Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-07-20
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Crisp and Choice Cuttings Condensed from
Ire Daily Press.
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hANf'a' W lAIltAlllos AlD 10 We y 'hlo blhi
vevy short and quito healthy. He |
was married twice and had born to
him forty-hvo children by the two
wives, BY the first he had twenty
three children three boys and twenty
girls -bv the second twenty-five chill
drcn two boys and twenty girls. lie
has forty grandchildren,
At Union Valley, in Wilson county,
three sons of the late Pink Hudgins
OF that place went by moonlight to
enjoy ncighbor' watermclons The
owner had poisoned the melons and as
the boys ate heartily one died in the
patch, another fell dead as he clhmcd
over the fence and the third managed
to reach home, though in dying con-
dition, telling the fate ofhis brothers.
At San Antonio, when the United
States commissioner read the charge
to j. ID May of attempting to rob tho
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass train
recently, and asked him whether he
was guilty or not, and whether he
wanted IN attorney or not, the pris-
o-er, who seemed very detected, re-
piled 81 don't want any lawyer I
don't need any. | am guilty."
b. Mcdaniel, county Judge of Ellis
county, fined Judge NJ. b. Temploton
several times the same day, amount
ing to 200, and ordered the sheriff to
remove Judge Templcton from the
court and incarcerate him until the
fine was paid. Judge TemplctOn has
filed a suit against the county judge
for $50, 400 actual and 100000 exem-
plary damages.
At Fort Worth recently a shooting
Scrapo in the Merchants national
bank occurred between Mr.. A. b.
Smith, cashier OF the bank, and Mr..
r. NJ. Page, fin st vice-p president.
There were seven shots fired in all,
Mr., Page received a slight flesh wound
In the left side. Mr.. Smith is unhurt.
Both were arrested and gave bond.
Recently Wiley Durbin, the 12-yeaY
old son Of Henry Durbin, who liyIh
about five miles north of Lancaster,
Dallas county, accidentally shot him
self fatally. He was trying to shoot a
coon that his dog was in fight with.
Recently at Marshall the 6-year- old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Haslip was
attacked by a vicious COW, which
tossed her about twenty feet in the
air and injured her so that she is not
expected to live.
II, j. Bacon OF Paintrock, Runnels
county, who has been an excessive
cigarette smoker is dead 1t affected
his brain and this, the physicians say,
was the cause OF his death. He was
10 years Of age.
The railway projected near El Paso
is to be called the Rio Grande North
ern. 1t will extend from Van Horn
on the Texas and Pacific to San Carlos
coal mines, distance of thlrty-fve
miles.
- Jim, Bob and John Lee, who have
been in jail at Greenville, charged
with the murder OF Bob Wilson, near
Wolfe City, Ave years ago, have been
released from custody ON $4,000 bond
each,
Judge b. H. Bassett, the newly
elected professor OF law in the state
university, fell down the hotel steps
At Austin and broke his leg. The in
fury is quite painful, but not danger
Gus.
Near Rising Star, Eastland county,
at picnic, the little 4-year-old son oil
Mr.. Hodnett fell in the track of a
hyiug-j jenny and was severely out
and bruised about the head and face.
Surveys have been made for an eX-
tension OF the Austin and Northwest
? ern to Mason from its present term
mus at Marble Falls, Texas. The dis
lance to Mason is about forty miles.
w. X. Bell, a cattleman from Palo
Pinto county, and Goat Walker had a
shooting affair in the White Elephant
saloon o few days since. AT Fort
Worth. Nobody hurt.
Miss Susie Zooune committed sui
eide at Bolton recently taking NOR
phine. She had been engaged to a
young man for several years and he
married another girl.
Near Permissible, in Anderson
county recently, Warren Jones was
shot by Jimmie Nicholson, school
teacher, both colored. Their trouble
was about money.
A negro in Brazoria county was met
in the road by large stray dog,
which attacked him and bit him TO
death. The dog was afterwards killed,
1t was mad.
A few days since at Kosse, Lime
stone county, DR.. w, A. Bedford was