Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-03
TExANETTEs.

houses.
The Citizens National bank of Jacks
boro, capital $4,000, has been organ
lied.
Walter Sutton, 81 years old, shielded
Mt Stockdale by shooting himself
through the head.
The Swain Cattle company of Fort
Worth, capital stock 100000 has filed
its charter at Austin.
TheDenton county Blooded Stock and
Fair association will hold its fair this
year Sept. II, -, 10 and IA.
Grandma McCrary died at Ovilla Ell
lis county, aged so years She was
Tennessan by birth but came to Texas
in 1858.
Measles are playing havoc with the
public schools of Collin county. 1t is
estimated that one-third of the schools
have suspended.
A little daughter of s. L. Lane, living
ct Slate Rock crossing, on the Trinity
near Ennis, died of loclljaw, caused by
sticking a nail in her foot.
The freight depot of the Cotton Belt
railway at Fort Worth burned This
building was valued at $780, Two
freight cars were also destroyed.
Kilgore was visited by burglars. This
postoffice was robbed of between SAC
and $50 in postage stamps and about
$3.50 taken from L. P. Griffin's safe.
A party of ten Creeks passed through
Denison en- route to San Francisco,
where they will take steamer for the
Hawaiian islands to make their homes.
A large female seminary under the
presidency of Prof. w. D. Allen, re-
Gently of Oak Cliff, has been contract
ed for at Hyson Springs, six miles west
of Marshall.
Lewis Gates, brakeman, was mash
ed so badly he died by steam shovel
near Grand Saline being backed on
him. Arthur Hall, who was with him,
had leg broken
At the preliminary trial of Walter I.
Wilson, at Galveston, charged with
having shot and killed his wife, Judge
Allen held the acucsed for the grand
jury in $4,000 bail.
A little child of F. w. Sparks, far
mer below Clardy, Lamar county died
from burns received some time ago.
While rocking in front of the hearth, it
was pitched into the fire.
Sister Magdalen Haugh, an inmate of
the convent at Gainesville, died at st.
Paul's Sanitarium, Dallas, death result
ing from peritonitis. She was born in
New Jersey, and was 2S years of age.
Gen Van Zandt, commander of the
Texas division of the United Confed-
crates Veterans, has appointed Miss
Decca Lamar West of Waco to be spon-
sor for the division at the tenth annual
reunion, to be held at Waco on May
SO next M M
Berry Frenzy, a negro engine wiper,
was run over and killed in the Texas
and Pacific yards at Longview juno
ton. Frenzy was climbing down the
ladder of the rear end of the tender
of an engine when he missed round
slipped and fell
The wife of farmer was arrested
IN Lamar county by Sheriff Martin on a
complaint charging her with manning
and disfiguring. The alleged victim is
an orphan and a niece of defendant,
whose husband is the girls guardian
She was released on bond.
In the district court at Sherman Mrs
Maggie Matthews was awarded dam
ages in the sum of $4,000 against the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
company for the alleged negligent
killing OF her husband in defendant
yard at Fort Worth.
On the 18th, 18th and 18th OF April
the old fiddlers' contest under the aus
pieces OF the Daughters of the Confcd-
eracy will be given in Fort worth. Lib
eral prizes and other inducements will
be offered to contestants.
Bob Ballard, negro, charged wits
shooting one Bohemian and killing an
other near Bryan. some months age
entered a plea of guilty of assault TO
murder in the district court and waa
sentenced to the penitentiary for sever
years,
United States Marshal George Sci
5recht left San Antonio for Cuba with
q rannisillnn far Il man who Ia WAnted