25 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1901
Page
1
Local Alamo City page highlights community events and notable happenings across San Antonio. Details cover cultural events, public notices, and civic milestones shaping the week in the city.
After election Hicks loyalists regain office while W D Druse faces replacement as police chief. New appointments include assistant city attorney, expanded police recruitment, stricter physical exams, uniformed leadership, and Mahncke named parks and plazas superintendent at about 1225 per month. City parks like San Pedro Springs and Brackenridge praised. conventions, celebrations in Laredo, and a flurry of social weddings accompany civic activity.
Topeka reports a mob of 50 to 60 citizens armed with revolvers and tools attacked Cash Curtis liquor houses on Kansas Avenue and Curtis Street. Police opened fire as the crowd destroyed barrels. two men were wounded and J. W. Adams died later in hospital. Dr. Mitchell and Rev. F. W. Emerson were arrested for resisting officers. Nation’s editor stint in Peoria follows jail release.
The senate committee on relations with Cuba approved an amendment to the army appropriation bill related to Cuba. The changes satisfy the president and all parties, and the report is unanimous. Democrats will offer no opposition, and an extra session is not expected, the Cuban question alone preventing one.
Florence Colorado February 25 report says a large clash is underway between striking miners from the Colorado F mines at Bare Gulch and about 47 deputies and company guards supported by Iron Company workers. The confrontation involved Winchesters revolvers and other firearms, with both sides engaging in a fierce exchange shortly after noon. Details are sparse as reporters are en route five miles away.
Black Jack also known as Tom Ketchum the train robber and a San Angelo Texas native is slated for execution in Clayton on March 23 by order of the territorial supreme court. King Edward reaches Germany on his visit to Emperor William Berlin.
Articles of incorporation for the United States Steel Corporation were filed in Trenton and Hudson county with a nominal capital stock of 30,000 dollars, divided into thirty shares of 1,000 dollars each, to be increased at the company’s option. The firm is described as a great Morgan Carnegie steel combination.
Divers tried to reach the Rio Janeiro wreck off San Francisco but the vessel lies too deep to recover bodies. No recoveries surfaced yesterday or today as great guns failed to impact the depth. If no bodies surface soon, most victims may rest with the hulk buried beneath the sea.
For six hundred thousand dollars Crosswell Cattle Co sells twenty thousand head plus ranches to Franklin Co of Deadwood. Franklin now owns nearly sixty thousand head and becomes the largest concern in the western ranges.
Austin February 25 A bill allowing railroads operating outside the state to lease Texas lines moved to engrossment after a hard fight. Another measure making Bowie county land abstracts prima facie evidence due to burned records also engrossed. No senate session.
Glasgow February 25. The great amalgam plates were placed on the Shamrock today as the vessel aiming to win the America's Cup moves toward completion. The plates are described as the feature expected to determine Shamrock's winning character.
Frank Rockefeller brother of John D Rockefeller and a leading figure at Standard Oil arrives in El Paso with family on a pleasure trip. He praises Mexico’s resources and Diaz as a reformer, notes American and English investment, and predicts rapid regional development under an evolving transit system in Mexico City.
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