Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-26

i no w esU DhllhS sCnOOl prbCluCl
has voted tax of / of per cent to
extend the scholastic term, and also
/ of per cent to build good school
building.
The International and Great Nor
thern railroad bridge on Hurricane |
bayou in Houston county, was burned /
recently, delaying trains half day
The distillery at Louisville, Denton
county, has begun work. 1t has a
capacity OF one barrel per day, and /.
consumes twenty-six bushels of corn
r. S. Smith has been given a ver-
dict for $4,000 at San Antonio against
the Galveston, Harrisburg and Sun
Antonio railway for personal damages.
Officers Frazier and Ballard raided
a couple of small gambling houses at
Hillsboro recently and succeeded in
running in seventeen of the boys"
The Oldest dress in Cleburne is tho
property OF Mrs. S. C. Lockett. II
belonged to his grandmother when
she was a girl and is l03 years old.
Ninety-eight pounds of ducks and
prairie chickens were shipped from
Devers, Liberty county, to New Or
leans the same day recently.
A. w. Ginty had been drinking very
hard for some time at Waelder, Com
tales county, and the other morning
he was found dead in bed.
A pelican measuring s feet inches
from tip to tip, and feet 8 inchel
from bill to tail was killed on the lake
near Hillsboro, recently.
A. A. Allen has been appointed
general manager OF the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway system
with offices at Denison.
At Austin Ollie Ackland, woman
living in "Mexicon attempted suicide
by poison recently but failed her re-
covery being probable.
At the late term of the district
court in Waller county, ten divorces
were granted, and the grand jury re-
turned siXty-siX bills.
DR.. +. NJ. Holmsley of BallingeI
had his arm caught in a gin recently
and so badly injured that amputatior
was necessary.
An eagle was killed in Richland
bottom, near Corsicana, few days
ago which measured seven feet from
tip to tip.
John Schneider, aged so years, was
recently run over by street car in
Dallas and both legs broken.
David Reed fell dead near San Mar
cos. 1t is believed that smoking
cigarettes was the cause.
Recently at Corrigan, Polk county,
John Mable took an overdose of Chic;
ride from which he died.
A considerable tract of cedar brake,
sixteen miles from BRENNAN, has beer
burning for several days.
There were $50 wagon loads of cot
ton seed sold in one day recently al
Taylor. for SIG per ton.
Jim White has confessed to having
murdered Bob Ford at Beaumont some
time since and is in Jail.
Some S2977 has been recently re
ceived at the state treasury from the
three lunatic asylums.
Twenty car loads of pine logs pei
day are being shipped from Hardin
county to Beaumont.
Denison is soon to have a flowe
show. Pear, plum and apple tree
are in bloom there.
Apples measuring from ~ 70 /.
inches were raised this season il
Montague county.
The people in the Red Oak precinc
of Ellis county have voted to keel
hogs in pens.
Two thousand acres OF grass hav,
been destroyed by recent iras in Vic
toria county.
At Leonard, Fannin county, II
Diggs recently had one finger torn Of
by u gin saw.
A number Of farmers living in Cald
well county are talking of boring arte
sian wells.
Two Choctaws had fist fight o.
the court house square at Paris re
Gently.
The Idlewild club of Dallas wi
give their tenth annual ball Octobe
"a.
Rain is needed in Burleson, Waller
Montgomery and Walker counties.
The city council of Dallas has vote
to issue 100000 more of bonds.
The rate of taxation in Austin
s2.04b on the 500 of property.
A federal fish Matching station is t
be established at San Marcos.