Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-09-07
TEXAS CONVERSATIONS
4 MIRROR OF RECENT OCCURRENCES.



qualified as state officers and will
shortly begin their work. 1t is likely
they will have to examine every foot
OF every road in tho state before ar
irving at data for estimating tho cost
OF excavation and filling. After the
estimates are made and adopted by
the commission the railroads will be
notified and then permitted to come in
and show tho actual value Of the
roads and property.
Frank Jones who runs steam gin
at Blue Ridge, Fails county. recently
raised the breast to the gin stand
without stopping the machinery to
put in a wedge. IT. was but the work
of an instant. Only when the engine
was stopped, the belt cut and shaft
reversed that he could be eNtricated.
His arm was cut OF at the elbow and
was otherwise badly cut and bruised.
He was relieved from his great suffer-
ing by death.
Two citizens Of Justice precincts /,
2 and 3, Of Williamson county. CHAT
have already adopted local option),
petitions the district judge to enioin
the voters in those precincts from
voting in the coming election to de-
termine for or against prohibition in
that county, on the ground that they
have exercised to the full extent the
rights vested in them on the subject
OF liquor selling for two years.
Twelve Mexican outlaws near Van
Horn, III Paso county recently took 4
white man and his son, bound them
and tried to make them tell where
their money was hidden. They cut
off one of the arms of the father. then
the other, then split his head open
with hatchet. The boys throat was
cut from ear to ear. Rangers have
captured two Of the brigands and are
after the others.
Macedonia Azala. frien2ied with
jealousy, recently went to his sweet
hearts house, In san Angelo. where
he met rival, Antonio Monies. on
whom he fired three times. Two of
tho bullets penetrated his lungs and
the third broke his right arm. AlaIa
then turned the weapon TO his own
head and fired, blowing almost the
entire top OF his head away. causing
Instant death.
Superintendent Carlisle has passed
upon the examination papers OF rl-
teen applicants for Peabody scholar
ships and made the following selou.
lions: Eta NJ, johnson OF Rusk, j.
H. johnson OF Omaha and Il. L. Brew
er OF Terrell.
While cleaning out a well in Old
Dublin, Erath county. j. P. MuKinnie
found a petrilicd sandwich, which had
evidently been biscuit with a piece
Of sausage placed therein. 1t is said
to have u very appealing appearance,
Montgomery TILES, white, and Pete
Coleman. colored. charged with the
murder OF Charles Dykes, in Refuglo
county, recently had an examining
trial which occupied two days, They
were held under 5000 bond each.
Mack Ratlir and JEFF Smith, two
goung men residing north of Lock-
hart. have been arrested and bound
over for the theft Of two bales of cot
WI ''OH WNh' bShANiy o Hlh III thC
northern part Of Caldwell county
AT Dale. a town 10 the eastern part
Of Caldwell county. q Mexican cut his
wife in sixteen places. recently A
party present had 10 beat him OIL
with club. Tie woman cannot re-
cover. The man is in Jail.
Ed Williams a colored barber ut
Waxahachie, while playing recently.
Jumped from a platform about three
leet high and broke his leg below the
knee. The end Of tho broken bone
stuck through his pants.
w. B. Anderson, while digging a
we'll at Marshall, at depth Of thirty
pne feet. found some teeth which are
peculiar In shape, brown in color and
highly polished. They are supposed
TO be sharks teeth.
The Spanish steamship Ida, Arana
master, passed the bar at Galveston
recently drawing 10 feet inches and
proceeded to an anchorage in the
Duter roads where she completed her
cargo
At Palmer, Ellis county. a chicken
thief was shot ono night recently Tho
man got away. hut left his shoe,
which shows that the bullet entered
tho heel and passed out at the instep
j. j. Collins Of Granbury has
brought suit against the Western
Union Telegraph company OF that
place for $lO,0OO damages for failure
10 deliver message in june last
A new barge built at Orange for
The jetty works AT Charleston has been
lRunuhoC The barge is 40 feet