Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-06-14
TExANETTEs.


Kinney.
A coat of paint is being put on the
roof of the Hill county courthouse.
Gilbert Turner was killed at Nc
Gregor by the accidental discharge OF
pistol.
L, p. s. Green, Dallas county pi-
oneer, died at Oak Cliff. aged Sc
years.
Eight divorces were granted at
GAINESVILLE one day recently in less
than an hour.
A Knights of Pythias lodge was or
ganized at Van Alstyne with forty
five members.
The handsome three-story resi-
dence of VIM, Jolesch, at Ennis, was
damaged $1,000 worth by fire.
Hon. ]. w. Bailey addressed the lit
erary societies of the Southwestern
University at Georgetown.
A Lamar county farmer has a chick
with four legs and four wings. 1t
lived several hours after being Matched
Mrs. w. L. Townes. wife of County
and District Clerk Towner. died at
Ballinger, and was buried at Runnels.
The jury inthe Gus Moore case at
Palestine returned verdict of not
guilty. Moore was charged with the
murder of a Mexican last year.
The case of Bartholomew VS., the
city of Austin. which has been on tri-
al in the Federal court at Austin since
May 10, was decided in favor of the
plaintiff and damages to the amount
Tom Purvis on trial at Dallas
charged with the murder of Ed Hunt,
both colored, in that city was adj
Judged guilty, and given forty years
in the penitentiary.
A young white man while returning
home at Tyler few nights ago was
accosted by two armed men and car
ried to secluded spot in the western
part of town and severely fogged.
Bots dare lodge, at Greenville,
Woodmen Of the World, celebrated
the unwilling of monument to theiI
deceased companion, j. A. Weatherly,
at Horn cemetery The cemetery is
three miles south of town, and the
exercises were attended by probably
1000 people.
The patriotic people Of Indepen-
dence, William Penn, Whitman,
Washington, Grabal and Chappell.
Hill are taking a lively interest in
the dedication of the independence
monument on the Fourth of July at
old Washington, and will prepare
barbacued meat enough for fully 10000
people.
Mr.. Fred Flemming has just award
ed contract for the erection of a
residence on the corner of West Sixth
avenue, and Fourteenth street, Corsi-
cana, the cost of which will be S15-
OO0. 1t will be, when completed, the
most complete and finest residence
building in Navarro county.
George a. Mathewson of London;
Canada, filed suit to foreclose a deed
of trust on what is known as the
White block in Jefferson. There are
twentyfour defendants named in the
petition. This deed of trust was Civ
en- in 1898 and the property has pass
ed through great many hands since
then.
A stock train on the Midland, from
Ennis to Paris, made the run in three
hours and forty-fve minutes, including
a half-hour layout at Greenvllle. The
distance travelled is 1876 miles, and the
train was made up of ten cars. The
passenger schedule for the same run
is four hours and thirty minutes.
Several of the members of the Mys-
tic Shrine in Denison have received
buttons from Buffalo, N. Y, for the
convention of the Shriners in that
city. The buttons are covered with
a large shaggy head of buffalo with
the inscription, Put me off az 'uf-
falo.p
of $39,925 adjudged against the city
for hydrant rental for the years 1896
1897 and 1898 with interest.
While returning from the college ex-
ercises at Rockwell few nights ago a
buggy containing Prof. Stoddard and
his two daughters was demolished