Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-07
TEXkS CONVERSATIONS
a MIRROR OF RecsST OCCURRENCES.


There is an English setter at Abb
lene possessed of almost human INTEL
ligence, He tries to do everything he
sees people do. lie rings the door
bell, and when admitted greets his
master with bark. A number of
ladies' were performing on the piano
some days since, and when they left
Geronimo's master was surprised by
hearing the overture to poet and
Peasant beautifully rendered. he went
to the parlor and to his surprise found
Geronimo at the piano about to begin
''Liszt's Seventh Rhapsody"
Press standifer was recently found
dead near Meridian, Bosque county.
The verdict of the inquest was that,
deceased came to his death by the,
accidental discharge OF his gun whilei
chasing deer. Part of his left hand
was torn away and there were twelve
buckshot in his side. His horse. gun and
three dogs we're found near the body,
where they had evidently remained
Tor thirteen hours. The deceased
leaves wife and five small children.
| A telegram has been received at the
war department from Brig. Gen.
Wheaton, commanding the military
department. OF Texas, confirming the
belief that the alleged Mexican trouble
Is more visionary than real. Gen.
| Wheaton says: at is quite certain.
and it has been admitted by the Mex
lean authorities, that no parties of
] mod batta ppnggoI into Mnyipn
Il. N the American side
The governor recently telegraphed
the members of the live stock com
mission ut Galveston and Corpus
Christi, at the request of County
Judge Won Rosenberg, to come to
Austin to investigate an epidemic pre-.
yailing among horses and mules in
that county. Local veterinary sur
geons cannot agree whether or not it
Is CHAMBERS.
At Dallas u few days since the jury
in the case of the Sisters OF Mercy
against the Missouri Pacific railway
company for destruction of goods
shipped from Carthage, Mo-, to Dial
las, after celebrating nearly eighteen
hours. returned verdict giving judg-
ment for plaintiff in the sum of $3631.
The amount sued for was $3.50.
Manning Davis was convicted in the
federal court at Paris few Days since
Of the murder of John Roding in Eagle
county, Choctaw nation, December 26,
1891. The evidence showed that
Roding was stabbed to death in the
presence of his wife, who was on her
knees begging for her husbands life.
A freight train on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas was wrecked re-
Gently six miles west of West Point,
Fayette county, A brakeman named
Snyder was instantly killed and Com
luctor Reeves and Car Repairer Brown
injured. The wreck was caused by
oil tank breaking down.
A train on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway ran through n
bridge near Rosauky, in Bastrop
county, recently, injuring the en-
gineer in the side, back and chest,
breaking two ribs, The fireman and
: a brakeman were also injured.
For $50 per month the county of
Williamson has rented 800 acres of
| land from Sheriff Brookshire to be
used for pasturing the road oxen dur
ing the winter months. On account
, of heavy roads the teams are given u
holiday during cold weather.
Williamson county has purchased
of A. j. swanson and 6. Il, Munson
ninety-six acres of land as an addition
to the county poor farm. The land
lays adjoining the county farm, mile
from Georgetown. The consideration
was $2905.
AT Trinity, Trinity county, recently
several shots were fired in the john
son restaurant and colored man
, named Adams was found TO have
( stopped two of the bullets, but who
lid the shooting is mystery.
Acknowledgement Culberson has APP
J pointed Allen Mayfeld OF Sherman as
his third assistant in place of MIR. h,
, l.. Bats, who was elected by the
board of regents assistant law profess
sor in the State University.
The comptroller has just registered
and purchased $2500 of Hamilton
county bonds for the school fund and
also registered $1,000 bonds Of Jeffer-
son county and purchased $500 OF
them for the same account.
Dave Harden, living three miles
from Granger. Williamson county, was
Iooling with sixshooter recently and
let it fall to the floor, 1t was dis
B charged, the bullet passing through
ais bowels and left lung.
Two victims OF the explosion at the
town of Minerva, in Webb county, re-
ae-tly, caused by Mexican woman