Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-07-23
TExANETTEs.

There are 1907 patients in the in
sane asylum at Terrell.
The state will build at $4,000 qua
rantine station in Galveston bay.
The plant of the Texas Coffin COM
pany at Tyler burned. Loss $4,000.
The grand jury of Palo Pinto county
passed seventy-two bills of indictment.
John w Pace has been elected pres
ident of the First National bsak of Kill
leen.
An artesian well in West Dallas
flows 100000 gallons every twenty
four hours.
President Green of the Midland rail-
way says no extension of the road has
been planned.
The Corsicana District Log Rollers
association will have a picnic in Ma
yarro county some time next mon&h.
Mrs. Susan Haygood patient at
the Terrell asylum, passed away. She
was SO years old.
For alleged libel, Mrs. Anna Alex.
hnder, a widow, has instituted suit at
Austin against Jacob Kopperl for $780,
e49.
A private bank has been established
at Alvarado. The capital stock is
$4,000. Col. L. B. Truelove is preAi-
dent
Hon. S. w. T. Lanham will attend
the Confederate reunion at Llano
July 81 and Aug. l and 2 and make an
address.
Leon Jackson, IA years of age, while
out hunting near San Antonio, acct
dentally shot and killed himseI. The
bullet penetrated his heart.
Frank Rogers, negro fireman, was
choked to death at Garwood, near
Bay City, by funaes of gas from Oh
He turned on too much oil.
Two small children Of Mary Car
mack. colored were terribly burned
,saSlrjpg TIC aartlal ,dest tryctjon OF the
~ 4. ilys residence at Bfenham.
ne annual tourna.sSest of the Texas
State Tennis association was neld on
Holland court, BRENNAN. The attend
ance was large and many games were
played
In the district court at Waxahachie
Albert Darcus, a negro Is years old,
pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal
assault and was given thirty years in
the penitentiary
Tax roll of McMullen county has
been received by the controller. The
assessed voluation is s1,154,OO4 for
1902, compared with s1.285, S76 in 1901,
a decrease of $21,S72.
A hole was cut in the wall of the
jail at Nacogdoches and eight pris-
oners made their escape. The jail is
rather dilapidated. A contract to re-
pair it has been let.
The dead body of James Knox was
found in a room at the Denver hotel,
Houston. He was brother of the
late ]. Armory Knox, the well known
editor of Texas Siftings,
About 100 machinists and helpers
went out on strike last week at Gle
burne. They were employed at the
Santa Fe shops. 1t is alleged the
strik was caused by the letting out of
committeeman and the refusal of
the road to reinstate him,
While a Mr.. Boyd, his wife and
granddaughter were crossing the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway track
near Alvarado in covered wagon a
southbound passenger train ran into
the vehicle, converting it into kindling
wood. All three were seriously in
jured.
The city council of Sherman has
found seventy-two bills of indictment,
able offense for any person to expec-
torate on any stone concrete or plank
sidewalk in that city or upon the floor
or wall of any public building.
The third annual session of the Ar
lington School of Mathematics opened
at the Tarrant county town of that
name with an enrolment OF ninety
five students. The season will CON
tinue altogether for six weeks. There
are three instructors.
The Bexar county board of equall-
zation raised the assessments of the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San An