Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-07-27
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

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ed.
The canning factory OF DeLeon
made its initial run Of the season Fri
day. A large crowd was present
and showed themselves much inter
ested.
Four prostrations from heat are re-
ported from Denison.
Some cotton planters in Hill County
complain that jack rabbits are destroy
ing cotton plants.
The Guatemalan ants, when put to
the test upon arrival, Immediately de-
atroyed all boil weevil within reach
and various other insects including the
little red ants.
A mining company, recently organ
feed at Amarillo, has discovered cop
per near here in paying quantities.
with small per cent OF gold and sill
yer IN the ore.
Speaker Cannon is preparing
ave minutes speech of notification to
be made at Oyster Bay bearing the
ofdcial news of his nomination to Mr..
Roosevelt.
Fire of an incendiary origin com
pletely destroyed the gin Of Antoine
Bchaafer, near st. Elmo Travis coun-
ty, Wednesday morning. Loss $4,000,
with no insurance.
Santos Dumont, whose balloon was
fuined by some one cutting the gas
bag to pieces, is now at Havre, France,
and says he won't come back to Am
erica.
The Morning Posts Shanghai cor
respondent, cabling July Is, says that
the Chicago Daily News dispatch boat
Eawan has been seized by the Rus
STAINS and towed into Port Arthur.
Edgar T. washburn OF the firm Of
Heathfield & washburn of the Board
OF Trade, Buffalo. n. r., shot and kill
Cd his wife and daughter Friday at his
residence and then committed suicide,
The Baltimore and Ohio grain Gle
Sator, Eighty-seventh street and On
tario avenue South Chicago, was burn
cd early Friday. A quantity Of grain
was In the building and the loss is
put at 100000.
John R, Rosslter, who since he came
10 this country in 1867, as an Irish
political refugee, had been prominent
a irish and Catholic societies, is dead
al his home in Newark, N, ].
Francis willis, II years old, a farm.
er's son, was shot and killed after re-
turning from fishing trip near Guth-
rie. John Smith, aged II years, has
been arrested and jailed at Cordell.
The twelve-year-old son of John
Grimes OF Leon, l. T.. was kicked by
mule Thursday afternoon and in
xtantly killed The boy was trying
70 catch the mule.
1t was dying request of the I'M
fortunate Kruger, President Of the
South African Republic, that his body
be laid in the land Of his love. At a
privy council meeting England formal
ly granted the request.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has
received a telegram from the Argen-
tine Minister in Rio Janerlo, confirm
ing reports that the boundary dis
pute between Brazil and Peru has
been definitely settled.
Commercial reports concur in plac
Ing the outlook for fall trade AL The
only speck of disturbance on the
horizon is the butchers strike, but
both this disturbance and Its effects
are expected to soon disappear.
The Texas Bar Association conven
ed for two days session Wednesda,
morning with about hundred attor
neys throughout the State in attend
onee. Many more arrived later. ant
a banquet Thursday night closed thu
meeting.
The most important announcement
In the forthcoming list Of decorations
following the French national holida.
win be that Of President Loubet, con
Serring the grand cross Of the Legion
OF Honor upon Secretary Hay.
On account Of the strike Of the EN-
ployes of the northern packers tn