Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-07-27
WAR MATTERS.

tempt at suicide Is denied.
The first Texas cavalry was reviewed
at San Antonio on the 18th by Gov.
Culberson and Adjt Gen. Wozencraft.
to sister at Stephenville, says that
Capt. A. X. Capron died with his head
in Santos lap.
Lieut. Cash of the rought riders has
arrived at Washington. He says the
rough riders fought CALAMITY before
Santiago.
Will Santo, rough rider, in letter
Sergt w. B. Atkinson of company
G and Miss Lizzie P Bedell were united
in marriage at Camp Hawley, Calves
ton on the 10Th.
Spanish prisoners on Seavey's is
land near Portsmouth, N. H., got up
bogus bull fight, A big sailor from
the Colon was the bull"
An officer of the Oquendo, prisoner
at Portsmouth, N. H., says one shell
from the Oregon killed 100 men and
the others were eaten by sharks.
A Madrid cablegram says Cuban 10y
alists and volunteers are to proclaim
independence on their own account,
rather than be ruled by insurgents.
A beautiful flag was raised by the
train dispatchers of the Texas and Pa
cific railway at Marshall 1t is located
90 hot
An incipient riot among Spanish
prisoners on the Harvard the night of
July was quelled by volley, eight
being killed and wounded.
Admir- Cervera and about forty
other Spanish officers have arrived at
the naval academy at Annapolis, Md.
They are carefully guarded.
The family of Capt. Gen. Mark OF
Porto Rico are en- route to Spain.
The American soldiers in the Philip
pines are to be supplied with refrig-
Grated beef.
John G. Winter, reported wounded
in the right elbow and left leg near
Santiago, was from Sherman, and last
session a member of the faculty of
Mary Nash college.
Toral had difficulty ia prevailing on
the 10000 soldiers outside of Santiago
to surrender, they saying they pre-
ferred death in open warfare to being
killed on returning to Spain.
The United States cruiser New Or
leans destroyed the Spanish gunboat
Antonio Lopez, which was recently
chased ashore near San Juan while at
tempting to run the blockade.
The present war has brought to light
the fact that DR.. Antommarchi, who at
tended Napoleon during his last illness
at st. Helena, is buried in Santiago de
Cuba, where he gave his services free
to the poor for many years.
Ex-senator Donald Cameron of
Pennsylvania has cabled from London
to Secretary Long offering the govern
ment for hospital purposes, free, his
magnificent estate on st. Helen's is
land, opposite Port Royal, s. G.
d. w. Payne of Ell Paso will not
supply the revenue stamps required by
the express companies. He has filed
suit against the Pacific Express COM
pany for $4,000 and Wells, Fargo & Co.
for $4,000.
j. B. Brown of Texarkana received a
letter from his son, Thomas, dated
near Santiago in which he gives a
thrilling account of the siege. Young
Brown Is a nurse on the Olivette. He
says that after the great battle he went
eight days on twelve hours sleep. Mr..
Brown has two sons with Dewey.
Col. G. S. Richie of the first United
States volunteer infantry was united
in marriage at O'Clock on the morn
ing of the 10th at the Wren mansion,
Galveston, to Miss Susanna H. Cad
berry of Denison after "a romantic
courtship of two weeks.
w. L. Worth, appointed a brigadier
general, is son of the late Gen,
Worth, who was the first commander
of the department of Texas, founder OF
the military post at Fort Worth, ON
which the city Of that name now
stands and of course its namesake,
and who died at San Antonio in 1849.
The son is So years old, West Pointer
and an Indian fighter of renown.
Dr. G. c. Burk of Texarkana, Tex,
has received from the military author
ities at Houston, Tex, the appoint
ment of examining physician. He will