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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1902
Page
2
Texas notes report Moody to build a roller mill and electric light plant, Corsicana trolley cars planned, Ennis to get a $15,000 three-story hotel, and several counties schedule primaries in May. Other items include bank approvals, a fatal wagon accident near El Paso, and a suicide in Palestine.
Detroit February reports arrest of Vice President Frank Andrews on charges of willfully securing over 1 million dollars from the City Savings bank with no security or knowledge of directors. Cashier Henry Andrews ill at home. bank suspends as examinations reveal 914000 overdrafts and 662000 in certified checks tied to F C Andrews.
Mia J. D. Weston of 1417 Texas Avenue was robbed by a man in a light overcoat and slouch hat near the Austin Street corner. He grabbed the brass chain and purse, taking $9.80 in cash and a $40 gold family pin, then fled while Mrs. Weston cried for help.
Washington February 11 The rigors and harbors committee began review of Texas matters with members pledged to secrecy. No details or conclusions can be learned as the bill undergoes a second reading before presentation to the House. It is believed no major changes will alter Texas project totals from the previously debated bill.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest son of President Roosevelt, is seriously ill in Groton Mass with double pneumonia. Secretary Cortelyou reports the condition unchanged but notes higher temperature and weaker respiration though pulse remains better. Doctors Shattuck Warren and Alex Lambert have been summoned for treatment.
General Andrade, ex president of Venezuela, boarded the revolutionary steamer Libertador after landing insurgents near Cumarebo. The gunboat General Crespo was damaged, reports say Crespo sank near Cumambeto, and Caracas reports show strong revolutionary activity around Barquisimeto. Cannonading along the coast is heard as the Libertador reportedly engages another gunboat.
In Galveston on February 11 W A McVitie and wife were returning from Mansfield opera event when a street car struck their overturned carriage at Tremont and Post Office. The couple were ejected. Mrs McVitie fainted, Mr McVitie suffered deep facial cuts, and driver A B Lyon was injured and later home.
Representative Ball met with Speaker Henderson in Washington to talk over his bill creating a new federal judicial district in Texas and a Houston court. Henderson said he would not oppose the bill if the judiciary committee gives a favorable report, improving its prospects. Lanham is pushing for an early report.
Fort Worth Feb 10. Dr Carlton is dying and not expected to live was the message received from Bonham to night by Rev McPherson who was asked to come at once. He is eighty years old and has led Carlton Female College as president for thirty years.
An early morning blaze at the Empire hotel on Olive Street in St Louis killed ten men and one woman and seriously injured eight others. About 35 to 40 people were in the three story lodging house. most escaped by leaping from windows or using bedcloth ropes with frostbite injuries reported. Fire caused extensive damage with estimated building loss around twenty thousand dollars.
In Carbondale Illinois on February 10 civil war veterans and other Grand Army of the Republic members press Congress for a pension for Mrs. John B. Turchin widow of the late general. Now over 80 she aided soldiers by stitching bandages and retrieving artillery while accompanying her husband during campaigns.
The Hindoo twins Radlea and Cordlina, conjoined similarly to Siamese twins, were separated this afternoon by Dr. Doyon in a twenty minute operation that was initially successful. One twin had thrush, causing weakness and fever, but both slept peacefully at 10 o clock.
West Sharp was instantly killed and Wilson fatally wounded by Joe Weaver at a Georgia line blind tiger near Ducktown. Stapp and Wilson went to secure whisky. after a heated dispute, Weaver shot Stapp in the head and then wounded Wilson in the abdomen.
A massive blaze in Paterson New Jersey on February 10th leveled commercial civic educational and religious structures. The estimated damage reached ten million dollars with hundreds homeless and thousands out of work. Firefighters from nearby towns battled a northerly wind as the blaze consumed the city through midnight and into the day while relief efforts and future restoration plans took shape.
In Beaumont Texas on February 10 financiers led by James Hopkins of St Louis president of Diamond Match and John W Gates are visiting and discussing plans with Producers Oil Co. holders and other oil interests. Hopkins and Gates will be shown the field after arriving from Port Arthur as discussions on extensive developments unfold.
A Pall Mall Gazette cable from Dublin asserts a belief among influential circles that a revolution is planned by the United Irish League and that constitutional methods are fading to force. Irishmen returning from the United States say disloyalists will lose support unless Irish discussions yield to active action at home. American campaigners are said to align with Finerty in promoting dynamite and rifles, while kindness policies sway the peasantry toward ending British rule.
Manila reports a Hong Kong printed pamphlet campaign by the Filipino junta. The pamphlets copy a memorial sent to President Roosevelt, expressing sympathy for Mr. McKinley’s death and asserting eventual Filipino independence. They claim pacified provinces are kept in check by superior military force.
Austin Texas Feb 10 The railroad commission issued a circular warning railroads that failure to promptly comply with monthly reports of gross earnings and disbursements will be reported to the attorney general who may file suit to recover penalties under article 457 of the Revised Statutes of 1895
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