Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-10-07
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

bound for the southern part of the
State, passed through Denison ON 8
southbound train recently.
L. w. Culver, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Kilgore, Gregg county,
made an assignment the other cay
Assets and liabilities not known.
Twelve wagon loads of cotton came
in to Denison several days ago from
Tishomingo, Indian Territory, coming
distance of fifty miles to market.
Maple Camp, No 1S, Woodmen OF
the World, took in about thirty new
members the other night at Marshall
This camp numbers over 200 members
Elem Baker, while working in cot.
ton gin at Stone Point, Kaufman coun.
ty, few days ago had four fingers
and about half the right hand cut off
The governor recently offered re,
ward of $3.50 for the arrest of Anst
Lotion, charged with the murder o.
John Denton, in Red River county
some time ago.
The Hillsboro, Hill county, city pub.
lie schools are so crowded that all pu
pills under years Of age are cut out
and the lower grades put on the hall
day plan.
Methvln Bros, jewelers. at Temple
Bell county, executed a deed of trust
on stock, accounts, and land to secure
their creditors the other day. Liabil
ties $SO,O4S.97; assets $1,000.
The Hillsboro ice and cold storage
plant was destroyed by fire the othel
night. The fire caught from an elec.
trio wire. The plant was valued al
$1,000 and insured for $4,000.
Capt C. C. Calvert of Denlson, re.
ceived letter from Gov. Culberson,
few days ago, appointing him Adjt
Gen. Mabrys staff in the ordinance
department, with the rank of major.
The district court at Oakville, Live
Oak county, adjourned recently.
Isaiah Givens. for biting off part of
another negroes nose in a fight, was
sent to the penitentiary for two years,
Several nights ago Pinck Weoner, 10
years old, was probably fatally burned
by an explosion of powder. He placed
some in hole and aided by his little
sister, ignited it. She was badly burn
ed also.
viii Hutchings, colored. was arrest
ed at Allen Farm, Brazos county, sew
eral days ago, charged with the muir
der of Tucson Baltrip, whose body was
found in the woods near Wellborn.
Brazos county.
j. NJ. Boggs, a painter, while at
work on a scaffold at the Mickebor-
rough residence in Navassota, Grimes
county, fell distance of thirty feet,
several days ago, breaking several
ribs, injuring him so he died.
A boy about IA years old was picked
up by the passenger train due at Pal
estlne, Anderson county, early the
ether morning, at Spear, west OF
there. The deceased was terribly man
gled, and has not yet been identified.
A perfectly preserved bean imbed-
ed in rock was taken from a well,
which is being sunk in Paris, Lamar
county, by Hon. E. S. Conner, the 9TH
er day. 1t will be planted and it is
thought it will terminate in due time.
The Sherman compress shut down
several evenings ago, owing to a walk
out A number of the truckmen made
request for raise of their wages
from $1,25 per day to $1,50. This the
manager refused to do and the men
quit work.
A. NJ. Young, while braking on a
Texas & Pacific freight train in the
yard at Terrell. Kaufman county, the
other morning, was knocked off box
car by telegraph pole. He fell from
the side of the car, distance of eight
feet, striking on his head. He sus-
tanned injuries ON the head, left Shout
der, arm and hip.
John B. Smith, a Katy brakeman,
was caught under the wheels of his
train in the yards at Gainesville,
Cooke county, the other evening. His
right leg was broken below the knee
and the flesh torn from the bone from
the thigh to the ankle.
The two men, Ed ReausseauX and
Joe Camp, were arrested sometime
ago, in Dallas county charged with
burglary in Forney, were tried in
Kaufman county the other day. Ed
Rousseaux was convicted and given
six years in the penitentiary and Joe
Camp five years.
w. e. Willis, dealer in drugs, TEN
pie, Bell county, filed deed OF trust
the other afternoon, to e. NJ. Daugh-
try, conveying all his stock of goods,
wares and merchandise, for the bene-