Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1903 Page: 2 of 4
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Alpine Avalanche.
I. M. CARNMfl. Publisher.
ALPINE,* - - - - TEXAS
ALL OVER TEXAS.
H. A. Stafford of Pahwlu* <!:••*! fit
Gauvestou.
.1 I, Col* .wan ariju)tw<j of nmnier
at Canadian
Drummond a pavil'iou . burned at
Arauaaa Hun«.
Claburoa i» to have an aotoinat.”
telephone ayMtcm
Tlioinu* Claris died on a Bantu *■*«
tralu near Cleburne.
ftoburi Griffin »*« killed l»y Itghl
oing ai Vlnlla, I 1'
Jw Hliowhari in tii ]»11 at Ft Worth
on the chaw of theft
lira Win t'olit wan severely Injured
in a runaway at Albany
Tlu* <i<*itd tMxl > of KiimI llo«-k a a.
found near Meinpiii*. Tioin
Judge M H t'rawiti, axel enve'ii y-
limr year*. ta dead at Jewel)
Th<* Mur and queen of Ku^himl
have »taite<t on then mp +*» lieland
Wlieai grower* Oklahoma are
tioldtnx their xiatn for higher pi Iced
M A Hholwell wav lound dealt ou
the Kaiy track near WAIturk. | |
Physician), of I.mou coo lily oiganued
arllh Hr Ham It llurrougha as pied
■lent
l*roB|»e< '01« on i lie Ito'qoe rlvei near
Waco claim to liuve fllee »\ n .•<! s a ’II
of asphalt
KnIoinologiat « Pare dl-eoveii».| a yei
low butterfly alileh la uihl to tie dam
aging col Ion
Will Welly M held al I ioldl li wall e in
• on nex t Ion with lha killing of Harry
Hnilih July 14
.1 It Tatum m in jail at Foil Worih
ou a charge of forgery li* wa« ai
rested In Hallaui count v
A man liy the naiue of IViktna «a?
found dead ni Siilphm Springs IIin
ahull wan crushed and one leg broken
George Wagucr ««> aerioualy Injur
ad by being caugl)i hi the machinery
of F f' llllileiiliranil'a null «i Ijalvcn
Inn
T C Hlrihllnx luoiigiii m a guahe.
ou Hpliidleloji which aiaiuled for Iwi;
hour* tiefoie it could lie placed iiniln
control
lodge koto )(f .>4iii \farcoH think?
a farmer of Hays rmiiiiv will win thi
9MI,l)ft(i for Ihe dlacmtu v of :i boll wee
vll exterminator
engineer (leiiiril of ilie Santa F«*
with headquarter* ul ('Inhume war
*iruck by u rilgii board ou a brtdg*
io*ar Mldloiliiaii while looking from
bln cab window and died at lila home
Ihe next morning v
J H Cavl" of lake Cliy was run
over Monday by a traction engine
The ana> broke and he felt In front
of Ihe wheel* and one panned over lilt
stomach He wax xerlounlv hurt bill
will recover
W I.. Carwilr has entered auit
agalnal Wm Cam non & Co alleging
breach of contract as to the salt of
limber growlnx on land In Nacogdo
chan county, and pray* for damages In
tbs sum of H2,.’77 49
The completed city rolls allow *h>
"ital taxable property of the Hty of
*TWl COUNTRY l» ALL IIMHTi THE ONLY THOUl« IS IS WALL'
vniKir.*
•-New' York Herald.
Abil-jiio for I l»e year of 1903 to lie
9J.IMl.lll. an Innroass or about 9110.00"
ovsr last year Then* are M* polla a<-
» waned.
A negro reformatory convict escaped
from the Flyer at llillaboro lie wua
l<sndruffed. but managed to slip out !•>’
the officer who had him In chary*
while the latter had his bark turned
lor a moment.
Pal Oarey fell from an oil derrick a
distance of forty feel, at Hour lake
and was nerloualy injured
Paul Meyer, near Shiner, while riding
sad carrying a doubletree to Hi* field,
was thrown by hla horse and hla neck
was broken
Mr* J. T. Garrett, wife of a prom
laeal farmer living at pushing, twenty
miles north of Nacogdoches, commit-
ted suicide Saturday night by taking
*tryckalne No cause I* assigned for
Ihe deed
lobe Gilbert, colored, was lynched
Mai Pinckney landing Ark He wm
laipltraiad In U»* killing of H. J. Ilo
hen. a prominent white planter.
•corulltat officer* far Ike UaMed
*t mee nnry are to asm term ffsos
to DaIlea AI aa early Ante
KEENE ON STOCKS
TAYLOR'S FATHER-IN-LAW OFTIM
IATIC A8 TO PROSPERITY.
CAUSE OF THE LATE FAILURES.
Noted Broker Said the Public Had De
sorted Wall Street. Cause of th*
Late Failures.
Now York. July 28.— James It
Keene, whose son In law’* bouse, T.
J. Taylor A Co., was among thoae to
suspend, is quoted by tile Herald as
follows in an interview at bin country
home in Codurhurst
•’ll is a very extraordinary situation
and for some reason or other ihe pub-
lic refuses to bu> ll has been out
of the stock market for two or three
months, and Us reappearance m Wall
street would he s welcome sight In 'hat
gloomy flnaudai district ”
"Do you think that the general pro*
parity Id likely to be affected by the
serious decline In stocks?” wax asked
”1 don't s«* why it should be." Mr
Keene replied. "Business in good crops
are excellent and gross earnings of
railroads are larger than they were
last y<>ar la spite of all this, jteople
bavs no confidence They are appall
ed at the tremendous decline that has
taken place, the cause of which has
not lioen reasoned out by them
"The extremity of the danger should
bring rollef from a concert of the
financial and railroad intercxtH to stop
a further decline, which must gather
force If It continues. Perhaps the best
reason for tha present situation bus
bewur the absolute unwillingness of
the public for some time to buy secu-
rities If you have sellers and few
buyers It Is easy to predict the result.
"I believe overcapitalization and the
disastrous collapse of three or four
recently organized trusts have para;
yxed the buyer, produced a general
fright and terrible liquidation of good
securities to protect baa onos. De
spite this liquidation, which has re-
duced the average of securities 35 per
cent, bank loans have not red not'd,
nor has the surplus reserve been ma
tcrtally Increased. It would be natural
to look for a corresponding decease
in bank loans In consequence. This
has not occurred, and I have not seen
any one yet who baa fathomed the rea-
son for It. It may be safely said that
this singular result, so contrary to all
RICH MEN LOST HEAVILY.
Rocksfallsr’s Fortune, Among Others,
Hat Shrunk flOO,000,000.
New York. July 28. -By conserva-
tive men In Wall street and by men
who most closely follow the trend of
affairs financial, the estimate Is made
that the Rockefeller family fortune
has shrunk flOO.OOO,000 in value under
the influence of the recent slump in
securities.
The apparent loss (o the friends of
.1. Pier pout Morgan has been great.
William C. Whitney and those who
are allied with him have suffered re-
verses that have hurl John \Y Gates
and the other members of the "Chica-
go crowd" are nursing wounds that
will be long in healing James R.
Keene admits a loss of 91,500.000.
Borne believe Mr. 'Keone's fortune has
shrunk much more
Thus It may be seen that the storm
that has swept atnn*n the (tnancial
district and which may not as yet
have reached it« culmination, has
spared few In /electing its victims,
and ll may be taken as proven that
It was of natural origin, having been
formed of the purpose or will of no
combination of men
It Is the general opinion of those
who have weathered such storms in
the pant thai the presen.' unpleasant-
ness is to be accounted, for Just ax was
the great era of prosperity accounted
for One was the result of natural
causes, the other came a* a natural
sequence of the first
LOUISIANA NEGRESS LYNCHED.
Charged With Poisoning a Beautiful Girl of Sixteen
Who Died in Great Agony.
New Orleans. July 27.—A special to
the Picayune from 8breveport says:
News reached b«r« that t"he negro,
lennle Steer*, who administered pois-
on in a glass of lemonade to Lizzie
Boland, the IB-year-old daughter of
John Boland, from the effects of
which she died, was lynched by a mob
about sundown yesterday afternoon.
The lynching occurred on the Bear
pianlation, near the spot where the
crime occurred. Jennie Steere was
stubborn to the last, denying her
crime. But the proof was direct and
conclusive and precluded ihe poralbil-
Ity of her iunocence
It Is said that the nfcgrea* fled from
the Boland home as she discovered
her crime was known. She was pur-
sued by a posse, who found her crouch-
ing in a hay loft. She refused to come
out and bad to be dragged from the
place. Tsked why she poisoned Miss
Boland, the negress Indignantly de-
nied the commission of the crime. Bhe
was taken to the Boland homestead
and fully identified as the woman who
placed the poison in the lemonade.
The mob then took her to a nearby
tree, placer a rope around her neck,
and asked her to confess She was
stubborn, and was strung up. While
the body was dangling in midair sev-
eral shots were fired into it.
The victim of the poison was a
boautiful young woman, who was not
known to have an enemy in the world.
She died In horrible agony The fun-
eral of Miss Boland took place yester-
day morning and was attended by per-
sona for miles around. There ia a
growing suspicion that this n eg raws
wae connected with the murder of
Mrs. Frank Matthews, whose horrihlo
death startled the people of this sec-
tion several months ago. She was a
negress of forbidding appearance, but
a good servant, and Mrs. Matthews
kept, her against the protests of her
son and daughter. On the morning of
the murder she was the Unit one to
notify the inmatee of the bouse of tb#
commission of the crime. However,
suspicion was not directed to her, aa
at the time of the assault the crime
was placed at the door of a man. John
Matthews said yesterday that later
developments Inclined both bis sister
and himself to the belief that hla
mother was murdered by a wumaa.
and that robbery was the motive for
the crime. Thirty dollars Mrs. Mat-
thews l<ad in the house at the tlmo
were missing after the murder and
the condition of Mrs. Matthews* body
indicated that she had been struck by
a woman, as the gashes were not deep,
such as a man could have been ablo
to make. Neither Mrs. Matthews nor
her daughter were assaulted.
The arrest of Jennie Steere for de-
liberately poisoning a young girl in-
clines the Matthews to tha belief that
if she did not commit the Shreveport
crime, she certainly knew something
about it. it is a source of regret that
the woman was not interrogated on
this subject before the lynching.
Kverything is quiet in the vicinity of
Bayou La Chutte. There is no appar-
ent sympathy for the negress among
the law abiding blacks. As far as
known this was the first negress ever
lynched in this section of the state.
previous experience has caused much
anxiety and produced grave apprehen-
sions.
"Kxplanatlon of it may be possible
from people who understand the Intri-
cacies of the movement of money and
the shifting of loans. Buyers surely
will be attracted, however, as in Wall
street convulsions of the past."
Cartoon Against America.
St. Petersburg, July 28.—The Novo
Vreyma has printed a cartoon repre-
senting Uncle Sam driving an automo-
bile over two negroes, his right hand
wielding a whip and hla left support
Ing the Stars and Stripes, with the
mottoes "Freedom*" and "Slavery .’’
•pilled the Liquors.
Arddmort, I. T.. July 28.—Officers
yesterday Mixed a large quantity of
whiskey wad beer before It had been
rsasoved from the train which brought
It hero. and spilled It In the street
United States Marshal Co’bert baa la-
raad aa order prohibiting ihe Introduc-
tion at liqnor Into the Indian Territory,
tubatltutae may no longer bo aBM, on
offloera any Urn artldnal drink divas
are bllads tor the sale at iatostoanta.
BaoUsggors am beooaslag aamaroua aa
A raault of the arohlARloa lawn.
Four Tragedies.
Jackson. Ky., July 2S.—Report* re-
ceived here yesterday stale that two
men were killed In a tight at Long
creek and two fatally injured lu an en-
counter at Hunting creek, taut night.
On Long creek, twenty miles from here
George Smith was shot through the
breast by John Hail, and as he lay on
•be ground with the blood rushing
from his wounds. Smith pulled his re-
volver and shot Hall through Ihe
brain. Both men expired almost im-
mediately.
On Hunting creek. John Steadman
and Alex Craft engaged in a fight af-
ter a quarrel in a “blind tiger." Stead-
man drew a knife and Craft a revolv-
er. Craft missed his mark the first
two times, but on tm i...»d shot lie
Inflicted a fatal wound. Steadmau cut
Craft about the body and it is said
both will die.
Aanator Bailey Gone to New York
Washington, D. C.. July 27.—Sena-
tor Bailey jolued his wire aud two
sons hero yesterday morning and the
family left together for New York.
To Contest Clay Will,
ljexington. Ky.. July 28.—Mrs. Dora
Richardson Clay Br*»ck. formerly child
wife of Oeneral Cassius M. Clay, has
gone to Valley View to consult her
brothers relative to getting possession
of the property left her by General
Clay In hla will. Hla children had
General Clay adjudged Insane Just pri-
or to his death, and the management
of his property turned over to a.trust
company in Richmond. Lawyers have
informed Mrs. Brock that It Is almost
certain the children will contest the
will.
White Girl Shot Negro.
Vicksburg Miss.. July 28.—Annlo
Strong, white, to years old. blew the
top of Robert Anderson’s head off with
a charge of squirrel snot yesterday.
Anderson Is a negro, To years old.
and la alleged by Mias Strong to have
basa advancing on her with an axe.
A dispute about tha location of a di-
vision tones precipitated the tragedy.
ThS Strongs operate a ffnlry JmI out*
aMs the ofty Annin served at ad and
Into talk
DANVILLE RIOT.
Two Killed and Twenty-Two Wound-
ed—Situation is Strained.
Danville, Hi.. July 27.—Two killed
and twenty-two wounded, the police
station wrecked, the county jail with
few of it* windows left unsheltered.
th»* city 'n 'he bunds of the state
troops, and a fueling of uneasiness
and dread prevailing, ix the situation
from the race rloin Saturday night
ami ear'y yesterday morning
After da> Mghl Sunday morning there
wen* restless crowds on the streets.
Hundreds of farmers poured into the
eliv and each surrounding town con-
tributed to swell the crowds. There
were many miners seen on the streets.
Great unrest was reported from VVest-
ville, five mil<*s away. Early iu the
morning. Wilson, the assailant of Mrs.
Burges*, was secretly taken from the
county jail, was was rclurued shortly
alter f> o'clock to tin* jail.
Four companies of militia arrived at
8:3" o’clock yesterday morning from
Springfield The troop* inarched To
the market house, opposite the jail,
and camped The street* were cleared
and the threatening attitude of the
crowd disappeared. There were sul-
len threat* made, but no attempt at an
outbreak was manifested
James Fell Killed.
Fort Worth, Texas, July 27.—James
Fell, aged 35, was instantly killed by
tho cars yesterday afternoon. In at-
tempting to alight, from a moving
train Fell stumbled in front of An en-
gine on the Texas and Pacific going
in the opposite direction. Fell was
Ewen Unprotected.
| Irvington, Ky., July 27 —Captain J.
I B. Ewen, chief witness In the case of
j Jett and White at Jackson, returned
| here from Cyothlana at midnight. Ha
says he went there to testify at to-
morrow’s trial, under the aosoraaca
that he would receive military protoc-
I (ion. On arriving he applied to Colo-
nel Wll items for a detail and was toW
that iu tne order* of the court direct
ing the duties of the militia no pro-
vision was made for guarding Ewen or
any witness. Ewen kept In conceal
ment. until the night train to Lexing-
ton. He will wire the governor ask-
ing for protection.
A Tragic Occurrence.
Fort Worth. Texas. July 27.—'“When
I die I want to be burled here In Ken
nedale,” was the remark made by Mra
D. C. Campbell, aa she stood In the
aisle of a church In that place yester-
day morning, and instantly fell over
dead.
Mrs. Campbell lived in Fort Worth
and about a week ago went to Kenne-
dalc to visit her daughter. During
the past week she haa regularly at-
tended church service®, a protracted
meeting being in progress in the
church where she died so suddenly.
She was «7 year* of age. , •
assistant yard mas tot in the Texas and
Pactllc yards. He had been connect-
ed with the company for six or eight
year*.
Tom Varnell Killed at Abbott.
Hillsboro. Texas, July 27.—At 1
o’clock yesterday afternoon Tom P.
Varnell was killed at Abbott toy Os-
car Ferguson. Varnell killed Jonas
Land in 1883 and served twelve years
In the penitentiary. Released in Jan-
uary. 1902, and killed a Mexican In
the Indian Territory six months later.
Ferguson is a vetrean of the Spanlxh-
A inert can war.
Two Whits Mon Indicted.
Tyler, Texas, July 27.—The grand
jury returned Indictments against
Cliff Grant and Harry Belcher last
night, changing them with criminally
assaulting a negro woman. Grant and
Belcher are white men are about 24
years of age. The assault was corn-
will be brought into court thlu morn-
ing. when their cases will be set for
trial. A speedy trial will ho accorded
them.
Rairoad Clarks to B* Arrested.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 27.—War
rants have been issued tor the arrest
of twenty New York Central Railroad
clerks In connection with the robbing
of freight cars. Six clerks were ar-
rested some Gme ago on the same
charges And five pleaded guilty. They
are supposed to have given Informa-
tion leading to the Issue of additional
warrants.
Lynching Averted.
8t. Louis, July 27.—Four men,
Thomas. Nick and W. R. Nydem and
Wm. McOomb, charged with having
assaulted and killed Gertie Otbaon, •
years old, at Bloomfield, were brought
hare yesterday tor safe keeping In
tha Jail, as a mob hAd aaAda arrange-
ments to lynch tha prisoners.
Catten Gin Destroyed.
OMHdm. Than* July 17.—Darrel
A ttitoETg gtu. sttuAted at Darrel,
•ro atOaa turn this plaoa, horsed Fri-
pm. Tha aright
nrakhd sappM
di mimmrnmg.
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mm
ot tha Ita n SB*
id ts be the mark
Floods In London.
Loudon, July 27.—Heavy rain Sat-
urday night over the sooth of England
caused serious floods and great dam-
age in London. The underground rail-
road was flooded and many printing
rooms wars flooded and unable to
print Sunday’s edition until late in
tha afternoon.
Hurt Chang ad urtth Criminal AsaauiL
Cameron, Tsana, Jeiy «7.-«*h * *
ndoro JEMtod' LiUk-1
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Carnes, J. M. Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1903, newspaper, July 31, 1903; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth802981/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend).