Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-08-14


Mai Thomas T. Jones, 70 years old,
ihe Oldest travelling man in Kentucky,
nied at Paducah.
The government is to establish, &C
rording to a Washington dispatch,
printing office at Manila at cost OF
100000, and to be equipped with type
setting machines,
The First National bank of New
York has declared the enormous divi
Iend Of 1000 per cent, or S5,000,00C
upon the basis OF the old capital stocb
OF 100000.
At the Sheltz county Qllinois)
Chautauqua Rev. Sam Jones preached
to 5000 persons on the decidedly warn
subject of What Know About HE'LL
The old yacht, Defender, is beine
dismantled by junk dealer at City
Island, N. Y, to whom she was sold
for, it is said, $4,000 Portions OF
The vessel were reserved for souvenirs
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has ruled that in cases of es
tates coming within the legacy tar
law the assessment of the government
must be made on the value of estate
on the day of testator's death.
A baby farm, situated in a one-story
set of flats in a low-lying part of Kan
sas City, where at least three infants
have been wilfully starved to death,
has been disclosed by the police OF
that city.
The resignation OF Vice-President
Zanartu of Chile is announced from
Santiago, says dispatch to the Lon.
don Daily Mail from Buenos Ayres, as
Il protest against further military prep
aration in Chile.
William D. Aydelotte. of Sunrise,
Tenn, was gored to death by bull
while taking the anim"l to water. He
was attacked and tossed several times.
His son fired several shots, killing the
bovine. a,t,!ss.d,.I n,.
' In difficulty in front OF church
. IN Lamar couRtyi Alabama, over an
alleged sianderous remark about
young lady, John Marlborough stabbed
John H. Cole to death. Marlborough
fled, but was captured by the pastor
of the church.
d. A. Thompson. the well known
cotton mill builder and expert of Char
lotte, N. c., has been elected super
intendent and manager of the textile
exhibit of the South Carolina Inter
state and the West Indian exposition
at Charleston.
The Pulaski county (Arkansas) pen
sion board concluded its work and ad-
journed. They allowed 1877 pensions.
amounting to s7OS5. Only seventeen
out of one hunderd and fifty-four ap.
plications were rejected. Twenty
more were allowed than last year.
e. Kirby, proprietor of the Park
hotel at Dodge City. Kan. shot and
killed his wife, and then shot himself
both dying instantly. The wife was
shot in the forehead. Kirby in the
throat The cause assigned is dis.
agreement over property.
The report of operations in the In
diana oil field for July shows that 244
wells were completed, of which forty
three were dry holes or gas wells, the
rest showing daily output of 300
barrels, or an average of eighteen and
one-half barrels.
Cowboys who were credited by a
newspaper correspondent with hang
ing an alleged COW thief, but who sui
cided and was not thief chased the
author of the article, according to a
Tucson, A. T., dispatch, out of that
place.
Italians at Rome to the number of
100000 held services in memory Of
the late King Humbert, who was as
sassinated last year at Monza, July 80,
by Gaetano Bresci, an anarchist.
Thousands visited the tomb in the
Pantheon in that city
The Columbia of Newport, r. l.,
on the goth ult., defeated the Consti-
tuition in a splendid race by two min
utes and twenty-four seconds and won
the $1,000 cup presented by Col. John
Jacob Aston. Her victory WAS de-
cisive and convincing
w. S. Bowers was stabbed and killed