noticed. Several fanners have
hired gangs of Mexicans and put
them In the fields to pick the weevils.
Most of the farmers think that with
a favorable season the cotton will
produce enough for thfem-and the boll
weevils, too, and are not much wor-
ried over the appearance of the pest.
A very good corn crop Is now prac-
tically assured In this section.
Killed by a Train.
Port Gibson, Miss.: William Rus-
lum, a prominent merchant of this
county, was struck and Instantly kill-
ed by a fast freight on the Natchcx
and Jackson railroad at Tillman sta-
tion. He was endeavoring to save
Rte life of a pet dog when killed.
Wettermark Property Bold.
Nacogdoches, Texas: G. W. Eas-
on, trustee of the estate of A. Wet-
termark Jfc Son, bankers, sold the
real estate of the firm this afternoon
by sealed bids.
> On opening the bids it was found
that Mrs. E. V. Davidson had bought
the bank building for 910,100. A.
Zevo bought the poetofflee building
for $2311. Five hundred dollars for
compress stock was bought by I. L.
Sturdevant at |450. The same amqpnt
of water works stock was sold to E.
A. Blount for $401. The bid on 400
acres of land situated In Angelina
county was rejected.
Governor Bailey of Kansas will
marry Ux*av
BODIES WASHED ASHORE.
The 1/088 of I/ife and Property is Great and the
Full Extent of Disaster is Unknown.
Columbia, 8. C.: Though the great
flood of water Is passing on to the
ocean, laden with debris of every de-
scription, and the swollen streams arc
subsiding In the Piedmont, the losses
of lire and property are Increasing.
The death list Is estimated from fif-
ty to eighty. At Clifton alone 100
operatives are missing from the vil-
lage. During the day dead bodies
were washed ashore and occasionally
a dismembered limb would float to the
baks.
8. B. Johnson, reported yesterday
as drowned, after clinging to house
tops from Clifton down to Pacolet,
and when last seen he was going
over the dam at Pacolet, escaped by
catching hold of a tree, and returned
today, to find his wife and four chil-
dren drowned.
At Converse thirteen dead are
ported and forty-one at Clifton No. 2.
At Clifton No. 2 twentyslx homes
are reported destroyed, and thirteen at
Clifton No. 1, and twenty at Clifton
No. 8. *
The loss at Clifton’s three mills
will approximate $3,000,000. At Paco-
let the loss is nearly $1,000,000. At
Glendale It Is very large.
The greatest Buffering Is at Clifton,
where 500 are destitute.
At Converse mills, the newest of
Clifton's cluster, the walls were wash-
ed away and the looms left standing.
The englno bricks were carried three
miles down stream, demolishing op-
eratives’ houses on the way.
Reports from the Seneca river, near
the Georgia line, are better tonight.
The Blue Ridge road between Seneca
nd Anderson Is Intact and the Newry
mill Is not badly damaged, and will
be running soon.
The Columbia, Newberry and Laur-
ens (or Coast Line) trestle, two miles
west of the city, affords the only exit
from Columbia to the Piedmont coun-
try, and It is a frah structure, a mile
and a half In length, with wooden
benches upon an island in midstream.
The Congaree river was at 27.5 at
midnight. This Is 12 1-2 feet above
the danger line. It Is rising at the
rate of 2.6 inches per hour.
Thousands of people thronged the'-
banks of the Congaree here all day
and even tonight, watching the swol-
len stream, which received all tho wa-
ters of the Pacolet, the Tyger, the
Broad and the Saluda. Bales of cotton
were rescued as they floated down,
men going out in boats and dragging
them in. All the tolls on the bridge
between Columbia and New Brookland
were given to the flood sufferers.
* There Was Much Firing.
JackBon, Ky.: There was much Hr
Ing and about the town laBt night.
The soldiers counted 163 shots. There
is no town marshal since Janies Cock-
rell was killed, and Sheriff Callahan
makes no arrests.
Judge Redwlne today reversed his
order so that Curtis Jett and Thom-
as White occupy the same cell again.
The prisoners had a long conference
yesterday with their coqpsel. The
Marcum people express no confidence
In the trial. EUzor Jones arrived
yesterday with sixty farmers from Ma-
goffln county, from vhom the Jury will
be selected. They attended tho bat-
talion drill In the camp, visited the
court house, jail, homes of Mrs. Mar-
cum and B. J. Ewen and other places
that are guarded. The friends of
Cockrell have asked Governor Beck-
ham to have some other judgo In
place of Redwlne on the bench during
the trials this week.
It is claimed that the shooting,
which continued until daylight this
morning, was due to the usual Satur-
day night carousals around the blind
tigers and not to any feud troubles.
As there la no town marshal and the
county officers refuse to act and mar
tlal law h&a not been proclaimed, as
troops could make arrests, there seems
to be no means of obtaining law and
order. Jett and White were not the
least disturbed In jail over tho shoot-
ing that was going on but rather seem-
ed to enjoy It. The shooting Is be-
lieved by some to havtf been Intend-
ed to Intimidate witnesses at the trial
that begins tomorrow.
Free for Sufferers.
Palestine, Texas: The Western Un-
ion and Postal Telegraph companies,
through their agents here, have is-
sued notices that their companies will
transmit free telegrams from author-
ized committees on account of bd(-
ferers from Are and flood In Kansas
and Missouri.
The chronic kicker seems to think
that the chief end of man Is his feet.
Triplets at Taylor.
Taylor, Texas: Yesterday Fannie
Baker, a colored woman of this city,
give birth to triplets, two boys and
one girl. The first was bom at 5:10
a. m. and the other two at 6:20 a. m.,
and the mother and babies are doing
well. The husband aid father, John
Baker, is an employe of Mr. Howard
Bland, secretary of the Taylor Fair
Association, who will have the babies
on exhibition^ at the cornlrg fair, July
2, 3 and 4, as products cf this glorious
section of Williamson county.
Cut Off From Supplies.
Sallna, Kan.: The flood situation
here today la worse than yesterday.
Another heavy rain fell today and the
over is still on the rise. No trains
can get out of town west and many
families have been shut off from sup-
plies.
Miniature arrow, bead* nut of
Jasper and carnellan are found to this
day by Arabs in the desert sands and
strung in necklaces for charms.
An Ocean Horror.
Marseilles: More than 100 pas-
sengers and crew were drowned near
Marseilles yesterday in a collision be-
tween the Insulate and the Lioan pas-
senger steamers belonging to the Frals-
senet Steamship company of Marseil-
les. The 4-<i^an sank and twenty-sev-
en passengers and seventeen of tho
crew were saved, while the remainder
perished. The Llban left Marseilles
yesterday morning on her regular pas-
senger trip to Bast la, Corsica, and
was run down and sunk l>y the Insul-
alre off the Maire islands.
Mr. Louis 8taum Dead.
8teamer Fired On.
Evansville, Ind.: The county officials
are Investigating a peculiar attack last
night on the steamer Park City en
route from Bowling Green. Ky., just
as she was entering the mouth of
Green river, the steamer was flrod on
by several men, and their Are was
returned with Winchesters from the
bofit. The passengers were panic-
stricken, but none were hart. No
cause is known for the attack.
A crowd of men riddle two saloons
at Brookshire with firearms.
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Carnegie Offers Library to Laredo.
Laredo, Texas: Andrew Carnegie
has written the Woman’s Club of Lar-
edo offering to donate $ii>,wvi for a
public library building, provided tbe
city council would guarantee 10 per
cent of the amount annually for Its sup-
port
Cotton Gin Burned.
Dob Ison, Texas: The Denison-West
cotton gin, property of the State Na-
tional Bank, was burned last night.
Loss about $6000, with $3500 insur-
ance.
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Brookshire, Texas: Mr. Louis Staum
an old and honored citizen, died yes-
terday night at his residence, after sev-
eral months' illneess. Mr. Staum came
to Texas In the ’40s and first located
In Harris county, where be was en-
gaged In blacksmlthlng and after
wards moved to this section, where he
has resided for many years, working
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at his trade. He leaves two sons and
several grandchildren to mourn his
loss. The Interment took place at the
German cemetery yesterday afternoon.
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New Capitol Dedicated.
Jackson, Miss.: The handsome new
capitol building, erected at a cost of
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$1,000,000, was dedicated today. The
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ceremonies were most imposing and
were participated in by distinguished
citizens and visitors. The orators of
the day were Chief Justice A. H. Whit-
field and Bishop Charles B. Galloway.
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Residence at Waxahachia.
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Waxahachle, Texas: A residence
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owned by Rev. S. E. Kennon and oc-
cupied by Jqhn Maledar, was destroy-
ed by fire, together with all household
effects. Loss on house is not known.
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but was fully covered by Insurance.
The Iobb on the furniture Is estimat-
ed at $1000; insured for $500.
But three English kings have viBlted
Rome—Aethelwulf in 855, Canute 1q
1026 and Edward In 1903.
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Carnes, J. M. Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1903, newspaper, June 12, 1903; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803605/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 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).