Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-22
oLEANINos OF THE GLOBE.

reichstag committee passed the sac
charine (sugar) bill.
Congressman Gibson of Tennessee
strongly objects to the plan for re-
districting that state.
1t is reported that gold in paying
quantities has been found in Howard
county, Arkansas, near Euclid.
Hail stones as large as birds eggs
fell at Selma, Ala, on the 9Th, re-
naming on the ground forty minutes.
A mother and two daughters have
simultaneously filed suits before the
New York supreme court for divorce.
Adjt Gen. Houston of Florida, aged
62 years, died at Tallahassee. He was
a grandson of Lord and Lady Hous-
ton.
His Eminence, who won the Ken
lucky Derby at Louisville, has also
won the Clarke stakes at the same
place.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Ha *
EFT has directed that the auxiliary
cruiser Dixie be used as a training
ship for petty officers.
officials at st. Paul, MINI, will seek
requisition papers in order to force
about thirty husbands, VINO deserted
their wives, to return to that city.
The island of Samar, one of tie
Visayan group, has been transferred
from the department commanded by
Gen. Wade to that commanded by
Gen. Hughes.
The British house of commons, by
vote of 1888 to 227, adopted the coal
tax. Consequently the tax of a shill-
ing a ton on export coal was adopted
by majority of 1O6.
A gang of gypsies, in revenge for
their previous capture by gendarmes,
poisoned the well in the village of
Kapolya, Hungary, with the result that
fifteen persons have died.
The good roads convention held at
Natchez, Miss, was an unqualified
success. Delegates were elected to the
state convention, which is to be held
at Jackson, commencing June IA.
The Confederate Veterans camp Of
New York expresses satisfaction over
the reburial of the dead who fought
for the Lost Cause within hallowed
precincts of Arlington cemetery in
Virginia.
e, Gov. Dole of Hawaii has refused to
extend the session of the legislature,
saying that the present session has
been a waste of time and money, and
he believes an extension would result
in nothing better.
Rev. B. Y. Neal, pastor or a church
near Pana, H., has worn out afiiiday-
its for the arrest of Jesse Peak and
William Mnitelaw, 20 years old,
charging them with playing seven up
in church during services.
Miss Swigert, rich and eccentric
elderly woman, who lived near Tren-
ton, Smith County, Mississippi, forty
miles east of Jackson, was found dead
in bed with bullet hole through her
head. She had been murdered and
robbed
The annual convention of the Textile
workers was held at Holyoke, Mass.
Sixty delegates were present, repre-
senting the textile centers of North
and South Carolina, Kntucky, Ala
bama and other southern states. Sew
eral of the delegates from the south
are women.
A claim has been filed with the
Spanish claims commission in behalf
of Harry Mccain, seaman on the
Inflated Maine when she was blown
up in Havana harbor, asking $4,000
for injuries sustained by him in con-
sequence OF the explosion.
The late Count de ouin Patrieterre
bequeathed to city of Rouen his for
tune of 100000 francs on the condi-
lions that the city annually give a
marriage gift of 100000 francs to a
couple of giants in order to regenerate
the human species.
The Russion lieutenant, Telvosky,
from the gunboat Bobra, was shot
dead by German soldier during a
fracas on the Taku road, near Tien
Tsin. Lieut.. Telyosly attacked the
German with his dirk.
The British war Office gives number
of deaths in the South African war at
ia officers and 14,264 men. Four OFF,
GERS and S14 men have been fnvalided