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

Kaufman county.
The Pacific Express Company's safe
at Yorktown, Dewitt county was blown
open and robbed several nights ago,
but only $25 was secured.
H. Graves, a white man, was arrested
and Jailed at Bryan recently charged
as an accessory to the killing of Tom
Rowden, a negro, on Thompson creek,
few days ago.
Pearl Adams living at Blum, Hill
county, died from the effects of a blow
the other day which he received
short time ago. Harry Hunniwell was
arrested and carried to Jail
F. w. Hensel, employed at Nolan G
Higginson's livery stable in Denison,
got his hand caught in the gear Of a
feed cutter few days ago, decorating
the first and second fingers.
John Hubbard, a negro, died
short time ago at Luling, Caldwell
county, from blow received with an
axe during an alteration with another
negro a few days previous.
George Dawson, a section laborer a.
Colbert, Grayson county, got the mid
die finger of the left hand caught under
the end of a tie the other morning Sc.
verely MASKING and decorating it,
Messrs. Bass & Coffey recently made
their last shipment of turkeys, 1900
from Denton, Denton county, making
total in weight of $500 pounds having
left that town in the last few days.
w. T. Claffin was arrested recently
for selling patent medicine at Airing
ton, Tarrant county, without license.
He entered plea of guilty and was
fined So and costs, the amount OF the
license.
Glenn Lewis, 19-year-old negro boy
who lived on H, F. Kowles place, four
miles east of BRENNAN, Washington
county, drank q little over a quart OF
whisky the other night and died the
next morning.
A few evenings ago the 14-months'-
old child Of Frank Sumrail, about three
miles from Colmesneil, Tyler county
was fatally scalded by a stove topping
over and causing hot water to fall on
the child's head.
Several nights ago on the Galveston
Houston and Henderson track, below
Houston, train struck wagon driven
by Jim Arnold and cut it in two and
perhaps fatally injured Arnold. The
hoi g5,S. were unhurt.
h y-bound freight on the Santa
/ F'e brdsss.in two nea SeFeio Vista John
son county, several mornings ago, dam
aging several cars aud severely injur-
ing Conductor Osman and slightly
bruislng the brakeman.
Frank Clark's fine gin, grist mill and
machinery burned the other day at
Rockwell, Rockwell county. The fire is
supposed to have originated from some
one stepping ON a match in the GIN
The total loss is $4,000 and no insur-
ance.
oliver Lippincott, formerly an agent
Of Parker Bros. Meriden, Conn. was
arrested at San Antonio short time
ago on an affidavit charging him with
embezzling piano, valued at 1925 and
also 1925 in money from Barker Bros,
in Waco, some time ago. He was re-
leased on bond in the sum of $3.50.
A little son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. c..
Hadley living at Hillsboro, Hill coun-
ty, while playing around pile of burn
ing rubbish the other day, got his face
severely burned by the explosion of a
cartridge that was in it. His eyebrows
and lids were burned off and his hair
badly burned. 1t is feared that he will
lose his eyesight.
Dick Lane, colored, is in critical
condition, and Jackson Jones, colored,
is in Jail at Sherman. The complaint
charges him with having been the
cause of Lanes discontinue. A gener-
al ARRAY came up the other night in
Sherman over a jug of whisky, and
Jones is charged with having struck
Lane on the head with breast-yoke.
Mrs. G. P. Stro was arrested recently
at Greenville, Hunt county, on a charge
of bigamy. She had a divorce in Okla
homa last year from her husband, G.
F. Norton. and married Mr.. Stro. At
berward the divorce was annulled hence
the suit
The new courthouse at Decatur
Wise county, is completed, and the dis
trict court met in it for the first time
the other day. The building is OF gran
lite and one OF the most substantial as
well as artistic buildings in the state
1t cost $1S0,O0O.
Several mornings ago Walter Carr, {
negro, was shot and instantly killed IL
Greenville, Hunt county. The affail