Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-03-23
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

An immigration steerage rate Is cg
between Scandinavian ports and NoV'
York of S1S.
A new mill Is being organized al
Denton among local capitalists, The
capital stock will be $4,000.
Representative George W. Croft Of
Aiken, S. c., died at his home theH
Thursday of blood poisoning.
The Northeast Texas Christian con.
vention will hold a three days session
Mineola beginning Saturday, March
Goth.
Radium has gone up s4,2OO,O0O OF
the pound during the last fortnight
and is now held at $12.6OO,OoO pei
pound
In difhculty Louis Green was shot
and killed at Bastrop. The parties fell
out over a small piece of land. Both
are negroes.
The Shreveport Brewery, the second
plant of the kind to be located there
within year. having capacity of
$4,000 barrels year, formally opened
Thursday.
A company has been formed at
Hugo for the purpose of building ard
operating an ice plant of twenty-ton
capacity at Hugo. Machinery has
heen ordered
William Alexander, a well digger,
while being rescued from well full
of damp" near Austin fell back and
crushed his skull, from which he died
few hours later u
President Roosevelt has fixed the sal
aries of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sioners at $4,000 per year, and in
addition thereto SIS day while they
are on the isthmns.
w T Mahan of Corning, Ark, died
in the International and Great North.
ern station at Tyler while waiting foI
"a belated train. Deceased was thirty.
FIVE years of age and was en- route
TO his former home after having
sought restoration of health in San
Antonio.
j. c. Walls of Norman. an exsmemsi
Der of the Oklahoma Legislature, was
bound over to the Grand Jury in the
sum of $1,000 bond on the charge that
he represented one farm and traded
another in Cleveland County to Mrs.
Emma Harrington for $4,000 worth of
jewelry.
E. w. Wallace, living four miles
north of Venus, lost his barn by fire, to.
gether with two mules, three good
mares two new buggies, one surrey,
one binder one mower, one grain seed
er, two Cassidy plows, 200 bushels OF
corn, some oats, three tons of hay and
saddles and harness to the amount OF
$125. Origin Of fire unknown. Total
loss 1000 with no insurance.
A Burnet correspondent says: The
result of the local option election III
this county furnishes proof of, the
wisdom of the Terrell election law. Il
was tina quietest, most decent election
ever held in the county. The people
here are full of praise for the new
law. The prohibitions majority is about
$50.
At Shreveport plans have been COM
pleted for furniture factory, capt.
talized at $4,000, the incorporates
being H. L. Perkins of New Orleans.
]. A. Stephenson of Shreveport and
Rrayton Armstrong of Lake Charles.
Work ON the factory, which will en-
ploy eighty people, will start as soon
as a site is secured.
The prohibition election held in the
boxes of Hallsville, Lagrones, Gun
Springs and Nesbits resulted in q
pro majority OF 40. The election vii:
be contested on account of alleged ine
tlmidation
In Kemper County, Miss, the
charge is made shep Griffin, a negro.
was held in peonage. 1t is claimed
that the persons who have been hold
ing the negro have made threat
against him and the officers who tool
him from them.
Doc Christian, negro convicted fol
forgery, now an inmate of the Harri.
son County jail, has developed case
OF smallpox Every effort is being
made to prevent Its spread to the
other prisoners.
Blast furnace &C" at the Minnequa
qtaai ,vort-a Pueblo has heen blown