Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

IllllsDOFO now clullnS OuUU lHudDl-
tants
Peach trees are blooming in McLen-
nan county.
The Texas Live Stock compi5sion
met at San Antonio on the Sth,
The fox hunters of McLennan county
are enjoying u chase occasionally.
Hamilton county has redeemed $500
of courthouse bonds held by the school
fund.
The name Of the postmaster at Farm
er's Branch, Dallas countS'is Turnip-
seed
George p Funkhauser proprietor OF
department store at Gainesville, has
failed.
There will be large ATTENDANCE of
the citizens of Texas ut Dallas on the
25th inst who are Interested in the
semi-centennial movement.
The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
Railway company has paid the comp
troller $S43.1 rs tax on earnings for
the quarter ended December 81
Many of the towns of the state are
to have an election for cooperation of.
ficers this spring, and candidates bud
and bloom faster than the trees.
The comptroller has just received 81
from the Pecos River Railroad as tax
on 800. 80 of passenger earnings for
the quarter ending December 81,
At Belgrade, Newton county, negro
child 3 or years old fell into the fire
while it's mother was away and was
burned so badly that it died soon after.
At Brandon, Hill county few days
ago. the 2-year-old son of Baxter
Whites died of burns received from his
clothes catching on fire from y CRATE,
A student at the Prairie View Nor
NAL school in Waller county, recently
shot and killed Tom Mack. steward Of
the institution All parties are coli
ored.
! The two Cinnamon who have beenin
jail at Austin since last August, charged
with being in the country unlawfully,
have been tried in the fe deral court
One of them was acluit ted and the
other ordered deported.
A young man named Clemmons,
while hunting for Il COW between Den,
ison and Pottsboro, came upon house
in which woman and five children we're
almost naked and starving. A neigh
boring farmer, to whom the ease was
reported, provided u supply of cloth.
ing and food They were strangers
in that section
The adiutant general has issued com.
missions as follows: Il. W. Hcarn IA
lieutenant colonel third regiment, Tex.
as volunteer guard; Ira s. Dawson "a
second lieutenant, Marble Falls guardt
r. +. Caruthers as second lieutenant,
Chester Polsgrove as junior second
lieutenant, Mabry guards; s, G. Or.
chard us first lieutenant, j. W. Raip-'
boldt as second lieutenant, Lipscomt
rifles. 4.
The city council of Denton has fixed
the tax rate for 1896 as follows: For
schools, 40c; general fund.- 25e; inter.
est on city hall bonds &c; sinking
fund on latter, Pc streets and bridges,
10c; interest on school house bonds
No. 2, SIC; sinking fund on latter, 23ci
interest on school house Improvement
bonds, &c; sinking fund on latter, Sc,
for waterworks, zoe Total, $l.l8. A
poll tax OF 81 was added, and dogs are
taxed 81 each.
Capt. William Davis of San Antonio,
recently meet party of New York
capitalists at Austin. H9has resigned
the presidency of the Gulf Shore line
and is no longer connected with it, Ha
made combination with the New
Workers. to build a short line from San
Antonio east, 200 miles shorter to east
ern points than the Southern Pacific
via New Orleans and the Queen and
Crescent and Louisville and Nashville
to Cincinnati Chattanooga, Atlanta
and Washington and east to New York.
They have ample funds provided to
carry out the deal
At Black Jack, Hopkins county, re-
Gently, the ladies met and proceeded
to Main street armed with an axe.
hatchets, etc. There were two place,
where liquor was being sold in viola
ton of law These they attacked,
chopping down the doors and smashed
the barrels, jugs and bottles, not SPAR
ing even the screens. Several hun,
dred men witnessed the onslaught,
When they We're through without o
word they quietly left in body. Soma
days before the ladies called on the
parties and asked them to discontinue
their business, which they refused to