Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-10
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

rough on rates.
A few nights ago Henry Dahlmeyer,
living near burton, Washington coun-
ty, cut his throat with q r&75r.
Mrs. j. A. Sudduth died of heart |
failure very suddenly the other day at
Prairieville, in Kaufman county.
The commissioners court of Hill
county has decided to build eleven new
iron and steel bridges in the county.
Days gin, six miles from Liberty
Hill, Williamson county, burned the
other day. Value s25oo. No insur-
ance.
The drouth in northern and western
Texas was recently broken by the fall
ing of a slow steady rain which lasted
for hours.
A mad dog created considerable ex-
citement recently in the eastern por-
ton of Marshall. He was finally
killed. No one was bitten.
The son and daughter of Martha
Mccullough, living in Milan county,
were assassinated by some unknown
party. Only one shot was fired.
At Abbott, Hill county few even
ings ago, the 3-year-old child of D. p.
oliver was kicked on the head by
horse. His skull was fractured.
Fire broke out in the engine room
of the flour mill at Corsicana the 9TH
er day Damage estimated at about
| E1O00 f,,ll1, oOvarod b1y in c,1ropao
Louis Stinnett, colored, has sued the
city of Sherman for $4,000 damages on
account of his being stabbed by an al
legged lunatic in the station house.
The gin owned by w. w. Terry, Jr.,
at Powell, Navarro county, was de-
stroyed by fire several nights ago.
Property loss about $4,000. Insured.
A. F. Alexander of Houston recently
made chattel mortgage to Robert
Smith, trustee, covering the soda wa
ter works on Wood street. Liabilities
s516S.
The dwelling of Jack Grisby and
contents burned the other morning at
Lodi, Marion county. Loss $3.50. Mr..
Grisby was badly burned; not expoc-
ted to live.
Mrs. Jessie Bonner was bruised in a
runaway on West Houston street,
Sherman, the other day. The vehicle
in which she was driving collided with
guard post.
Ramsey Little, the 15-year-old con
Of of nat
county, was thrown from his horse a
few days ago and died from the eff
fects of the fall.
j. j. Baldridge, a Katy brakeman
on the run from Hillsboro to Temple,
was mashed in a freight car at Tenn
pie, Bell county, a few nights ago. He
is doing very we'll.
James Edmonds, for several years q
lumber man at Gatesville, Coryell
county, died several mornings ago. He
was found unconscious in his bed and
died in little while.
A white man, named Stafford, who
runs Hudgins' gin at Hungerford
Wharton county, got his arm caught
, in the saws few days ago. and has
lost three of his fingers.
John Baldree, who lives about ten
miles east of San Augustine, San Au-
! gustine county, was thrown from his
wagon while his team was running
away, few days, ago, and killed.
Recently Francia Pima Juarez, G
merchant at Rio Grande City, Starr
county, filed a chattel mortgage witt
e. Downey as trustee, for the benefit
of L. & H. Blum to secure debt Of
$4,000.
A cutting ARRAY occurred at Mount
Pleasant, Titus county, several days
) ago. L. Barrett received several Sc.
we're cuts on the face and neck and l.
: Barber has several bad wounds on the
. shoulder and neck
Mrs. Linda Blackey of Howe, Gray
son county, was adjudged insane sew
eral evenings ago. 1t seems that hel
chief crime is that she is accused o.
the theft of some clothing. She has
made several signs as if she would xii
herself
Instructions have been received a
Beaumont, Jefferson county, to stoI
boring in the wells at Gladys City
Three thousand dollars have beer
spent there in the attempt to secure
oil and natural gas, the wells now be-
ing 800 feet deep and still no indica-
tions of successful results.
The examining trial of Gus Wealth.
erford, charged with the murder Of
Sam Hunt, was held several days ago
at Brenham. washington county, anC