Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-01-27
ALL OVER THE COAST.
NEWSY ITEMS FROM VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE STATE.
General Summary of Crops Produced
Immigration and Improvement Notes of
Our Sister Clties-Picl;ups That arc of
General Interest.

1Ouhun Is 10 nave u AeW ptoScuSSL
depot.
Scarlet fever has been prevalent in
Maria.
San Marcos has a poultry show on
hand.
A cigar factory and new gin are
In prospect for League City.
A car of bulls was shipped Monday
morning from Aloe to Kansas City.
Green peas are on the market mt Cor
pus Christi
Constable Eugene Roberts was shot
in the arm by unknown parties at
Llano.
Al Victoria the 5year old daughter
of S. NJ. Bailey had her leg broken by
fall.
The contractors at Aransas Pass re-
Gently received 1000 pounds of dyna-
mite for blasting purposes and are now
rushing the work.
More than 1000 pounds of salt water
fish was shipped to interior points from
Orange last week.
Strawberries are getting plentiful at
| Angleton and are being readily sold at
% cents per box.
Another carload of immigrant outfit
arrived at Victoria last week. Some
nice stock was in it.
Several applications for notarial APP
pointment have gone to Senator Greer
from Orange county.
The Ladies' Cemetery association of
Orange planted 400 wild peach trees in
Greenwood cemetery
Eighteen inches is reported as the
average increase in the depth of water
across Arkansas bar.
A new commissary will soon be erect
ed at Arkansas Pass fo: he accommoda-
ton of the workmen.
This correspondent IS Informed that
a large canning factory will soon be
erected at Arkansas Pass.
Lee McAdams, II years old, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed by Pat Allen,
boy companion, near Faulkner.
Nearly hundred complaints alleg-
ing violations of the local option laws
We're recently filed in Grayson county.
Port Arthur now has Western I'm
ion telegraph office and telephone con
nection with Beaumont and Sabine
Pass.
Bob White the Sherman man who
tried to cat thirty quail in thirty days
gave up the attempt after eating four
birds.
The railroad company is having its
tracks fenced in Victoria county, which
will save many cattle from being
killed.
Jesse Hill of Greenville fell from the
stable steps while feeding his horse
Thursday night and broke his left arm
and one finger.
La grippe has been epidemic for sew.
eral weeks. While there have been
hundreds of cases, so far few have re-
suited fatally.
The grand jury is still in session at
Georgetown and has returned 100 bills
of indictment to date, twenty-five OF
which are for felonlcs.
Mayor Holland of Dallas spent Sat
terested in some game law legislation
and was comforting with the solons.
The attorney general has approved
$4,000 Of bonds issued by the city of
Texarkana for the purpose of con
structing Il system of sewerage for
that city.
Visitors to Port Arthur from the
North this week were given n treat in
the shape of strawberries. They could
hardly realize that the berries were
grown in midwinter.
Superintendent NJ. J. Fitzgerald Of
the Denison water works caught his
AK on limb in such manner that the
edge struck him on the left shin, cut
ting painful cash to the bone.
The experimental farm at Port Ar.
thur is being rapidly developed by Mr..
Fred Hannah. One hundred acres
are being put into cultivation, and by
next summer he will be able to see the
fruits of his toll.
Mr. Dave Wampler of Weatherford
was found dead Saturday afternoon on
the Texas and Pacific railway. His
death Is a mystery. He had told his
family that he intended going to Dali
las on the evening train. He had no
railroad ticket or money on his person
when found.
Burglars entered the store Of S. Berg
man of Moscow on the night of the
18th instant, but only secured As cents
in money. They took an iron box from
the safe which was full of land deeds
and other papers of that sort ind car
ried it out of town, but failed TO open
| IT, and left II whore II was fOun1 next