Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-11-20
TExANErrEs.
Migrants must work at Corsicana-

The First National bank of Farmers
vile has been authorized to do bust
ness
The grand jury in Concho county
could find only two misdemeanor in
dictments.
Sip Alexander was killed at overton.
John Wesley Johnson surrendered.
Both colored
Rabbi j. Bogen of Houston has ac.
cepted call to the Texarkana Jewish
synagogue.
The striking Texas Central railway
machlnists at Walnut Springs have set
tied their differences with the company
and resumed work.
A train on the Houston and Texas
Central railway ran over some mules
just north of Bryan. Five were killed
and two injured.
The Oak Fraternal association of San
Antonio has been granted authority by
the state insurance commissioners to
do business in Texas.
Joseph Pate, resident of Hopkins
county for forty-two years, died at Sui
phur Springs, aged rs years. He was
several years county treasurer.
II. A. Lingrith, assistant agent and
cashier at San Angelo for the Santa Fe.
was arrested on a charge of embezzle-
ment His bond was set at $500.
The commissioners court of Ellis
county has instructed the county judge
and county treasurer to invest the sur
plus school funds in good county bonds.
The case of William R. Gaines.
charged at Sherman with the murder
of his brother-in-law, Charles Kirk, in
that city, has been transferred for trial
to Collin county.
Navarro county has had $4,000 of her
permanent school fund lying in banks
at Corsicana and the county commits
sioners have decided to put it out at
interest.
The jury in the case of John Doss,
on trial at Hillsboro, gave him twelve
years. He was charged with the MUIR
der of James Barr near Aquilla, Hill
county, in August, 1896.
Alb Barnes residing three miles east
of Pacio. Delta county, who was fear
fully burned by lamp exDIozss.
hts hands, died from his burIfs.
The United Lumber and Export COM
pany of Beaumont filed am amendment
with the secretary of state at Austin
increasing its capital stock from $780,
900 to 100000.
In the Forty-eighth district court at
Fort Worth Fred Johnson, on trial
charged with forgery, pleaded guilty
and was given four years in the peni-
Tertiary.
At Fort Worth, in the Forty-eighth
district court, Joe Johnson pleaded
guilty to the murder of Dave Johnson
in that city and was given life impris-
onment. The men were not related.
Rachel Moore, colored, was arrested
at Paris on complaint of her husband.
who alleges that the woman threw
shovelful Of hot embers in his face.
destroying the sight of one of his eyes.
Mrs. Caroline Edwards, alias Mrs.
Augusta Miller, pleaded guilty at Gal
weston to using the United States mall
to defraud and was sentenced by
Judge Bryant to six months in the
county Jail.
Mrs. Joseph Dun Of Corpus Christi
had the remains of her son, buried at
boernenearly twenty years, taken up
and carried to Corpus Christi and in
tered with other members of the fam
ily.
John Killian, charged with being i'm
plicated in the murder of Uncle Jackie
Roberts near Maxey, Lamar county,
was tried at Paris, declare 5ullw Sy
the jury and his punishment
at imprisonment for life.
A number of negroes ana a .e- white
people are said to have the smallpox
at Hallettsville, and the city council
will take action to prevent the spread
of the disease. Some physicians do not
think it is smallpox, but skin disease.
An alligator was captured in a field
in the vicinity of Cleburne by a boy. 1t
was taken to Clebeurne by the boy and
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