Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-07-03
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postofice.
James F. Ahearn. an ice man, shot
his wife in Gravesend N. Y, and thep
put bullet in his head
The American Telephone company
has declared a regular quarterly div
idend of 10 per cent.
William stacey, aged go years, and
one of the leading manufacturers OF
Cincinnati, died suddenly.
In work train wreck on the Nor
folk and Western railroad, near Taze.
well, Va, two men were killed and
five injured
AT mass meeting of the Federal
party of Porto Rico, Francisco Acuna
was elected party leader to succeed
Munoz Rivera.
The wholesale whiskey house Of
Hanne Bros, on West Bay Street, near
Clayburne, Jacksonville, Fla, was de-
stroyed by fire.
By an avalanche at Hopeville, w. Va,
wherein a house was wrecked, young
lady met death and an old lady was
seriously injured.
The International Pressmen's union
held its annual meeting at Washing
ton, with large attendance and much
business transacted.
At London the death was announced
of j. D. Barbour, head of the family
of Barbour &c Sons, the thread manu-
facturers of New Jersey.
James Stephenson, editor of a week.
ly society paper, committed suicide at
his home in Chicago. His mind had
been impaired by brain fever.
The Basnopia Mining company was
incorporated at Albany, n. Y. The au-
thorlzed capital is $2,5OO,OOO and Texas
is to be the field of operation.
At Hot Springs Ark, the coroner's
jury held Mrs. Bessie Ware responsible
for the death of her husband, John D.
Ware, who was shot and killed in his
bed
George Harris, colored, was lynched
by a mob in Limestone county, Ala
bama. Harris was suspected of burn
ing the barn of farmer for whom
he had been working.
Because his wife seemingly tired of
their few months of marital life, and
returned to her parents home, George
Cheesman shot himself through tina
heart near Lebanon, Kan.
The Richmond, Va, lodge of Elks de-
cided to withdraw the invitation ex-
tended to the grand lodge to meet
there in 1902 and announced that Rich
mond would be in the field in 1903.
Rev. DR.. Wilton Merle Smith, pastor
of the Central Presbyterian church at
New York, paid tribute to ex-Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland by saying that
he invariably did right for rights sake
The war department is preparing for
publication the reports of Capt. Reich
man, Seventeenth infantry, who went
from the Philippines to South Africa,
and observed the operations of the
Boer army.
An alteration occurred at Collins,
Miss, between H. d. Larcey and an old
man named Davis, in which both men
were instantly killed 1t was not known
who fired the first shot, as both parties
died instantly.
A Mormon agent, James M. Cannon
sat the City of Mexico for the purpose
of securing from the government CON
cession for settling 1000 Mormon fam
lilies on the lands from which Yaqui
Indians have been driven in Sonora
The machinists strike at Terre
Haute, Ind. was settled through thu
efforts of Eugene " Debs. The men
got ten hours pay for nine hours
work On other points concessions
were made by the men.
The chocolate factory of Runkel
Bros. at New York was destroyed by
fire. One member of the firm estimat,
ed the loss at 100000 which is largely
covered by insurance. The factory EN-
ployed $50 hands.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway left
Jackson. Miss, for Rio de Janeiro
to preside over the Brazil mission
conference, one of the most flourish
ing mission fields in the Methodist
church. The conference will meet July
IL.