Editor’s Note: Moments in Time is a collection of recovered newspaper briefs and other publications, compiled by local historian, Steve Hathcock, that offer a look back at the history of the Rio Grande Valley and the rest of the world.
OIL TANKER RUNS AGROUND ON PADRE ISLAND — DOLOMITE REPAIRED AT GALVESTON
Brownsville—The Motorship Dolomite, #2, which was stranded on Padre Island near Port Isabel nearly a week, is in dry dock undergoing repairs in Galveston, according to word received here Saturday. Her long stay on the sandbar loosened a quantity of bottom rivets. Her rudder also was damaged but was repaired sufficiently so that she could proceed to Galveston for repairs. She sailed from Port Isabel Tuesday. The Dolomite is a tanker owned by the Dolomite Marine Corporation. At the time of her accident, she was bound to Port Isabel to load a cargo of fuel oil for Washington D. C. She went aground and Padre Island 19 miles north of the coast guard station early Christmas morning and remain there until the following Friday. The Coast Guard cutter Saranac finally pulled her off. (Editor’s note: this was originally published in the Valley Sunday Star – Monitor – Herald on Jan. 8, 1939.)
“ROUGH AND READY” LINE OF STAGES
The subscriber has made arrangements to make three trips a week between this city and Brazos Island, by the way of the mouth of the Rio Grande — leaving Matamoros on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 8 o’clock, a.m. precisely — and Brazos Island on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at the same hour. Passengers can obtain seats by applying at the Exchange Hotel, at the Tremont House, or at the stage office, in this city – and at the Greenwood Hotel, on Brazos Island. H. Stevens Shrek, Matamoros. (Editor’s note: this was originally published in the American Flag. (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico), on Jan. 24, 1848.)
DEAD MAN’S NAME DRAWN — ON THE SPECIAL VENIRE TO TRY ISSUE OF HIS OWN KILLING
Waxahachie, Texas., Jan. 16.—The anomaly of a dead man’s name being drawn upon a jury to try his own slayer actually occurred here in the District Court yesterday. Judge Dillard ordered the special venire of 60 men drawn in the case of the state of Texas versus the man who was charged by indictment with having murdered Joe Survant at Ennis about ten days since. In making up the special venires, the law requires a jury for the week to be included in the list. At the last term of the court, the jury Commission had drawn Survant as a juror for this week, so it fell out that when the venire was completed, the victim was on the jury to try the issue of his own taking off. (Editor’s note: this was originally published in the Brownsville Daily Herald on Jan. 20, 1900.)
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