Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-10-01
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

delivery Dec. l.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change brought $s1 900.
China will have an elaborate display
at the Worlds fair in st. Louis.
Forest fires have been raging in the
Jacks Fork mountains. Indian Terri
tory.
Oct Is South McAlester, l. T., votes
on a 100000 waterworks bond propo-
stion.
Governor-elect McCurtain OF the
Choctaw nation will be inaugurated
Oct 6.
Fred Boxlieter, IA years old. was
ground to pieces by train at Dubu-
que, la.
Great development OF Cherokee min
eral lands is expected to begin after
allotment
j. "A. Hudson, aged Sc years, a prom
inent citizen of Florida, died at Til
balls, that state.
John Selly of Vincennes, Ind, has
been arrested charged with obtaining
$4,000 by unlawful means.
The steamer Victoria left Victoria
B.. c., for China with $40 boxes OF
bones OF deceased Celesteals.
William Brifogle, wealthy farmer
near Brookville. Ind, suicided by
hanging He was SO years old.
.Weyerhauser & Denkmann's lumber
yard burned at Rock Island, Ill. 1t
covered three acres. Loss, $4,000.
Four masked burglars entered the
postofice at Arcadia, Ind, dynamited
the safe and secured $500 in cash and
stamps
Reports received from Middlesboro,
Ky, are that Jim Wright, the leader
of Wright's band, said to have been
killed, Is alive.
Jack Fife, prominent planter, com
mitted suicide near Hermanville Miss.
by blowing his head from his body
with shotgun.
-. Stephen Mccormick, said to have
been the Oldest employee of New York
city in point of service and the Oldest
member of Tammany Hall, is dead,
aged 70 years.
| John Say, aged SO years, died last
week at Unionville, Mo. He voted for
William Henry Harrison and the Re
publican ticket since the formation of
that party in 1856.
The First National bank and the
Boynton National bank, both of Boyn-
ton. I. T.. and each with an authorized
capital of $4,000, have been granted
permission to transact business
In crap game at Brookhaven, Miss,
Dave Robinson and Sherman Swilley
Quarreled over % cents. Swilley frac-
tured Robinson's skull with a plank.
The latter walked home, lay down and
arose no more.
Benny Yanger and young Mowart,
the Fighting Conductor" fought six
rounds to draw at Chicago. The
fight was a rough affair from begin
ming to end. Honors were about even.
James Robertson has raised on his
farm. near Purcell, I. T., some beets.
measuring one and one-half inches
around, twenty-five inches long and
weighing seven and one-half pounds.
He had in one-quarter of an acre.
Col. John G. Garnett, a West Point
graduate, a virglnian, a colonel of ar
tillery under Gen. r. e. Lee In the.
Civil war and prominent southern
resident of New York, suicided in that
city by carbolic acid.
Sir John Gordon Spring, prime min
lister Of Cape Colony, has announced
the repeal of martial law and the proc
lamation of the peace preservation act,
which enables the government to con-
troll firearms and registration of all
arms and ammunition.
Naval Constructor Richmond Hob
son. who has been on sick leave since
June. owing to his eyes being weak.
has reported for duty. tbs eyes were
injured by glare of sun while raising
the sunken Spanish vessels near San
tiago.
A free-for-all fight was pulled of by
about thirty negroes on an excursion