Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-07-12
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFo.
MoR Of General Interest Carefully
Selected From Many Sources.

Mayor Browne Of Houston and
County Judge Tod have signed the
cor tract with the Kellogg iron works
OF .iuilaIo, n. Y, whereby the latter
unC 'rtalyes 10 construct the Factory
str eft bridge across the Buffalo bayou
| Ils bridge is to be completed by
M cn ath and the brisge company
| FL. le paid in three installments OF
aach Captain VIM. Payson,
thel agent .or the company, says the
brdgo will be completed within six
mcjnths.
Johnnie Mcbride, a lad 10 years OF
age, was called up before the grand
jury at Gonzales recently, and upon
being interrogated concerning his
presence at certain places at certain
tiHhes refused to answer the questions
prppounded to him. Judge Spooner
eDdeavored to persuade him 10 answer
(R,e interrogatories, but he refused
anf ~ Il consequence was sent to jail
until he consents to impart the de-
si(ed information.
laura Lane, colored, who it IS said
has been living with negro named
Frceman Well alias Tom llennessy,
recently left him at Iockhart and went
to houston to live. Hennessy fol-
lo@5d the woman and meeting her on
tile street abused her. At night he
went to where she was living and at-
ter cursing her shot her four times,
vice through the bowels, killing her
lie then made his escape.
A. Happy charged with the murder
of Miss Maggie Tewmey at Fort
Worth has been granted bail by
Judge Harris Of the Seventeenth dis
t,ict court in the sum of $1,000. At
the April term Of court Happy was
tllowad bail in the sum Of $4,000 and
at haboas corpus proceedings the
amount, which he has failed to give,
v as reduced $1,000.
Miles Terry, a well known negro,
owner of considerable property in Nc
herman and Falls counties, was shot
lh tine bowels and instantly killed
near Moore Vile, McLennan county,
4 receutIv. The weapon used was a
shotgun loldcd with buckshot A
Warrant was issued for IL. Hawthorne
auotler negro, charged with the
shooting. Inc trouble was over a
Woman
b. n. Andrews, who was seriously
VI Injured ~ few days ago by his mules
III Backing Off Riverside bridge, near
7. Fort Worth, and precipitating him to
the ground, distance OF over
' twenty-five feet, has died from the
Result of the injuries he received.
both the mules were killed and the
iagon badly damaged.
4 At Terrell recently an entire brood
ii VI fifteen young chicks belonging tt
r. G. Nebhut were Frustrated by the
lin intense heat, and we're lying on theii
1 packs as though dead when discov'
4 bred. Mr.. Nebhut Immediately
prinkled cold water over them, ap
VI plying some to their bills also, anC
hey soon revived.
A Mr. and Mrs. Mauldin have severa
"A children, but their babe, being thoil
irst child for seven years, and theil
bnly girl, was almost idolized. They
Recently went to Goldthwaite to have
It's photograph taken, but before +
Twas done she took sick and died il
twenty-four hours.
An election was held recently a
Kennedy, Karnes county, for the pur
pose Of determining whether or no
the district would incorporate fol
II saLool purposes. 1t carried to unit
II The district covers sixteen squar,
II miles Kennedy in the center OF thu
district.
Arthur L. Chandler, baaer a
Tyler recently attempted to cut hi
. ~ .afI
caused by temporary alteration
superinduced by overwork. Tn
cash is in the neck and is long anC
ugly but is not likely to result fatally
Robert Smith, section hand on tn
Houston and Texas Central, whil
N trying to jump OIL a moving freigh
train fell between the cars at Enni,
ii recf Wy the wheels passing owe
1 both legs. He died OF his injuries,
Nv At lLovelady, Houston county, re
i A,ceptN William Ellis had his trunl
Tax While not noticing, a child
A teSrsI old picked up his pistol lying il
Il gthe trunk and pulled the trigger
4 SHOOTING Ellis through the thigh.
Mrs. NJ. A. Scott, who lives nea
4 Rocky Cedar, while going to Terrell
4 the }other morning was thrown from
"A wa9on in runaway, receiving sever
brui Uses about the head and an ugl
4 gas b across her forehead.
Burglars entered the residence O
A, lHirschburg at Giddings one nigh
3 lrecdntly, took his pants into the bacl
Il lyar4 leaving them, but taking hi
N knit aud Fl.5O Mr.. Hirschburg die
not wake until morning.
III Al storm visited Mineola few day
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