Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-01-23
rExANEfrEs.

Henry college, at Campbell, is to be-
Incorporated.
The Dallas Humane society is after
chicken fighters.
Jack Pierce, colored, was stabbed in
an eye at Paris.
Amarillo wants the protective girls
industry school,
The pring term of federal court is in
session at Tyler.
A child was accidentally shot to
death at Isleta.
In a case at Fort Smith three at
torneys served as jurors.
]. L. Hickson has been appointed
postmaster at Gainesville,
Mrs. H. L. Middleton, wife of prom
inent Dallas capitalist, died at St.
Louis.
H. Jordans store at Allen, Collin
county was burglarized and 5000 in
cash taken.
Sam Baker, colored, was shot and
killed by another negro near Lillig.
Travis county.
The Weatherford, Mineral Wells and
Northwestern railway will soon be ex-
tended to Graham.
Mary Cravens, colored, 10 years old,
hanged herself on farm near New
Weldon, Washington county.
Machinery for the new coal shaft
at Strawn has arrived The shaft will
probably be 400 feet deep.
V. M. DuBose, native of Georgia
and SO years old, died at Dallas. He
had resided in Texas sixty years.
]. ]. Nixon and wife and little
daughter are confined at their home in
the western part of Blooming Grove
with smallpox.
A man residing at Lake Creek and a
girl whose parents live at Prattville,
Delta county, were married at Pacio,
Lamar county. The bride is only Is
years old and the groom 80.
Mrs. Lucretia Allison, SO years old,
a pioneer of Cooke county, passed
away at Gainesville. The venerable
lady was the Oldest person in that
county.
The Sherman, Shreveport and South
ern Railway company paid the con-
troller s27s.TO tax IN s2746s of pas
senger earnings forI the quarter end
ing Dec. 81
Ben Amonet. q f25 Ter. aged 50. was
Knocked from the )road track about
one and one-half Mes south of Van
Alstyne He was Fitting on the end
Of tie when tn train struck him.
lie lived about on Bur.
A tragedy occurred at house in
Austin. Two OF the inmates quarreled,
and one of them drew a revolver and
shot Mamie Baker three times. One
bullet passed through the Baker wo-
mans body.
The case of the state of Texas VS..
Dave Petty, charged with the murder
of Justice of the Peace D. M. Harris at
Sherman, was continued until the
district court by agreement of both
Sides
The youngest person ever adjudged
insane in Grayson county was John
Brooks, colored, aged IA years, on trial
at Sherman. Brooks became violent
and assailed several members of his
family.
Five of the eleven messengers of the
Postal Gable Telegraph company at
Dallas struck because they we're of the
opinion the company charged them too
much for caps.
Mrs Eliza Wilson, 81 years old, whose
first husband was the father of the
late Gov. Throckmorton, and whose
second was one of Collin county's first
Justices died suddenly.
A force at Bonham began work re-
moving the old Texas and Pacific depot.
In its place will be erected hand
some pressed brick depot to be one of
the finest on the lines Of the Texas and
Pacific in the state.
The barn of M. Flowers, near Nc
Gowan, Hill county. was destroyed by
fire. 1t contained a large amount of
corn, hay, oats and implements. The
loss is about $1,000, with no insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown, and
remains mystery,