Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-10-13
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.

Chartered: Colored Friend in Need
society of Austin. No capital stock
Organized for benevolent purposes. 1t
was chartered sew days ago.
Price & Loveall's gin at Hebron
Grayson county, burned recently to-
gether with three bales of cotton and
a quantity of seed Insured for two
thirds value.
There has been only one funeral in
Cleburne, John'on county since Aug
9. That city has population of 5000
and the people there are justly proud
of that record.
The waterworks building Of Terrell
Kaufman county, is now completed
and the city now has fine supply OF
water, being furnished by its own
management
Borgess. & Nash shipped two cars
of stock cattle recently, and Dodge
Mason shipped twenty-four cars OF
stock cattle from Kaufman 10 the In
dian Territory
A negro named Button Williams
has been lodged in Jail at Bryan
charged with shooting his wife in the
abdomen. The shooting took place in
the Brazos bottom,
Farmers around Denison are break
ing their land for wheat sowing. A
great deal OF wheat will be sown in
Galveston county and the Indian Ter
itory contiguous to Denison this fall
d. H. Wilson of Texas City, was re-
GENTLY appointed temporary receiver
of the Texas City Improvement com
pany of that city, Galveston county
Liabilities about $3.50. Assets I'M
known.
Kainer G Gerdes, dry goods firm,
who have been doing business in La
Grange, Fayette county, filed deed OF
trust recently. List of preferred cred
itors amounts to $14,5S1. Assets un-
known.
Guffee &, Clapp confectioners and
stationers of Wichita Falls, made an
assignment a few days ago for the
benefit of creditors to p. o. Langford.
Liabilities about $3.50; assets I'M
known.
Stewart Bros gin, about three and
one-half miles northeast of Glen
Rose, Somervell county, caught fire
several days ago and was damaged
oh rifr;,, st he 10
unknown.
A tenant house on Jerry Maioney's
farm, out on Irish ridge, near Kauf-
man, Kaufman county, burned few
days ago. Every thing in the house
burned. Loss supposed to be about
$780, No insurance.
The grand jury returned bill OF in
dictment against John w. Lewis, q
business man OF McGregor, McLennan
county, in which the defendant is
charged with killing George Thomas,
colored, some time ago.
Rooney Wilson was arrested by Of
fcers Shelton and Melton few nights
ago in Denison on tho charge of COM
hitting an assault to murder r. H.
Thompson, an attorney of DenisoD.
He was released on a bond of $500.
The American National Bank Of
Austin recently drew out of the state
treasury $149,1 $4,000 being in sill
yer, weighing two tons and quarter,
and the rest in currency. 1t was the
cashing of the Bacon and Graves
claims.
Considerable excitement was caused
at Abilene, Taylor county, the other
day by an attempt to shoot j. Dole, a
Catholic priest, now stationed at Thur
Der, Erath county. When first noticed
the man was attempting to fire a rifle
at the priest as he was walking down
the sidewalk of one of the main bust
ness streets. He snapped the gun
twice but it failed to go Off
Waco" and Brown" two con-
vlcts In 10 Simon's county road gang
in Grayson county, escaped the other
day.
A locomotive with the largest boiler
ever built, seven feet in diameter, ar
rived the other day at Ell Paso for the
Mexican Central from the Brooks
works at Dunkirk, N. Y. The cylin-
ders are 22x24 inches, four pairs of
drivers 4S inches in diameter. The en-
tire weight is 115 tons. From the top
Of the rail to the top of the boiler is
~ 1-2 feet.
Several days ago Joe Williams, an
of the Central Coal an Coke
at Texarkana, while working