Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-07-31
LONE STAR LINES.

Corsicana wants free rural delivery
routes.
The O'Connor Guards of Victoria de-
cided to disband.
Five wells will be drilled for oil in
Montague county.
There were nine homicdes in Smith
county between May "a and July IL.
While bathing in Galley creek. near
Smithville, 12-year-old negro boy was
drowned
For the first time in many years ev-
cry gambling house at Corpus Christi
is closed.
Daniel Boiand, a prominent railway
construction contractor, died at Deni-
son after lingering illness.
enry P. Thorpe, an old resident of
Stonewall county, died at Aspermont
from an overdose of morphine.
Jack Simmons, 81 years old. living
mean Honey Grove shot himself
through the head with pistol
Maj l.. j. Farrar one of the first
settlers, died at Groesbeck. Hhe was
the Oldest member OF the bar in thar
city
Rev. Lee r. Scarborough of Gamer
ON has accepted the call rendered him
by the First Baptist church Of Abb
lene.
The Rudd Rifles of Marshall have
received from the state $lO4 for two
days services in answering the recent
call to Trinity.
The comptroller registered $4,000
Williamson county refunding bonds,
and $4,000 of Bay City school district
schoolhouse bonds.
By the explosion of lamp the resi-
dence of w. j. Huckabee at Greenville
was destroyed and Miss Della Merri-
man, 10 years old, burned to death.
B. F. Cohron, leading merchant of
B ev lie, died from blood poisoning re,
sulting from the bite OF fly on tho A.,
end of his nose. His suffering was IN
tense.
Arth Wester, negro man. in cross
ing the Neuces river at the Bell ranch,
was drowned. He was an athlete and
one of the best co whands in the south
west
Judge T. S. Johnson, assistant in
the attorney generals department. APP
proved an issue of $4,000 of Bay City
Independent school district schoolhouse
bonds.
A hammer weighing considerable
fell forty-seven feet at Corsicana and
struck Ben Watson, colored, on the
head, inhictlng a serious but &ot fatal
injury.
The attorney general approved for
registration $4,000 Williamson county
courthouse ard Jail refunding bonds
and $4,000 bridge refunding bonds of
the same county.
Night Fireman Caples at the old
water-works plant, Fort Worth, while
on the dam arranging some fishing nets
and lines, became entangled and
falling overheard was drowned.
While Henry Caldwell Dallas ne
gro, was visiting at Marshall, he was
struck by another negro with fence
paling and at the muzzle of pistol
forced to part company with $27
An old citizen of Austin has donated
to the state library letter copying
press of ancient make. 1t was brought
to Texas in the sos by the French
minister to the Lone Star republic
-Four boys about 10 years of age
were adjudged guilty of card playing
in Corsicand school building. Their
parents had to pay fines and costs
amounting to $50. 80 in each case.
Col. r. Rodgers southern gentle-
man of the ola school, died at Naples,
Norris county. He was resident Of
the Lone Star state about thlrty-six
years and wealthy man in the ante
bellum days.
Hon. B. P. Ayres. prominent Fort
Worth attorney and former member
at the legislature and Miss Bessie
Tumlin, daughter of Rev. G. S. Turn
lin, were married while seated in
buggy in that city, by Judge Dunklin
of Forty-eighth district court.
T. w. Stubblefeld. who was Con-
federate soldier, and an active partic-
ipant in the border troubles between
Kansas ami Missouri, passed away at