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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
2
An artesian well plan near Range is noted alongside killings in Conroe and Range, a fatality at Corsicana, a Syrian peddler dead at Range, a child burned in Childress, and births in Smithville. Texas crop prospects, weather damage, river rail injuries, and multiple legal cases span the state with bail set in Sherman and Galveston.
In Denver a Citizens Alliance meeting endorses Idaho Springs action against fourteen Sun and Moon mine workers. Resolutions allege a secret oath bound to violence within the Western Federation of Miners and urge arrest of armed offenders. Printers and typographical unions denounce the alliance as perilous and anarchic. More than 700 attended behind closed doors.
In response to the Portuguese king's toast aboard the cruiser Brooklyn, President Roosevelt from Oyster Bay G. I. must cordially reciprocate your majesty's greeting and note the good will uniting the United States and Portugal. The message from Roosevelt emphasizes friendship between the two nations and peoples.
George Sinsabaugh deputy grand commander of Knights Templar of California and a 32nd degree Mason died of lung trouble at Sierra Madre yesterday. The Los Angeles area leader served in district offices and was active in fraternal and Masonic circles. His passing noted by several lodges and members.
A westbound freight and an eastbound passenger train collided near Hartford City Indiana on August 4 in dense fog injuring sixteen people. The flagman warned others and escaped danger as both engines reversed but momentum could not be checked.
In Georgetown Kentucky the Scott circuit court opened a special term with Judge J B Robbins presiding to try Caleb Powers for complicity in the Gobel assassination. The commonwealth announced readiness and will call about fifty witnesses including Frank Cecil, a star witness from the Jim Howard trial. The defense presents around thirty witnesses, a dozen of whom testified in the prior James Howard trial.
Nearly 100 cherry pits were found in the appendix and intestines of a patient during stomach cancer surgery in a Brooklyn hospital. The pits did not cause appendicitis. doctors removed them after the cancerous growth was excised, and the patient recovered.
In the House of Commons Mr. Lough asks if U S and Britain discussed banning bounty aided sugar if a new sugar convention passes. Viscount Cranborne says the decision rests with the commission and Britain would act only if such finding exists.
In Beaumont Texas on August 4 there were no developments in the sacks mystery after a sack with a human arm protruding was seen floating under the Southern Pacific bridge on the Neches River. A freight crew reported the sight to authorities. sheriff and coroner investigated but the body has not been recovered and may have drifted downstream. Trainmen were uncertain if the arm belonged to a human.
Philadelphia Aug 4 The Public Ledger reports Charles M Schwab will resign as president of United States Steel with the executive committee to finalize the action. For months rumors of his resignation circulated, denied previously by Schwab and the directors.
Charlie Saufley aged 18 member of a prominent Stamford family died from corrosive sublimate poison taken the night before. He was recently appointed an alternative naval cadet by the president.
Ossining N Y Aug 4 Antonio Turckowski a Pole was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison He insisted he was innocent of the murder of John Shepoloski a Brooklyn saloon keeper on March 6 for which he was convicted The interval between sentence and execution is said to be the shortest on state records
The Herald reports a second will of General Lewis Cass M. Clay dated March 28, 1901, produced by Dora Clay Brock, once General Clay’s wife. The document is in the general’s handwriting, sealed with his private green wax seal, and Mrs. Brock receives a large share.
Washington 3. More than 6,000,000,000 pounds of sugar valued at over 100 million dollars entered the United States in the last fiscal year. Porto Rico and Hawaii contributed about one fifth of the total, with 1,000,000,000 pounds valued near 33 million dollars. Cane sugar comprised most of the remainder. beet sugar imports fell compared with prior years.
U S hospital corps officials ordered a strict quarantine against San Luis Potosi Mexico after reports of yellow fever in the city. The measure aims to prevent US entry of the disease as San Luis Potosi, capital of the state bearing the same name, lies 458 miles from the border.
Brenham Texas Aug 3 Commissioner Johnson of Whitman reports that Vince Franklin a negro farmer in his neighborhood had two mules struck by lightning in the pasture the night before and instantly killed. Minor damages from the same source are reported from various sections of the county with no major injuries or losses noted.
Helen M. Gould has been asked to serve as arbitrator in the Holyoke paper mill dispute. The Augusta dispatch says the invitation came from the striker leadership and the strike involves about 4000 employed workers.
Aug 4 Texas reports Ramsey dies after being struck by a train while riding a velocipede near College. Incident details remain.
Calvert Texas August 3 farmers exhibit stands of cotton full of blooms and squares despite boll weevils, indicating about half bale per acre. Crop late by four to six weeks this year yet prospects look good for the season. Twenty one strikers were killed by Russian soldiers.
In Kaufman County Texas at 3 p m Thursday J H Melton of Pude Mill shot Ben Ellington about 25 in a field with a 38 caliber pistol Ellington a wife and three children Melton surrendered without resistance and was jailed Deputy Sheriff Anthony escorted him to Kaufman Ellington allegedly insulted Melton s wife
Bar Harbor Me August 3 The war game starts at daylight with the battleships Indiana Texas Massachusetts and the destroyers Lawrence Whipple under Admiral J P Sands sailing to the Atlantic. Two days later the fleet will take stations along the coast while Admiral Barker commands from the Kearsarge as Kearsarge Olympia Illinois and Prairie receive wireless telegraph systems.
A cloudburst near Salina Kansas yesterday flooded lowlands from a point near Lindsborg northwest of Ellsworth. The valley northwest from Lindsborg is under water and Bavaria shows water 1 to 2 feet deeper than the recent flood. Carneo streets were flooded and water reached the platform of the Union Pacific depot.
In Somerset Kentucky on August 3 a misread order caused two Queen and Crescent freight trains to collide between Cumberland Falls and Greenwood. Six men were killed and two others seriously injured. Fireman Joseph Phillipps Frank Fletcher and Walter Walters were among the bodies recovered. An unknown man is also listed among the dead.
George A. Tanner, a New York jewelry salesman, was arrested on smuggling charges. After a hearing before Commissioner Warrington, he was bound over to the federal grand jury in $1,500 bond and released upon giving bond.
In Paris on August 3 a demonstration of 10 600 freethinkers gathered before the Etienne Dolet statue. Resolutions favored the separation of church and state. Expected disturbances did not occur.
Benjamin Gordon and George Ems were killed by a lightning strike yesterday afternoon as they sat with their families watching a storm. The men, living several miles apart, died instantly, near Corydon Indiana.
An excursion train arrived from Beaumont with 700 plus people to Galveston on August 3. Other trains from the Austin and Northwestern branches of the Houston and Texas Central also brought visitors. Despite Sunday showers, the excursionists enjoyed their day with generally good spirits.
A new five dollar counterfeit from the Fourth National Bank of Boston is detected. It bears check letter A and series 1882. Authenticated by Tillman registrar and Morgan treasurer, the note is a photographic production on ordinary bond paper with faint ink lines mimicking genuine silk fibers.
S F B Morse formerly of Houston now resides at his summer home on Long Island as the season begins.
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