Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-06-15
TEXAS MINOR MENTION.

Terrell
Fort Worth is to have free kinder
garten school.
The postoffice at Port Arthur is now
in the presidential class.
Decoration day was appropriately OBJ
served all over the state.
The new electric light company in
Dallas has commenced furnishing light.
T. S. Martin of Grapevine dropped
dead from heart disease on the End in
slant.
Mills county has redeemed $4,000 of
courthouse bonds held by the school
fund.
The receipts of the state department
for April and May aggregated $685.
1882.
Sixteen girls and eight boys constitut-
cd the graduating class of Mckinney
college.
Prof. Bell of Belton has been elected
principal of the fifth district school of
Galveston
The Brazoria Land and Cattle com
pany has increased its capital stock
from 100000 to 100000.
Mrs. NJ. L. Foster of Chicago and
B. F. Hutches of Galveston were mar
ried at Chicago ON the 1st. The par
ties had been playmates at Andover,
Mass Mrs. Foster welded some years
since and lost her husband about two
years ago, Last year she and Mr..
Hutches met for the first time in twenty
years and their engagement and mar
riage followed.
Albert Sommerville of Alabama was
adjudged insane in the district court at
Edna. year ago Sommerville was
tried at Edna on change of venue and
given the death penalty for the murder
of his cousin at Richmond, because she
would not accept his attention, and had
become engaged to another young man.
After numbering the girl Sommervillo
attempted suicide.
The secretary of state deposited IN
the state treasury S22,s01.29, the re-
ceipts of that department for May. Most
of this money was payments Of fran
chise taxes from foreign and domestic
corporation. These taxes are due May
/, but no penalty accrued up to May
10. All delinquent corporations are
now required to pay penalty of Sc for
each month that elapses after forfeiture,
in addition to the regular tax. After
the expiration of six months from date
of forfeiture there is no way by which
the forfeiture may be released.
Five monster consolidated freight To-
comotives have just been completed for
the Santa Fe railway. The total
weight of each engine is 1G 900 pounds,
of which $4,000 pounds ere carried by
the driving wheels. The cylinders are
side diameter at the smallest ring, and
21X2S inches. The boilers are of the
straight top variety 66$4 inches in in
they are Of steel, the sheets being one
half, five-eights and eleven-sixteenth
inches in thickness. The driving wheels
are fifty-seven inches in diameter, The
tenders can carry 5000 gallons of water
and seven tons of coal. They are said
to be the largest locomotives west Of
the Mississippi river EXCEPT those used
on the Southern Pacific in the noun
famous sections ofCalifornic.
The twenty-ninth annua. reunion Of
Terry's rangers was held {. Austin on
the LIST and End insts. with large at
acted was the appointing of commit
tee to memorabilia the INDIANA legisla-
ture to return flag to the rangers now
in the possession of that state; also con-
graduating John M. Claiborne, formerly
adjutant of the regiment, on his ap-
pointment as quartermaster general on
the staff of Gen. Joe Wheeler, and the
appointment of a committee to request
the Texas delegation in congress to look
out for Gen. Claiborne in the line Of pos
sble promotion committee was ap-
pointed to devise means to erect a
10000 monument. Victoria was select
ed for next years meeting. j. w.
Brownson of Victoria was elected pres-
dent; j. G. Booth, first vice-president;
B. F. Burke, of Sweet Home, second
e-president; w. E. Moore, of Dem
ing's Bridge, third vice-president; H. D.
Sullivan, of Victoria, fourth vice-presi-
dent; w. D. Cleveland, of Houston,
treasurer; T. W. Lubbock, of Houston,