Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-04-07
ALL OVER THE COAST,
NEWSY ITEMS FROM VARiOUa
SECTIONS OF THE STATE.
General Summary of Crops Producod--
immigration and improvement Notes OF
Our Sister Clties--Piolsups That arc OF
General Interest.

The stock law was adopted by tho
Caldwell precinct by q large majority,
A section hand was drowned in the
railroad tank one mile above Cypress
last Saturday.
The old crack military company Of
Texas, the Fort Worth Fencibles, Is
being reorganized.
]. A. Grubbs, the McGregor merchant
who was indicted at Waco for incest
made bond and returned home.
About fifty of Sin Killer Griffin's
converts were baptized in Camptown,
near Brennan last week.
Henry Chrsten, son of Peter Chris
ten, jr., Mt Cypress, had his leg broken
the other day. His horse fell on it.
Five cars Of hogs, double decied,
have been shipped from Marquee wiz
in the past two weeks to Ohio. =
A number of large shipmentfof cat
tie have been moving oveTVhe Hous'
ton and Texas Central Z.road lately
A gang of eleven co%ts We're trans.
ferred at Hoarne S/ tday morning en-
| route 10 tne brhZ<H p'Ntolh pltu'h'lVh9'
The whole crdnty around Terrell Is
flooded wltb/~ater and streams are
full, thougNapidly running down now.
Wash Zeal, charged with raping an
ItnliarIgirl in the Brazos bottom last
May was acquitted in the dlstrict
cV,t.
w local option election for the Me.
Kinney precinct, will be held on the
31st. The pros will make an active
canvass.
a fine bed of white sand has been
struck by the arteslan well borers Mt
Round Rock and the flow has mora
than doubled.
Mrs. L. r. Gray, who owns a gin in
Bertram, has recently placed an order
for near $4,000 worth OF improved gin
machinery.
At meeting of Tom Douglas camp,
United Confederate Veterans, at Lex.
lngton, committees on the next annual
reunion were appointed.
Hon. Rud Illeberg has left Cuero
for Washington. He has been detain-
ed by the Brazel murder case, in which
he was leading counsel.
The fifth annual convention Of the
Young Womens Christian association
Of Texas was held at Fort Worth Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday.
Lave Berry, a young colored man,
was recently drowned in Hickory
creek, near Lewisville while fishing.
The body was recovered.
Sheriff A. z. Hughes went over to
Denison from Sherman and assisted by
Deputy John Preston raided the gam.
bling houses, closing them up.
News has just reached West that a
Katy freight train cut in three pieces
an unknown man just north Of West,
The inquest has not yet been held.
]. w. High, ex-sheriff of Danger
field, accidentally dropped pistol and
shot himself through the foot, making
serious but not dangerous wound.
Judge Wingate Of Dallas, with n
large party Of prospectors from Ennis
and North Texas, is at Angleton. A
number of them have purchased.
Several meteors were seen about l
o'clock in the afternoon of the Goth
at Round Rock. Some We're as large
as n barrel, others very small.
A Mexican convict was run over by
the train at the Calvert Coal and Clay
company's mine last week and had K
have his leg cut off above the knee.
Mrs. Carrie Armstrong; examining
trial will take place Saturday at Bra.
zoria. She killed her husband with a
shotgun after he had cut her with a
knife.
Three-masted schooner Jeanie Lip.
pet Saturday sailed for New Orleans
after loading cargo of cotton seed
from the Velasco oil mill, consigned to
that place.
Hermann Reichart, n member of the
Aransas Pass bridge gang, while work
Ing ON the elm creek bridge, near
Cameron, fell into the water and was
drowned.
There were 100 votes cast at La
Grange in favor of the city assuming
control of the public schools and sixty
against, 104 votes in favor of said
schools being under the control of a
board of trustees to fifty-seven in ia,
vor of the city council having control.
The sheriff and officers have arrested
Willie Flores and another Mexican AMI
Jailed them on charge of the robbery
Of Griffin Bros store at Staples the
night of March g..
Mrs. John G. West, president of the
Waco chapter, Daughters of the Con.
federacy, said: "The Daughters of the
Confederacy had the matter under ad.
visement at the last meeting and un.
animously pledged the chapter to work
for representation in the museum.
Accordingly n schome was devised