Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-09-10
TExANETTEs.

phone system.
Cotton will be short in some parts
of Red River county.
Three business houses were destroy
ed by fire at Honey Grove last week.
Athens National bank, capital stock
5000, has been authorized to do bust
ness.
Three rural free delivery mail routes
I'll be established In Hays county
oct. /.
Tax collectors OF Texas will organ
lie state association at Dallas during
the fair.
John Clark was shot and knled near
Tyler. Holly Harris was arrested.
Both colored.
Tax rolls of Fannin county foot up
$12,O62, 1875. This is a gain of s29S,OOO
over last year.
Plans for the $4,000 Carnegie library
at Temple have been accepted by tho
board of directors.
w. A. Madden of Paul Bean has been
accepted as midshipman at the naval
academy at Annapolis, Md.
The boiler and dynamo room OF Nc
Kinney & Morris gin at Van Alstyne
was damaged $1,000 by fire.
Gov Sayers has commissioned F. @.
Plummer and Peter Brandt as pilots
at the port of Sabine Pass.
City Treasurer Engeleki of San An.
tonic has resigned. Otto Merscheidt
has been chosen to fill the vacancy.
John A. Bryan of Cleburne succeeds
the late George Lepas as the secretary
of the Royal Arch Chapter Masons of
Texas.
e. L. Turner, a Mabank merchant,
was stabbed in his left side near the
heart. w. N. Ray, saddler, was ar
rested.
A fruit and truck growers associa-
ton was organized last week at Sa-
yoy Fannin county, with member
shil5R . q g. tRigtS 6 nS ed three miles
east of Ladonia. while crossing ditch
on a load of wood fell behind his team
and was kicked to death.
Thomas Tobin, a new conner to Dali
las, was fatally Frustrated by heat on
the 26th ult. The thermometer that
day registered 100 degrees.
Will Sparger of Bouham, a former
pitcher of the Dallas Baseball club,
has received an offer from the St. Louis
club Of the National league.
A young colored man named Sid
Wafer was drowned in a pond ten
miles north of Waco. He is supposed
to have been taken with cramps.
Mrs. Renda Chapman was acciden-
tally but dangerously wounded in the
left side on the Camp ranch, three
miles from Floresville, by her son.
Hunt county's tax rolls foot up SILL
$4,000. This is an increase Of $699, 480
over 1901. The rolls show total Of
9242 polls, which is an increase of 447.
Dave Wilson, a negro, shot Jennie,
his wife. with a pistol and then shot
himself. Both wounds were slight. Do
nestle trouble is the alleged cause
William P. Mcdonald, an inmate Of
the Confederate home at Austin, died
on Aug. "a. He served in Lawtons
brigade. Burial was at Tyler. De-
ceased was "a years old
Mrs. Spurlock, wife of John Spurlock,
one Of the pioneer citizens Of Hunt
county, residing few miles north Of
Greenville, breathed her last at Err
rick, Ok, while at that place on a visit.
Remains were inferred at home.
The attorney general has approved
and the secretary of state has filed an
amendment to the charter of the East
erD Texas railroad company increasing
its capital stock from $4,000 to
100000.
A negro whose name was not learned
was run over and killed by train at
Petty. Lamar county. An arm and
leg were cut off. and 2 hole was knock
ed in side. He was struck by Texas
and Pacific freight.
The members Of the South and west
Texas Editorial association on their
trip from Gonzales, where the Meeting
was held. to cloudcroft, N, NJ, were