Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-01
NEWS NUGGETS.
Joplin, Mo-, had a $4,000 fire.


A target to cost $4,000 will be built
at the Brooklyn navy yard.
A v " on rats is to be instituted by
the Denver board of health.
Mexican customs collections for
March amounted to s3,O20,1SS.
A cage in mine in the Transvaal
fell and thirty-six deaths resulted.
Forty Beers met at Boshof and re-
elected Steyn president of the Orange
Free State.
Fifty insurgent rilemen attacked the
town of Bay, in Laguna province, but
were quickly routed.
Augustus Provost has been appointed
governor of the Bank of England, sue
ceeding Samuel Stuart Gladstone.
The postal department has author
lied the wearing of shirt waists by
letter carriers during the heated term.
Col. Abad, an insurgent officer, sew
enty soldiers and 24S small arms have
surrendered at Martinique, Philip
pines.
Major Joseph Smith Brice, the Oldest
graduate of the West Point Military
academy, died at New York, aged SO
years.
]. w. Willard, son of ex-Gov. Will
lard of Indiana, died at New York.
He was one of the best known men in
his state.
Before the American Social Science
society Surgeon-General Sternberg de-
clared yellow fever was transmitted by
mosquitoes.
A telegram announces the death at
st. Augustine, Fla. of Gen. A. G. Nc
Clurg, head of the publishing house
of A. G. McClurg & Co. of Chicago.
One thousand men and boys struck
at the Natalie scolliery at Shamokin,
Pa, because the Shamokin Coal com
pany would not accede to their de-
mands.
Vasclax de Brosik, one or the great
est historical painters of any country,
died at hTSresidence in Paris, France.
Death was due to heart disease caused
by fever.
Papers have been signed by which
the French government acquires
large tract of land in the heart of the
residential section of Washington for
the purpose of building an embassy.
Charles Smith and William Johnson
were killed and ]. Fisher and w. R.
Hamilton We're seriously wounded in
course of an election riot in Winstanley
Park, surburb of East st. Louis, Ill.
Mrs. John Isely, near Spring Place,
Tenn, his given birth to four babies,
each weighing four pounds. They are
all living and doing well. Mr.. Isely.
the father, is himself twin brother.
The dead body of Dr. II. S. Scruggs,
Jr., was found near Memphis, Tenn.
"A bullet hole behind the left ear show
ed the cause of death. j. w. Skinner,
a well-known dairyman, was arrested.
Rowland N. Hazard of New York
fled petition in bankruptcy with liza
bilities of $49S,13S, nominal assets
$69S,404. The debts are all old. Claims
to the amount of $446,O41 are secured.
In the police court at New York the
charges against William A. Brady, Dan
DAILY and DeWolf Hopper of violating
the Sunday law in connection with the
actors fund benefit at the Academy of
Music were dismissed.
Through the bequest of Mrs. Joseph
Fairfax, who recently died in France,
Henry H. Hawthorn, an inmate of the
soldiers home at Dayton, O., falls heir
to 100000. The ex-soldier saved Mrs
Fairfaxs life many years ago.
President Schwab of the steel trust
paid farewell visit to the Edgar
Thompson steel works at Braddock,
Pa, where he began as civil engineer
He gave $1,000 to the janitor and pro-
vided for two aged employees.
Bequeen, a thriving little city on the
Kansas City Southern about forty mil
es north of Texarkana, had disastrous
fire. Among the heavy losers was Will
iiams Bros. general merchants, loss
$4,000, insured for $4,000; the Daily
Star, loss, $500, insured for $500.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has fulfilled his long cherished desire
of the Czech population of Bohemia by
ordering the establishment at Prague
OF modern national art gallery. to-