Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-01-02
EVENTS OF EvERYwHERE.

Christmas casualties were many.
Maurice Thompson, the noted writer,
Is very Ill at Charlottesville, Ind.
Indiana is completely connected BY
telephone.
The people of Wabash, Ind, suffered
a few days ago from deficiency OF
gas. NF &
Kokomo, Ind, has three new indus
tries-a wire nail mill, iron rod works
and glass factory. fa4 IN
In twenty-round fight between Kid
McFadden and Casper Leon at Mem
phis, the former got the decision.
Herr Pott, the Netherlands consui,
sailed from Lorenzo Marquee for Eu-
rope There was no demonstration.
Orlando Drebur and family barely
escaped cremation by the burning Of
their farm house near Wabash, Ind.
The Gasfltters' union of Chicago has
signed three-year contract with the
bosses, and the men are back at work.
Ten graduates of Earlham college,
Richmond, Ind, are to deliver lectures
explaining the tenets of the Friends or
Quakers. 49, taet
Associate Supreme Justice George
G. Ludlow, ex-governor of New Jersey,
died at his residence in New Bruins
wick, that state. esfs Af
Miss Jennie Morrison, who was on
trial at Eldorado, Kan, for the muir
der of Mrs. Olin Castle, the jury fail
ing to agree, has been admitted to
$4,000 bail.
The marriage Of white man to a
colored woman caused good-sized
riot in lower Allegheny, Pa, and may
result in the death or serious injuries
to the principals,
John Addison Porter, former private
secretary to President Mckinley, died
at his residence in Putnam, Conn. He
had been sick for many weeks with o
malignant intestinal disease.
David H. Nichols, lieutenant gov
ernor of Colorado from 1898 to 1898,
is dead at his home near Boulder. He
was veteran of the Mexican war. He
had resided in Colorado since 1853.
Noah b. Bacon of DesMoines. Ia,
celebrated his one hundred and first
birthday. The venerable man has seen
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centu-
ries and expects to see the Twentieth.
Many members 81 IN lie diplomatic
corps at Berlin called at the German
foreign office to express regret at the
loss of the Gneisenau. Among the call
ers was United States Ambassador
White.
The Russians have purchased $780,
900 worth Of rice, which is being given
to destitute Chinese. Gen. Chaffee, the
large quantity of rice issued and the
other nations are displaying similar
liberality for the suffering Celestials.
Surgeon General Sternburg received
cablegram from Maj. Walter L. Reed
Of the medical department stationed
at Havana, saying that the recent ex-
periments with mosquito incubation
have been entirely successful in 80 per
cent of the cases. Spaniards only were
inocnlated.
William HALEY, chief lieutenant of
the noted guerrilla, Quantrell, whose
men during the early part of the civil
war burned and sacked Lawrence,
Kan. died in the state insane asylum
of Missouri, situated at st. Joseph.
aged SO. HALEY was born in Louis
vile, Ky.
A message from United States Con-
sui Gummere at Tangier informs the
state department that the Moorish gov
ment has settled the claim Of the
United States for $4,000 indemnity on
account Of murder Of Carcus Eszgaui,
naturalized American citizen in Mo-
rocco, last spring sa
The common law widow of Frank %.
Smith, the Texas circus proprietor,
who shot her rival to death at Dallas,
much like the Morrison case, is now
suing for Widows share in the Smith
estate at Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Waggoner died
at Lockhaven. Pa, OF paralysis, aged
10 years. She was the great-great-
granddaughter of President John ADJ
ANS and also the Observation-Disclosures
Tor Of John Quincy Adams. Her father