Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-22
TExANET TIES.

at Winsboro burned. Loss $l5OO.
The Greenville fire department is to
have an entire set of new rubber hose.
The $4,000 necessary to build and
equip the Mount Pleasant oil mill has
been raised.
Burglaries have heen numerous at
San Antonio recently. At one place
$3.50 was secured
Jacksboro cotton seed oil mill has
started operation. 1t has a capacity
Of sixty tons per day.
Walter Starkey accidentally shot
and killed 1O-year-old boy named
Louis Young near Franklin.
T.. r. Whitlow, a boy aged years,
ell while skating an the ice at
<osse and broke his left arm.
George Phillips, living ten miles
from Sinner lost his barn and contents
by fire. Loss. $500 mo insurance.
G. A. Rupe, tried at Dallas for the
murder Of Prof Randall, was adjudged
guilty and given life Imprisonment
Abe Behymer fell off a Texas and
Pacific boxcar covered with ice and
snow near Big Sandy and had a leg
broken.
Chairman Bradley of the Populist
state executive comnittee has issued
a call for meeting of the committee
at Waco on Feb. rs.
The truestees of the reformatory
met at Gatesville. DR.. w. e. Brown
was elected physician of the institu-
ton, and Capt. Rush of Moody, SER
geant.
Pat Gleason, section man, died at
the Santa Pc hospital at Temple. His
valise was examined and in sock
was found $500 cash and $500 in un-
cashed checks. Nothing is known of
his relatives.
The Texas and Louisiana Manufac-
turing association held a special meet
| ing at Beaumont TO look after certain
business matters. Resolutions of re-
spect to the memory of the late Will
lam Cameron We're adopted
Attorneys for the Port Arthur Chan
mel and Dock company were-notified
that the dredge work on the Port Ar
thur channel has been stopped by or
der of Secretary of War Alger.
Louis Gore. who has been running
a laundry at Childress. was found in
his laundry dead with bullet hole
through his head and pistol lying by
and seemed to be prosperous.
Mr.. A. c. Clark, aged 81 years, and
his wife. 80, have just celebrated at
Paris their sixty-fifth wedding ami
versary. They are natives of Missls-
sippi, but had lived in Lamar county
twenty-five years.
j. 7. McCally, aged 10 years, while
Texarkana Junction., fell under car
and his right foot was mashed to
pieces. He was endeavoring to go to
Farmersville, his home.
d. Bridges. youth, was found not
guilty of arson. He was charged with
burning boxcar ut Southmayd Gray
son county. He admitted building a
fire, but said he did it to keep from
freezing, and had no intention to de-
stroy property.
The Neuces river froze over OH the
night of the 9th. the first time since
1885.
A farmer named w. P. Kelly and his
son John, living about five miles from
Texarkana, were seriously injured
while hauling wood. Their team was
struck by runaway wagon and cap
sized. Kelly was caught under the
wood and badly chushed and his boy
received fractured leg from the fall
Father Quinlan, pastor of the Sacred
Heart church, at Galveston, and presi-
dent of st. Mary's university. was
found dead in bed. He was CO years
of age, an oriental and Arabic scholar
and spent eight years in the Holy
Land Heart failure was the cause
of his DEATH
Judge ]. c. Beeks, attorney for the
Gulf, Pexas and Northern railroad, LEFT