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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
2
The report covers varied items from bonds to construction. Gainesville plans a $20 000 city hall and paving upgrades while a $5 000 two story high school brick building is contracted in Lorena. Dallas area projects include an artificial lake at fairgrounds and a trolley plan for its railroad system.
A Russian AP dispatch from Jiao Yang notes relentless Japanese assaults on Port Arthur, with 28 000 Japanese killed or wounded since the siege began and 5 600 killed by a mine explosion. Russian defenders sustain heroic losses and repel repeated charges while fortifications face bombardment by 12 inch siege guns and planned district-wide shelling.
A party of civil engineers and surveying corps left Corpus Christi on Monday to run the final survey for the Robstown Linton extension of the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico road near Nuecestown.
A Che Foo dispatch dated August 22 cites Chinese reports that Japanese forces bombarded Port Arthur from dawn to early afternoon, delivering heavy fire yet facing stalemated Russian defense. The Japanese fleet did not engage and sailed farther offshore.
Sixty five sailors from the Russian destroyer Burny beached near Yong Cheng southeast of Wei Hai arrive Monday on the British Naval storeship Humber.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was given a life term by Superior Judge Carroll Cook for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning in Dover Delaware, poisoned candy mailed from San Francisco. The case centers on a lethal packaged candy sent from this city leading to a fatality.
Roswell New Mexico reports John Eiland vice president of the Bank of Portales is in the hands of brigands somewhere in Old Mexico. A letter from Eiland dated Oputo warns of torture if heavy ransom is not paid. Mrs. Eiland hired the US consul in Mexico City to intervene. no reply or further message has arrived. Eiland, an early Roosevelt County settler and prominent sheep operator, is among the region’s wealthiest residents.
Chattanooga report says a district wide strike by all union miners is anticipated unless terms deemed impossible are agreed upon. J T Hill, a leading operator, says he just returned from a point meeting of operators and miners.
A tornado hit Willow Lake wiping out most of the town and nearby structures. Farmer Erikson, living a mile west, was killed. Six or seven residents were injured but survived. Stores, church, schoolhouse, railway station and many homes suffered severe damage or total destruction.
Consul General Fowler cables from Che Foo that Chinese authorities and population fear a Japanese fleet landing to destroy the wireless telegraph system operated at Port Arthur and feared disruption to communications.
In Flatonia Texas cotton arrivals have been lively and prices show solid demand, signaling healthy business activity for the local market.
A Japanese torpedo boat arrives near Shanghai drawing a American destroyer Chauncey into pursuit. The Askold Chinese cruiser remains in port amid foreign property protection fears as consuls plan joint action. Eight American, one German, two British and four French warships are present along with major oil facilities valued at over one million dollars.
Japanese forces have swept Russians from Pigeon Bay and captured the northernmost fort of the western inner defences at Port Arthur. Russian artillery prevents occupation of the Fort on Pigeon Bay.
A Saturday night tornado struck near Fort Snelling and swept through St Paul causing sixteen deaths and about a million dollars in property damage. The Tivoli Concert Hall and Empire Theater were wrecked as crowds fled the bluffs while glass and timbers flew and lights failed.
J. W. Cosby, a successful truck farmer near Cameron Texas, reports harvesting two crops from his truck land this season an Irish and a sweet potato crop. He has planted the same land in Irish potatoes to raise seed for next year. Both crops paid well for the time and investment.
McGary and Welker proprietors announce a Sunday morning edition will begin about October first. Editor Sam McGary left Sunday night for the Ozark mountains for a month of recreation before resuming his strenuous duties.
Burnet Texas Frank Motley shot and killed prominent farmer W L Neal at Neal’s home near Burnet on Saturday night Motley surrendered claiming Neal assaulted Motley’s wife at her home while he was away Both men are well known locally
In Chicago several weeks of strong bullish activity lift the September option 14 cents, December 18, and May 20, amid reports of Manitoba field damage. Traders anticipate the United States and North Canada may miss last year’s harvest by about 100 million bushels, with total production around 637.7 million bushels. The bull market advances for seven weeks with little interruption.
Mrs. O F Seargeant sustained a severe finger wound after a needle eye broke off inside her finger during removal at Liberty Hill. She will travel to San Antonio for X rays and removal. Her daughter Marjorie Seargeant fractured her collarbone by a fall from a cot.
Lewis Williams, a colored man, was found dead on the back steps of the Big Four saloon in Bryan Texas on Sunday morning at 4 o clock. Justice W G Mitchell held an inquest and ruled death from natural causes.
Austin Texas Charles M Tyler a bus driver for a local transfer company was injured when a horse tied to a post under a shed pulling the post caused the shed to collapse and pin him to the ground. He suffered a broken leg and other injuries.
Governor Peabody passed through Colorado Springs at 9 20 Sunday night en route to Denver from Canon City He said he was returning a day earlier than expected to be ready to control the Cripple Creek situation if necessary
Ed S Newton city editor of the Austin Statesman has accepted a position with El Paso's leading newspaper and will soon start his duties there. The promotion is well deserved for the young journalist.
The Moscow Camden and San Augustine Railway Company paid the controller $2.34 tax on $234 of gross passenger earnings for the quarter ending June 30. The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe paid $2,879 tax on $287,998 of gross passenger earnings.
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