Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-29
EVENTS or EvERYwHERE.

united states supreme court adj
ourns for the term on the 9th inst.
Eighteen business houses burned at
Wayerly, Ia, entailing a loss of about
$4,000.
NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French
premier, has entirely recovered his
health.
The East Tennessee railroad will be
extended from Hartman Junction,
Tenn, to Nashville.
James H. Pearson, for many years
prominent business man and capital
st of Chicago, died.
Parker City, ten miles from Muncle,
Ind, was visited by fire that destroy.
ed number of houses.
Mrs. Sallie B. Admire, on trial at
Carrollton, ILL.,, charged with murder.
ing her husband, was acquitted
Mrs. Louis Botha, who has obtained
consent to interview Mr.. Kruger and
urge him to advocate peace, sailed
for Europe on the steamer Dunvegan
Castle.
p. II. Morrissey of Bloomington,
Ill, was elected grand master of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen without op-
position.
cablegram announcing sickness in
his family caused Admiral Schley to
curtail his visit in England and de-
part for home.
Reports from Vera Cruz, Mex, show
that that port is remarkably exempt
from yellow fever. Coatzaacoalcos is
likewise exempt
By the covering of tunnel on the
Norfolk and Western railway, twenty
miles west of Roanoke, va, four men
were instantly killed and several in
jured.
Nearly every state in the Union was
represented by two regular delegates
at the convention of the Catholic
Knights of America, which met at st.
Louis. --as = Z !
Six hundred and fifty-two houses,
including 100 shops, have been destroy
ed by fire at Brest. in the province of
Warsaw, Russia. The loss is given at
100000 roubles..
Capitalists of Antigua are about to
establish bank at Barranquilla, Co.
lombia, with capital of $4,000 900.
Another new bank will shortly begin
business at Medillon.
Following the recent action in the
case of Russia, in which an additional
tariff duty was placed on sugar receiv-
ing a bounty, the treasury department
has imposed an additional duty of 1C
centavos per kllogram upon Argentine
sugar.
In the case of John R. Payne VS.. tho
Terre Haute and indianapolis Railway
company. the appellate court held that
railway company cannot exempt it.
self from liability for negligent injury
of a passenger travelling on pass.
Fire which broke out from an un.
known cause in a warehouse of the
North State Improvement company on
the London wharf at Wilmington Del,
caused an aggregate loss of about
$4,000, divided among the railways
and also some local firms.
Capt. Martin M. Richardson, for
forty years an Ohio and Mississippi
river pilot, died at Louisville. KY, aged
80. From 1880 to 1870 he piloted yari-
GUS boats between Louisville and New
Orleans. Luring the civil war he was
pilot on Federal gunboats.
The president has pardoned Louis
Galiot of New Orleans, who was con-
victed in 1896 of misapplication of
funds of the Union National bank of
that city. He had been sentenced for
eight years and. pending conviction
was twenty months in jail.
A fire in the town of Guienegati, in
the district of Tehuantepec. Mex, de-
stroyed a thousand coffee trees, pine
apple plants, banana and orange trees
and several families have totally lost
the results of years OF industry.
Tucker w. Taylor, confidential sec
rotary Of John Clark Ridpath, the his
torian, and also poet of some reputa-
tion, suicided at Greencastle. Ind, by
taking heavy dose of chloroform and
then shooting himself through the
head. He aided the historian.
The Berlin papers assert that read
justment of the military forces of Ger
many on the Russian frontier is in
contemplation, involving a heavy in
crease. The forces between AllenAteln
and Lick. now eleven battalions. will
be raised to nineteen. it is stated.