Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-31
LONE STAR LINERS.

Amarillo has organized a board Of
trade.
Mot Marion was shot and killed at
Moscow.
Bonham is to have three new brick
business houses.
Col. Richie and his immunes have
gone from New Orleans to Galveston.
Mrs i. D. Stone and Miss Annie Har-
rell We're thrown out of a buggy at Dali
las and seriously injured
The state comptroller has registered
$4,000 issue of LuflIin city water
works bonds.
Bob Calhoun, a prominent farmer,
who lived twenty miles from Lovelady
was assassinated.
Rev. S. w. Patterson, Presbyterian
minister of Dallas, is conducting
meeting at Rising Sun.
The Hillsboro Baptist association
held its annual session at ltasca, with
good attendance and satisfactory re-
suits
Among the attractions to be at Sher.
man during the semi-centennial there
will be Quanah Parker, the celebrated
Indian chief
The attorney general of Texas has
approved and the comptroller register
ed $500 issue of Newton county
jail bonds.
Pentland, noted Dallas horse, won
first money at Hedrick, Ia, recently.
In five heats race Pentland picked
up $500 and his best time was 2:12A.
Alonzo Currie, a young man of Gle
burne, While assisting in the moving
of house in that city, had his skull
crushed and died from his injuries.
The department of education at
Austin is sending out certificates of
grades and teachers certificates, as
result of the recent white summer nor
NAL examinations.
Sunday night Rev. Gam Sing Ouah,
a Chinese clergyman, and a graduate
of Cumberland (Tenn.) University, de-
livered a lecture at the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, Dallas.
The 1O-year-old daughter of Mr..
White merchant at Waldrip McCul-
loch county, was burned to death. She
was starting fire in the stove with
coal oil and the can exploded.
A, w. starck, an emDbye Of the
United States treasury department,
was in Dallas last week collecting
statistics relative to the cost of opera
ting gas and electric light plants.
Capt. Juan s. Hart of Ell Paso, a
member of the first immune regiment,
has been appointed by the president as
interpreter for the Cuban commission.
Capt. Hart speaks Spanish and nine
other languages fluently.
The city tax collector of Austin re-
ports collections for the month of July
as follows: General revenue tax 1884,
| 108,3S, waterworks tax, account of in
terest and sinking fund, s34,5654S, in
terest on old bonds $506.26, school tax
$1S,6S6.54; total $92,S72,66, against
$10,144.77 for July, 1897 This increase
is due to the per cent penalty in force
this year.
The city council Of Waxahachie dis
missed the police force. The constable
arrests nearly all offenders and the
few minor cases the police handles did
few minor cases the police handle did
expenses of the police department.
Floyd Reed was shot and killed at
the Hugh Carter race track, about eight
miles east of Athens. The difficulty
arose about gun, which, it was
charged. was stolen, and 1t is said
Reed gave Information of the theft.
Homer and William Rounsayall were
jailed
Mrs. Kate Cabel1 Currle, president
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, has organized a chapter of
the order at Bonham. About seventy
names were enrolled and quite an in
terest manifested in the work.
VIM. Gregg of Hebron, Ind, was
caught by Texas and Pacific freight
train at Lakota and had one leg cut
off just below the knee and the other
broken in two places and the toes cut
off. He died soon after.