Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-17
rExANETTEs.
Blum is to have an oil well.

WOOu.
The irrigation dam at wicheta Falls
is completed
The court of criminal appeals is in
session at Austin.
A large number of cities held cleo
tions on the Sd inst
The First National bank of Dodd
City has begun business.
G. F. Wilson was accidentally killed
at Cottage Hill, Collin county.
Sulphur Springs has let the contract
for the digging of three more wells.
An unknown tramp was shot and
killed near the section house north of
Vernon.
The Grayson county summer normal
is to be held at Sherman from July l
to August 9.
]. L. Truley of Dallas was sandbagg-
/ ed by negro and robbed of S45, his
watch and cSain,
Capt Alexander C. Murrell, for many
years a Cotton Belt railway passenger
conductor died at Waco.
Eight miles from Poetry, Kaufman
county, Lee Stallings, aged % years,
killed himself with a rife.
The Retail Grocers association of
Fort Worth is making an effort to have
u state organization formed.
While playing with pistol the 8
year old son of Frank Stevenson or
Culp, Hill county, killed himself with
pistol.
At the annual meeting of the Katy
railway stockholders at Dallas all the
directors were reelected. President
Rouse was also reelected.
Jacob Gall, aged SIS years, Mexican
war vetrian and founder of the Sons
of Hermann in Texas forty years ago.
died at San Antonio.
John Warrfck, has been taken from
Mount Vernon to Huntsdale, N. c.,
where it is alleged, he is wanted to
answer a murder charge.
The first semi-annual session of the
Texas Laundrymen's association was
held at Dallas on the I'd and Sd insts.,
with large attendance. Houston holds
rnelnext meeting.
Vrgle Moore, IS years of age a min
er hAthe Yatlum mine, two miles
nolTzpof Rockdale. blew off the top of
his head with shot gun.
Rev. Or. w. NJ. Anderson, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church of Dali
las, has received call to the First
Presbyterian church of Nashville,
Tenn.
Louis Links, colored, charged with
killing Louis Fields 70 years old, also
colored, at Telico, Ellis county, was
placed under $500 bond. He asserts the
killing was accidental
Rural mail service has been inaugu-
rated in johnson county, radiating
from Burleson. There are five routes
covering an erea of 2O9 square miles,
and serving a population of 5000.
The lower house of the legislature
passed the senate concurrent resolution
granting Judge Clark OF the Thirty
seventh district court vacation during
the months of July and August.
Good Friday was commemorated at
| tba. ,,o,to,,e d oman Catholic ITo;.oonoI
and Lutheran churches with the usual
solemn ceremonies commemorative of
the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ.
On the I'd inst. Mr. and Mrs. Wess
Kerley celebrated the sixty-third ami
yersary of their wedding at their home,
five miles. southeast of Mckinney.
They settled there one-half century
ago.
A company has been organized at
Jefferson with a capital of $4,000 for the
purpose of boring for oil. 1t is pro-
posed to sink we'll at at once in that
county. The J. M. Guffy company has
leased several thousand acres.
Some one telephoned the police, de-
partment of Dallas on the LIST that a
man had been killed on the corner of
Main and Market streets, and two Of
fcers were hurriedly dispatched, only
to learn that they had been April
fooled.
All of the negroes in Harrison coun-
~ ff1io4ad with what tha mo ioritv Of
doctors call Cuban itch" are up and
about. The disease has not proved IA
tai within the confines of that county