Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-05-25
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Galveston Tuesday, , Assn
Paris is undergoing tine ordeal OF
a street fair this week.
Car load shipments Of potatoes from
Mineola are beginning to go out.
]. W. Clements, of Sherman. was
critically stricken with paralysis Sun.
day.
Valley Mills has voted special
school tax for an independent school
district,
Capt. Peary. of Arctic fame. is ar
ranging for four years trip into the
heart of the frozen zone.
About 200 members of the Oklahoma
Press Association left Saturday for
ST. Louis to visit the Worlds Fair.
Clarksville has voted to issue bonds
for $4,000 for the purpose OF con
structlng a system of water works
Burglars have been so active in Chi
cago during the past year that bur
glary insurance rates are to be raised
A drainage tunnel, 5000 feet long
and costing $4,000 has just been com
pleted to clear Cripple Creek mines to
depth of $50 feet.
Part of the new Russian loan issued
in Paris has been taken by the New
York banks, the National City being
among those participating,
One hundred women members Of
Texas Women's Press Association left
Texas Tuesday for st. Louis, where
they will spend ten days seeing the
fair
Extensions Of the Arkansas Pass Rail
way are umored from Lockhart to
Austin and from the terminus at Kerr
Vile to some point in New Mexico,
passing through San Angelo.
The Democratic convention of the
District of Columbia resulted in q
split. The eighteen Hearst delegates
bolted and threatened to send sep
arate delegation to the National Con.
vention
Governor Lanham has appointed
Judge John J. Wood Of Palestine to
the vacancy on the bench in the Third
judicial district court, to succeed Judge
John Y. Gooch deceased.
Secretary Hay is in st. Louis, where
he is to represent the president and
deliver an address OF welcome to the
international Press Congress, on the
18th instant.
For the year 1904 Dallas County paid
occupation taxes to the amount OF
s74,675. the largest amount of occu.
patton taxes ever paid by any county
in Texas for one year. For the same
time Harris County paid s59,S71 and
Tarrant s4O,914
The German residents near Nc.
Gregor, are getting ready for great
May feast on May 10 at Quebes Grove,
three miles east of McGregor. There
viii be all kinds OF races, games. pub
tic speaking, dancing, prize shooting
etc.
Three negro tramps attempted to
wreck an express train twelve miles
from Wilburton, l. T., by the use OF
nitro. glycerine. A hand car set the
explosive OF. and three men on the
car we're seriously injured. The ne
groes are in the hands of the United
States authorities.
The Overland Cotton Mills, located
at Denver, which are said to have cost
$750,OO0, win be disposed of under a
forced sale on the 2Sd inst 1t is
stated that Texas parties are figuring
on purchasing the property and re
moving the machinery to the State
and erecting a mill
During swimming contests in con
nection with the opening of a public
bathing pavilion in Jersey City, G. M
Daniels of the New York Athletic clut
has established new worlds record
LILO for ITO yards. The course in
Guided four turns.
John A. Revier died at Hlllsboro
Thursday night He was eighty-one
years old. He was veteran OF the
Mexican and civil wars. He was born
in Richmond, Va, and moved thence
70 Texas.