Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1903-03-11
All OVER TEXAS.
Heavy rains all over Texas.

Oats generally look wen but the
acreage is very small.
Much cotton is still in the fields
manywheres. and pickers are scarce.
f. NJ. Douglas & Co., Van Alstyne.
shipped two cars of hogs to Sherman
Friday.
Railway and general construction
work is nearly at standstlll all over
the Southwest.
Eggs are still scarce and high, and
poultry is higher than at this season
IN many years.
The Marshall Car Wheel and Foun.
dry company has shut down because OF
the lack of fuel.
Felix fitzpatrick at Sheffield, Tom
Green county, dropped his pistol and
was dangerously shot by its discharge.
0. B. Dorman has been appointed
manager OF the Southwestern Tele-
phone and Telegraph company at Mar
shall.
Major ]. H. Carlin died suddenly at
Commerce last week. He was a Mex
lean war veteran and a major in the
Confederate army.
Wichita Falls has issued $4,000
worth Of per cent refunding bonds to
take the place of per cent bonds now
outstanding.
Kirksey Bros. are building an an
mex to the X hotel at Hhlsboro. 1t
will be two-story structure, equip.
ped with modern furnishings.
Rudolph schmiedberg, cotton
screwman. aged 6s years, killed him.
self Wednesday night at Galveston,
by cutting his throat with a razor
Former Secretary OF State William
R. Day, Of Ohio, has been selected as
.y,tt . 's,issssss, ~ tlso
supreme court of the United States.
The sailors In the squadron at Gal.
weston are in bad humor over getting
no shore liberty. and in fight one Of
them is SO badly hurt that he may die.
Sam Locklin is found guilty at Fred.
ericksburg OF the murder of R. F.
Rountree in Llano county in 1893. The
Jury fixed the penalty at hfe imprison-
ment
Russ Townsend was killed in Jan,
uary, 1901 Walter Lolly, charged
with the killing. was discharged by
the Jury at Tyler as not guilty Of the
charge.
Richard S. Harrison, for many years
prominent citizen of Austin, and who
was state revenue agent during Gov.
ernor Hogg's administration, died last
week in his 6Oth year
Eli Cowling, well-known in Denison,
a fireman on the Fort W nahtrodRR
fireman on the Fort Worthand Den.
yerwas killed by his engine at Trint
dad. Colo.
The Fannin county odd Fellows as
ISOLATION held It's meeting at Ladonia
last week There We're twenty-seven
delegates present representing seven
lodges.
o. 7. Butler, aged 25. was struck by
freight train in the Texas and Paci-
fic yards at Dallas Friday night and
badly bruised up. but no bones were
broken.
A forest Of petrifed trees which
bowed to earth many years ago has
been discovered in Comanche county
by H. Fleischhauer, land and ImmIgra-
lion agent Of the Texas Central rail.
road,
August Shafer, of Dallas, owns 81
bic that is Of much interest to all who
have seen it. It has been in the Schas
er family over 100 years and was
brought to Texas by Mr.. Schafer's ia,
sher In 1s4S The book was printed
IN German at Basel, Germany, in 1772.
Opposition is developing to bill pro,
viding for working OF shortterm con.
victs on county roads, on the ground
fhat the billin its present shape, would
make hole in the revenues OF the
penitentiary system
Or. Q. R. Hargrove Of Marshall has
been appointed inspector In the quar-
antine department by the Louisiana