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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1902
Page
2
Manila is set to host a new military facility while the city will also employ 150 lawyers. Other notes include strikes ending, various deaths and local incidents across the United States, with mentions of infrastructure projects and international trade moves.
Shamokin Pa March 24. Three United Mine Workers districts Nos 1 7 and 9 issued a provisional strike declaration to be timed by district executives. The move follows a call to appeal to the National Civic Federation to avert a strike and cites a possible 1900 scale in the anthracite region.
In Cumberland Indiana Territory March 25 Rev Ensley Lamar Holiness preacher shot Calvin Vanwinkle 24 after a church service quarrel with the elder Vanwinkle father a Baptist. Calvin tried to intervene and was killed. Lamar is under arrest.
Miss Blanche Boise a protege of Mrs Nation horsewhipped Mayor Parker in his city hall office yesterday. She struck him three times across the head and shoulders before he wrestled her to the hall and seized her by the throat. Boise, a 35 year old nurse, declared she would next horsewhip the governor.
Acting President Schalkberger of the Transvaal with Commandants Meyer and Krogh arrived at Balmoral on a flag of truce and met Lord Kitchener. They then moved toward Kroonstad under safe conduct amid reports their visit signals renewed peace overtures. London regards the development as a potential step toward negotiations with the British.
Beaumont Texas March 25 The burning of the oil steamer Major Barrett off Bodoll Island draws regret from oil men. The wooden vessel carried 4500 barrels of crude oil for Texas Oil and Pipe Line Co. to Philadelphia on March 13 with sixteen crew aboard. all are believed to have escaped. Colonel Buck, president of the company, in Beaumont, has only press dispatch updates.
Senate commerce committee expected to take up the rivers and harbors bill with emphasis on Buffalo bayou interests. Colonel Dillingham joins two Texas senators and Representative Ball to advance the Galveston inner harbor appropriation based on engineers report, Bailey to push the item before the committee.
San Antonio Texas March 25 two more letters claim to be the wives of Christian Nelson now in Missouri to be tried for bigamy. One letter from Buffalo New York and one from Charleston South Carolina state they were widows at last marriage and say he took their money. This brings fourteen wives recorded for Nelson.
A northbound Southern railway passenger train No 38 was wrecked by a landslide at Covesville, fifteen miles south of Charlottesville, at 4 15 yesterday morning. The engine ditched and six coaches burned, with Nicholas Town and an unidentified tramp killed, fireman John Turner fatally burned, and nine others injured. The mail loss was the greatest in Southern railroading history.
General Estrada Palma, Cuba's president-elect, dined informally with President Roosevelt at the White House in a social meeting. Transfer of government is tentatively set for May 1, with possible postponement to mid or late May. Palma will travel to New York then to Cuba, visiting Santiago province.
Colorado Springs March 25 The National Irrigation Congress is officially postponed by the National Irrigation Association to October 6. The Trans Mississippi congress will be held at St Paul in August drawing the same class of delegates.
Manila reports twenty six cases and twenty one deaths from cholera with no white fatalities. Medical authorities track five cases at Malolos and two at Aparri in Northern Luzon as experts investigate.
In Austin on March 24 a crew excavating for a new brick yard for Andy Zilker struck a cement vault four feet underground. Measuring about four by six feet, the vault will be opened today and fuels the local tale that Spaniards buried gold here long ago.
Waterloo Iowa March 25 Senator O B Courtwright of Waterloo is announced as a candidate for the republican nomination for congress opposing Speaker Henderson This marks the first time since 1882 that Henderson the incumbent from the Third district must contest with a rival for his seat.
Captain Johnson of the Navahoe reports passing the burning steamer Major Barrett between Hatteras and Bod0is Island on March 22. Navahoe circled but saw no sign of life. Two empty boats drifted nearby. crew believed rescued. Major Barrett, oil steamer from Philadelphia to New York, Sabine Pass origin.
In El Paso Texas two boys aged 15 identified as J J Johnston of Abilene were killed when they slept between rails and were run over by a Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio freight train one mile below Ysleta. Bodies were mangled and the incident occurred late yesterday afternoon.
A new Anti Saloon League organization has been set up in Floresville as community leaders push to curb alcohol access and influence local policy.
Four new cholera cases and two more plague cases are reported in Manila with health authorities optimistic about preventing an outbreak. Five cholera cases are also reported from the provinces.
The Official Caucasus Gazette reports a Batoum strike at Rothschilds petroleum works on the Black Sea. About 300 strikers went to the police station demanding the release of ringleaders arrested the previous day. The mob attacked the jail, firing on guards. thirty rioters were killed and one soldier wounded.
Charleston bericht notes that Secretary Treasurer W. B. Wilson of the United Mine Workers says a strike of about 85 000 miners in West Virginia and Virginia is likely soon. Operators and miners from Kanawha New and Elk river districts sent representatives as talks on wage scales loom. conferences may occur or miners may act without further talks.
The body of a boy, last seen with hotel man Richard Albrecht of New Brunswick New Jersey, was found near the Seaboard Airline creek ten feet from where Albrecht’s body was located. The child, about seven or eight, had a broken neck and was only partially submerged in shallow water. The remains were brought to Brunswick for embalming and await orders from New Brunswick. The boy resembled Albrecht in features and hair color.
News from Victoria Mexico reports Gustave Schmitt a former county resident died by his own action near Victoria on March 18, his body found partially decomposed by a goat herder. A coroner’s verdict cites suicide. Schmitt, a Spanish American War veteran, served in the Fire Texas infantry.
Five county convicts, all Negroes, tried to burn their way out of the stockade at a Mississippi jail setting the house on fire. The inmates, who had been released to county contractor Robert Campbell for farm work, were serving minor offenses.
A man thought to be J. McGregor from London Ontario, 45 years old, was found dead in his room on Sheldon street in Chicago. Gas escaped from an open jet and the body lay on the floor beside the bed as if he died while struggling.
Pittsburg March 24 Mrs Birdie Ashinski 28 wife of Joseph Ashinski of Carapolis fired two shots at her husband last night missing him then shot herself in the heart dying instantly. The husband tried to whip a young son of his.
Philadelphia report states the battleship Ret vizan, recently completed for Russia, was officially added to the czar's fleet on Sunday. The ship entered normal navy routine after a small ceremony.
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