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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23

Mrs DR.. Nave children went
to Flatonia last Fridhy on a visit
TO relatives.
Mrs. N. Eifier Of Alstin, is in the
city, the guest of the family of Mr..
c. l. Jaeggli.
Mr., f. j. Helweg and family of
Moulton, We're here last Wednesday
visiting relatives.
Mrs. Chas. Ward left last Satur-
day FOR Smithville on q visit to
Mrs. Matte Grant.
r. B. Menefee of Flatonia and w.
G. Lane of Gonzales, were here on
business last Friday.
Cotton buyer Sullivan was here
last Friday taking up lot ofcotton
bought of VOTERS Bros.
Bear in mind that the date for
Sinners Grand Celebration will be
Sunday September oath,
Mr.. S. l. johnson left for Waco
last Sunday, where he will buy
cotton for McFadden Bros.
Miss Clara Poritz arrived in the
city last week from Europe, and is
the guest Of Mrs.-Henry Messer.
Mr.. E. J. MAR was in Hallets.
Vile several days last week on bust
ness with che commissioner court.
Mr.. Johnnie Loekman returned
from Goliad last week and will re-
main at home and look after the
farm,
. Messrs, Eschenburg & Blohm
have shown their enterprise by
5 having a new phone placed in their
store.
Albert Kubiana, one of the pro.
prietors of the Flatonia oil mill
: was in Sinner between trains last
Sunday.
: Misses Isabel and Lizzie Wendt
land left last week for Fatonia
Freyhuru and Schulenburg. on az
: extended visit.
Deputy Sheriff l. w. Griffith
was in Yoakum several days las
I week in attendance on the Pelzel
d examining trial.
y Miss Alma Nnbi,z of Flatoni,
2 and Mics BertlfssfiAer of Austin
are visiting the family of Mr.. AM
Mrs. c. I. Jacggli.
Adolph Boldt, the genial travel
! ing salesman of the Mansur-Teh
e bets Company, was in the city sew
u eral DAYS last week.
Mr.. /. Kokernot, wife and daugh
ter, left last week for Alpine, Texas
to spend some time with their son
Mr.. Herbert Kokernot.
The welcome sound of the Oh
), Mill whistle and the hum of the
r cotton gins, is heard in Sinner from
= early morn till dewy eve.
Miss Liela Kerr Of Flatonia ant
g Miss Delphina Eiiler of Austin. ar,
e in the city visiting the family O
r Mr.. and Mrs. Habermacher.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23

There was delightful hop last
Wednesday night at the opera house.
A party ofyoung folks came up from
Yoakum and assisted in the enjoy
ment. The music was furnished by
Prof. G. T. Guenther and Mr.. Fred
Brunkenhoeffer and war up to date.
The dance lasted until o'clock a. M.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23

Mr.. Henry Dreyer, sr., returned
last week from q trip through Law
AGA, Colorado and part of Dewitt
counties and says he has seen more
dead cotton in the fields than ever
before in his life. He also says
that cotton everywhere is shedding
badly.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23

Sinner is going to celebrate the
completion of its new waterworks
in September, Sinner will do the
thing right.-Halletsyille Herald.
That it will Brother, Come over
and see the thing go off,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23
WANTED.

An active intelligent young man
to take orders for new book just
issued. The twentieth Century
Speaker" finely illustrated and W
to date, sure seller. For further
information call at, or address The
GAZETTE office.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23
LocKuARr BRANCH

loCKHART BRANCH,
Train No. IS arrives from Lock
hart ut 1880 y; M,
Train No. as arrives from Yoa-
kun nv 1916 p. m,
WACO BRANCH
Train No. Al arrives from Waco
at 1897 p. m.
Train Ne. AZ arrives from Yoa-
kun at 1921 p. m,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23
For Rent.

One good three-room house with
two galleries; good we'll of water,
for So month in advance.
Il. II. Ruhmann.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23

Fresh Sausage Of all kinds, Wen
ma, Blood and Liver, also Head
Cheese. All made of choice, fresh
meats, always on hand at Joe
Dvorak's,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23
Social,

There was delightful little social
last Monday night at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs, Habermacher, in
honor Of their two charming young
visitors, Misses Leila Kerr and Del
pima Ei!ler,
There was music, games and rec
itations. Miss LEILA Kerr recited
in beautiful and impressive man
ner, "The Story the Violin Told"
and received many compliments for
her perfect rendition of II very diff
ticult piece. 81.
For refreshment cream and cake
was served and each and everyone
seemed highly pleased with their
evenings entertainment.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23
Cotton Receipts.
Furnished weekly by Niemeyer
Bros, Public Weighcrs

Receipts last report, 40S bales I;
received since, III bales total re-
ceipts up to Monday night, 1l25
bales. Ruling price 81 cents. Cot
ton took slump during the week,
the price dropping from s cents to
81. Gut the price today (Tuesday)
has got back to 81. Market brisk.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23

The drug business purchased by
me of G. AMsLER, will be continued
at the old stand in chargeof Mr.,
H. fucker. A continuance of your
patronage is solicited.
G H. FLATo.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
LOCAL FINANCIAL NOTES.


 New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad stock has sold in small lots at 2l3 1-2 to 2:14 1-2, closing at 2l4; the convertible fours are offered at 1SS.
 Boston Electric Light is quoted 176 to IFS
 Diamond Match sold on Saturday at 129 1-2.
 The various electric light companies sent out checks on Saturday night for the usual quarterly dividends; also the Southern New England Telephone com- pany paid one 1-2 per cent. dividend.
 The annual meeting of the Consoh- dated Rolling Stock company will be held in Bridgeport on Wednesday of this week; four quarterly dividends of l-2 per cent. each have been paid during the fiscal year ending June 30 and fair sum added to the surplus account,
 Clearings and balances of the New Haven banks for the week ending De- tober IA and for the corresponding week of last year are furnished by the secre- tary of the New Haven clearing house. by days:
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me, and one day I inquired the cause
 l was told that the people suffered SC were pains in their insides. which they attributed to gin drinking, and foune relief by cutting themselves. It was evident to me that the excessive drink
 ing was affecting their kidneys whicf explained .he frequency of the gashes in that particular region of the body
 In my opinion, the drink saps then manhood and they lose health anc strength, although, owing to excessive sweating, actual drunkenness, such as we see at home, is not as noticeable as one would expect. At home the effect takes an outward form here it works inner and more deadly ravages, Many native has said to me, speaking o1 the matter: Dem man"-pointing out 6 comrade-"he no fit hab pickins, he drink them mine var Gbo for gin) toe much Che drinks so much that he has no chldren)
 These saVages are superstitious and timid. The drink makes them pot valiant and ready for any mischief Hence the periodical rows. They get
 
 ble atrocities under it's influence. shall never forget seeing a woman sac rificed, in one os these erenzied bouts, at a village twenty miles behind Assa- 'ba, one of the most important towns of the Royal Niger Company on the river They tied her up and left her to die, while they danced round her like fiends, firing off their flintlock guns. In company with a Roman Catholic priest, I witnessed the horrible scene, both of us being powerless to interfere
 At one time, while I was staying at Utshi, a sample case of "liauers" came out for trial-cost price, Sd. quart. A native was sent for to have two or three tots" He liked it very much, and, seeing the color, took it 50 be white mans whiskey" However, he had hardly got thirty yards away when he fell prone as though shot, and from Il a. n. to 6 D. m. remained uncon- scious. l do noa mean to imply that the gin is quite as bad as that. and this, remember, was only trial sam pie of so called liquers. But she gin Is pretty bad, all the same. The com mon saying on the coast is that there are nine 'drEnks" for white man in one bottle of African gin. We use the gin out in Africa in lieu of turpentie, when the supply of the latter runs short, for drying paint. It makes an excellent varnish. Although the gin trade in the Rivers is very much greater than in the Niger Company's territories, I have seen the company's steamer Croft bring up gin to Abutshi ten thousand cases at a time. Every case has to be opened, as the native will not buy unless he sees for himself the bottles have not been tempered with Custom may differ according to the locality, but wherever I have traded the gin was sold to the natives since it left Hamburg, and drunk by them neat.-London Chroni- cle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
WHAT COCAINE IS.

Cocaine is an akaloid of a small shrub found in Peru and Bolivia. The official name of the drug as used in medicine is cocaine suphate, salt de- rived from the shrub treated with suI- phufic acid. Cocaine is composed of carbon hydrogen and nitrosyl reduced to sulphate. Each element of the compound has direct influence on the nervous system, blood and lymphatics. It possesses the singular property of killing all sensation of pain in the parts where it is locally applied while eleva- ting the mind of the patient to a pitch oL eAaitaIion absolutely without palai- lel.--Chicago Chronicle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
PREMIERSHIP IN THE PACIFIC.

PREMIERSHIP IN THE PACIFIC.
 Russia, Japan, the United States,
 and Great Britain are the four protag-
 onists for premiership In the Pacific.
 Germany and France possess oppor-
 tunities for annoyance, but hegemony can be theirs in only the smallest de-
 grees. Just as France in New Gale
 donia is a thorn in the side of Aus tralia, so Germany in the Carolines has placed herself athwart the Ameri-
 can line of communication between San Francisco and the Philippines. If the next great struggle Is to be be-
 tween Germany and America. as Ad- miral Dewey thinks, the Americans will realize their mistake in allowing Germany to acquire the remnant of Spanish dominion in the Pacific. But
 beyond that Germany can do little. Unless she is able materially to aug
 ment her present possessions she can not hope to be in the running for leading place in the Pacific In Amer ica, the idea already obtains that the United States are paramount power between the NnlneSe ana the AHleTlcdl seaboards, and that the destiny of the Pacific is to be an American lake. But the talk in which some leading officials and politicians in Washington are in- dulgng is as the prattle of a child ex- cited by a pop-gun. America can only acquire the authority she seeks in the Pacific by an alliance with Japan or Russia But Americans leans towards Great Britain. The Americans there fore, turn to Russia, the powerful magnet which seems to attract repub- licans irresistibly, and the Russo possibility. Russia will tap the nat ural wealth of Siberia and northern China. She will find the sineWs both of war and commerce in the one, and the raw material of considerable naval forces in the teenring population of the other. In the unlikely event of a Rus so-American alliance in the Pacific, Japan and Great Britain will be driv- en together by need of mutual pro- lection. Japan, with continued or ganization and a measure of good for tune, cannot wholly fail to secure large voice in Pacific destinies. The incursion of western powers has rob- and independence to which she would have attained as the result of her adoption if western methods, and the yellow race will only now be able to assert itself in the Pacific in league
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
CAPTAIN BROOKS STORY.
The Passengers Made the Mistake of
 Rushing Aft He Says.


 The Passengers Made the Mistake of
 Rushing Aft, He Says.
 Captain c. M. Brooks of the Nutmeg State. bluff and hearty mariner, was asked about the burning of his cessel, and said:
 T don't know how the fire started or how many people were lost I had been up all night, as is usual with me when I am on a trip. About 5:30 in the morn- ing I was taking bath, when the pilot shouted to me that the bate was afire. jumped into my clothes, went on deck and saw to getting out the boats That was about twenty minutes after I went to my room. I sung out to the passen- gers who had rushed on deck to come to the forward of the promenade deck. If they'd have done that they would hard ly have got their feet wet but they wouldn't. They rushed toward the stern, just as they always do when there's an accident. They did the same thing when the Seawanhaka burned, years ago.
 We had four lifeboats and six life Tafts aboard. We got them all over, excepting one that was burned. The officers and crew did their duty, think. After I had got the boats out I went to the pilothouse and stayed there until 1t caught fire. We turned the boats head dead on to Sands Point, on the Long Island shore. The fire started somewhere amidshps, so far as I can learn, but l haven't the least idea how it started When things got real hot, why, of course, it was everybody for himself among passengers and crew. Everybody got excited, and things were generally mixed all around, One boat I got out was swamped, because the pas sengers rushed it under water.
 Pilot WetherwaX, the chief cook and myself were the last to leave the boat We went over the side down on a rope, and were picked up by a launch from the Kismet and taken aboard the City of Lawrence"
 Captain Brooks indignantly denied a report that the officers of the vessel had reserved a boat for themselves.
 q don't know anything about the cargo, the loss or the names of the pas sengers,'' he added.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
FUN OUT OF A FUNERAL.

A good bull enlivened the description of funeral which took place somewhat recently. In the course of a descriptive article the writer said that there was lone exquisite family wreath, in the form of cross.' In the same article there was wonderful error, evidently due, not to the writer, but to the exi- gencies of transmission. The deceased was stated to be 'forty-five by the rights of the church" What was inteded was, of course, that he was fortified by the rites of the church ''-London Telegraph.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16

pers present their receipts. We carry large amount of freight for the Metallic Cartridge company of Bridgeport. I do not know whether there were any car- tridges on the Nutmeg State, but if there were they could not have caused an explosion. Generally our cargoes consist of -combustible material, such as brass work of all kinds, and we suppose the cargo of the Nutmeg State was the same. The average value of our cargoes is about $3O,000 The boat cost $105,000.
 The engineer of the boat says that the first he knew of the fire was when he saw the smoke curling around the iron jacket which surrounds the fun nel'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
S1,S79, 59741 $29O, S99 10 $1,624, 457 19 Increase week of 1899, $245 14022. Balances week of 1898, $450, ,045.7O. Decrease week of 1899, $159, 146.60. Cleo rinou ,traaly of 1oo7 e1 7o5 75o 70

| Balances week of 1898, $450, 045.7O | Decrease week of 1899, $159, 146.60 Clearings week of 1897, $1 735, ,759.72. Clearings week of 1896, $1 ,5S4, 7714S. Clearings week of 1895. $1, 425, ,S10.9S. Dividends soon due are: Amalgamated Copper company, per cent, payable October 16; books close October g. American Mating company, prefer red, l 34 per cent, payable October 15; books close October 2.
 American Bell Telephone company, per cent, payable October 16; books close September 30
 American Car Foundry, preferred, 3-4 per cent, payable November 1; books close October 10.
 American Tobacco company, 1 1-2 per cent, payable November 1 books close October 16
 American Tin Plate preferred, 1 34 per cent, payable October 30; books close October 20.
 Boston Electric, 1 1-2 per cent, pay able October 16; books close October |.
 C., c. & St. Louis, preferred, 1 IA per cent, payable October 20; books close September 3O
 Bridgeport Electric, per cent, paya- ble October 16; books close October '.
 Chesapeake and Oho 1 per cent payable October 25; books close Sep- tember 26.
 Central New Jersey railroad, 1 per cent, payable November 1 books close October IS.
 Consolidated Electric, Portland 1 per cent, payable October 16; books close October 10.
 Delaware Lackawanna and Western, 3-4 per cent, payable October 20; books close October 8.
 Erie and Terre Haute railroad, per cent, payable October 19; books close September 26.
 Great Northern, preferred, 1 3-4 per cent, payable November i books close October 21,
 Metropolitan Street Railway, 3-4 per cent, payable October 16; books close September 2S.
 National Biscuit company, per cent, payable October 15; books close October g.
 New Haven Electric, per cent, pay e'''i1 oN'VpNi ls
 Rio Grande Western, preferred, IA per cent, payable November 1; books close September 30.
 Rock Island, l IA per cent, payable November 1; book close September 2S.
 St. Paul, preferred 1-2 per cent, payable October 21 books close Oc- tober g.
 St. Paul, common, 1-2 per cent. payable October 21; books close October
 United States Rubber. preferred 3 per cent, payable October 31; books close October IA.
 United States Rubber, common, 1 per cent, payable October 31; books close October IA.
 Western Union, 1 IA per cent, paya- ble October 16; books close September 20
 New York and Pennsylvania Tele- phone, 1-2 per cent, payable October l6; books close September 30.
 New York and New Jersey Telephone, 1-2 per cent. payable October 16; books close October 2.
 Southern New England Telephone. 1 l-2 per cent, payable October 16; books close October g.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
SOUND STEAMBOAT BURNS
TITO LIVES LOST IND THREE IN-
 JURED ON NUTMEG STATE.
Headed for Sands Point When the Fire Was Discovered-Pathetic Schemes About the Wreck.


 Was Discovered-Pathetio Schemes About the Wreck.
 The Nutmeg State, passenger and freight boat of LIZA tons, plying daily between Bridgeport and New York, was burned to the waters edge Saturday morning between , and z o'clock off Sands Point, Long Island, with a loss of at least four lives, while at least half a dozen persons who were on board are still missing, with a probability that some of them were drowned or burned to death.
 THE DEAD.
 Patrick Coffey, first mate, of Roslyn; burned to death.
 Samuel V. Jayne, baggagemaster and night watchman; died from injuries on head and strangulation after jumping overheard.
 Unknown man, about twenty-five years old, seen to drown by Ennis Eng fish of No 27 Staton street, a passen- ger.
 Unknown member of crew, who died in forward forecastle, with Patrick Cof- fey, the first mate.
 THE INJURED.
 Ennie English, No. 27 Stanton street, bruised hands.
 J. P. Hurd, Bridgeport, burned on hands.
 Mrs. J, H. Pursell, No. 1S3 West Eighteenth street. shock and exposure. Mrs. Joseph Wilt, No. 2224 East York street, Philadelphia; suffering from shock and exposure; removed to Hud- son street hospital.
 Harry J. Wilt, No 2671 Serva street, Philadelphia; removed to Hudson street hospital, suffering from exhaustion.
 THE MISSING.
 Charles Anderson, deckhand.
 According to the stories of the crew and passengers, it is likely that two or three freight handlers who had been asleep in the forecastle between decks were burned to death.
 As soon as the fire was found to be beyond control a scene of wild terror ensued, and the captain and other off cers of the vessel found it impossible fully to control either the crew or the passengers That there was not a great CT loss of life was due to the timely ar- rival of the steamer City of Lawrence, of the Hartford line, the Fall River freighter Nashua the steam yacht Kis- met, belonging to J. Rogers Maxwell, and the tug Samuel Reed, which put out of Glen Cove in time to render as sistance Conflicting stories of the con- duct of the crew are told. Some of the passengers assert that they were awak- ened by repeated knockings on their stateroom doors, and that the crew be- haved as well as could be expected. Others assert that some of the crew were utterly regardless of the women and children, crowding them back, beat ing them and jumping into the lifeboats before the passengers had an opportu- nifty to get in.
 The Nutmeg State left Bridgeport at | 3:15 o'clock for New York with about fifty-five passengers and crew of fifty. Nothing went wrong until o'clock, when one of the engine room employees rushed up from below and said that fire had broken out near the bottom of the smokestack.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
PRESIDENT JENKINS STATEMENT

He Says the Manifest Was Lost and No
 Record Kept of the Passengers.
 J. H. Jenkins, president of the Bridge port Steamboat line, said:
 "Unfortunately the watchman who gave the alarm and who could have told probably all about the origin of the fire perished in the panic and rush for the boats. I understand that he reached one of them, but was crushed to death. I cannot say how many passengers there were. I do not believe their names were taken and if they were all of the purser's papers were lost The watch man, Samuel Jayne, was an old employe of the company. He used to run a schooner of his own; he was a sailor and knew what to do. I cannot tell what the, cargo consisted of, because the boats manifest is burned and we have no duplicate, the billing being done on board. The only way we can find out about the cargo is when the ship
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
Drink Grain-O

after you have concluded that you ought not to drink coffee. It Is not a medicine, but doctors order it because 1t is heathful. in. vlgoratlng and appetizlng It is made from pure grains and has that rich seal brown coffee and costs about fl as much Child ren like 1t and thrive on 1t because 1t is genuine food drink containing nothing but nnourishment. Ask your grocer for Grain 0, the new food drink 15 and 25e
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16

with, or under the domination of the white race. Japan recognizes two things; that at the moment Great Britain is the paramount power in the Pacific and that Great Britain's atti- tude is defensive not aggressive London Saturday Review
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16

selecting fruit for the later markets. When common apples are plentiful, mean prices may be expected for all such.-New England Homestead.