Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17
ALL OVER THE STATE.

n AOllhSSS hlSStiH6 70 ~ piO5ieoS at
Greenville.
Judge john C. Easton, Texas pio-.
neer, died at Paris.
The Holiness meetings at Scottsville
attracted many people
Mayor Paddock of Fort Worth has
sailed frcm New York for Liverpool.
F. reister, a farmer living near
shriner, suicided by shooting herself
The state comptroller holds that
franchises are subject to taxation.
The state comptroller has received
the tax rolls of Potter county. Total
valuation s1,5OS,27S, an increase of
500 979.
Mrs. Florence Good was thrown out
OF a buggy during a runaway at
Farmers Branch, Dallas county, and
seriously injured.
John Daugherty. who recently died
at Texarkana, left portion of $50 900.
His wife's demise occurred twenty
four hours after his.
A boy has sued two men at Fort
Worth for 5000 damages, alleged to
have been sustained by the bite of a
wolf, the property of defendants.
Another bold robbery was commit
ted in TeXarkana, the victim being l..
7. Edwards. His house was entered
while the occupants were away and $50
was taken.
Uncle Joe Pearson, who was born
April 20, 1923, residing two miles from
Temple, recently rode into that S,ty
horseback. Imperfect eyeslght, he
claims. ts.his. only infrmity.
Miss I,ettie Poe of Borders Chapel
neighborhood, in Taylor county, and e.
j. Miller of Clyde, Tex, have been ap-
pointed to scholarships in the Sam
Houston normal by Senator H. A. Til
lett after competitive examination.
Plans and estimates are being sub
mitted for McKinney's new water
works. The council will not close
contract until the money is received
from the recent sale of bonds. 1t is
said that the council will demand that
contractors use home labor in con-
struction.
Mrs. George Holt, wife of promi-
nent farmer living near Rockwell,
suicided by drowning herself in well
on the place of Rev Mr. Brown. $50
yards away. Mrs. Holt had been In the
Terrell insane asylum, and was
thought to have recovered her reason.
She crawled on her hands and knees
to the we'll.
The residence of the Misses De Cap
rec at Dallas was entered during the
absence of the two ladies in Minnesota,
and over $1,000 worth of household
goods and other articles taken. The
thieves did their nefarious work in
daylight, as a young man rooming
there missed the articles in the after
noon Several trips were made.
Prof. Lewis M. Haupt one OF the
most prominent marine engineers in
the world and a member of the board
appointed by the United States gov
eminent to inspect nicaragua, arrived
here from Philadelphia. He will be
Joined by Major II. c. Ripley, the we'll
known engineer of Galveston, r. p.
Clark of the firm of Charles Clark &
Co., marine contractors, and Brewster
Cameron, who will assist him.
Machinery is being moved to the
hills west of the Bosque, beyond Waco,
for the purpose of drilling wells, the
parties engaged in the enterprise being
so much impressed with the prospect
of striking petroleum in paying guam
titles that they are putting consider
able money into the explorations they
are making. Experts are there from
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia,
and they all agree that the prospect is
very encouraging.
Burglars effected an entrance into
the residence of Mr. Blythe at Fort
Worth, killed Mrs. Blythe and badly
injured the husband. Two hundred
dollars were in the house. but only
$50 taken.
Jack O'Keefe, telegraph operator for
the Galveston, Houston and Henderson
road at Dickinson. and a brother of
Michael o'Keefe of Galveston, while
at Virginia Point. sent q 41-caliber
bullet crushing through his brain, kill
ing him instantly.