Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-08-01
TExA4 NEWS BRIEFS.
Lttms of GENERAL Interest Carefully
Selected From Many SUurceL

in covered wagon recently from
Wise county TO Gainesville when
ovcrtakon by thunder storm. Both
prit.hott and his wife were struck by
lightning and instantly killed, as well
as their two horses, but tine child
escaped unhurt, When found an
hour and hall later tine bodies Of
the pritchetts were sitting on the
spring seat OF the wagon almost as in
life. The spring scat had II lazy back,
preventing the bodies, after death,
from falling back ward. The baby
was sitting in the buck part OF the
wagon playing and growing Justify,
unconscious OF the stroke which had
bereft her OF her parents. The child's
hair was slightly singed, but its body
unnurt. lie was % years OF age and
his wife to They wore the parents
Of eleven children. eight boys and
three girls. They were Il hard ork-
ing couple and poor.
Col. Tom Pretty, OF Iavalla county,
has forty-one acres OF Irrigated land,
in high state OF cultivation, aud it
will produce thirty-live bushels OF
corn per acre and one and one-half
bales of cotton. But the charming
feature is the vineyard The finest
variety OF the Black Spanish grapes.
He has market for them in Texas at
. cents per pound +, o. b. at Uvalda.
His crop last year and this will aver
age 200 pounds This is the pro.
duct OF one-half acre. Three thou
| nd - mi
one-fourth OF an acre sold for % cents
per pound in Uvalda
Sin Killer Griffin is holding a
meeting at Bonham, The other night
while he was preaching aud CRITICS.
ing another coored preacher of that
city, stones began to fly and excite
ment for while ran high. The
stones failed to hit Sin Killer but
a negro woman in the audience was
struck on the head, cutting an ugly
cash. ''Sin Killer dared the party
who threw the rocks to come into the
light; said he proposed to stand by
his post till he died,
Recently, at Bolton, team attach
ed to surrey, ia which there were
some ladies, became frightened and
ran away. As they were running
Tom Puddy grabbed at the bride Of
Que OF the horses, but fell and was
run over. However, as he fell he
caught the lines, and though down
held onto them, and after being
dragged thirty or forty feet succeeded
in stopping the teum. The ladies were
not hurt. Puddy was right badly
bruised.
Near Holland, Bell county. the
child OF Willard May, age = years.
was sick the other night and his pa
rents gave him two doses OF morphine
for some powders. and at II o'clock
discovered their mistake. A doctor
was summoned and everything posi-
BILE done to restore the child but il
died in few hours, Inc parents are
Frustrated with grief.
The people of Llano are discussing
the completion of the San Antonio "
Arkansas Pass railroad, the grade for
the same being almost complete,
Since the matter OF deep water at
Aransas Pass has been definitely set
tied the work of developing IL harhor
will require great quantity OF stone,
that could be furnished by Llano free,
At Sinner, Lavaca county, recently,
August Duevel of Springfield o., Il
Lutheran preacher, died very sud
denly at the residence OF his brother,
Charles Duevel. Mr.. Duevel was only
sick about ten hours and the physi-
clans pronounced his sickness a spo.
radio case of cholera or cholera NOR
bus in very severe form.
: At Granger, Williamson county, the
) question of levying a special incor.
2 poration tax OF 20 cents on the $l0C
OF property for school purposes, wa
carried by a majority of 80. The ia,
, will be used to lengthen the schoo
) term to nine months.
At Naples, Morris county, recently
John Spencer picked up an old pis'
: tol which he supposed was not loaded
and snapped it several times. The
last pull it fired and sent bal
through Win WagnunTs stomach
Wagnun died.
A real knock-down-and-drag- out
! affair took place at a suburban beel
= garden in San Antonio recently will
= six men on side. On the way Il
the city on Il street car the row wa
resumed and some OF the parties wer
e seriously cut
1t is noiscd about the Rock Islam,
q general offices at Fort Worth, that a
Q extention of the line to both Weather
ford and Dallas is being seriously con
templated, Both Dallas and Wealth
erford want the Rock Island and hav
said so.
: The Texas Fire Underwriters asso
/ citation, coming under the jurisdictio
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