Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-08-08
TExANETTEs.

lnula famine sufferers.
to issue $500 worth of per cent bonds
and it carried unanimously.
An election was held at White
wright on the proposition of the city
]. H. Harris of Tampico, Mex, with
400 parrots, was detained in quaran-
tine at Laredo.
The camp of the first Texas infantry
at La Porte was named Camp Say
ers,' in honor of the governor.
A male infant about three weeks old
was found on the roadside short dis
lance from the Santa Fe depot at San
Angelo.
The Postal Telegraph Cable company
paid $14s.71 tax on its telegraph busl-
ness in Texas for the quarter ending
June 30.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Doyle of
Denison have formally adopted the
waif left on a Cotton Belt train several
days ago.
Secretary F. T. Kirkland of the rail-
road mems Y. M. C. A., building at
Texarkana, resigned his position on ac-
count of i'll health.
Judge T. S. Johnson, assistant in the
attorney generals department, APP
proved an issue of s2O,5OO of Irion
county courthouse bonds.
The United States government has
shipped 25OO white perch to Mr.. w. w.
helms of Georgetown to be placed in
the Gabriel river near that city.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande
Railroad company paid the controller
$223.O7 tax ON $22,SO6S7 of passenger
earnings for the quarter ending June
80. rs
City Assessor Hoover of Paris has
completed the task of footing up the
assessment rolls. They show the total
taxable values of Paris to be $4,564 $3.50,
making a gain of s22756S over last
year
At the grand lodge meeting of the
AHeient. Order OF United Weflmen at
Temple the financial report showed
that the order had pnid out in Texas
the past two years over 100000.
Alexander Johnson, colored, aged %,
was found dead In pasture four miles
south of Marble Falls with a bullet
hole through his chest. He is supposed
to have shot himself accidentally.
Four Cinnamon were tried before
United States commissioner, Ell Paso,
and ordered deported. The prisoners
made no defense to the charge against
them, but on the charge against
that they had come in from Mexico.
The Southern Oil company has just
struck oil three miles southeast of
Corsicana on the west side of the Cen
trail railroad. How good the strike is
can not as yet be determ ned, as the
well has not been finished.
While playing in the yard in front of
his fathers house at Corslcana the g.
year-old son of Jade Wilson was
kicked on the head by the horse that
was grazing in the yard and his skull
crushed, leaving the brain exposed.
The body Of w. o. Sheets was found
near the track Of the Kansas City
Southern railorad about two miles
north of Texarkana. He had disap-
peared from his home several days age
while in state OF mental disorder.
Irene Heath, daughter Of H. G.
Heath of Rockwell, was burned about
her hands, feet and limbs by the ex-
plosion of coal oil can. Her fathers
hands were badly burned in his efforts
to extinguish the flames
W. A. Williams, alias w. A. Long
one of the negroes charged with tn,
beating of Henry Jefferson to dealt
at Hirsh's wood camp near Houston
a short time since, has made sworr
statement in which he detailed how thu
awful deed was done.
Arthur Epperson, the negro who wa
shot at Waxahachie, died. Assistan
County Attorney Robert Wimbush Sc