Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1903-05-13
ALL OVER TEXAS.

Beaumont is to erect $4,000 school
building.
The Rudd Rifles have disbanded at
Marshall.
Frost at Bells injured corn in the
lowlands.
Rev w B. Preston of Oak Cliff had
his pocket picked at the depot at Cor
sicana.
Cleveland Smith was given seven
years at Paris on charge of horse
theft
The Texas Christian university at
Waco will begin its summer session on
June Is.
Ed Hunter, a well known Texas and
Pacific passenger conductor, died at
Fort Worth.
George Kelley, colored, was given
life sentence at Hallettsville on
charge of murder.
Two cars of coal burned in a freight
wreck on the Houston and Texas Cen.
tral near Hearne.
The recent coal find at Cisco is be-
Ing developed and soon the product
viii be put on the market
Teachers from Johnson, someryllle,
Hood, Bosque and Erath counties will
conduct summer normal at Glen
Rose this year.
T. E. Holland Of Maple was found
in barn dead Wednesday evening. 1t
Is supposed that he fell from the loft.
He was thirty years old and leaves
wife and child.
The Supreme Court of the United
States refused to grant an injunction
restraining the county judge OF Gray
son County from putting local option
into effect in that county
Monday night, on the Tompklns
place, near Baxter, four negroes en-
gagged in a difficulty when Antony
Scott was killed. John and Wash
Lyons are now in the Athens jail, and
officers are in a quest OF another party.
The executive committee of the Tex
as Grain Dealers Association has pre-
pared an address indorsing the Texas
Worlds Fair movement and have
promised to give it substantial assis'
lance.
The Grimes county prohibltionists
have gone into permanent organiga-
tion Omcers were elected and speech
es were made by number of pro-
hibitionists at the organization meet
ing
The Joseph Peters Furniture com
pany, the f. H. Longman Chair Man
ufacturing company and E. e. Han,
peter. all of St. Louis, filed a petition
in involuntary bankruptcy, asking that
/. w. Culver a furniture dealer Of
San Antonio, be declared bankrupt
The North German Lloyd steamship
Haonyer arrived at Galveston from
Bremen via Philadelphia, bringing zoo
passengers and about 5000 tons OF
freight The majority of the pass.
engers are immigrants who will settle
in Texas, Nebraska. Kansas and Okla.
homa.
Paris: In difficulty near Garrett
Bluff A. B. Bryan, a farmer, was shot
through the body with a revolver. The
wound is believed to be fatal. Oscar
Webb went to Garrett Bluff and tele
phoned to Sheriff Carpenter to come
after him. He claimed self-defense
Webb was brought to Paris.
Frank Crawford. while at work
around the linters at the Italy oil mill
got his arm caught in the saws Of one
Of the llnters and was severely cut in
several places from his hand to the
elbow. No bones were injured
Another line of steamers is to ply
between Mexico ports and Europe, ar
engagements being under way for the
establishment Of an Austro-American
gteamship line Special service yes
sells will ply directly between Mexico
and Europe.
Prof. J, 2. Blair superintendent Of
the Denison public schools, has been
elected to the position Of head master
department OF English, in the state
normal school at San Marcos, and mas
anceniad the noslIinn