Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-10-17
LONE STAR LINES.

Texarkana is after the Missouri Pa
ciflc shops. M.
Electric cars will resume operations
in Galveston about the 25th.
For the ninth time the Southern Pa.
ciflc bridge over the Colorado river at
Columbus has been damaged by water
Mrs. Jane walbridge, aged So, died
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs
Jones, in Waskom. She was an old
settler. .lr
c. W. Brown, charged with the kill
ing of ODE Wilson, near Galveston,
was released under $4,000 bond to await
the action of the grand jury.
A drunken Mexican fell from tres
tie on the railroad track near Lock.
port and killed himself instantly Par
ties near the place saw him fall.
While walking on the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio railway
track at Ell Paso, Mexican named An
dres Turey was run over and killed by
a freight train. M
Bud Anderson was killed at Abner,
Kaufman county. He got his arm
caught in the gin saws, which cut it to
shreds up to his body, causing his
death in a few hours. M
George G. Ellcrton, formerly Of Dem
ison, is one of the officers on the new
battleship Kentucky, which has been
ordered to Chinese waters Young Ell
lerton was reared in Denison.
l. N. Bailey, farmer four miles
southeast of Paris, was overcome by
heat while In the field picking cotton
and was carried home unconscious.
The day was excessively hot ~
1t is authoritatively announced that
it'will be several months before the
machinery for the electric light station
at Austin for generating electricity. for
the city tower lights can be received
and placed in position.
Arrangements have been made by
Galveston to pay all city employees
in cash each month to Feb. 1, 1901, the
funds for this purpose to come from.
the special reserve fund and tax re-
ceipts.
Virgie Scott, a farmer boy, was ac-
cidentally killed near Cooley, johnson
county. He was narrowing some plow-
ed land and the harrow turned over
on him. infiicting INJURIES from which
Jimmie Murray, aged 10 years. who
lives on Or. G. D. Mahon's place.
Twelve miles south of Marshall, shot
and accidentally killed Louis Elem
ming lately. The boys were playing
with gun. Both are negroes
Mrs. Frank Emerson, who sued the
Cotton Belt railway at Tyler. charging
the company with the death OF her
husband, has compromised on $4,000
Mrs. Upton, wife of an engineer, kill
ed, did likewise. Both men were en-
gineers of the Cotton Belt Railway
ds
A blind match peddler was run over
and killed by the southbound local
on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas at
Royse City recently He was help
I'D off the train and into the depot, but
out on to the track in front
Of the tender Both legs were cut of
at the hip.
At meeting OF the Corsicana city
council a message from Mayor John
son was read recommending that the
city build and own its electrical light
plant, put in an electrical fire alarm
system and force citizens to build
cement sidewalks in residence portion.
The gin OF the Milford Gin and Cot
ton company was burned together with
about 225 bales of, seed cotton, some
seed and few cylinders of cotton. A
mar loaded with cotton seed was also
destroyed. Loss about $1,000.
Among the people lost in the Calves
ton storm not reported were Robert M
Smith, wife and four children and Mrs.
John Cox and five children. Mr..
Smith was ticket agent of the Iron
Mountain at Hot Springs, Ark, and
Mrs. Cox was conductors wife.
The Pecos River Railroad company
filed its annual report with the rail-