Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-06-28

commands in the army. Some of
them have been sent to distant prov
inces while others have been i'm
prisoDed.
A Chinese asked to be registered
~ Yuma, Ariz,, the other day under
tbo name o. charlie Allen. The
oFcer refused because it was not Il
Chinese name. The Chinaman eX-
planned that he got the name by mar
rying a white woman.
Near Marinette, Wis, recently the
family of Isaac Brazeau ate poisoned
lettuce for dinner. Six members were
Frustrated few hours afterward and
physicians worked on them for four
hours, when they were pronounced
out of danger.
Tho senate committee on education
and labor haS unanimously decided to
favorably report the bill providing an
appropriation of 5000, 900 for gov
ernment exhibit at the proposed cot
ton exposition to be held at Atlanta,
Ga.
The report that Nellie Grant Sarto-
ris was engaged to General Henry X.
Douglas of Maryland is denied by the
family Mrs Sartoris is now in New
York with her mother at the home Of
Colonel Fred Grant.
Isaac Hanks has been found guilty
OF causing the death of his wife at
Rutland, Vt, by denying her sufficient
food. He was fined $1,000 He is a
man of misery habits, and is said to
be worth $4,000.
Nashua, N. H., has resident named
Hiram Goodpudding. His fathers
name was Constitution Goodpudding,
and he lived to the age of SO without
even having been more than thirty
miles from home.
Suicides are said to have become so
alarmingly frequent in Denmark that
it is proposed to check the desire for
self-destruction by law which will
give the bodies OF suicides to the dis
secting rooms.
At Rochester, N, Y, recently Eddie,
aged 8, and Nellie, aged IL, children
of William Buick, farmer, were
killed by a Lehigh Valley train at
Chapel crossing. No one witnessed
the accident.
Fire in the basement OF a siX-story
building at Duane and Elm streets
New York, recently caused loss
probably exceeding SO, 100000
The senate has passed to engross-
ment the Bell telephone bill, allowing
the company to increase its capital
stock to $50, 900, 900.
A whole family were poisoned re-.
Gently at Jacksonville, Ind, through
eating tainted meat. All are in a
precarious condition.
Mrs. Hadley and two daughters
were drowned recently while attempt
ing to cross the Saline river near
Plainsville, Kan.
Fearing his raft would be demol-
ished, Gustave Lasson of West Supe-
rlor, Wis, leaped into the river and
was drowned.
George A. Terrell of Eufaula, Ala,
accidentally killed himself recently.
He was cleaning gun and 1t was
discharged.
Strawberries are 90 plentiful in the
Boise, Idaho, market that dealers ex-
pect the price to drop to 3 cents &
quart soon.
Canada has apologized for drunken
soldiers tearing down the stars and
stripes at st. Thomas, and will pun
ish them.
From twenty-five to thirty cars o
tin are being loaded daily at Medicine
Bow, Wyo., on the Union Pacific.
United States marshals have ar
rested the Coxeyites who seized upoi
Union Pacific trains in Colorado.
The police force of Pekln, China, il
composed of 1900 men, yet there II
said to be gambling in that city.
An earthquake at Nacimento, Spain
recently destroyed a number of build
iugs and killed several people.
President Diaz OF Mexico says tina
he will fire all government employe
who do not pay their debts.
People in New York city, Chicag
and St, Louis have begun to complai
OF excessive heat.
President Cleveland has quit Wash
ington fer rest and recuperation frol
his recent illness.
Two boys named Davis and Lens
bury were drowned at Chaffe, N. Y
a few days ago.
The Bank OF England recently re
ceived in one day &S1, 900 of golt
about $405, 1000.
The general offices of the America
Railway union will be moved to Kal
sas City, Mo.
} Lord Coleridge, chief justice
England, died few days since