Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-04-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The S.ycar-oid girl IF Charles Rose, u
farmer, in Lamar county. Texas, was
burned to death.
Il A Fowlkss, n negro teacher, at
Whitney, Tex, was shot and killed by
Ed Waltz.
Oitizons of Rice, Tex, have raised
$4S 900 for II cottonmill.
Miss Almn Pullin started fire in n
stove al Kennedy, Eek, with coal oil and
is fatally burned.
The largest vineyard in the world is
neat San Gabriel, Cal.
IN the International chess match at
London, Eng, between American and
English, the former won.
The schooner Jennie s. Butler was
wrecked just cut Of the buy at Calves
ton, Tex.
Israel F, Brown, tho pioneer cotton
gin manufacturer, died at New London,
Conn, ngtd 80 years.
w. j. Bryan may settle in Texas. His
winter stay Mt Austin did it.
There is great activity in railroad
building in Yucatan.
Bryan has gone to California, Wash.
ington and Oregon to les:ture.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Kid Mccoy will
fight - rounds ut New York on July A.
An attempt was made to assnsSinatu
Father Dalgc on train at Lambert,
Tex. lie was slightly wounded.
Governor Saycrs has appointed l.. A.
Clark of Greunville, Tex, judge of the
Eighth judicial district.
Tho largest theater in the world will
he Mt the Paris exposition. IL will seat
1900 persons.
Doolittle G. Simpson. merchants ut
Dallas, Tex, hayo failed. Liabilities
$25,l IS, with assets S2l Cos.
The remains Of Or. w. NJ. Yantlel1
who killed himself at FL Paso, Tex will
be buried at Seguin.
Congressman j. w. Bailey opened his
campaign for the senatorship at Cam
eron, Tex, last Saturday,
Colonel Cyrus K,IIollidny, the founder
of what is now the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway, is dangerously
sick at Topeka, Kas.
Tho indications are that General Jd
Wheeler will remain i'll the army.
Judge William Taft was rendered n
dinner at Cincinnati, o., before his de-
pnrture fui the Philippines.
The bill returning to Puerto Rico the
money collected for revenues has beer
signed by the president.
Arthur Mildenbcrg, cigar dealer
failed at Galveston, Tex.
Driven to despair by quarrel with
her sweetheart, Annie Vslandn placed
her mock upon railroad track and wa,
decapitatod.
Edward Leasur3 shot and killed George
Crotty Mt New York City.
After quarrel at Cheyenne. Wyo.
Paul FlemVey set his wife's clothing %,
fire, and she WAS fatally burned, BotL
are over 60 years old
While drunk Mt Oil City, Pa, Amo,
Elder shot and killed his wife.
Over 5000 Mormons have settled in thu
state of Chihuahua, Mex, in the las
two months. All were from Utah.
The movement to unite the Social
Labor and the Social Democratic parties
IL now on.
Mrs. Vcsta Hogg in n fit of jealousy
shot and killed Mrs. Clara Gurley a
1 Vienna, Ills.
John Perkins, brakeman, was sho
and killed near Broollhaven, Miss, BY
Moses Angelina, tramp, who wa
stealing ride.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain i
returning to Hartford, Conn, from
abroad where he will make his perma
nent home.
Major l.. L. Lincoln, commercial ed
itor of the Tunes. Democrat ut New Or
leans, is dead. He was Confederate
soldier.
British losses in the South African
war, including killed, wounded an'
missing, number lG,4l8.
la wreck at Demapolis, Al2., caused
10y n freight train RAINING over mule
WIN Russell the fireman, was killed
j. A, Lightfoot was shot aud lsille'
near Clando, Tex, Jamos Logue /
under nrrest. l.ogue claims solfdefense
Father rurillon, one Of the oldes
German Catholic priests in the SAN An
4i.ut., liao.ca IttI an fla Gan f,aa la.