Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-01-25
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS
INTERESTING CULLlNOS Fro
THE DAILY PRESS.
FROM
A Crisp aud Complete nreviary of Racy
Hound-Ups Carefully Selected aud Rem
drrod Roadnblo from Every Portion Of
the Empire State.


working three large mules abreast,
when his team became soelred and
ran away. Some how he fell from his
seat in front of the pillow and vas
struck in the bao the POI bit OF the
pillow and it wenAg though D is heart
and his body. to q the t3am was
stopped his lifeless' 70 '-jdy wasJ hanging
to the pillow, and when the body was
pulled from the pillow the heart stuck
to the pillow and came ont Igith il.
He leaves large family.
A car OF stock bound So hh took
fire recently between W.Ntewright
and Bells, about eighteen lies south
of Denison, resulting in the destruc-
ton of about fifteen horses arid mules.
The fire was caused by sparks drop
ping in the hay. The titain was
promptly stopped, the bur ming car
ditched and the doors broken to re-
lease the burning animals, put most
of them had been burned alive.
At Temple few days since, Frank
Salyer, man named McLeah, man
named Moss and Moss wife lwere in
volved in shooting scrabe, near
Moss home, Moss was shot four
times, twice in the head, twice in the
stomach or in groin. Mrs. Moss was
shot in the side. the bullet NOT going
through the body. Frank Salyer was
shot in the lleshy part of the thigh.
Mclean was unhurt
One morning recently the body OF
Holloman Dick, IS years old, was
found lying at the foot of a large oak
tree three miles west of Madisonville.
The ground showed that his horse had
run away and some broken limbs and
the deep tracks of the horse showed
clearly that the rider had been thrown
against the tree. The top of Dicks
skull was broken and the spinal colum
discolored.
Charley w. Bivens, who was jailed
a few days since at Corsicana, charged
with shooting at Miss Murphy, {
young lady, being allowed his libArty
took 20 cents worth of morphine. A
doctor was called who fought the
drug faithfully but Bivens c. 1ssed the
mystic river. Decec-. ~ = trt1
over and leaves little eli file was
buried at Petty's Chapel BY the side
of his wife.
Recently at Sandy Point, Brazoria
county, two peddlers stopped at Sam
Garver's to stay all night. While
Lewis White was showing a pistol to
some parties it was accidently dis
charged, the ball passing through his
own hand, entering the lower bowels
of the other peddler, named Nendel-
sohn, producing a wound from which
he died.
Recently at Gilmer Upshur county,
jeff Saunders, about 60 years of age,
was shot in the left thigh while
standing before the fire in his room
alone. The shooter stood outside
and shot through window. The
doctor who dressed the wound took
out about twenty buckshot The
wound is considered dangerous. No
clew.
DR.. r. Blum of Corpus Christi and
Herman Muely, who lives on ranch
forty miles from Corpus Christi, are
playing a game of chess by mail.
They make one move daily and keep
each other informed of their moves
ly postal card. The game has been
in progress five weeks and will con-
clude in about two weeks.
Joe Bunshaw, the bartender at the
Oriental hotel, Dallas, while sitting
on an iron railing outside of the bar
on jackson street, few days since
lost his balance and fell backward
down in the cellar, a distance of four
teen feet, breaking his skull and neck
and dislocating his right shoulder.
According to the message of the
mayor assuming that the revenue for
general purposes will be $50, 600 and
the fixed charges $72, 172, Austin will
have balance of $17, 437 for general
improvement, including streets,
bridges, etc.
Fifty-fve half-barrels and five bar
rels OF spare ribs were condemned re-
Gently at Galveston by Inspector Fred
Burkey of the health department as
being unwholesome. The meat was
in possession OF Strand commission
house.
At Waco recently, four well known
young men were participants in a
general shooting affair, about which
young lady plays part, Ray Hoff-
man, Archie Thomas, Harry Hurst
and S. L, Warren were the quartette.
Cooke county farmers complain of
the depredations OF min1s on their
fowls. Until within the last few
years the mink was an unknown
quantity in north Texas, but they are
becoming quite numerous of late.