Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-06-12
EvENru OF EVE RYwAERE.

Hail storms in many sections of
Texas are reported and much damage
to fruit and crops.
Mrs. Mckinley has almost recovered
from her recent illness and made the
trip safely from San Francisco to her
home in the white house.
All hope of saving the seventy-eight
entombed miners at the Universal col
liery, England, has been abandoned, al
though work of rescue continues.
An official dispatch from Batavia,
says three Europeans and 1877 natives
persisted as result of the recent
eruption of the volcano off holkost.
After trouble in Albany, N. Y, on
account of the street car strike the
strike has been brought to a peaceful
close and no further trouble is ex-
pected.
Army officers are of the unanimous
opinion that the adjustment of the
army canteen was mistake, which
will result in large increase OF
drunkenness.
After warm contest the Iowa State
Prohibition convention, in session at
Des Moines, passed a resolution en-
dorsing Mrs Carrie Nation. They also
put out full state ticket.
A terrible explosion of gas in a coal
mine at Dayton, Tenn, killed twenty
one men and seriously wounded nine
other. All of the men were white and
most of them had families.
The wind storm which swept over
Nevada, Utah, Southern Idaho and Wy
oming and Colorado Thursday night,
did damage that will run into the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
George Cadbury, English chocolate
manufacturer, has given to the city of
Birmingham some four hundred acres
of land, worth at least 100000, on
which workingmen's homes are to be
built.
Former Captain and Quartemaster
Cyril W. King is now on trial in the
u. S. District court at Mobile, Ala,
aEse Of geceiy wing two he'aasaad
dollar bride on an eight-thousand dol
lar contract.
1t is stated that suicide has be-
come almost epidemic in New York
city. In the last three months the
death rate from that cause has been
almost two per day and carbolic acid
the means used.
DR.. Emo Littman, of Oldenburg,
Germany who has been called to
Princeton to deliver courses in the
Semitic languages, will be officially
ranked as an instructor in the college
and member OF the library staff.
There is talk of Charles S. Fairchild
who was attorney general of New
York under Gov. Tilden and Secretary
of the treasury in the first Cleveland
administration, as anti-Tammany can
didate for Mayor of New York this fall.
A valuable find of prehistoric jew
elry and pottery was discovered at
Phoenix, Arizona, May IS, by an An
tiquarian Society. The relics were all
found in mounds and were evidently
placed there by the mound builders.
Hosts of Confederate veterans and
visitors attended the annual reunion
at Memphis. Rain interfered with the
fireworks and floral parade. Memorial
exercises for Jefferson Davis was held
sn Calvary church on the first day of
the reunion.
An original manuscript work by
Franz Schubert has just been discoy-
cred in Vienna among the papers of an
official court justice named Wyssick,
an eccentric man, who died the other
day. 1t is the long lost composition
in ID fat for two violfns viola and vic.
loncello, and is dated March, 1874.
The government estimates an in.
crease of s.4 per cent acreage of cot
ton over last year.
The jury in the case of Thebo VS..
McCurtain and Ainsworth and the
Choctaw Nation, returned verdict for
defendants. The amount sue1 for was
$4,000, alleged attorney fees.
Messrs. Lish Quisenberry, Dow and
G. S. Baccus of the Lebanon section of
Collin county. have about 300 acres Of
wheat combined, which they think will
yield from twenty to twenty-five BUSH
els per acre.
AT mass-meeting of citizens prop
osition OF the Cumberland Presbyterian
synod to build $4,000 college build
ing and locate the Territorial collage