Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-05-24
TExANETTEs.


Paris burned
Prof Turner was reelected superin-
tendent of the Mineola public schools.
Fire broke out in Tyler warehouse
and destroyed several Hundred bushels
Of corn.
Mrs. Mary Ann Croft, Canadian by
birth, bus resident of Duval county
for twenty years, is dead.
The moaion for new trial in the
case of the state VS.. w. N. Mott in the
district court at Baird was overruled
Notice of appeal was given.
John 7. Melton, a prominent farm
er and stockmen of Collin county,
died near Mckinney.
The ranch house of w. T. Petty,
manager of the 7 Bar ranch, ninety
miles north of Colorado, was with all
its contents destroyed by fire.
A three days shooting tournament
will be held at Burton on June 26, q
and 2S. Target shooting and shoot
ing at live birds will be the principal
events.
Mrs. D. NJ. Higgins had her buggy
demolished in a runaway at Gaines
vile, but fortunately she and her
daughter, who accompanied her, es-
capped without injury.
John II. Pridemore of WaXahachie
lost his $1,000 mare in an accident.
The animal was very highly bred, oad
was possibly the fastest traveller this
side of the Mississippi.
Some one attempted to burn the
lumber yard of R. Y. Cox at Hico. Oil
was poured on the lumber and it set
on fire. Fortunately the lumber was
piled close together and but little dam
age was done.
William Campbell, aged &C years,
was convicted in the Federal court at
Paris of manslaughter. His two sons,
Charley and Albert, jointly indicted
were acquitted.
News was received at Georgetown
that Claudia Snow, son of c. S. Snow
of the Whitehouse neighborhood, was
thrown from his horse and killed. The
father of the boy is in western Texas
looking for location.
The Texas and Pacific railway turn
ed out of it's machine shops at Mar
shall Texas and Pacific switch engine
No. 1873, that is used in the pards there
and has been pronounced by raildoad
men as being first-class.
The residence of City Tax Collector
Stewart at Longview was struck by
lightning. The wall paper in the sit
ting room was badly torn. Mrs. Stew
art, who was nursing a child, was par
TALLY stunned.
A gold medal contest was held at
Leonard, participated in by Lille
Wright, Kington; Earl Luper, Caddo
Mills; Will Pruett, Blue Ridge w. H.
Wright, Leonard and Miss Winnie
Brown, Bailey. Prof w. W. Frank
Tin of Dallas acted as judge, awarding
the medal to Mr.. Wright, the LeonarI
representative.
During the shut down of the wool
occurring mill at Colorado thieves en-
tered the building and stole the brass
parts from the engine, presumably to
sell them for old metal Parts to the
value of $40 were taken. New parts
mad to be ordered from the east.
The old settlers of Cooke county are
beginning preparations for their reun-
lon in August. This will be their sec
ond coming together and the executive
committee, who have been designated
10 make all arrangements, are determ-
lned to make the August meeting a
success.
Rev. L. Nanger, pastor of the M. e.
church at Meranite, assisted by W. H.
Brown of GAINESVILLE, have closed a
meeting there. There were seventy
eight conversions anr thirty-eight ad-
aitions to the church. Great interest
was manifested in the meeting
throughout.
The 1O-months-old child of AXel
Malberg, a prominent Swedish farmer,
living few miles out from George
town, reached up to pan of water on
The stove and pulled it over on itself,
scalding itself, from the effects of
which the child died.
Messrs. Charles D. Frazier Of the
Rio Grande and Eagle Pass railway
and Great Northern were before the
commission on the matter of the fix