Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-01-16
LONE STAR LINES.
Mo1Ia is to have another bank

All Texas celebrated New Years.
Five business houses burned at Skid
more.
w. A. Scott, a Franklin merchant,
died suddenly.
Greenville is to have lodge Of To-
connective flremen.
Work on the Hillsboro cotton mill
has been resumed.
Mrs. Ike Nichols was seriously burn
ed at Corpus Christi.
]. w. Hamilton died at Italy from
an overdose of morphine.
A national bank with a capital of
$4,000 is to be established at Italy.
Peter Starske, Bohemian, died from
exposure in a pasture near La Grange.
There were 1246 marriage licenses is
sued by Dallas county's clerk during
1900.
The county clerks Office of Tarrant
county issued 651 marriage licenses
last year.
A meeting will be held at Dallas on
the 18th for the purpose of organizing
Texas baseball league.
w. r. Crockett, editor of the Long
view Daily Leader and well-known
newspaper man, is dead.
Gov. Sayers has reappointed Judge
Allen Judge of the criminal courts of
Galveston and Harris counties.
The Waxahachie cotton mill has near
~ 700 bales to commence operation on
and over $4,000 has been paid in on
the capital stock.
Elder G. A. Faris of Mckinney has
assumed the editorship of the Chris
tian Courier, published at Dallas.
About 100000 feet of lumber were
destroyed by fire in the sawmill yards
of Uzzell G. Giles, near Apolonia The
fire was thought to be OF incendiary
origin.
The halls of the Trades Assembly
and Electrical Workers union in San
!, Antonio were burglarlzed and all the
recotds pertaining to both bodies
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Contracts were let at Corsicana for
a number Of oil wells in underlined ter
ritory. This is result of the recent
advances in the price of crude oil
which in two weeks jumped from S5c
o 95c barrel.
District Judge Rice Maxey OF Sher-
man is disqualified to sit as trial judge
in the case of William r. Gaines. He
has made arrangements to exchange
benches with Judge Russell of Tyler
when the Gainesville case is. called
Feb. 6.
Elder Larimore, who came all the
way from Alabama to hold a series of
meetings at Houstan Street Christian
church, Sherman had to call the meet
ing off on account of his extreme
hoarseness from a cold contracted
while en- route to that city.
r. G. McEwin, agent of the Santa Fe
at Alvarado, has received check for
$3.50 from the company as third prize
offered by the traffic department for
the Office showing the greatest per
cent. of increase in business.
The negro King, convicted of the
killing of Policeman Mitchell, at Wa
co, will have another trial. Judge
Scott, before whom King was tried,
has sustained a motion for new tidal
because that there was no negro on
the grand jury which indicted King.
The printed copies of the biennial
report Of AdJutant General Thomas
Scurry have been received from the
printers. It makes considerable vol
ume and contains a large amount OF
information concerning the work OF
the department during the past two
years.
The department of education sent out
notices to county treusurers and treas
urers OF independent districts that they
could draw through coupon No. 5. S0c
Per capita for each of their scholastic
population.
Myrtle McLennon. aged years.
daughter of Laura McLennan. a color
ed woman. died at Waco Tho child's
clothes ignited while she was warm
ing her hands at the fire place. and
before she could be rescued the little
child had suffered fatal injury.