Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-08-20
TExANETTEs.
Kent county has much grass.

Over 600 corporations have failed to
make antitrust affidavits at Austin.
First National bank of Mabank. cap.
ital stock $4,000, has been organized.
While in bathing near Rockdale AL
bert Knight. 16 years old, was drown.
ed.
Annie Alfanger. years old, was
burned to death at Dallas. Coal oil
can exploded.
Twenty-Five tank builders of the Pc
troleum Iron works at Corsicana have
struck for higher wages.
Henry T. Ford Jr., 81 years old. was
drowned in the Brazos bottom three
miles from Navasota
1t will require $4,000 to repair the
bridges in Collin county, say the
county commissioners.
Tax rolls of McCulloch county show
a valuation of $1,99S,221, an increase
OF 1924 over last year.
j. c. Lavender an old Ellis county
settler, died at Long Branch, that
county, aged 10 years.
Frank Howard, colored saloon por-
ter, was found dead in the office of
the Evening Messenger at Marshall.
Tax rolls of Van zandt county show
an increase in taxable values of $751;
7Os over 1901. They are $4,455, 4O5.
julius Franz of Dallas was chosen
Vice-president of the German army and
navy veterans, who met at Hamilton,
o.
The Texas Midland railway company
paid 1923 tax on $S2,33s passenger
earnings for the quarter ending June
80.
vessel named the Eocene caught
fire at Taylor's Bayou. four miles west
of Port Arthur, and burned to the wat.
ers edge.
The state grand lodge Of colored
osd Fellows convened at Paris laa
week There were about 200 delegates
in attendance.
y In a runaway at BRENNAN Miss Elsie
Garrett. daughter of Judge c. c. Gar
rett, was thrown from a carriage and
seriously hurt.
A creamery company with capital
stock OF $1,000 Ia being organized at
Van Alstyne. Butter and cheese will
be the output.
Hiram Johnson, one of Smith coun-
TVS most prominent farmers, is dead
He was native of Alabama and an
ex-Confederate soldier.
A pioneer named Winket passed
away at Estelle. He came to Texas
from Tennessee In 1853 and served in
the Confederate army
The Williams G. Maudlin cotton gin,
four miles west of Italy, was destroy
ed by fire. The plant was valued at
$4,000 and insured for $4,000.
Work on the extension of the Texas
and New Orleans railroad between
Mail and Jacksonville, distance OF
forty miles, is progressing rapidly.
Robert Stowe. 10 years old, was
drowned in Exall's lake, near Dallas
He and another boy were in swimming
and young Stowe was seized with
cramps.
In the examining trial at Danger
field of A. r. Mars and his son, D. B.
Mars, charged with killing Tom Pete
Jones on July 20. defendants were re
manded to jail without ball
Me second annual reunion of the
Henderson County Old Settlers asso
citation was held at Athens Judge
Reagan and Hon. Cone Johnson of Ty
Ter were among the speakers.
The disinfecting fees collected al
the ports of Texas during the month
of July amounted to s1301 Galveston
collected $725; Sabine Pass, $3.50; We
lasco, s7s; Arkansas Pass, $12; Pasc
Cavallo, So; Brownsville, s5s.
R. j. Rowe, an ex-Confederate sol
der and resident of Texas for fifty
six years, passed away at the home
of his son, DIR. r. W. Rowe, at Rura.
Shade, near Kerens. Mr. Rowe wal
in the sixtv-eiRhth wear of bfe 900
Seven negroes were arrested at For
Worth on various charges on the 9TH
including theft, burglary and vagran
cy. There have been number o
bold burglaries in that city recently