Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-10-10
EVENTS OF EvERYwAERE.
Earl Howe of England is dead.

dled at Zaraus, near san SEBASTIAN,
Spain.
Mrs. Mussey, president and counsel
for the Red Cross society, says Calves.
ton ought to have 100000.
S. w. Hanover, United States vice
consul general at Frankfort, Ger
many, has opened subscription for
the Galveston sufferers.
The National Prison association, in
session at Cleveland, o. elected John
Scott of Concord, N. H., president.
Fire partially destroyed the large
grain warehouses and elevators on the
Atlantic dock, Brooklyn, causing a
loss of s1OO 600 on buildings and con-
tents.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Savannah, Ga. Is
54,224, as against 4S1S9 in 1890. This
is an increase of 1,O55. or $3.50 per
cent.
The grand chapter of Royal Arch
Masons met at Cincinnati j. w. Tay-
Tor OF Lutheryille, Ga, was elected
grand high priest.
George F. Duke, the first Democratic
governor of Florida since the civil war,
died at Jacksonville, aged 73. Two
hours before his demise his wife pass
ed away.
Harry G. Rouse, the pioneer bicycle
manufacturer of the west. and late of
the firm of Rouse. Hazard & Co.. at
Peoria, ILL.,, died of typhoid fever,
aged 40.
The postoffice department has prac-
ticaly completed arrangements for the
handling or oriental mail from this
country by by the establishment of
station at Nagasaki, Japan, and at
1aku and Tien Tsfn. China.
, The United Typotheta, in session at
Kansas City, will vigorously fight the
placing of the Typographical union la
bel on city printing, and an emergency
fund will be raised.
DIR. Nansen md the Duke Of Abruzzi,
according to dispatch from Chris
tiana, Norway baye agreed to under
take a joint ! kcdition into north
polar regions.
British patrols have reached the
Portuguese frontier Beers continue to
ri-c . q phcwc N below the portion held
by the British. The riding horses OF
the Beers are in terrible condition.
Prince Henry of Prussia is now COM
mander-in-chief of the First. German
squadron, succeeding Vice Admiral
Hoffman, who has been relieved from
the post.
The Spanish War Veterans convened
at Washington. Gen. Miles was elect
ed commander-in-chie and Col. ]. H.
Tillman of South Carolina senior vice
COMMUNICATIVE Miss Clara Bar
ton is sponsor.
The benefit performance given by
the Casino Girl" company at Shaft
bury theater, London. Saturday, to aid
the Galveston sufferers has resulted
in the handsome sum of $50 pounds.
An elevator in the Fisher building
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at the corner of Dearborn and Van
Buren, streets, Chicago, fell from the
fourth story to the basement. Eight
people were injured by the fall. none
of them fatally.
Considerable excitement has beer
caused among Venezuelan refugees al
Port au Spain by the receipt of intel
ligence that President Castro has
caused the arrest of thirty politicians
in Guieria, Venezuela, for intriguing.
At Johnson City, ILL.,. Chicago ant
Eastern Illinois freight train, pullef
by heavy engine, exploded its boil
ers. killing A. F. Padgett of Chicago
engineer, and Hardin Raines of Yves
Frankfort, fireman.
The Official report of the Mexican
presidential election was made public
in the chamber of deputies by the re
vising board of retsTns, and it appears
that the elections resulted in the unan
imous choice of President Diaz, Thu
number of electors voting 1901.
A large coal deal has been complet
ed by the purchase of Coleman & Lig
gett. real estate brokers, representing
Ptttsburg, Pa, capitalists, Of $500 acre
of coal lands at Houstonville, Pa. OF
the Panhandle road, for 100000.