Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-07-10
TEXANETTEs.

Music can no longer be played In
Austin saloons.
Texas has clear cash balance in her
treasury of $1,62O,oOo.
The Collin county normal opened at
Mckinney with the largest attendance
in its history.
The scholastic census Of wilbargef
county shows 1889 white children and
colored.
John York, on trial at Cuero charged
with the murder of Will Pearce last
January, was acquitted.
State Senator Dibrell of seguin has
returned from visit to his mining
property in New Mexico.
Gov. Sayers has appointed H. B.
Rice of Houston assistant chief of ord
nance with the rank of major.
The Farmers and Ginners' Cotton
OIL company, capital $4,000, has been
organized at Sulphur Springs.
John York, charged at York with
the killing of the two Pierce brothers
at that place in 1897, was acquitted.
The state board OF education has
purchased for the permanent school
fund $4,000 of McLennan county
bonds.
Out OF sixty-five applicants who
stood the June examination for certifi.
Gates to teach in Webb county only
three passed.
Congressman Randell appointed JON
athan Stewart Dowell of Mckinney to
cadetship in the naval academy at
Annapolis.
F. E. Knight of Speed, Van zandt
county, while drilling a well, struck
a ten-foot vein of coal. He intends
sinking shaft
The seventh annual meeting of the
City Marshals and Chiefs of Police was
held at Galveston. Considerable bust.
ness was transacted.
Additional rural free delivery serv-
dee will be established Aug. at Tenn.
= pie. Length of route, "a miles; area
covered, 70 square miles; population
served, 1850.
The associated dining hall and con.
solidated kitchens at the insane asy-
lum at Austin are in operation. They
have all modern appliances and
seating capacity for 100 persons.
While the two little sons of August
Cranky, 4 and years old, were play.
ing with shotgun at Gonzales, the
gun discharged and the load tore the
head of the younger boy completely
from his body.
Henry Moore, charged with killing
his wife and John M. Russell at Fort
Worth after discovering them in a
saloon at that city, was released on
$4,000 bond on charge of wife-killing
and $500 on the other.
A stratum of mica four feet thick
was found in well being dug on the
farm of ]. A. Bell, two miles south
of Scottsville, Harrison county. 1t
was struck at a depth of eighteen feet
and is said TO be pure and Of excellent
quality.
Rev. P. G. Booth, aged 81 years, died
at the home of his son, Judge w. r.
Booth, at Fort Worth. Deceased was
a Baptist. He organized churches all
over Ellis, Hill, Johnson and adjoin-
ing counties, and had the record of
baptizing more converts than any other
preacher in Texas.
The Shippers Compress and Ware
house company, capital 100000, has
been organized at Dallas. Its purpose
is to erect and operate congresses in
a number of Texas counties. The
stockholders are leading cotton ship
pers. Neil P. Anderson is president
and H. r. Freeman secretary.
Col. ]. H. Burnet died at Houston
after an illness of several weeks. He
was one of the most successful bust
ness men in the state, and left an es-
tate variously estimated to be worth
from 100000 to 100000.
Long John Williams, aged about 60
years, died nine miles south of Rock
dale. He was native Texan, 6 feet
inches high, slim, and and, in pur-
suance of vow not to cut his hair UNI
I'll the Southern Confederacy won, had
long hair.
The Ezekiel Airship company, capt.
tal $4,000 whose purpose is to manu-
facture airships. aerial propellers, mo-
tor wheels and windmills after the
Ezekiel method will engage in bust