Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-11-20
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE


Commander Merrill goes to Algiers.
Squirrels are numerous in Missouri.
Gen. Butler declares he was conspir-
ed against.
The forest fires rear Poplar Bluff,
Mo-, caused much damage.
Motor car collided at Columbus, o.,
and several passengers hurt.
Ambassador to Great Britain Choate
has returned home on brief visit.
William Thomas, blacksmith OF
Smithville, Mo-, was frozen to death.
]. L. SHREDDER disappeared from Po-
cahontas. la. His frozen body was
found in cornfeld.
BY the burning of two grain elevat-
ors at Port Huron, Mich, loss of
$3.50, 900 was entailed.
Forty families go from Antelope
county, Nebraska and settle colony
near Devils Lake, S. d.
A valuable collection of Indian curl
os has been presented the state his
torical society of Nebraska.
The body Of man was found in
flour barrel at Chicago with the head
nearly severed from the body.
An aggregate of $3.50, is owing
Kansas from seventy-two of the 1O5
counties in the way of back taxes.
1t is said that something like ST.
100000 changed hands as the result of
the election in Greater New York.
Lew w. welch, one of the best
known photographers in the country,
died of heart disease at Milwaukee.
Joel Prentiss Bishop, L. L. D.. well
known as an author of legal text books,
died at Cambridge. Mass, aged So
years.
The steamer Dolphin arrived at Port
Townsend, Wash. from Shakaguay,
bringing 100 passengers, most of them
from Dawson.
Jarvin hall, a military academy at
Mount Clair, Colo. under the auspices
of the Episcopal church, was destroy
~ BY fGe.-- u
!, Bids for 100000 worth of contracts
for Fort Leavenworth, Kan, improve
ments have been forwarded to the war
dano rtnnant
A mad dog terrorized the neighbor.
hood a mile north of Alto Paso, Ills,
biting little girl and several animals
before being killed.
z The privy council of Great Britain
has officially approved the following
addition to the kings title, "And of the
British dominion beyond the seas"
Maj. H. G. Dawes of the artillery
corps of the United States army, died
at San Francisco. He had served witt
credit during the campaign in China.
Work on the American church al
Berlin will soon begin. The lot, which
cost $36,500, has been paid for, ant
the building fund amounts to $4,000
At. Nebraska City, Neb., John Nc
Cormick shot and killed Mrs. Maggie
Linsley. and then seriously shot him
self. She, it is said, had rejected hi
suit
The sultan of Morocco has paid $50
900 pesetas to Senior Ojeda, the Span
ish minister at Tangiers, as compensa
ton for the kidnapping of Span.sl
boy and girl.
Thieves effected an entrance into
show window of the Duhne Jewelr
company at Cincinnati and stole ira
of diamonds valued at $4,000. The
dropped several of the sparklers.
Franciscans and Greeks had a figh
at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher a
Jerusalem as to which community ha
the right to sweep the sacred edifc'
A number of casualties occurred.
Wood chucks have done so muc
damage in Alamakee county, low
that the authorities pay Is cents eac
for scalps. During September tt
auditor paid for 1910 scalps, and du
ing the season he purchased 1871.
Fire practically destroyed the bus
ness portion of Clifford. N. D. The lo
was $4,000, with an insurance OF ST.
600. The fire was started by burgla
in an attempt to blow open safe in
butcher shop of the place,