Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-02-24
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.


Near Keltys, Angelina county, Jesse
Blackburn, farmer, was recently run
over and killed by south bound pas
senger train.
John Cartwright, a colored laborer,
was shot and instantly killed at Texar-
kama, Bowie county, the other night at
his residence.
Near Temple Bell county, at a ne
gro dance in the bottoms recently, Jim
Chance was fatally shot in the abdo-
men. His assailant escaped.
The commissioners of Hill county
have decided to build new calaboose
at the county convict farm, as the old
one is inadequate to the present de-
mands.
A freight wreck occurred a few mile:
south of Kaufman on the Texas Mid
land the other evening. Passenger
trains were delayed four or five hours.
No one hurt.
At Texarakana, Bowie county.
George King, a negro preacher, severed
his jugular vein with razor the other
night at o'clock and died in a few
minutes. He was insane.
William A. Clonch, trumpeter Of
company B, eighteenth United States
infantry, at Fort Sam Houston, was
killed the other night by falling from
enc of the upper windows of the guard
house.
At Houston recently at late hour,
a one-armed white man named Powell
was run over and killed by a Katy
freight train near the Galveston, Hous-
ton and Henderson bridge over Buffalo
bayou.
Joe Tramble. a farmer living some
distance south of Italy, Ellis county
while putting down posts the other day,
had his hand struck with heavy maui,
breaking it in the palm and MASKING
it very badly.
At Graham, ]. A. Ledbetter died sud-
denly the other day. He was engaged
In his ordinary business on his farm
during the forenoon, ate his dinner,
walked into an adjoining room and
dropped dead.
Mr. Matt Cunningham, uncle of DR..
w. Cunningham, of Bastrop Bostrop
county, dropped dead on Main street
the other evening. He was in good
health apparently. and his death is as
cribed to apoplexy.
Two negroes, Robert Simmons and
Lou Stems, working on a plantation
near Daingerfeld. Morris county, were
both shot recently, Stems getting bull
let in the arm and Simmons being
wounded in both arms.
John Earl, a farmer who lives six
miles west of Ennis, Ellis county,
claims to have been robbed the other
night of s110. He reported to the Off
GERS, and Gus Brooks. white man,
was arrested on the charge.
Roby, Fisher county was aroused the
other morning by the nose of rifle
about 1880 o'clock. John Goggin was
found shot through the right shoulder,
the ball coming out at the shoulder,
.Goggan is badly, If not fatally wounded.
In quarrel at Thompson station,
near Richmond, Fort Bend county, the
other evning, white man named Col
Inns and negro named Will Jackson
were shot in the leg. jackson was ar
rested, but Collins could not be moved.
At Tyler the other evening butcher
named Jim Trilkill was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff w. F. Smith on a charge
of murder, said to have been committed
at Bolivar, Tenn, several years ago.
He will be held until the Tennessee
officers come for him. Trilkill had lived
there for the past year.
Will Lamb. we'll known young man
at Floyd, Denton county, while running
his horse near that place few days
ago, was thrown against a tree and
seriously injured. Besides being badly
SCARED up and having his thigh brok-
en-, he suffered severe internal injuries,
from which he may die.
Near Brennan, Washington county,
recently. Charlie Campbell, small ne
from town. had his clothing catch on
fire and was burned to death.
The other day at Longview, Gregg
county, Louis Griffin, a colored man,
attempted to board train No. while
the train was pulling out He missed
his hand hold and fell and the wheels
passed over and mashed off his right
hand, necessitating amputation. He
was trying to get on the blind baggage
to ride 20 Camps switch
At Palestine, Anderson county, Ar