Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-07-13
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Four stone business houses are to be
erected at Jackboro at once.
Bridgeport is to have an $500 Pres.
byterian church building.
The firemen's picnic at Longview on
the LIST was grand success
The new thirty-ton Ice plant at Jack
sonville has been completed.
A mule thlrty-seven years old deo
in Bell county few days ago.
Judge G. B. Gerald has resigned thu
editorship of Branns Iconoclast.
j. Alexander, doing a grocery bust
ness at Yoakum, has filed a deed OF
trust.
Rev. W. H. Claggetts twelve-day
meeting at Gainesville resulted in much
good.
Rev Sid Williams and Prof. Brown
have begun series of meetings at
WaXahachie.
While blasting at Valley Mills Bos
que county, Saturday last, three men
were seriously injured
The indications are that the coast
wise service between Galveston and
New York will soon be resumed.
The Houston, East and West Texas
road is to have five new Baldwin To-
comotives, to be delivered in Septem-
Der.
The office of Abdill & Madison at
Fort Worth was burglarized on the
night of the Goth ultimo and SIPS ia
ken.
The estate of the late NJ T. Jones,
the Houston lumber man, is val
ued at between $1,OOO,OOO and $780,
900.
The total alumni of Sam Houston
normal college since its organization,
nineteen years ago, is 1854, and the
total enrolment 4594.
While feeding chickens in coop
at Terrell Mary Mcclellan, cook for
w. P. Portwood, fell dead at Mr.. Port
woods residence.
The Butterick Publishing company,
limited, of New York, capital stock
$1,000,000, have been granted permit
to do business in the state
James B. Dolan has been appointed
immigration inspector at Galveston, to
succeed w. T. Levy who is now a
major in the first Texas volunteers.
Thirty-seven thousand dollars
worth of Fort Bend county courthouse
refunding bonds havs been released in
the comptroller's department at Aus
tin.
Tom Phyffer, engineer of a Touring
mill at Van Alstyne, took an overdose
of some kind of oplate and never re.
covered consciousness. He was "A years
of age.
August Buchel was accidentally kill
ed at Austin few days ago at the dan
by falling into the cog wheels of the
machinery. He was in the act of turn
ing the water off.
The express companies at Austir
have received orders to afflx and can
eel stamps without cost to the com
signors on packages destined for points
within the United States.
At the request of the management
and vice-president for Texas Gov. Cul
berson has designated Aug. IS as Tex
as day at the Mississippi Inter
national exposition at Omaha.
pio To -
in the neck near Laredo by a maj
named Faustino Martinez, anothe
Mexican. What they quarreled abou
they carefully keep to themselves.
The Browne & Manyares company o
Las Vegas, N. NJ, having, a capita
stock of s150,OOO, doing general min
ing business, has been granted per
NIT to do business in the state of Texas
Twenty citizens of Salado had con
ference with leading men of Tempt
at the latter city relative to construct
ing the proposed railway betwee
those points. A proposition from con
tractors to build and equip the road 70
$4,000, and take $4,000 in stock wa
submitted and the Temple people Civ
en- ten days to consider the matter.
A lamp exploded one night last wee
at the residence of T. T. Brown
eighteen miles northwest of Gatesvill'
The house and contents were de
stroyed. Mrs. Browns clothing caugt
fire and she was so badly burned tha
death resulted. In his efforts to e1
tinguish the flames Mr.. Brown was Sc
verely burned, his finger nails slir
, ping off. The couple were Marie
, last January.