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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
2
The period brought widespread flooding across Limestone and Hill counties with three thousand acres submerged near Hearne and eight steel bridges damaged in Hill County. Drowning incidents occurred in Collin and Dallas counties as river bathing accidents claimed two youths. The era also saw new bonds and rail infrastructure moves, while Confederate veterans and local gatherings continued despite the rain.
New York Aug 6 The Standard Oil board after adjournment raised a 5 percent dividend payable Sept 15 for stock on record Aug 15. The payout of 5 million is far below the prior quarter’s 10 million and the smallest since Aug 1899. The stock fell 18 points to 670 as directors declined to explain the cut.
Salt Lake City reports the Great Salt Lake at its lowest level since records began. The water has fallen about six feet since 1894, pushing the water line three quarters of a mile from the eastern shore. Director Murdock of the Weather Bureau cites a dry cycle in Utah spanning seventeen to eighteen years with below average precipitation.
A blaze in Washington Louisiana yesterday afternoon destroyed the opera house the Carl Wolff two story building Baillio saloon the Jacob Plonsky store and residence the drug store the Claude grocery the Screen saloon and Richt Olangos grocery along with several residences including 8 M Plonsky cottage. Loss about 100000 with one third insured. Aid came from Opelousas and Lafayette fire companies providing efficient service.
Cleburne Texas August 6 The surveying corps for the Human railway line has reached Crowley and will finish to Fort Worth this week.
Aug 6 Leesburg Virginia — A grand jury concludes Charles Craven colored was wilfully feloniously killed by being shot by several persons after being taken from jail and hanged. Ten men implicated. Samuel H Grimes of Leesburg jailed after arrest for hearing with bail refused. Three others previously arrested.
Near Tyler Texas a decomposed male body found by women and children while picking grapes. The corpse had been dead about twenty days and flesh eaten by birds. Justice Gaines conducted an inquest. identity undetermined. The body was buried where found. The source ends with a cynical marriage quip.
Spokane reports from Davenport that outlaw Tracey spent Monday at rancher L. D. Eddy's Lake Creek home near Fellows. He arrived Sunday night and left around 7:30 Monday. A note pinned near Odessa warned Mr. Cudahee to back off as Tracey planned to head to Wyoming, thanking for a cool drink.
Two masked men held up the Chicago Burlington and Quincy limited two miles north of Savannah Illinois at 11:30 Tuesday night. They cut off the Adams express car and blew up the car before torpedoes halted the train. One robber boarded the engine while the other severed the express car. The crew fled to Savannah and alerted locals who rushed to the scene with shotguns and revolvers. Authorities report the robbers secured about $20,000 in valuables from the express package.
Isaac Finkelstein, famed for shutting eight gambling houses in Des Moines, was murdered last night near East Walnut Street between Sixth and Seventh. He was returning home when a man emerged from an alley shadow and struck with a single blow, crushing his skull. Authorities link the crime to his prosecutions of gamblers.
Federal court opened a special term in Bluefield on August 6 to try several strikers accused of violating Judge Keller's injunction in Castner Curran and Bullet versus Caswell Creek Coal and Coke Company. Many arrests have been made, but no National officials are among the defendants, avoiding a repeat of Charleston clashes.
Berlin August 6 Ambassador White mailed his resignation to the United States several days ago to take effect early in November. The date set for the resignation to go into effect was November 7 and may now be in President Roosevelt’s hands. He is in Hamburg taking the waters and will likely stay there until month’s end.
Lockhart Texas Aug 5 Mr Joe Biebel of St Louis a junk dealer who was injured about two weeks ago in a collision on the Katy tracks at Lockhart died yesterday afternoon from his injuries His wife had come from St Louis and was with him at his death.
Collision off Rondeau Canada between the City of Venice and the Seguim sinks the City of Venice and costs three lives. Several others are seriously injured. The report notes the Columbia’s historic voyage around the world aboard the Stars and Stripes after departing Boston in September 1787.
London August 5 King Edward remains set on a public coronation next Saturday even as an invalid and doctors advise limited activity. He bans delays after Norfolk invited undated guests and insists all preparations finish immediately. The king fears omens and insists on the Aug 9 date, preferring a private ceremony only if legally invalid.
Reports from Herman's Switch Brenham Texas say rising floodwaters cover the Brazos bottom east of the river. The 226 acre Ewing farm is flooded and levees fail on Stone's plantation. Water covers Pointer's lower farm as the river still rises.
Floyd Chatham a colored youth shot and killed Pearl Calloway at her home four miles south of Marquez. A shotgun blast destroyed the head, blood and brain scattered. infant unharmed as it rested against the neck. Warden claims the shooting was accidental. Chatham jailed without bond.
In Trinity county’s local option election on Saturday the vote margin favored the gros by 197. Local results show a clear outcome with a decisive majority supporting the measure.
The Navy Department plans immediate recruiting drives in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and possibly Arkansas and Missouri to bolster enlistments. Congress will be asked to raise total enlisted to 40,000 from 25,500, with about 4,000 more needed to outfit war vessels. Recruiters shift from anthracite regions to the South and West amid difficulties in securing volunteers.
John W. Springer president of the National Live Stock Association warns in Denver that any packers move toward a beef merger would trigger unified opposition from livestock producers and consumers. He says such a combine would set price unfairly, spark wide public policy backlash, and likely fail. He urges packers to abandon deceptive aims and notes the limit of producers’ tolerance has been reached.
Chicago August 6 Judge Chetlain issued twenty nine more injunctions in the July corner war. Waite Thorburn Co complainants sue Bank of Montreal officers over margins on short sales to board of trade firms. Ten injunctions target Pratt Buckley and other firms to bar margin collection. Money involved runs about forty thousand dollars in Waite Thorburn cases and roughly eighty thousand in others.
The first freight for shipment from Galveston to New York under the Southern Pacific line is due to arrive today. The pier is ready for rapid handling of cargo from non SP ships. Algiers crew arrivals are pending but expected soon, aiding setup of the new operation.
The son of C. L. Martin of Hedgwighill sustained a bad leg injury when he fell from a moving wagon. Medical aid was given and his condition described as serious.
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