Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-09-25
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
HungarIan dIet las closed.

Prairie chickens are numerous in
western Kansas.
A mob drove the Venezuela consul
from his residence at Panama.
Over 100 conversions have resulted at
the Baptist revival near Boonville,
Mo.
Reported riots at Montceau, Les
Mines, France, were grossly exagger-
ated.
Russia is to build five battle ships,
each of 10000 tons, at Russian ship
yards.
Tillman Carroll, aged 70, and Miss
Ella Burger, 21, were married near
Richland, Mo.
Brazil will send delegate to the
Pan-Amerlcan congress to be held at
the City of Mexico in October. San Sal
vador also sends delegates.
Commander Sargent of the Machias
reports bitter feeling against Ameri'
cans on the Isthmus of Panama.
George e. Wright, journalist, author
and stock exchange broker, died of pa
rests at Chicago after a lingering ill
ness.
Senator Hama tenders thanks for
the many expressions of sympathy ex-
tended from every southern state to
the president.
Hon. John T. Sturgeon, aged II
years, died at Vandalia, Ill. He voted
every Democratic electoral ticket from
Jackson to Bryan, inclusive.
Fire at Richmond, Ind, destroyed
the livery barn of John A. Logan,
twenty horses also being burned. The
loss is $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
A committee of Kentuckians has
been appointed to select suitable de-
sign for monument to be erected over
the grave Of the late Gov. Goebel of
that state.
The business portion of Foo Chow,
China, was destroyed by fire. Over one
million dollars worth of damage was
done and many people killed in fights
over the loot.
Thomas G. Metcalf, superintendent of
the St. Anthony elevator, one of the
largest of the groups controlled by the
Washburn-Crosby interests, died sud
denly in his office at Minneapolis,
Mimi Of heart disease.
The wife OF Commander McCalla, in
an interview, at Norfolk, Va, denies
the Boston Posts story in which she
is quoted as saying that Mrs. Samp-
son told her the admiral was mentally
unbalanced. She says she talked so to
no one.
The Atlanta Journal prints an edi-
torial demanding the expulsion of Sen
ator Wellington from the United States
senate 1t also prints kilograms from
twenty-three leading southern papers
endorsing the proposition to expel
Wellington.
Evidently thinking she had lived
long enough, Lucy Washington, color
ed, 1872 years old, starved herself to
death. She was seventy-four years a
slave and in early life was a servant
of President Monroe. She died at Kv-
komo, Ind.
In the circuit court at Greencastle,
Ind, James Rayl, on trial for placing
distractions on the Vandalia railway,
was found guilty and his punishment
Imprisonment under the indeterminate
sentence law.
Mrs. Sarah Runley, mother of late
Secretary of State Gresham, was SO
years old a few days ago, and celebrat-
ed the event by preparing dinner for
fifty guests. She lives near New AL
bany, Ind She has lived in her house
seventy-nine years.
The peace conference at Glasgow,
Scotland adopted a resolution calling
upon the governments which are sig
natories of the Berlin treaty to convene
for the purpose of settling the Ar
menian question.
1t is reported that John D. Rookie
feller's wedding gift to John ID. Rookie
Teller, Jr, and his bride, who is now
Miss Abbie Aldrich, will be hand
some mansion on desirable site in
Rockefeller's Westchester estate in
New York state.
William Neiman, an insane farmer,
who had been under delusion that the
people were trying to lynch him for
the murder of President Mckinley, died