Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-11
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Aguinaldo has issued proclamations
to counteract the effect of the Taft
commission.
Six hundred machine moulders at
Cleveland, o., are on strike against
10 per cent reduction.
The Brazilian yellow fever cure,
which has proved so efficacious in Mex
leo, will be given further trial.
Charles Bockman, the former horse
breeder, is dead, agen rs years. He
died at his farm near Stonyford N Y
President Mckinley has accepted the
invitation extended by the Grand Army
of the Republic to attend the annua
encampment in Chicago next month.
At Chester park, Cincinnati, O., w
A. Ruiz and E. c. Hausman on motor
tandem made mile in LES 40, this
worlds record for cement track.
Tugboat men of New York harbor Of
fer $1,000 for proof to convict any tug
boat captain who contributed to the
loss of a single individual by drown
ing.
From one end of the land to the 9th.
er the nations natal day was duly OBJ.
served, at some places on an elaborate
scale, while other merely suspended
business.
-. Commissioner of Pensions Evans
states that during the fiscal year 1885,
567 certificates Of pensions were issued
$4,000 more than were issued during
the year 1899
Lieuts. John Gibson and Stokeley
Morgan, who fought with Dewey at
Manila, have been selected for compul-
sorry retirement on account of their
health.
The Atlanta (AIa) Constitution am
nounces the appointment of Mr.. Julian
Harris as managing editor. P. j. Mo-
ran will in future assist Hon. Clark
Howellras editor
The commander of the Italian war
ship Elba cables from Taku that the
Italian detachment at Tien Tsin had a
lieutenant and six soldiers killed dur
ing their recent fighting there.
The Santa Fe system has withdrawn
from the military rate agreement of the
western roads, This breaks the combi-
nation and all roads will now bid indi-
vidually for the movement of govern
ment troops.
The advance in the price OF the best
grade of hard coal from Sc to s6.25
that has just gone into effect at Chica-
go is unprecedented for this season and
is thought to indicate still higher
prices for winter.
Judge Thomas B. Long, well-known
attorney, committed suicide at Terre
Haute, Ind. He lay down on the floor
of his library and fired shot into his
head, dying instantly. Dependency
was the cause. He was a Mason of
high rank and past grand master Of
Indiana lodge.
w. E. Barr, fagman on the Knox
Ville and Ohio railroad, was instantly
killed and Conductor e. t. Sweet seri-
ously injured in peculiar wreck at
Ivy, Tenn. The caboose in which the
conductor and hagman were jumped
the track and smashed into kindling
wood.
Mrs. Capron, widower of Capt, Cap
ron, was seated on the platform dur.
ing Gov. Roosevelts address at Okla
homa City. and the greeting between
her and the governor was very affect
ing. She carried in her hand the guidon
of the regiment draped in black and
wept bitterly.
Hereafter cigarette smokers will be
unable to obtain employment on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail-
road This is said to be the first in
stance of a railway taking an open
stand against cigarettes.
While the sawmill of the Big Pine
Lumber company at Doggy, Ark, was
afire, negro named Preston Cammell
started from his cabin wildly toward
the fire. He was so excited that he
was blind to obstruction. and ran his
head against tree. He died
The death of Baron Won Ketteler,
the German minister to China. has ex-
cited the greatest sorrow in the City
of Mexico. The baron went from that