Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-24
7'ExANETTES.


Texas.
Sherman is to have S-mile belt
line street railway.
Corsicapa is to have Maifest and
flower parade in May.
Harrison county has redeemed
$4,000 of refunding bonds.
Confederate veterans organized
Camp Lesuer at Georgetown.
Mrs. James Milliken, aged so years,
blew out her brains at Ell Paso.
Ten insane patients were admitted
TO the asylum at Terrell on the 9th
The postoffice at Mabank was rob.
bed and $50 worth of stamps taken.
The Broadway Presbyterian church
of Fort Worth will purchase $4,000
pipe organ.
Sam Parker, aged 16 years, and
Miss Mollie Kraker, aged 10, vera
married at Lavon, Collin county.
Immigrants are pouring into Lub.
book county, and prairie schooners
are numerous in the county seat.
August Fashion was run over and
killed by Houston and Texas Cen.
trail railway locomotive at Houston.
Corsicana's postal receipts for the
month ending March 81 were $4,000,
an increase of $476O over the previous
year. AVIAN ahan 4
By the collision Of a double-header
near San Antonio J. Roy Kaisch, a
fireman, sustained injulless resulting
in death.
The 12-year-old son of M p. Bus
bee, residing three miles west of Ce..
dar Hill, Dallas county, was struck
by lightning and killed.
The Bell Oil company, capital. stock
100000, has been organized at Bel
ton. The company will purchase lands
in the vicinity of Beaumont. IN
Senator Bate of Tennessee was at
Fort Worth last week in attendance
at the bedside of his son-in.law, t. F..
Masten, Of Gran aalfiie5wRF W, ~Ae- Is III at
a hospital.
S. s. Tyre, better known as Uncle
Shade, the oldest man in Hopkins
county, died at Sulphur Springs. He
was SO years of age, and buried on
his birthday.
John Byan, prominent Hill coun-
ty farmer and stockman, died at his
home five miles from Hillsboro. He
was 80 years old, and resident OF
Hill county thirty years.
w. M. Taylor's store at Eskota,
Taylor county, was robbed of several
hundred dollars worth of jewelry and
a quantity of postage stamps. The
postofice is in the same building.
Fred H. Gaines, for two months city
editor of the Greenville Banner, has
started for White Horse, Alaska,
where he is to be general agent for the
Dominion Steamboat Line company.
The Lubbock county grand jury was
in session only one day, and as every
body seemed to have been on their
good behavior that body adjourned
sine die. All cases tried were civil
save one divorce suit.
A solid trainload of cotton, consist
ing of twenty-three cars, passed
through Dallas on the Sth, en- route
from Athens over the Texas and New
Orleans and the Houston and Texas
Central to Galveston jobbers.
Nick Pearson, who resides near
Grapevine, Tarrant county, is thought
to be the smallest man in the state.
He is A years old, weighs 81 pounds.
is 40 inches tall and wear No. 8
child's shoe. He is perfect in form.
While Tom Biller, colored, was
driving in brand new buggy near
Paris the shafts broke. He left it on
the roadside. Next morning on re.
turning for his vehicle he found the
wheels and dashboard had vanished.
In the district court at Sherman j.
W. Rea OF Texarkana fled suit against
the Cotton Belt Railroad company
for damages in the sum OF 5000
for alleged personal injuries. Plain.
tin was car inspector in the defend
ants employ at Texarkana.
BY mule dragging a sack of sand
at Prattyille, Delta county. at the end
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