Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-07-27
ALL OVER THE STATE
Crisp and Choice Cuttings Condensed from
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A negro porter by the name OF Ed
wards had II singular experience in
Denison recently. lie stepped into an
ice cream parlor and asked for saul
Ger of cream. While he was eating
1t he fell over in fit. Two negroes
on the outside saw the circumstance.
They entered, robbed Edwards of q
gold watch and his pocket change,
80 or 80 cents, and then made good
their escape,
Hon B. H. Bassett, recently elected
q law professor Of the state univer-
sity, died at Austin from the effects
Of heart disease aggravated by an at
tack OF pneumonia and nervous pros
tration resulting from breaking his
arm by falling down the hotel steps
some time since in that city. He
leaves two young lady daughters who
were with him during his sickness.
Jameu Fowler, sewing machine
agent, OF Greenville has been arrested
and jail charged with attempting
rape upon the 16-year-old daughter Of
c. H. Monkey, prominent farmer,
When the father first heard Of
the insult toward his daughter he
armed himself with shotgun and
would have killed Fowler had not by
ISLANDERS interfered
At Lancaster, Dallas county, win
T. Thomas, colored, Of Dallas, and
win Hunter, alias Taylor, had diffl-
Guilty. Hunter was shot three times,
causing death instantly. Hunter lived
here. Thomas gave himself up and
is now in jail.
A white baby was found in an or
chard near the house of a widow wo-
man, who was sick at the time in La
mar county. 1t was taken to her.
She denied any knowledge Of it, but
the baby was left with her anyway.
The county commissioners of Wood
county have appropriated $1,000 to
build turnpike across the Sabine
bottom. The distance is about one
and one-third miles and will be thrown
up above the high water mark.
n At BRENNAN few days since POI
ID iceman arrested ten small boys who
where bumming their way home from
~ s.y,ssftss-Ih ayr were tpGW Houston,
galveston and some OF them be-
over in Louisiana. /.
At Beeville home seekers are dan
arriving from other states, mostly
Mississippi and Louisiana, who are
highly pleased with this country, and
some of them have already bought
land
At dance near Glen Rose, in a
dihculty between Chas. Foust and
Walter Sullivan, Foust twas cut in
three or four places quite seriously.
Sullivan gave himself up to the sheriff.
jenkins and son, who were arrested
/ in ncnison on the charge OF passing
counterfeit bill were taken before
/ the United States commissioner at
Sherman, and have been discharged
A Grayson county man, well con-
(. nectcd and formerly bright and intel
ligent himself, who lives in the south
e ern part OF the county is insane from
an excessive use of cigarettes.
AtAustin John Palm, aged 10 years,
and John Sullivan, aged, aged IS, had
a scrap, which resulted in the older
boy being badly injured with rocks
thrown by MS antagonist
The city of Navasota has heretofore
been lighted up by twenty-five arc
= lights. A wave of economy struck the
, council, who have had the number
! -.
I brought down 10 eleven
5 Three negroes tried to bride Jailol
j. j, Murrell at Marshall, to not ap
pear before the grand jury against I
negro preacher. They are all in jai
no" win 'he preacher'
At Waco recently blazing balls o
2 cotton soaked in turpentine wer
thrown into the residences of Mr.
Melton and Mr.. Strauss. The polio