Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-05-31
TExANETrEs.

1ured in a runaway at Bonham.
Rabbi sodousky of the San Antonio
Orthodox Jewish congregation died
suddenly.
E. T. Tuzzle of Files, Hill county,
captured a white squirrel. 1t has plum
colored eyes and bushy tail.
Two boys had fight in the Rusk
penitentiary and one cut the other.
One is in for horse theft and the other
for burglary.
The county commissioners of John
son county have purchased a number
of teams and will work the county
CONFLICTS on the roads.
In the Federal court at Paris U. S.
Cobb was granted leave to withdraw
his suit against the Houston and Tex
as Central railway without prejudice.
In an attempt to burglarize a Gal
weston store three men discovered Vim
cent Monteleaona asleep in a wagon in
the yard and they gave him an unmer-
ciful beating.
Preparations are being made for
two days picnic and barbecue at Bal
linger on the 2Sth and 10Th of June,
the occasion being an ex-Confederate
reunion on the 2Sth and on the Goth
is celebrated the thirteenth annive--
sary of the town.
While playing in the streets al
Gainesville few nights ago with o
party of small boys, Frank Bridges, s
years Of age, was run over by a deliv.
cry wagon. The boys face was cut
through to the mouth and the chin
bone broken.
A contract between Eastland couVty
and a water works company was final
ly consummated, in which the county
and town will be supplied with sub
stantial water works system for the
courthouse, Jail and town.
Col. E. B. Smyth, a pioneer citizen
of Mart, at one time member of the
legislature, and a member of the peni-
Tertiary board under the Hogg admin
istration died very suddenly at that
place.
DR.. Douglass Harris, pioneer citi-
zen and physician of Hill county, is
dead, aged SO years. He was a native
of Alabama and prominent Mason
Miss Bette Coplin, IS years old, a
sanctificationist, has been attracting
large congregations at Henrietta.
FL Paso af4sr quitting their jobs as
tracklayers of the Ell Paso and North
eastern extension were sent back to
Louisiana.
Thieves broke into the paint and
paper store of Webster & Petrie at
Texarkana and riddled it to the ex-
tent of $780, Many valuable goods
were carried away and considerable
damage was done to the stock.
The Santa Fe engineers were at Fort
Worth, and set the grade stakes for
the new passenger station. Work on
the structure, it is given aut by the
contractors, will be pushed as fast as
possible.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Willehad sailed for Bremen with a
good list of passengers and full cargo
This was the first fast first-class pas
senger steamer in the foreign trade to
visit Galveston. 1t is believed the visiI
of the Willehad will result IN the es-
Enlistment of regular line of passen-
ger steamers to foreign ports.
Deputy United States Marshal ]. H.
Buckley left Texarkana Friday morn
Ing with thirty-nine prisoners, all con-
victed of moonshining at the present
term of the Federal court in Texarka-
ma, Ark. They are consigned TO the
prison at Fort Smith, where their SEN
fences will be served out.
The Woodmen of the World at
Whitesboro unveiled the monuments
to Sovereigns ]. E. Hammond and ].
e. Brazngton. Orations were lnad6
by Rice Maxey and G. P. Webb, both of
Sherman, and immense concourse OF
people attended the sad and impr essive
services.
The summer normal for Montague
and Clay counties will be held at
Bowie in July.
Rev. ]. NJ. Purcell OF Austin was
duly installed pastor of the Presbyter'
ian church at Lockhart. Rev. A. ]