Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1900 Page: 4 of 8
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A FATAL WRECK.
PASSENGER TRAIN RAN INTO
AN OPEN SWITCH.
Two r«no*< War* r»Mlljr Hart It It *•-
IlnWt Tkalr liJgrlM B*l*( Inlornol—
kt.nl Ulh.n Kw.lfud loner lujurtM
—Ottior Maw* Not**.
Fort Worth, Texas, March 24,—Rngi-
neer Woodland of Fort Worth, Ham
Miller of Dallas, Clitrim Bender of
Burlingame, Kan., Otla Imvda, Mr*. W.
I*. Calhoun, Vivian Cartoon and Oiin-
dy Johnaon of Fort WOrtb were ail
hurt In a railroad wn'fk that occurred
to the oily limit* at taoou yesterday.
A northbound Missouri, Khuhum and
Texas jMSMcnger train rnn Into an
open switch while guhig at about
twelve nithat an hour, and collided
with a string of JoKlClntC < urs of a
bridge gang. Engineer Woodland shut
off hln engine und with Fireman Drr
Jumped. The fireman e*4ii|H*l injury,
hut tlw* engineer wan hurt Internally.
Ham MUIer was so seriously injured
that he will pmhnl»I.Y die. lie was on
a logging ear near the engine and wan
(aught lietwoen the water tank and
the end of n ear and badly hurt In-
ternally. (’undy JoIuimoii reeelved hla
tujiiriea by Jumping from the elialr
ear. He wm hurt luterually and may
die. One of Clisr'es Bender's feet wuh
badly tntiahiil. Two of tin* ears on tin*
aiding were thrown from the truck
thlrly feet. The englm* of the |»aa-
Miiifvr was not badly wreeked from
some unaceountalde -reason. Tile train
wan well crowded with paonetigera re-
turning from Halventon, where they
went to s»*« Uie lrnttleshlpn. Home
twelve or fifteen inissenger* were bad-
ly shaken ir* . but not aerloualy In
Jtned. /
A at| !►*•■ In Pine UnS.
Orange. Texaa, March 24.—J. W.
Link. Ksq., of UUa city has recently
returneil from New York City, where
lio went to i*ffeet a deal of consider*
t»> hitenwt In KU"t Texaa. He wan
aiuicnnful In bln mission and the pa
per* hare Just l««en signed up where
by the Koimtxc Bros, of New York
dlniwine of lliclr entire pine laud hold
lngM In Vewlon county. Texaa, consist -
tug of 21.U00 a«Tcs. The Kirby I .and
and I.umber company purehaaed lie
<SN» acres, the I.ulclier A Moore I.um-
la*r eoiiipnuy of Orange HuW acres
and Alexander <Ulmer of Orange 2<si0
acres. This lakes off of the market
every Imdy of pine land In Newton
county of any consequence, the timber
lands of that county now* Itclng owned
almost entirely l»y Dm* Kirby I.«uid and
I.umlter company, Lutdier A Moor*
I.uiiiIm r (ompany. M. T. .limes Lumber
com puny, Newton County Tram com-
jMiiiy. George Adams and Alexander
Gilmer. Tin* price paid for the lamia
has not been mude public, but It Is
kuown that the sale was made at a
good figure. _
Dallas Ml ml Car War
Dallas, Texaa. March 21.—An Inter-
eating climax was today reached in
the street railway war that has been
on In Dallas for months. A syndicate,
headed by George T. Bishop of Cleve-
land, Ohio, and T. L. Muivwlls of 1>:il-
laa, has wauled to build uu electric
road to Fort Worth. Their efforts
have been opposed liy President Van
Glsikle und the owners of the Dallas
consolidated electric linos. Last night
the lllsliop syndicate, without iwrinls
•Lou from the dty authorities, com-
menced lay lug track ou their profumed
Hue._The work was begun ut 2 o'clock
this morning and at daybreak th« Vun
Hinkle crowd were imich chagrlucd at
1lie coup of their opponents? They put
the city authorities after lUshop and
Marsalis and tonight all the leaders
were arrested on the rhnrge of lirak
tng up Ihe public streets of the oily
without the uecowiary permit. The ar-
retted matt gave boud.
Toss* A far*fir Il'rrfX.
Marmhall. Texaa, March 24 - Freight
train No. T4. on the New Orleans dl-
vision of the Texaa and Pacific, waa
wrecked Wednesday night between
Marthavllle and Robeline The wreck
iraa caused by the trsln breaking Into
three parts. Conductor Kd. McCor-
mick wss Injured In the back and had
both ankles sprained. Boeral ears
wore daasaged by the wreck, caught
In and were destroyed.
Tnokow IVUm Mill KMpfi
Texarkana, Texaa. March *4.~Ths
rattan foctory project nt this place Is
ksglnnlng to nasnase dednlts propor-
tions. Tim ascrekanta of the city
have mM H. R Hargrave to leoture
aim the mil In thin atty noon.
Mol tiers la Vlr«iala
Richmond, Va., March 24.—The ne-
gro who. with a white man, hilled
Justice of the Peace Saunders and Mr.
Wei ton, at (Skippers, Thursday, waa,
after an all night chase, captured at
Ktouey Creek, Busses county. He con-
fesMed to the shooting of 8ulinden* and
Weiton aud to several robberies. He
4s the notorious negro Cotton who es-
caped from the Portuioirth, Va., Jail
some mouths ago, w hile* under sentence
of death. . ; '
A posse immediately sturted from
Emporia, the county seat of Green-
ville. Jn the meantime a large crowd
gathered at Kui|H>ii>i tsmt on lynching
Cotton. County Judge Goodwin wired
the governor a request for troops nn l
the governor promptly ordered com-
pany B, i lie Richmond Bluet*, to report
at the <;oast Line depot, where a spe-
cial hud la-on secured. lie quern-d the
sheriff of UroenvIlUt to kuow If he or-
dered the Judge'H reqin-st. Later the
governor received n lelegrain from tin*
Judge Htallng tliat It was said his life
v.oatd la* In danger If the troopa were
aeiil. The governor aeked If he must
eonatrue thl* a* a withdrawal of the
request but aultM-queutly tip? sheriff's
indorsement came and tile troops were
dla|iat<*hed They arrived at the scene*
early till* afternoon und siirrouiiib*d
tlie Jail. Cotton gave the names of
several parties whoju* said were en-
gaged in the robberF and murder and
l»u»sos have laa-u sent after them.
•tltuallon In I'arrlo Him.
Ponce, P. It., Mtiivli 21. Tin* situa-
tion lu-n* Is more serious than It has
been at any Mute b**fon* since the ter-
rible hurricane. In many pluceu the
poor are starving. The price of rice,
-beaus and (saltish has Increased from
Ml to 100 per cent. Demonstrations
ugainst the delay of the United HtaU*s
government iu settling open questions
have frequently tsa-n held at,Maya<-
goer., Yuace, A reel 1st. Aguadilla. Fa-
jardo, Juana Dlax, Huayama and many
oilier tow tax The |teopU> are unable
to under*!und the delay and they con-
demn all Auierloaua Indiscriminately.
Bad finding Is arising which ft will
lake yen is to overcome. Trouble Is
Mine h( Inevitable uuiess the tension >•
relieved. Wealthy land owners can
not command ready cumIi and many
Americans are |M‘iiuIIchs.
Washington, March 21.—The sonnto
eonunltteo on Interstate commerce
yesterday granted a hearing to Judge
H. II. Cowan of Fort Worth, Texas,
general uttorney for the Cattle Rais-
ers' association of Texas, and T. W.
TomlliiHon, railroad representative of
the Chicago live stock exchange, in
supi>ort of the pi'itding bill for the
amendment of the Interstate commerce
law. They contended that the pro-
posed changes would be of great prac-
tical value In the convlctlota of dts-
crlmlnations und the iirevenllou of
undue preferences ou the part of the
railways. Judge Cowan alio advo-
cated the passage of the bill extending
to forty houra the time that cattle In
transit may be confined.
Holler Ki|>ImI»b ,
Muncle, Ind., March 24. -The James
Nlckuin *aiw mill, six miles southwest
of Muncle, wuh destroyed by an ex-
plosion today. Two men are dead,
two more will die mid three others
were injured. The dead arc- Marion
Carey, u wealthy farmer; Thomas 8ul-
.Ivan, aged 4tl. Injured: Clifford Vau
llusklrk, aged 18: will die. Iam Vau
Dunkirk, vugliuvr; will die. James
JogHtrout, serious; James McCreary.
head oil, leg broken, Injured Internal-
ly; Will (ireen, bead split open, leg
broken.
Irish la M*»l.
1/oudon. March 24.—At a lnrgrty at-
tended meeting of tlie Irish members
of parliaiucut today John Hedmond.
chairman of the purty presiding, It
was decided that In the Interest of
national unity, it was advisable to
summon a conventual of the Irish peo-
ple. Including representatives of the
clergy, all piddle bodies aud tbe na-
tionalist organisations, etc. A com-
mittee waa appoluted to arrange the
detail* of the convention, which wtJ
probably meet at Whitsuntide In Dub-
lin.
»i ■ t harra t»lr.
Chicago, March 24.—A special to too
Record from Limn, Ohio, says: Last
u'gbt about 100 pernona were taken
suddenly 111 (ram poison efforts after
attending' a * dinner given by tbe
Woman's Home Missionary society of
Trinity church', dome of them are
In a precarious condition onS several
wUl die,
to
RECORD BREAKER.
NBW SETTLERS FOR THE SOOTH
COMING RAPIDLY. ^
tfc* Railroad* Ar* Doing a Work
Mew—lad d (trial Agent* Declare the
Year WUl B«a« Aiijt Fr-tluu Ooe fur
Soalbcrn lau-Ollier .V*» Nut**.
Chicago. March 26.—The Times-Her-
ald tomorrow will say: The colonisa-
tion seuMou has been vigorously open-
ed by iijie railroads wldch extend into
Houthern territory- and the work, of
building up the Bouth, commercially,
Is to he carried on tills year on a
scale heretofore unknown. Industrial
agents declare that the year promises
to be a record-breaker for immigra-
tion to Bouthern Texas and fee the
location of factories and industries.
Activity In the phonpbute mines, re-
newed Interest lu the cotton Industry,
the discovery of the vulue of cassava
as a money-making plant, the kuowl-
elge that the railroads have countless
sections of unoccupied and fertile
farming lands, together with the re-
newed prosjierlty of the entire country,
ha»* made new -possibilities for Uiq
.South that were little dreamed of sev-
eral years ago.
The work of the Illinois Central road
Is a fair example of the Isjom that Is
uow oil Up to the present time tine
toad has exceeded List year’s record of
uew factories located along the line by
80 per «*«*ut. This remarkable show-
ing has heeu made dcuplte tbe fhet
thut the mouths of April, May and
June have always proved to be tbe
best mouths for prosecuting this work.
In Kentncky, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Tcnurmee then* have, been estab-
lished a large number of new cotton,
paper -itid sawmills and creameries.
Borne < r the roads whose agent* de-
clare tl the rise of business Is ex-
ceeding oi **eptIon are the Plant sys-
tem, the L< .svlUe and Nashville, the
Mobile and Ohio, and the Bouthern
railway. 1 lie 1/oulsvlllc fond Nash-
vlllo Is doing an unusual amount or
work in developing phosphate lands In
Tcnucssee and In colonizing farming
lands and disposing of timber bind*
In Alabama aud Florida.
Cassava plantations an* becoming
numerous In Florldu and especlMC at-
tention Is being paid to Inducing peo-
ple to engage In this new Industry.
The fact iliat from this plant can lie
made star, h and glucone of flue qual
Ity aud that' as a fattening agent for
stock It has no equal, is eugaglug the
attention of Northern farmers.
Mutt Nrlloh Klllad
Tacoma, Wash., 'larch 2C.—Today’s
Orlcsirtal mall contains the news that
the British fon*es In North Morneo
have finally killed Matt Belleb, tnc
■rch-rebel who has three timet* Incited
the natives to rebel against British
rule. He was killed In February In
n fight which followed that In which
the British Hand and naval forces un-
der Captain IDirrlngton destroyed
three stockade forts, where Belleb and
bis followers made their strongest
stand, in i his fight a naval gun from
the British gunboat Labuan was used
very effectively, sending solid shots
through Sellch’s forts. The British
exhausted their ammunition during the
fight. As soon as more could be se-
cured they started after Sedeb and
killed him in a fight further back iu
the mountains. Ills followers were
dispersed. Tbe news waa cabled to
Singapore and Hongkong by CaptAIn
OU* l»p(l****S mm HMm. -
Manila, March 26,—La Fa trim and El
Liberal, Bpanlsh organa of ' the ex-
treme Filipino party, have recently
been publtahlng articles Inimical to
the 'military government General
Otis has suppressed the former Jour-
nal for sedition and Imprisoned*the
editor, at the same time Issuing a
warning to the members of the extrema
party that they should ‘obaerve greater
moderation. Senor Paterno, at one
time president of the so called Fili-
pino cabinet having received permis-
sion from the authorities to come to
Manila, Is expected to present himself
this week at San Fernando, province
of Union. The natives In General
Young’s district are becoming aggres-
sive. The American battalion garrl-
eoning tbe town of Namagpacan was
attacked on four consecutive nights re-
cently. Reinforcements are now ar-
riving there. General Young proposes
to pursue the Filipinos before tbe
rainy season sets In.
Narrow Xm*|M Iran Death
Lake Cliarlee, Ln., March 20.— Loco-
motive Kin man Thomas Savoy had a
miraculous du-ape from an awful
death last night. He was under his
engine, which was standing at tbe
Southern Pacific* depot, engaged In
cleaning out the ash pun. The engine,
A bugh ten w heeler, suddenly started
at full speed backward. Ah quick as
though Bavoy gruspts] the exlunxt pipe
and, holding up ns much uh possible,
was draggt*d on with the runaway en-
gine. After the engine had gone some
distance down the track it ran into
two box cars on the main track. The
momentum of the runaway was sof-
flclHut to silver up the cars so that
one of them had to *be turned in for
repairs, and to smash the tank of tbe
engine, letting out all the water. 8a-
voy got from under the engine oadly
bruised and scratched.
GLOBE OLEANfNOB>
Laborrr* Ulv*a m *h*r*.
Charleston, R C.. March 20.—The
York cotton mills of Torkvllie, this
state, yesterday announced that they
would on next |»y-dny take 3 per cent
from the annual dividend and add to
the wages of the operatives. The
wages of kouh* of the employes have
been recently Increased 33 per cent.
These were not included ln the In-
crease yesterday. “We can not help
lorsec there must be an end of tbe
lioom some day and when we get back
to the comparatively flat depression
of a few years ago. If we ever do. Just
as we voluntarily Increase wages now,
iv* will lie impelled to reduce them
then.”
Qgrrlngton. The British chartered
company of Non a Borneo hired Belleh
to end his rebellion two years ago, but
be started another war when bis
money was gone.
Irish Demonstration.
Liverpool. March 26.—John Redmond,
loader of the Irlah nationalist party
la the house of commons; Mr. T. P.
O'Connor and Timothy Healy address-
ed an important Irlah demonstration
hero yesterday. Congratulating Irish-
men upon reunion, Mr. Redmond said
they had met under happy auspices for
the first time In n decade and he de-
clared that he stood upon the same
platform m Messrs. O'Connor and
Healy. Mr. Healy expreand the opin-
ion that the queen waa going to Ire-
land, not on the advice of her min-
isters, but in spite of them, and he
■hid he waa in favor of giving her a
BccvHla. Texas.—Cebboge shipments
am —anally increasing hat the do-
—i — attanm larger than the gag*
Dnkiiow ., M»n Madly Hart.
Galveston, Texes, March 26.—A dlf-
flei£ty occurred at Twenty-ninth street
and tbe wharf this morning which re-
sulted in au unknown man being
struck on the head with an ax and
very seriously Injured. He fell Into
the bay and would probably have been
drowned had be not been rescued by
some sailors from tbe Texas. He was
taken to the Sealey hospital in an un-
conscious condition. Captain E. P.
Westland of the ochooner Mary has
been arrested on the charge of assault
with Intent to mnrder. The affair
grew out of a discussion relating to
tbe Salvation Army. He la still un-
conscious, but It Is thought (hat he
will recover. •
Two Killing* Nonr Kookland.
Rockland. Texas. March 26.—Carl
Butler, employed at Chambers’ store,
at Cbombersvllle, seven miles from
Rockland, killed a negro named WU-
kerson, who lived near Palestine, at 6
o’clock this morning.—It appears that
the negro endeavored to follow Butler
Into the .store and was shot In this
attempt.
John Hicks was killed by unknown
part leu at 10:30 o’clock this morning
across the Nechee river. It Is said
that John Hicks won from a party
90S, which said party demanded back,
and at the refusal to give the money
up shot Hlefcs.
R**r <l«**ra*lty.
Bloemfontein, March 26.—The Doers,
who yesterday killed Lieutenant E.
Lygoo of tbs Grenadier Guards and
wounded Lieutenant Colonel Crabbe.
lieutenant CMonel Codrlngton and
Captain Trotter of the Odd Stream
Guards, who had ridden eight miles
beyond their camp on tbs Modder
river, without escort except one troop-
er, were members of tbe Johannesburg
mounted police.
After dressing the wounds they sent
tbe wounded to tbe British camp in
an ambulance.
Vienna. III.—Mrs. Vesta Hogg. In a
fit of Jealousy, shot and killed Mrs.
Clara Gnrlsy. Mrs. Hogg eras arrest-
ed sad placed In JalL
Secretary Root has returned.
Actress Jolla Arthur has retired.
One thousand families located in Ok-
lahoma in thirty days.
The Chicago Baseball club has gone
into spring training st Selma, Ala.
The statue of the late Senator
Vance of North Carolina la to be un-
veiled at Raleigh July 4.
’ A life-size gold statue of Mauds
Adams, worth 9187,000, has been cast
for the Paris exposition.
While preparing to shave a custo-
mer, B. W. Gilchrist, a Chicago bar-
ber, was assasslnat£(Pby a person out-
side the shop.
Admiral Dewey has promised to vis-
it SL Louis on May 4 and 5, Just two
days after the anniversary of hla vic-
tory at Manila.
J. F. Allen of New Orleans has pur-
chased 1,000.000 admission tickets to
the Paris exposition. He secured them
at half price.
As a result of a recent earthquake
near San Jacinto. Cal., a mountain
4000 feet high disappeared Into a
yawning abyss.
Dr. Charles Piazzl Smith, astrono-
mer royal for Scotland, who died re-
cently, was an uncle of Col. Baden-
Powell of Mafeklng.
From June 1, 1898, up to Feb. 19,
1900, the actual mottsllty In tbe Amer-
ican army ln the Philippines was 65 of-
ficers and 1460 men. or 74 per month.
Ex-Gov. Oates has retired from the
senatorial race in Alabama, which
leaves Senator Morgan and Gov. John-
ston the only candidates on the Dem-
ocratic aide.
Andrew Bolter, the noted entomolo-
gist. said to have had the first collec-
tion of beetles, butterflies and other
insects on the American continent,
died at Chicago.
Frank W. Elliott, editor of the Troy
(Kan.) Tim bee. a Democratic weekly,
newspaper, was shot at by an unknown
assailant as he alighted from a Grand
Island passenger train at that plaee.
The long standing suit over the pon-
session of Daly's London theater be-
tween the Daly heirs and George Ed-
wards was settled In favor of the heirs.
Edwards may have to refund £50.000.
The work of the Mexico. Cuernavaca
and Pacific railroad is being rapidly
pushed toward tbe coast. 2000 men be-
ing at work on grading. The Pacific
terminus of the road will be Schuete-
naco. Instead of Acapulco.
Mrs. Joseph Thompson, who war
president of the woman’s board of the
Cotton 8tates exposition, held in At-
lanta in 1895, has been appointed by
Gov. Chandler as special woman
commlssloaar from Georgia to the
Paris exposition.
At Chicago. Richard Oliver pleaded
gallty to having used the mails for
fraudulent purposes and was fined
$1000 and ordered to refund nearly
96000, which. It is alleged, he secured
from his wanted-to-get-rlch-qulck cus-
tomers.
The British ship City of Florence*
bound from Iquique for San Francisco
with a cargo of nitrate. Is ashore at
Half Macn bay within 200 yards of tho
scene of the wreck of the New York,
which went ashore near Half Moon
bay two years ago.
Bight ladles of the Constantinople
palace have been sent Into exile foi
machinations in connection with the
sultan's fugitive hmthar In 1»» m.k-
med. The palace secretary, Klaml)
Bey. waa suddenly exiled to Hedas
The reason has not been made public
Winston Churchill In a dispatch
from Pietermaritzburg warmly resist*
the contention that the relief of Lady-
smith rose out of Lord Roberta’ oper-
ations. He says Gen. Bailer greatly
assisted.
Shooting and sprinting were Indulg-
ed ln at Kansas City. Mo., as the out-
come of a disagreement between an
election Judge and three canvassers
investigating alleged fraudulent regis-
tration.
The 200th anniversary of the open-
ing of the Academy of sciences at Ber-
lin was celebrated ln the white hall
of the royal castle. Emperor William
made a speech during which be paid
a tribute to the services of the in|p
tution.
Among the bills Introduced in the
house of representatives was one by
Mr. Stephens of Texas for an Inter-
national dam on the Rio Grande, to
control the distribution of the river
between the United Statoe and Mex-
ka
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