Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-09-19
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Local capitalists at Whitesboro will
prospect for OIL
Paris will ask for part of the La
mar county road fund
Hillsboro is after a part OF the Hill
county road fund.
G. w. Dodgins had an arm cut OF
in a gin near Taylor.
Five rural mail routes will be run
from Venus, Johnson county.
Charles Robinson accidentally shot
and killed his brother at Eagle Lake.
The erection of fine block of bust
ness houses has been begun at Corsi-
cana.
The Lone Star Club is the name of
new Democratic organization at
Dallas
A feature of the Labor day parade
at San Antonio was 200 young ladies
in carriages.
Suits aggregating S125,OOO were filed
against railroads at Sherman in one
day last week.
Mrs. William Tramp died at the sealy
hospital, Galveston, from an overdose
of laudanum.
At the Labor day celebration at Gal
weston Congressman Bailey discussed
New Problems"
Arlington, Tarrant county, is to have
three rural postal routes radiating
from it within thirty days.
Senator Culberson has returned to
Dallas. He has been absent since con-
ress convened, in December last,
j. t. Profit ana j. L. Baker have
dled suits at Sherman against the Katy
railroad for $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively.
Dallas is to have Bible school,
Congressman DeGraffenreid will
make campaign speeches in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois.
DR.. e. Bs Manifold of Wilmer, Dallas
county, joins the twenty-fifth infantry
as surgeon at San Francisco and
from there proceed to China.
There are only 100 voters in the
counties OF Gaines, Terry, Yoakum
and Andrews. These four counties and
Martin have only one postoffice.
Dick Morris, II years old, subject to
epileptlc Ats, fell in his fathers horse
lot while in the throes of an attack
and was trampled by'a horse. He had
another and ran into building, frac-
turing his skull and dying shortly.
Nnsolving, Emory, Cullinan and
associates have Just drilled in a we'll
on the Robinsan lease, five miles north
from Corsicana, that besides bong a
good oil well is very strong gas
producer.
f. B. McElroy, to whom the Corsi-
cana city council five months ago
granted franchise to put in an indie
pendent telephone system in Corsica
ma, has returned from the east, where
he has been perfecting plans for the
system.
George w. Thach, who had resided
in Milan county since 1856, died at
his home after a brief illness. He
was born in Marion county, Tennessee,
in 1926, and belonged to a pioneer
family who in the latter part of the
eighteenth century pushed westward
from Tennessee and formed the new
State of Franklin.
The city school board of Bonham has
authorized statement by Superlnten-
dent Foster that pupils entering the
city public schools must furnish GER
tificates of successful vaccination.
Those who have not been vaccinated
will be required to do so before en-
tering school
@. d. Fisk OF Fort Worth was found
beside the Texoas and Pacific railroad
track near Terrell in an unconscious
condition. He rallied sufficiently to
tell his name and home and then pass
ed away He was taken to Terrell be-
fore death.
King Howard, colored, was SEN
fenced at Bonham to hang Oct 6. He
was convicted of killing HIS wife and
Luke Taylor on the Carlisle plantation
Fannin county, last March. Howard
is under 80 years of age and pVTfect
specimen of physical development.
The El Paso public schools opened