Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-07-05
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Interesting Items Carefully Selected from
tho Lending Dalllea

In fifteen months, starting without a
cent and returning with stipulated
cum, the amount OF which is not dis.
closed. The trip is to SETTLE a wager
of go, 900 to $4,000 thaSit cannot be
done.
Judge Hazenoi of the Shawnee
county, Kan, district court has do
cided what is known in insurance cir
Giles as tho "reciprocal taxi case,
holding that the claim made by the
Kansas insurance department of tho
right to collect a tax on the gross
premiums received by New York fire
Insurance companies in Kansas was
illegal
Hon. j. V. Lewis, ex-chairman oil
the Democratic congressional com
mittee, caused political sensation at
Alliance, o., recently by indorsing
Seen" CoXey's candidacy for con-
gross in that district. He says Dem
ocrats generally will support Coxey
and that the regular Democratic con-
vention will indorse him.
Zimri Dwiggings, president; w. G.
DOhblJ, NlNO plNolbphpf Nhh OOhA
Green, assistant cashier OF the Column
bia national bank OF Chicago, which
failed year ago have just been in
dicted by the grand jury on a charge
OF receiving deposits when they knew
the bank was insolvcnt.
Neal Craig, Philip Jordan and Stark
Shields have been jailed at Selma,
Ala. They enticed a negro boy, 16
years old from his home and all
three jumped on him and beat his
brains out with clubs. The only ex-
cuse given is jealousy over girl.
The statement of foreign commerce
for the month Of May shows that We
exported but 80 per cent as much
wheat as in May, 1898, and the aver
age prioo at export points was only So
cents per bushel, against rs cents q
year ago.
, John Hanson Craig, professionally
known as John Powers, the kentucky
giant, died few days ago at his home
in Danville, Ind. He was u museum
attraction for twenty years, and
weighed 700 pounds. He was 46 years
old.
Advices report 1900 deaths from
the plague in Hong Kong, China
from May to June /, 230 being UNI
der treatment The total number OIL
eases since the outbreak is about
1880
Early the other morning the womer
at Walston, Pa, massed themselves
and made a charge upon the work
train, but before any serious damage
was done the guards drove them of
A Cleveland turnkey entered pris.
oner's cell the other day unexpectedly
and found him sorting over six do en-
fine saws, a saw frame and "tools
enough to cut the Jail to pieces"
At Galesburg, ILL.,, a cyclone re-
Gently wre ked many buildings The
grand stand at the new race track
was blown down and several barns
were wrecked.
The railroad employees throughout
the country are refusing to handle
Pullman palace cars. 1t looks like an
universal strike.
Americans have bought several
tracts OF coffee lands near Ilacotal-
pam, rlala Vicente and Canton Gux-
tus, in Mexico.
In Louisiana the negroes have an
organization known as "black-cap-
pers." They operate only among
their own race.
Two men, two women and two chill
dren were drowned by the capsi1ing
OF cGtboat near Brooklyn, N. Y,
recently.
A few days since Christopher Gross
WAS drowned in canal at Toledo.
o., while teaching some young men
to swim.
La Bonanza gold mine near Alta
Sonora, Mexico, has been sold to
Americans for 500, 200 in gold, cash
down.
The body OF a beautiful girl was
taken from the Merimack river near
st. Louis recently. She WAS not iden-
titled.
The trial OF Cesario Santo. the an
archist assassin of President Carnot,
Is to take place at Lyons on July 70.
At Suagui, Sonora, Mexico, rich
gold placer mine, long abandoned, is
again being successfully worked.
Recently Samuel and Ada Hook
man, boys, were drowned in Embar-
rass river, near Summer, Ill.
Christopher Ayerill was drowned in
Maumee river recently at Toledo, o.,
by the capsizlng OF his boat.