Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-23
ExANETTes.

Mineral Wells is to have trolley
street car line.
Palestine Ice company win increase
its capital stock to 100000
The Dallas Loan and Trust compa
ny will erect $4,000 structure.
Railroads are unable to furnish SUI.
fcient tank cars for oil shipments,
The booksellers and newsdealers
help an interesting session at Dallas,
Mineola chapter, Daughters of the
Confederacy, have completed organiza-
ton.
Fire destroyed the grocery store OF
Sterne & Stewart at Fort Worth. Loss
$4,000.
Five men charged with counterfeit
ing were indicted by the Federal grand
jury at Sherman
The City National bank of Longview,
capital stock $4,000, has bee nauthor-
lied to do business.
Clement B. Johns, prominent Aus
Tin business man, SO years of age.
passed away in that city
The sheriff and police force arrested
quite number of persons charged
with gambling during the Texas fair.
The Grand Chapter of the Order OF
the Eastern Star met at Galveston,
with nearly 200 members in attend
ance.
G. D. Johnson, a wellto-do farmer of
Bexar county, residing near Howard.
sucided by shooting himself through
the brain.
Five chapters of the National Soci.
ETY. of the Daughters of the American
Revolution held well attended meet
ing at Dallas
While visiting Dallas the room OF
Mrs. and Miss Pettis of Houston was
entered and two costly diamond
brooches stolen.
In the Angel murder case, tried at
Qaanah on change of venue from Col
lingsworth county. defendant was
given five years.
The Bonham Ice company will burn
fuel oil next season, when the present
forty-ton plant will be enlarged to dou.
bile its present size
R. G, Stone shot and killed two large
pslieans near wyiie. one msasured
nine feet from tip to tip and five feet
six inches high
Pick Messer, charged with the kill
ing of Bud Shear at Whitehouse, Smith
county, some months ago, was tried at
Tyler and given FIVE years.
BY gas escaping from the manhole OF
car of petroleum which Rod Edins
was looking into at Hillsboro he be-
came overcome by the poisonous gas,
tainted, and was quite sick for some
time.
Charles Henry Schultz of Paris, who
participated in the Improved Order Of
Red Mems festivities at the Texas
State Fair last week. has been a mem
Der of the order fifty-two years He
Joined the tribe at Williamsburg, N. Y.
BY the explosion of ten-horse pow
er boiler at Italy, Ellis county, Clude
Powell and Clyde Wolaver Boys, were
badly hurt. The boiler went up 200
feet and landed in cotton yard 300
feet away, Back of building was de-.
molished.
Col. L. H. Waugh of Cleburne has
been appointed master mechanic for
the Frisco railway, with his jurisdic.
ton extending on the Red River dI.
vision Of that road from Sapulpa to
Speerman, from Sapulpa to Oklahoma
City from Sapulpa to Alton, headquar.
ters Sapulpa.
Hugh Rogers died at Forest Glade,
near Mexia., He was visiting some
friends in buggy and late in the aft
ernoon the buggy was found in thedot
with the dead body OF Mr.. Rogers in it.
Cause OF death Is not known
The Southern OIL company of Corsi-
cana has filed in the county clerks Of
fee Of Hunt county forty-eight leases
from owners Of land in the southern
part of that county. The instruments
are all in printed form.
Capt. M. ]. Crimson. Mexican war
veteran, died suddenly at Arlington,
rarrant county He raised. organized
aud carried to the front the first com
many from Tarrant cannty That fol.