Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-11-23
A GENERAL BREVlARY.
Interesting liens from All Over The worli
Selected from Various Sources.
a FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW,
Embracing Serious and Sensational Happenings and
Current News Covering Many Toplo' Of
interest 10 All RssdetL

Louisville, Neb., sleeps in the post
office. At midnight recently, he was
awakened by three men, who seized
and gagged and bound him, They
went through the safe, which they
succeeded in opening after half an
hours work. Mr.. Shylock succeeded
in slipping the gag from his mouth,
but it was not until after o'clock in
the morning that he succeeded in at
tracing the attention OF passer-by,
who entered the office and cut the
rope that bound him.
Recently near Alliance, o., Miss
Birdie Baugh, student at Mount
Union college, was ravished and muir
dered by Curt Davidson, a farm hand
in the employ of Baugh, in the alb
sence of her parents. Her dead body
was found on the barn floor Half a
mile away Davidson was found lying
beside the road with his throat cut,
having committed suicide.
Governor Flower has written a let
ter to District Attorney Ridgeway of
Brooklyn, recommending the appoint
ment of Messrs. George &, Reynolds
and Edward NJ Shepard to prosecute
the recent election offenders in Kings
county. The governor calls attention
to the fact that he has named one
Democrat and one Republican.
The town of Portland, Ark, with a
population OF about 800, was destroy
ed by fire with the exception OF two
houses few mornings since. Ed.
Sedberry, who was asleep over the
store OF Hugh Bros, was burned to
death. He tried hard to escape and
every effort was made without sue
cess to save him.
Albert Lawrens shot Mrs John Pc
terson in the abdomen a few nights
since at Tacoma, Wash, and then
went to the woods near tho Peterson
house and blew his own brains out
with revolver. Lawreus was in love
with Mrs. Peterson before her mar
rage to his rival three months ago.
The suit of John NJ. Glover, lawel
and ex-congressman, of St, Louis,
against the American Casualty, lnsur-
ance and Security company, of Balti-
more, Md, for 100000 damages for
publishing him as an embezzler o.
$GG 600 in its circulars, has resulted
in verdict for S27 900.
At Princetown, Ind, recently,
while Jeweler w. T. Wade was al
dinner, thieves effected entrance tc
his store by breaking glass out OF the
back door, They carried of thirty
one gold watches and tray of dia
mond rings.
The entire hill county of Tonkin
Siam, is in full revolt. The French
forces there are impotent and confined
to their posts. The native soldiery
are demoralized and rebelious, anC
the railway and road works have beer
abandoned.
The steamer Dripfast sunk off the
Isle of Wight recently laden with coal
The sinking was due to an explosion
IN the peak by which one man wa!
killed and three injured. The remain
ing sixteen members OF the crew were
rescued.
The wife OF Adam Bright, the MI
ami county, o., farmer who wal
heeced out OF 81, 500 a few days since
by bunco men, died from the shocl
caused by the loss. She had worked
hard all her life to help earn the
money,
The sheriff took possession OF the
Washington state building at the
Worlds fair recently. He acted or
attachment proceedings brought in the
superior court by the Union Nationa
bank OF Chicago to enforce claims o
$l325.
Husking bees are now being inau
,gurated in various portions of Mis-
souri,, where the rustic bellies ant
SWANS vie with each other for the rec
ear, the possession of which confer:
certain osculatory benefits.
The Page -four mills at Fergui
Falls, MINI, with capacity of 6OC
barrels day, 1860 bushel eleva
tor, 1000 bushels of wheat, warehouse
-etc., burned recently. Loss 300, 600
insurance 100000.
Five masked men entered the farm
house OF Gabriel Tollackson, twelve
miles west OF Viroqua, Wis, recently
and with drawn revolvers compelled
him to give up $50 in money and val
liable jewelry.
The total revenues OF the postofiict
department from all sources during
the last fiscal year were $57, 1896, 933
and the expenditures SS1, 074, 104
which leaves deficiency for the yeal
OF 50, III, III.
w. F. Putnam, president of the Lex
ington, Ky, waterworks company, has
been arrested in Exeter, Mass. fol
embezzinp $50 900 from the Nationa