Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-03-27
rYPE-roLD TEXAS TALES.

cheese factory.
The Texas Ice Manufacturers asso-
citation met at Dallas.
A Greenville man has violin made
by the noted maker, Stradiyarlus.
viii Grow was killed at Tyler. Hen
ry Dees was arrested. Both negroes.
A child is said to have been born at
Greenyille having neither arms nor
legs.
Mrs. Alicia Jones, aged 70 years, a
Cooke county pioneer, died at Gaines
vile.
Thomas Howard of Arrow Rock, Mo-,
fuicided near Mckinney ON account of
poverty.
The International railway has settled
its difference with its coal operators at
Rockdale
The Southwestern Refining company
of Houston, capital 100000, has filed
its charter.
AT Hico Jake Harrington was con-
victed of killing AL Fisher and given
thirty-fve years.
Ninety-three alleged gambling cases
were filed in county court at Dallas
one day last week.
Metz Johnson, the 9-year-old boy
prescher, delivered a series of sermons
in Oak Cliff last week.
Evangelist j. H. o. Smith is hold
ing a series of meetings at the Central
Christian church, Dallas.
Mary Hooks colored, was found dead
in her yard at Paris. She died from
hemorrhage of the lungs.
Loafing negroes at Paris have been
notified by the police authorities to
either work or leave the city.
"A S-year-oid boy fell into a pot of
soap near Chicota,. Lamar county, and
was fatally scalded, dying two hours
afterward, '-it,- 4
The gross receipts of the Dallas post
Office for February, 1901, were $1S,17O
again S15,376 for the same month last
year, or an increase of 1924.
]. H. Lowder, for twenty years
resident of Dallas, being agent for
several railroads. died at his fathers
residence in Mount Vernon, Ill.
The state commissioner of insurance
granted authority to the Knights and
Daughters of Tabor with headquarters
at Dallas, to do business in Texas
George Reuben, colored, was shot
and killed at Clarendon. j. B. VIII
liams, cattleman, was held in $1,000
bond to await the action of the grand
jury.
A brakeman on a Katy train near
Smithville was badly hurt by being
hit with rock thrown at the train
he was on by some unknown mis-
creant
A few days ago Uvaide was treated
to the phenomena of severe rain and
gale that blew down several houses
while the sky was cloudless. The
Presbyterian church was leveled.
In the Federal court at Galveston the
following bankrupts were discharged:
H. V. Collier of Paris, W. w. Felts OF
Paris, and j. P. Thompson of Dodd
City, Fannin county.
A 100000 company is being organ
ized at Brownsville for the purpose
of boring oil. 1t is proposed that
SOS, 600 of the amount be paid in to
make a thorough test of the oil field
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Clancy. living
near Groesbeeck, celebrated on the 10th
the fiftieth anniversary or their mar
riage. In attendance were their twelve
children, all OF whom have families OF
their own, who swelled the crowd.
The board of directors of trs Waxa-
hachie Cotton mills, just completed,
have in course of erection, ind near
ing completion, eight neat and COM
modious cottages, for tho operatives.
A number of others will be erected
as soon as material can be procured.
BY the dropping by little boy of a
lighted match in closet az Rhome,
The residence of 2. B. Bobo, valued at
$1,000, together with its contents. was
totally destroyed by flrc. TIE family
were absent at the time.