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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
2
A sprawling Texas roundup notes weather, crops, and incidents across counties. Woolly reports include rains, harvest, and flood effects. violence and crime headlines touch on a knife attack in Brownsville and a drunken shooting in Dallas area. Public notices show school and bond activity. notable deaths and local sport mentions appear.
Weather across Texas and Louisiana reports record rainfall with rice crops beaten down and flooding in several towns. In Orange, Mrs. J. M. Thornton was struck by lightning and resuscitated. telephone service sustained losses as about 100 phones burned out. Meanwhile bridges washed away near Berclair and Falls City endured the hardest rain in fifty years. Colorado River rising near Wharton and Denison reports a fatal stabbing in a saloon altercation.
Commander Robert F. Peary reports from New York that the arctic region is among the best places on earth for pulmonary disease patients. He notes many travelers return heavier and healthier, but he did not bring Eskimos south due to past deaths from lung diseases among them.
In St Paul on Sept 30 the Clerks union announces a girls league where members vow to marry only union men and ignore any suitors without labor ties. Members are to be single and willing to wed if a suitable labor man with cards is found. Laredo report notes. Alexander Bros purchase land near Laredo for large scale onion farming with an irrigation setup.
Emile Zola, famed novelist and defender of Dreyfus, was found dead in his Paris house from asphyxiation caused by a malfunctioning bedroom stove. His wife Mme Zola, ill but conscious briefly at hospital, described the sudden collapse.
Reports from Texas towns on September 30 describe multiple violent incidents. John Griggsby shot a man in Lane City and was jailed awaiting trial. Ethel White allegedly cut the throat of John Reed near Glen Flora. Reed survived with poor prospects. A drunken dispute near Vernon left Louis Britsch and another man wounded. one injured man named Writseh jailed. Robert Harig and Louis Curtis died from gunshot wounds, with Oscar Fenox jailed in Madisonville over the killings believed tied to a crop settlement dispute. Both victims were Black.
The residence of Mr. E. J. Johnson in Georgetown Texas burned at 6 30 this morning. Cause unknown due to empty house. Loss estimated at 1350 with 660 insured on the house and 200 on furniture.
Tyler Texas September 30 Within the last days the Cotton Belt has received five new battleship engines of the Rogers make Each engine weighs about eighty five tons without the tank and can pull sixty loaded cars on good track The company will receive five more within ten days bringing the Texas division battleship engines in commission to eighteen About eighty five engines are now in operation in the Texas division of the system
Several cases of smallpox have developed at Cedar Mills near Sherman. County Physician Freeman has gone to the area to quarantine exposed individuals. The disease is not in a violent form and no deaths have yet occurred.
El Paso Texas September 30 William Lauvelet a noted musician who played before nobility in Europe and was once court musician to the Mikado is dead in El Paso where he had come for his health He toured the United States with Edouard Remenyl
The shipments of cattle from this section continue, though no new contracts are being made for outalle pasturage.
In New Orleans on September 29 the street railway strike left 1500 unionists idle as talks over wages and hours stalled. The union seeks an eight hour day and 26 cents per hour with full union recognition plus monthly pitmen and washer pay, while the company pushes arbitration and maintains the old contract.
The Clarksville city council accepts Mr. Carnegie's $10,000 gift for a public library building and agrees to $1,000 yearly for maintenance and to provide a site. A citizens' committee will seek site subscriptions, and success is anticipated.
Alice reports seven train loads of cattle shipped to interstate points this week most heading to better ranges. Heavy rains in the county last week promise grass soon, likely ending cattle shipments to distant ranges.
J B Donaho of a nearby farm sold seven bales of long staple cotton in Clarksville market for 13 1 4 cents per pound.
Baton Rouge reports the Louisiana penitentiary in a rare depopulated state with 1243 inmates, all able bodied workers dispersed to fields and levees. A consumptive hospital is to be finished in two weeks. seven hundred bales of cotton have been picked at Angola with about 1500 bales remaining in the fields. Sugar mill equipment has been shipped and grinding at the Hope convict farm is set to begin mid October.
London reports Sir Thomas Lipton, newly elected to the Aero club, aims a cross channel voyage with Hon. C Rolls. If by balloon, Lipton will be escorted by his steam yacht Erin. A Lipton friend notes Rolls is Baron Liangattock’s youngest son and an avid aeronaut, but specifics remain undisclosed.
Farmers in Tyler County face a shortage of cotton pickers as many workers travel to West Texas fields. Authorities have raided local camps to arrest idle workers on vagrancy charges to secure labor for county crops.
Patrolman J. K. Murray was attacked by a crowd of Negroes while investigating yesterday's riot in Richmond Virginia. He fired his pistol wounded one assailant as citizens rallied to help. Several arrests were made.
The Rosebud project reports rapid progress as the artesian well nears water after drilling about 1900 feet. Promoters expect success within the next month and plan further steps once water is reached.
Monroe La September 29 Mexi can cotton pickers are displacing negro labor in the Ouachita river valley. Colonies have been imported from Southwest Texas near the Mexico border and more will follow. Two hundred Mexicans employed by Captain L D McLain arrived this week. They pick cotton rapidly and charge 40 cents per 100 pounds versus 50 cents by negro laborers.
The annual pension commissioner's report for the year ending June 20 lists 994 751 pensioners, total payments 136 742 567 dollars. Texas accounts for 84v pensioners with 1 094 841 dollars in benefits. It notes the proverb about haste and waste and comments on hustlers in almshouses.
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