Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-06-15
ALL OVER TEXAS.

The past week witnessed closing of
the majority of the public schools and
colleges in the State.
Hailstones as large and much like
saucers in shape fell at Manitou, Ok,
during a recent rain storm.
The truck growers association Of
Camp County has shipped last week
twenty-five carloads of potatoes.
Dallas police are arranging to enter
lain the Police Association of Texas
in July in annual session in that city.
Sunday the Gulf Colorado and San
to Fe established new line of sleep
ing cars between Dallas, Saratoga and
Beaumont.
At West Commerce Street, San An.
tonic the remains Of child were
found under house and an inyestigS
ton is on.
The date for holding the old settlers
and ex-Confederate picnic and reun.
ion in Collin County has been changed
from July to August IS and II.
The jury in the Jenkins murder case
on trial at Longyiew stood seven for
acquittal and five for conviction, and
were unable to reach verdict.
The Fort Worth Telephone Company
are putting up poles between TT Worth
and North TT. Worth The company
expects to begin stringing the wires
the early part of this week.
Orders have been received from the
Kirby Lumber Company's office at
Houston to shut down the mill at Mo.
bile. The order throws about $50 men
out of employment.
The machines for killing boil wee.
wills exhibited at Floresvllle, are all
gone and the weevils are stu there
except where they we're poisoned with
Paris green. People are discouraged.
The engineering corps for the pro.
posed electric railway from McISin-
aey to Bonham. via Blue Ridge, be.
gan surveying Friday. it WIN take
about ten days to complete the sur.
sey.
The last car of Laredo onions has
been shipped and the total amounts
to 1Oe cars, averaging $4,000 pounds
to the car, making total of 100000
pounds, including the onions shipped
by express
Joseph Deleo, flfteen-year-old New
York boy, aboard street car, ieaped
oat to catch a lady passengers hat,
which had blown away, and was struck
by an approaching car and was In
stantly killed.
President Green has just returned
from an inspection OF the Cotton Belt
lines and expressed himself as being
gratified at the result Of his trip, hav.
ing found the line to be in better con.
dition than it has ever been.
F. |. Williams OF Paris has started
a hog ranch Of eighty acres five miles
east of town He feeds his hogs on
cornmeal and peanut hay. The pea
nut vines are pulled up with peanuts
on them.
According to an estimate compiled
in the general office Of the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass Railway. the
watermelon crop in Sap territory wiz
net one thousand cars. Three-fourths
Of these win go to Northern markets
John Dalton, carpenter, employed
on the new Fort Worth National Bank
building, fell from scatfold fifteen
feet Friday morning and was fatally
injured. He was taken to his home
in an unconscious condition.
Joe McComb at Van Alstyne at Q
o'clock Friday morning was found
dead. His wife was awakened by
pistol shot and the husband was found
dead on the front walk, 1t is sup
posed that he shot himself accidental
ly.
The total enrolment Of Baylor Col
lege, Waco, for the year was 1853, rep.
resenti9g twenty-four states and for
eign countries In the graduating
class this year eighteen men and six
teen women.
A freight car Of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad was consumed
by fire at Palmer, together with