Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-06-05
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Vocate of the army.
Cumana, Venezuela, was visited by
an earthquake.
Attorney General Harlan of Porto
Rico has decided that cock fighting is
Illegal.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana has
sailed for Russia to study conditions
there.
The next biennial convention of the
Woodmen of the World will be held at
Milwaukee.
The Switchmens Union of North
America held its session at Milwau-
kee
1t is estimated at Paris that the new
Russian loan will be subscribed for at
least seven times.
Queen Draga of Servia is alleged to
have attempted suicide. Conditions in
that country are reported bad.
Calvin S. Titus, the first American
soldier to scale the walls of Pekin,
called on President Mckinley at San
Francisco.
James Callahan, charged with COM
plicity in the kidnapping of Edward
Cudahy at Omaha, has been discharged
by the court.
In the Hagar-Mullen case at Lake
Charles, La, the coroner's jury decided
that Mullen was justified in taking
Hagar's life,
The supreme council, Royal Ar
Canum, met at Asheville, N. C. Joseph
A. Langbitt of Pittsburg, Pa, was
elected supreme regent.
The United States supreme court de-
ried the petition of ex-Congressman
S. v. White in his case involving the
validity of the tax upon stock ex
change calls" under the war revenue
act.
While at Paris j. Pierpont Morgan
purchased the art collection of M.
Mannheim. 1t is composed of antiques,
works of art, specimens of the middle
ages and the renaissance. There are
22S articles.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
way company of Birmingham, Ala,
has made contract with the Mexican
Central railway to supply it with $780,
900 tons of coal, the delivery to cover a
period of months
Archbishop of Canterbury favors
marriage on the part of his clergy. He
says the communicates of the Church
Of England as rule prefer, married
rlergymen, claiming a minister's family
does as much good as him.
The New Mexico Southwestern rail-
way has filed incorporation papers for
$50 miles of road, to be built from Ell
Paso to the New Mexico Arizona bor-
der, where it, is to connect with a road
to be called the Arizona Southwestern
railway.
Comprehensive systems of NUM-
cipal improvement are being planned
at the City of Mexico and million
dollars will be spent in identifying the
city. Commissioners will be sent to
Europeito study what has been done
by the foreign municipalities.
Civil service examinations will be
held June IS in cities where rural free
delivery service has been established
for positions of special statistical com
piler in the department of agriculture
and also for an assistant printer in the
railway mail service.
Circuit Judge Call at Jacksonville,
Fla, granted an order turning over to
the relief association the sum of s19,-
$50, which has been in the hands OF
Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary asso-
citation This sum is surplus of con-
tributions to yellow fever sufferers
during epidemic of 1888.
A rich find of prehistoric pottery and
jewelry was made by the Antiquarian
society in mounds east of Phoenix
Ariz. A room was uncovered which
was filed with great quantity OF
valuable relics.
The Womans Anti-Vice committee
of New York will endeavor to suppress
the immoral pictures at Coney Island
this summer 1t will also inaugurati
campaign against all kinds of gam
bling including craps. Questionable
entertainments will be looked after.
The Southwestern Railway company
nf Yncatnn which was formed some