Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-10
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Scorpion goes to Venezuela.

al OlnlAh uGhlOu hJ
intends resigning
Several persons were killed at Buena
Vista, Ga, by a cyclone.
The wholesale emigration of Porto
Rican laborers alarm planters,
Six masked men broke into bank
Rt Somerset, o.. and escaped with $751;
900.
Twelve fresh bubonic plague cases
were officially reported at Cape Town
on the 9th ult.
A Geneva correspondent says ex-
President Kruger will visit the United
States this month.
Charlotte Mary Yonge, the author
ess, died in Winchester, England. She
was born Aug. II, 1923.
Lightning struck a negro shoolhouse
at Kingston, Ca, killing two negro
girls and shocking others.
Gen. Miles and party have returned
from Cuba and say the people will ac-
cept the Plat amendment.
Three census enumerators have been
arrested in Maryland charged with al
legged frauds in st. Marys county.
@. ]. Carlston of Muncie, Ind, has
gone to New York to lay claim to part
of the estate of the late VIM. Rice.
A man has been arrested at Pine
Vile, KY, alleged to be the murderer
of six people at Santa Clara, Cal.
A mine explosion at Connellsville,
Pa, kills one man, Injuries five more
fatally, and others are badly burned
Charles Lattimer of Chicago walked
into his wife's millinery store, shot
her dead and wounded himself fatally.
Two hundred bars of gold, an I'M
precedented number, are on the way
north from the interior of Colombia.
In collision between passenger
and freight train on the Chicago and
Northwestern road at Little Rapids,
Wis. one man. was killed and seven
other persons injured.
President Mckinley expects to spend
class day at Wesleyan, June rs and
commencement exercises at Harvard
the following day. He will visit other
Massachusetts points.
The total amount of the Spanish war
claims handed in so far aggregate
$30,000,000. The largest single claim is
that of John A. Brock, on property
losses, estimated at $2,162,514.
Chief Sanitary Inspector Gorgas re-
ports to the war department that the
Cuban death rate is steadily decreas-
ing, being less in February than any
previous month in twelve years.
Mrs. Carrie Nation had an interest
ing half hour in st. Louis. During her
stop there she visited the Nation"
saloon and tried to persuade the owner
to change the name, but without sue
cess.
The British government has pro-
tested against China making con-
vention with any power touching ter
ritorial or financial affairs until the
present troubles in that country are
concluded.
The verdict of the coroner's jury n
vestigating the explosion at the
Doremus laundry. Chicago, in which
eight lives were lost, holds Abram F.
Doremus the proprietor, to await the
action of the grand jury Boiler exam
nations were recommend.
Rev. DR.. VIM. c, Winslow, vice pres
Ident of the Egypt exploration fund.
has just received official word that
Prof. Petrie has unearthed at Abydos
the records of kings before Mena, the
founder of the first dynasty, nearly
1900 B. c.
The verdict of the jury in the breach
Of promise suit of Mrs. Sophia Oleson
VS.. John Anderson was against the de-
PENDANT for the whole amount of the
suit, $4,000. The case was tried at
Fort Dodge, La.
President Kent of the Southern As
ISOLATION of Baseball Clubs, expresses
himself as highly pleased with the out
look for the national game in the
cities comprising that league this sea
son. Mr.. Kent has visited the entire
circuit.
AT meeting Of his parliamentary
adherents the premier, the Marquis
Ito, referring to foreign politics, said
Japan had attained a position enabling
her To nrntect her Legitimate interests