Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-15
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

John J. Badenock's grain elevator at
Chicago burned. Loss, 100000.
Ten thousand persons participated
IN May.day procession at Vienna.
Three cases of the bubonic plague
are reported at Bazra, Asiatic Turkey.
All the union plasterers and a large
number of plumbers went on strike
at Indianapolis.
T. P. Hayes bought of w. r. Shafer
at Louisville, KY, the American derby
candidate. Terminus, for $4,000.
f. Hollis. an American, has been
appointed by Siam a member of the
national court of arbitration at The
Hague.
The twelfth annual session of the
Sons of the American Revolution was
held at Pittsburg, Pa, with about $50
delegates present.
A former baggagemaster of Georgia
railroad has been arrested at Macon,
charged with completely in the rob-
berry of an express car, which occurred
April rs.
Greed Potter, one of the gang defy
ing arrest near Boone's Fork, KY,
has surrendered after sending Mary
Johnson, with whom he had eloped,
back to her parents.
The notorious Jack the Ripper,
who has assaulted and mutilated
eighteen women in London has been
caught in Baden red-handed by two
detectives, attired as women.
The University of Pennsylvania has
received gift of $4,000 from Mrs.
@. B. Newbold of Philadelphia for the
erection of an obstretrical ampitheatre
as an addition to the maternity de-
part of the university hospital.
A private telegram sent to New York
from London says that application has
been made to the London Stock Elk
change to list sS00OO00OO of United
States Steel Corporation common and
preferred stock on the London Elk
change.
The wife of house painter at Gin
cinnati, being unable to keep him from
a saloon, went there and calcimined
lzsrn from head to foot This not
breaking him, she went again and
treated the proprietor and bartender
likewise,
One hundred and eighty-six Pro.
testant missionaries and their children
were sacrificed on the altar of Chris
tianity during the Boxer revolt last
summer in China. How many Catho-
lie missionaries were slain the state
department is not informed.
s. A. Spencer, head of the Jennings,
La, Oil company, closed contract
in Beaumont with Dobbins Rros for
the drilling of well on his conpany's
land on Mamou Prairie, and it is the
intention to begin drilling within flf-
teen days.
Joseph King, a negro porter, was ia
tally shot by trampiof same color,
who was stealing a ride on the Sea-
board Air Line near Meldin, Ga. The
tramp was shot by King and died. The
latter was defending brakeman
whom the tramp had assaulted.
Charles M. Baker. for many years
general superintendent of construc.
ton of the Postal-Telegraph and Ca
BILE company, succeeded e. j. Nally
as general superintendent of telegra-
ply ar. Nally was recently appointed
general superintendent.
Terry McGovern knocked out Oscar
Gardner in the fourth round at San
Francisco. From the first to the end
there was never a doubt as to the
winner McGovern forced the pace
all through, landing blows at will.
GARDENERS swings were wild and in
effective. @
Bayard Cutting, Jr., secretary of the
United states embassy, and Lady Sybil
Cuffe, daughter of the Earl of Dysa.t t,
were married at All Saints church
that city. The wedding was compare
lively quiet affair.
Judge Brown in the United States
circuit court at New York signed an
order restraining Spencer. Trask 6 Co.
from carrying out proposed consolida-
ton Of the Rio Grande and Western
railroad OF Utah an Denver and Rio
Grande railroad o. Colorado
The census bureau issued bdlletin
announcing that the center of popula-
ton of the United States, including
Alaska and recent territorial Access
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