Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-01-08
EVENTS OF EvERYwI.
COZ. Taft Is EN- route homo.

hospital
Australia will send 1000 men toS
South Africa.
York, Neb., has an $4,000 United
Brethren church
Lieutenant Colentrander and force
captured sixty Beers.
The first torpedo boat for the Rus
sian navy has been finished
The president gave the white house
employees eighty-seven turkeys.
President Roosevelt declined to ac-
cept Secretary Wilson'S resignation.
DIR. j. G. Malcolm, author of several
standard works. died at Hutchinson.
Kan.
One person was killed and nine in
jured by a street car accident at San
Francisco.
Springfield, Mo, claims 10000 people.
Iowa has 1926 banks-more than any
other state.
Hon. w. ]. Bryan has been elected
trustee of the lincoln, Neb, Presby-
terrain church.
Justice McAdam of the New York
state supreme court, died from cancer
of the tongue.
Yale university has received 100000
from H. X. Melissa and e. w. Smith
of New York.
C. d. Borden, the cotton manufac-
turer of Fall River, lass, gave $4,000
to his employees.
seat on the New York stock ex-
change sold for $4,000. This is the
highest price ever paid
Charley YIN, Chinese laundryman,
was murdered at New York. He was
found lying in pool of blood.
William Fay, who was British SOL
der in the Crimean war, died at Usage
City, Kan. He was over 100 years
old.
A general order issued by the navy
department sets aside as naval res
ervation certain lands on Celubera is
lands.
Reginald c. Vanderbilt, son of the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt, attained his
majority Dec 20; inheritance. $780,
900.
Franceszek Umilian was electrocuted
at Charlestown, Mass Hhe was CON
victed of the murder of Kasimiless
Jedubrick.
The steamer Braemer brings aews
that the Chinese court has decided to
employ, at an annual salary of SIS 900,
an American adviser.
d. P. Wheeler, cashier of the C'ti-
zens' National bank of Akron, o., was
found dead in the bank vault. An cleo
trio shock killed him.
Dewitt Clinton House, one of tho
Oldest and best known travelling men
in the United States, died at Kansas
CITY. lie was "a years old.
In few days the Berlin electric ell
evated railway, the first undertaking
of the kind on the continent of Eu-
rope, will be opened for traffic.
Col. George NJ. Taylor, travelling
passenger agent for the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern railroad, died at
Vincennes, Ind, from llood poison.
1t has been finally decided that tho
United States will be represented by
polo team in England during the sport
next June in coronation of King Ed
ward.
Sampson, Filipino general. and all
the other insurgent chiefs on the island
of Bohol, have surrendered, with
twenty-eight cannon and sixty-fve
guns.
Plans are almost completed for the
4OOO-foot bridge across the Mississippi
river at Gray's Point for the use of the
Missouri Pacific, Iron Mountain Hill
nois Central and Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railroads.
Miss Emma stillwell, aged 2s years,
loosened the neck of her dress in fit
of insanity at Denver, poured kerosene
oil between her clothing and her body
and set fire to the fluid, with a match.
She died in agony In short time.
Paul Cesar, the Russian minister to
China, has requested the Chinese plen-
ipotentiaries TO present their obieations