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

several houses were blown off their
blocks.
President Ripley Of the Santa Fe
railway visited several Texas cities
last week.
James Wood one of Delta ,county's
Oldest residents, died at Charleston,
that county.
The uuited States fish commission
distributed over 5000 bass to club lakes
around Marshall.
Capt. John A. Dapray of the United
States army has opened a recruiting
office at Abilene.
A Dallas company has leased the
asphalt mine in Burnet county and it
is being developed.
Jesus Draia, aged IA years, fell off a
box car near Corpus Christi and was
run over and killed.
Regular trains on the Texas and New
Orleans railroad are running from
Beaumont to Nacogdoches.
The wife of Chaplain Gatlin of the
legislature died at the family resi-
dence, four miles east of Emory.
A meat market at Athens was broken
Into, the safe blown open and the con-
tents, amounting to $16O in cash, taken
Austin's city council has passed an
ordinance making eight hours a legal
days work on all public works of that
city.
A runaway horse struck Romaldo
Hernandez at Ell Paso, knocking him
down and causing injuries resulting in
death.
j. A. Simmons died at Bonham.
Within year Mr.. Simmons wife, two
daughters and himself have passed
away.
The San Antonio strike has ended,
the men returning to work under the
conditions prevailing before the trou-
BILE originated.
Citizens of Keene. johnson county,
Joined the Santa Fe railroad in grad
ing and putting down cinders prepare
tory to making Keene station on the
Dallas branch of that system.
These additional changes have been
made in Texas postmasters salaries;
Floresvills, iIhseased $500; Forney,
Gatesyille. Giddings, Goldthwaite, Con
zales, Graham, Greenville and Groes-
beck, Increased 500; Granbury, de-
creased 500.
Miss Sarah Starlight daughter Of
Col. Starlight. leaves Austin on the LIST
proximo for Manila, where she is to be
united in marriage to Capt Robert w.
Dowdy of the Twenty-second regular
infantry stationed there.
Sister Mary Of the Nativity, mother
superior of the convent of the Incar-
nate Word at Puebla, Mex, died in the
convent at Corpus Christi. She was
one of the faculty at Corpus Christi
convent between 1872 and 1896.
A son of Ed Brown, colored, living
Eve miles south of Beckville, was
struck by lightning and killed, Several
head of stock were killed and num-
Der of telephone poles west of that
place were badly splintered.
Anton Strohmeyer engaged in fist
fight at San Antonio and was knocked
down and dragged to the sidewalk
from the saloon where the difficulty
occurred, When he was picked up a
few minutes later he was found to be
dead.
While endeavoring to arrest negro
in the Swampoodle district of Texar-
kama Officer Tom Smith was shot and
painfully wounded. The wanted negro
and brother it is alleged, opened fire
on Smith. Both the negroes were
arrested by other officers.
A young farmer by the name Of
Rufus Martin was fined $40 and costs
in the county court of Grayson county
at Sherman on plea of guilty to the
charge of stoning a train on the Hous
ton and Texas Central railroad.
w. f. e. Carpenter of Nocona com
mitted suicide at that place by shoot
ing himself in the head with S2-cal
iber pistol He had been Ill for SOM
time and was Respondent. A widow
and three children constitute hi
family
The Woman's Home Mission confer