Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-01-06

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Laredo is to have an irrigation con-
ventlon next month
smlthville expects to have electric
lights next month.
a creosote manufactory Is to be es-
tabiished at S6mervlllc.
Jefferson county has lady deputy
county clerk, who waits on the court.
William Tolliver, an old citizen Of
Kaufman, was kicked to death by
horse.
Three families at WINS Point were
poisoned by eating sour meat, but all
recovered.
The farmers of Tawant county are
preparing to try the experiment OF
sugar beet culture.
G. W. Oalvln's store was entered by
burglars at Kerrville and a quantity
of provisions stolen.
The Clay Station coal mines near
Brenham are to be put in active oper-
alton soon.
j. o. owen, Southwestern univer-
sity student at Georgetown, was Sc
yerely crippled by IL runaway horse.
Encinal county wants to cut loose
from Webb for judicial and all other
purposes and organize on her own ac-
count.
An enormous bear was brought in
Thursday from the Neches river
swamp, about eight miles north of
Beaumont.
Mr.. u. !. Holmes, after having spent
one year truck gardening in Beau
mont, has returned to Wallisville to
engage in the same business.
1Nhe schooner Mermaid of Calves
ton. owned by DR.. II. w. Shearer of
Wallisville, has been sold to Captain
Emanuel Enos eff Turtle Bayou.
The body of drowned man, sup
posed to be Cornelius Gray, former
sailor, was washed ashore north Or Car
pus Christi Sunday about 4 O'Clock p
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The Alvin post, Grand Army Of the
Republic, has organized colonization
scheme to settle large number of old
soldiers and other Northern people in
that s. stion.
". KohierE ,gTT Evflfe-soidf 70 n. r. r.
Gatline this II sy ITO and 4-year-old
fed beeves forITp5. This is the biggest
price paid for any cattle sold in this
section thissfall.
The cabbage crop of Alvin is being
moved and quantities are being ship
ped daily. Pear and peach trees have
been blooming all the fall. A cold snap
would do good
Robert Davis and a white boy were
playing with a supposed empty pistol
recently at Lyons. The pistol went Off
killing Laura Harris, young negrcss
about 20 years old.
The Dagllsh hardware company of
Tyler, Joe Daglish proprietor, executed
a deed of trust Monday night, naming
w. L. Cain trustee, to secure creditors
to the amount of 1000. Preferred
list given.
The fourth-class postmasters Of Tex
as have been called upon by w. G..
Erwin, postmaster at Granger, to meet
in Austin the first Tuesday in January
for the purpose of taking steps to have
themselves placed under civil service
rules.
Millionaire Green and sporting
party of gentlemen from the North re-
Gently spent some time viewing the
beauties in and around the Bluff City.
They left for Roclsport in their special
car, from which place they will jour
ney to their homes.
A very sad accident occurred in Cor
pus Christi recently. A little Mexican
girl fell into large furnace and her
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parents could rescue her. She lived
two days in the greatest agony. She
was years old.
Mr.. n. @. Cunningham, a highly re-
spected citizen and farmer, who lives
six miles from Lexington, was way
laid and killed about three miles from
town the other evening. AS yet no
clew has been found. Parties are out
with bloodhounds.
Messrs. Baldwin and Yates, two of
the United States engineers from
Washington, D. c., arrived at Quin-
tana recently. Their chief, Hon. II. L.
Meridian, having gone by the way of
Galveston, will not arrive until Mon
day.
Saturday evening about o'clock at
Grapeland. the clothes of Mr.. G. d.
Mullens' youngest child, aged about 3
years, accidentally caught fire and 1t
died about two hours later. There was
no one at home except some children,
and by the time Mr.. Mullens got word
and got home the child was dead He
lives about two miles from town.
The East Texas Telephone company
has opened up headquA- sers in Beau
mont at the corner Of Main and Crock
EFT streets, near the postoffice. The
company 10 getting along rapidly with
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