Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-10-12
A GENERAL BREVIARY.
A FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW.


Miss Ella Darling, q student at the
state normal school at West Chester
Pa, has got the authorities all stirred
up. She is an advocate of tho bifur-
Gated skirt theory. and a few days
ago Mortified the old maids OF the
staid Pennsylvania town by DOMINIC a
pair of trousers and galloping through
the streets astride horse, a perform
ance which she repeats dfhy The
spinsters want Miss Darlin9Arrested,
and Miss Darling wants th+& to try
it. She is anxious to test the right of
woman to wear trousers. The local
constabulary, however, refuse to in
terfere, and there the matter rests.
At Louisville, KY, twenty-four
suits have been filed by attorneys OF
workmen who were carried there
from the east to take the places of
the striking shopmen Of the Louis
vile and Nashville railway. The ac-
tions are against the latter company,
and damages for the sum of 500
asked for in each case. The grounds
of the suits are that plaintiffs were
brought here under misrepresenta-
ton; that they were locked up and
restrained of their liberty and that
they were refused transportation
back to their homes.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas
railway management recently made
the following appointments; John b.
Sneed to be general live stock agent
with headquarters at Fort Worth, vice
Samuel Hunt, resigned; w. b. Gal
breath to be traffic claim agent, head
quarters at Denison, vice j. B. Sneed,
appointed live stock agent; S. p.
Kennedy to be commercial agent, with
headquarters at Pittsburg, Pa,
Three immense turbine wheels,
with their auxiliary mechanism,
which were built in Philadelphia at a
cost Of 5000. 900, each for the purpose
of utilizing the stupendous power of
Niagara falls for industrial purposes,
will shortly be placed in position.
Each wheel is expected to develop
5000 horse power, The plant will be
erected some distance above the falls.
Nine gatemen and guards of the
Chicago and South Side rapid transit
(elevated) road have been drrested for
defrauding the company and held in
$1,000 bail each. The men are
charged with embezzling &kets. 1t
lis said that-lrsre 4shlsSa,g-t ~ -ea+la eS'
persons are implicated, ami that they
have stolen large sums.
At Charleston, S. c., the (raiding of
saloons is going on. The lispensary
constables, headed by Chief Constable
Gillard, arrested nine leading ex-
saloon keepers of that city in one day
recently and coniscated everything
they could.
The 3-ycar-old boy of William Fer
ris, of Scott county, Ky, met with a
horrible death recently. The child
was playing in an empty ice house
and lighted match, which ignited
the straw, and was soon enveloped in
flames.
A south-bound fast freight on the
Big -Four ran into some heavily loaded
fiat cars carelessly left by a local
freight crew near Edgemont, o., re-
Gently, causing an ugly wreck, killing
two tramps and fatally injuring two
others.
Mitchell and Corbett have at last
signed articles to fight at Coney Is
land, n. Y, for $4,000 purse. with
$50, 900 ION the side.h The winner
will make a clear rake off of $50, 900,
and probably do the business in an
hour.
1t having been reported that parties
in Kansas are using explosives to kill
fish, State Fish Commissioner Wamp-
Ter has given warning that he will en-
force the penalties of the law against
anyone caught INDUCING in that prac-
tice.
Sentiment in Canada is for the ex-
clusion of Chinese but the govern
ment has decided it cannot go con-
trary to the agreement made with
friendly nations or take action violat-
ing the spirit of the treaty.
Palas, the Spanish anarchist, who
is to be shot for the attempt to assas-
sinate General Campos, has number
of sympathizers who are being closely
watched by the police to see that they
do not make trouble.
The Chicago police returns on the
census of the unemployed have been
completed. From the exact figures
and estimates 1t is argued that $780,
900 unemployed men can be account
ed for in Chicago.
One hundred and five persons, con-
verified to the Seventh Day Adventist
during two weeks camp meeting
held at the state fair grounds, at Ian
sing, Mich, recently, were baptized
in Grand river.
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