Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-06-08
TEXAS HAPPENINGS.

last week.
Work on the cotton seed oil mill be-
ing erected at Abilene has progressed
to the second story.
Robert Bailey. a painter by occupa-
ton, died very suddenly at MeXia on
the night of the 26th.
A small boy named Henry Thompson
fell in a we'll and was drowned at
Bano, Johnson county.
Sweet girl graduates are receiving
honors at the hands of college presi-
dents all over the state.
Rev. w. L. Browning, the walking
evangelist has gone to Paris to cum
duct series of services.
Mr.. Fred Everett Smith, auditor of
the Lynnwood and Boston (Mass)
railway is visiting Texas.
A residence, owned by Lew Scruggs
and occupied by Dan Murphy, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 26th
at Gainesville.
The body of a white female infant,
with the head nearly severed from the
body, was found in the Trinity river
bottom near Dallas on the 25th.
The attorney general has approved
for registration $4,000 Knox County
court house and Jail bonds and $3.50
Knox county Jail refuEding bonds.
The store of Mexican Bros, general
merchants, at Prairie Lea, near Luling,
was burglarized few nights ago and
about $500 worth of goods taken away.
The railroad commission has APP
proved the registration by the secre-
tary of state at Austin of $4,000 of
bonds of the Union Passenger Depot
company of Galveston.
The new flour mill just being COM
pleted at Greenville to replace the one
destroyed by fire last winter will have
an elevator ample enough to accommo-
date sixty carloads of grain.
Stonewall T:ngle, a Dallas lawyer
convicted some time ago on the charge
of using the mails for fraudulent pur-
poses, has been granted new trial and
admitted to bail in the sum of $500.
The members of De Molay command
cry Knights Templars, Greenville, pre-.
scented Miss Bird Vinson with an Gle
giant badge of the order. The young
lady has been erected sponsor of the
company.
The Hogue land decision that the
supreme court handed down a few days
ago destroys the purpose of the act of
the last legislature which appropriat-
ed $4,000 acres of the public domain
for a colored university, for the rea-
son that the court declares that there
is no domain left and, therefore, none
can be appropriated 1t is not known
what provision will be now made for
the colored university, but the only
remedy that seems effective is to have
the legislature pacs on the matter at
the session next January
Information has been received at
Austin to the effect that the supreme
court of the United States refused a
writ of error in the case of Galveston,
Harrisburg and SanAntoEio railways
| the State of Texas, in which S79, 900
acres of land are involved, which will
now revert to the school fund. Said
land is covered by the certificates is
sued between 1869 and 1876 to the Gal
weston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railroad as legatee of the Buffalo Bay
on, Brazos and Colorado railroad, the
legality of which was contested in the
state courts by Governor CulbersoM
while he was attorney general. He
won in every instance and the defend
ants carried the case to the supreme
court of the United States where they
were again knocked out and the school
fund came out winner to the extent OF
nearly 100000 more acres.
DR.. Judson B. Palmer, general secrc-
tary of the Young Mems Christian as
sociation at Galveston, has accepted
the secretaryship of the association for
the state. He has had the matter I'M
der advisement over year.
The Order of Railway Conductors
will give a picnic at Walnut Springs
June 8. Trap shooting and a game of
baseball will be among the attractions
Gov. Culberson is to make an address
on the occasion.
A pigeon collided with locomotive
On the Central near Denison few
mornings ago. The pigeon was badly
stunned, having struck the headlight
but soon recovered The engineer says
he will keep the bird, as he considers
it n good omen.
A large number Of Texas editors
went to Euraka Cnringe A rI-o,,.o,