Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1903-11-18
ALL OVER TEXAS.

Abers' store at Oklahoma City was
burglarlzed Of $500 worth of goods.
One thousand head Of cattle are on
feed at the Sulphur Springs oil mill,
L, L. Barnes gents furnishing estab-
llshment burned at Ladonia. LOSS
$4,000, insurance s250O.
The property of the Palestine Pack
ing company was sold to VIM. Broyles
at trustees sale for $4,000.
Frank Kahlinec, aged nineteen years,
had his skull crushed in a runaway at
Granger. He is not expected to live.
The First Baptist church of Rock
dale refused to reduce the salary OF
its pastor Rev. w. A. Hamlet, in ac-
cordance with request from him.
About four hundred Baylor Univer-
sity students attended the meeting OF
the Baptist state convention Friday.
taking advantage of dollar excursion
rate.
The Dowager Empress has dispatch.
ed Yum Shi Kal, viceroy of Chi LII PROV
ince, to Mukden to investigate affairs
there and arrange settlement If pos.
slble.
Arrangements aare about perfected
for establishing a telephone line be.
tween Bryan and Mumford, to be oper-
ated by the Bryan Telephone Elk.
change.
A local freight train on the Hills
boro line was ditched about three miles
west of town. Will Rose. brakeman.
was the only one hurt. But little dam
age was done.
In a difficulty at Pollock, Angelina
county. Hope Chancey was shot and
instantly killed. John Duce was ar
rested, charged with the killing and
Jailed at Lufkin.
An unknown assassin shot and in.
stantly killed express messenger John
Copeland near Bassett, on the Cotton
Belt road, Friday night. Copeland
lived at Mt. Pleasant
Some of the Denton Pressed Brick
Co.'s employees went out for shorter
hours. but reconsidered their action
and, most of them, returned to work
after two days idleness.
August Liberty, German farmer
living about eight miles from Giddings
on Green's Creek, killed himself by
shooting. There is no known reason
for his committing the rash act
J. s. Knowles died with smallpox
at his residence at Rosebud, This was
the only case of this disease there,
and it has been quarantined and well
guarded against ever since its origin.
The district court of Travis county
has refused to transfer to the federal
court the antitrust cases against the
Fort Worth and Denver City Railway
company and the Pullman company.
The business men of Anne, Collin
County, have met and appointed
committee for the purpose of organic
ing bank. 1t is thought that all the
capital needed can be easily secured.
A supposed mad dog at Sherman
was killed after having attacked the
little daughter Of Rev. and Mrs. For
rest Smith, Mail Carrier Will Wharton,
Ned Green, a colored employee at North
Texas Female college.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the street fair at Denton Nov.
16 to 21, under the auspices Of the Dem
ton fire department. The railroads
have agreed to put on excursion rates
for the occasion.
Mack Beasley, 29 years Of age, re-
siding on Fish Creek. northwest OF
Gainesville, fell from a pecan tree, a
distance Of thirty feet, last Sunday
morning, and sustained injuries from
which he died at 1 p. m. the Same
day
The Trinity and Brazos Valley start
ed forcs of about 300 men to laying
rails between Hillsboro and cleburne.
1t is expected that the trains will DO
running by the middle of December
or sooner.
The railroad commission has order
ed the Fort Worth and Denver City