Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-08
EVENTS OF EvERYwAERE.

Southern League baseball season has
opened
Bishop Stubs of oxford, England,
IS dead.
Twenty-eight Mormon missionaries
have sailed for Europe.
The Elks' street fair at Shreveport,
La, was grand success.
The Mexican National railway will
soon change to standard gauge.
President Diaz will be unable, owing
to business matters to meet President
Mckinley.
Bonnie Sanger and Johnnie Riches
bought a twenty-round draw at Mem
phis, Tenn.
The Ohio river flood has caused
much suffering on the Ohio and Ken
tucy shores.
The mayor of New Orleans has APP
pointed committee to cooperate with
the National Good Roads.
If the plans of the navy department
are adopted by congress a $5,OOO,OOO
naval station will be established at
olongapo, Subig Bay, Luzon.
Ex-President Lincolns remains now
Jay in the 100000 tomb at Springfield
which the state of Illinois erected.
The other dead of the family also re-
pose therein.
The Brussels Petit Bleu publishes
a dispatch, saying that DIR. Leyds has
sent to German foreign Office formal
protest against the supplying of arms
and guns to England and Germany.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
National committee perfected organi-
cation at st. Louis. Ex-senator Car
ter of Montana was elected president
and Hon. Joseph Flory of Missouri
secretary.
The president has appointed William
Vaughan United States attorney for
the northern district of Alabama, and
Henry NJ. Cooper marshal for the
eastern district of Arkansas.
Fifty million dollars of Great Brit
aims new loan has been placed in the
United States. National City bank, j.
p. Morgan e. Co., Barring, Magoun &
Co. and New York Life Insurance com
pany comprise the syndicate that has
taken the loan.
Honest" Tom Sampson, detective,
army veteran and life saver, died at
Mount Vernon, N Y. Captain Samp-
son had sixteen medals for meritorious
service, number of them by congress.
He assisted in Mrs. Surratt's arrest.
1t has been determined to increase
the regularly army to approximately
$4,000 men and to leave 1t at that
number unless conditions in the Philf-
pines should make more troops neces-
sary. The president and Secretary
Root have reached this conclusion
1t was officially announced that Col.
Col Henry Young Humbert, Col.
Thomas F. Barr and Lieut.. Col John
W. Clause of lhe judge advocate gem
erals department, would be made brig
adler generals before retiring.
The continued drouth has produced
water famine throughout the 18TH
mus of Panama and particularly
among the poorer classes The rail-
ways free distribution daily helps to
allay the suffering.
At Parkersburg, w. Va, Sidney Cole
shot and killed William Terry, carpen-
ter on the steamer Keystone State, be-
cause Terry persisted in landing along
with the boats officers after being
warned not to do so. Cole feared the
swell would float his house away.
Prof. Fred. W. Starr of the anthro-
biological department of the UNIVERSE
ty of Chicago has returned from visit
of four mounths to the barbarous
states of Mexican Indians. Besides
bringing back hundreds of relics he
has procured statistics which will be
invaluable.
1t is asserted that the Rothschild
syndicate, which includes w elmer &
Co, Sir Ernest Cassell and others, took
92O,O00,O0O of the British war loan.
and it is rumored that they undertook
not to sell under per cent premium
for a given time.
At larCely attended meetings of col
liery owners, miners and shippers re-
spectively in the various coal centers
of England the export tax on coal was
vigorously denounced and threats
were made to cooperate and suspend
the coal trade to the United Kingdom.