Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-01-25
TExANErTEs.

Parties are after street car fran
cbise at Cleburne.
Wills Point lodge of Odd Fellows
gave an entertainment and oyster sup
per. .,,
The colored Methodist church at
Cleburne, valued at 5000, has been
burned.
Four young men of Nacogdoches
have gone to Dallas to enlist in the
regular army.
Madam Michelly, resident of Bon
ham over thirty years, native Of
Spain, died at Bonham.
Burglars have been breaking into
stores at Alvarado and stealing more
or less goods and money,
Postmaster Morrison has qualifid and
taken charge as receiver of the Ennis
electric light and ice plant.
The sheriff Of Grayson county has
announced his intention to ,rlgldly en-
force the Sunday law at Sherman.
The city council of Gainesville has
abolished the salary of the city mar
shall and that official will have to de-
pend in few.
The Texas Midlands' business is i'm
proving at Ennis to such an extent
that another switch engine has been
nut on their wards sol,
The steamship Norden, which sailed
from Galveston, was the first vessel of
any character to leave that port de-
stined for Venice.
The verdict of Justice of the Peace
Mullins at Fort Worth was that Rose
Benton came to her death from NOR
phine poisoning.
Col. and Mrs. R. p. Jones, two of
Elgin's most distinguished citizens,
celebrated their silver wedding by Civ
ing to their many friends and relatives
a magnificent dinner 81.
An armodillo was killed in the Trini-
ty river bottoms near Hutchins, Dallas
county, the first ever seen in that Sec
ton. '.-"
Mrs. Kate Bell Stevens, wife of Capt.
3. B.. Stevens, post quartermaster at
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, de-
parted this life fort
r. G. Deadrick of Navasota filed his
petition to be declared a bankrupt in
the Office of the clerk of the United
States court at Galveston. He is with
out assets and owes debts aggregating
s615s.
Two men and boy, while sitting
around fire near Huntsville, were
strurck by lightning and instantly
killed. Two women in the room were
seriously shocked, but otherwise es-
capped injury.
James Throc'Imorton. son of the
late j. w. 1hrockmorton, of Mckinney,
and Miss Irene Crawford were married
at the home of the bride in Parker
county.
An Austrian lady, residing at Krebs,
I. T.. after much correspondence and
a great deal of anxiety has succeeded
in locating a missing daughter in
Sherman, and went to that city after
her child. On arriving at Sherman she
learned that her daughte rwas at Howe
ard soon got her.
A freight train on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas was wrecked at Gar
land and five coal cars were derailed.
There was some damage done to the
track, but no one in the train crew
received any serious injury. Slight in
terruntion to travel
The Cotton Belt railway is to shortly
make some extensive improvements at
Waco. Among other things there will
be cattle pens erected and a mile or
two of switch track laid, besides
large railroad yard.
The Ropes-Files Mercantile com
pany at Itasca, and the hardware store
of j. r. Thompson &c Son. were de-
stroyed by fire. The fire started in the
Roper Files store. Their loss was
$4,000, isurance $4,000. Mr.. Thomp-
sons store was not entirely destroyed.
Judge James Moreland of Denison
has letter from Charles S. Swindells,
deputy adjutant of the Trans-Missis-
sippi U. @. v. Mr.. Swindells asks
Judge Moreland to take part in the Or