Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-04-20
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.


tivltles throughout Denmark.
1t is announced that VIM. r. Hearst
viii soon start three new papers, one
at indianapolis, one at st. Louis and
Inc at Kansas city.
Wednesday was the forty.second an.
adversary of the battle of Shiloh on
the Tennessee River, was celebrated
there, and was vividly recalled by
many old soldiers in Texas.
Ten cars of different types of Pull
man manufacture, costing about $780,.
900, built especially for the Worlds
Fair exhibit, have been sent to St.
Louis.
Bryce W. Custer, former sheriff of
Franklin County, and half brother of
Gen. George A. Custer, died suddenly
at his home in Columbus, o., last We'd
nesday, aged 70.
C. A. Moreno says the transit com
any alone will be able to care for all
of Worlds Fair traffic and that rail
roads and steam lines can accommodate
$4,000 people an hour
Mrs Cordella Bot1in was found
guilty of the murder of Mrs. John P.
Cunning by poisoned candy sent by
mail from San Francisco. The penal
ty is Imprisonment for life.
The mail stage running between
Holt and Big Fork, Mont, was held up
by a lone bandit. The stage driver was
alone and was compelled to give up
the mail sack and other valuables.
Discovery has been made, according
TO a dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
that a plot is under way for a revolu-
ton In Hayti to overthrow Gen. Nord
Alexis, the president OF that republic
Miss Cora III strayer of chic1go is
organizing in St Louis female dec
tive agency, the officers Of which will
he women exclusively. She believes
that women are keeiler in instinct and
intuition than man
Friday the House passed large
number of bills, including the Philip.
pine shipping bill and the bill appro
priating s475,ooS in aid Of the Lewis
and Clark Centennial Exposition, to be
held in Portland Ore, in 1905
John Troy, a stonecutter, at shreve
port, killed himself by cutting his
throat in his room. The remains were
viewed by the Coroner, and a verdict
rendered in accordance with the above
facts.
In the Commoner, w. ]. Bryan
makes an onslaught on Judge Parker.
charging that he is the candidate of
Hill and the corporations. This Is CO.
incident with the return of James Ma
nahan from a conference with w. R.
Hearst and is taken to mean that
Bryan will endeavor to swing Ne
braska into the Hearst column.
The mingling of sexes at public
bathing places has been declared by
leading members OF the w. G. 7. U.
of New Jersey to be vile, revolving
and corrupt" These terms were APP
piled during a discussion of the sub
1ect in the State convention at New,
ark.
The Japanese fleet Is divided into
seven sQuadrons. -Four are watch.
ing Port Arthur, the fifth patrols the
Korean costs. while the sixth and sew
enth cruises between vladlvoatok and
north Japan.
Walter Lee Brown, Chicago, a well
known chemist, bibllophile and author
Of number OF text books on assaying
is dead at his home in Evanston, III.
He was fifty years old and had been
an invalid for three years.
Territory tributary to st. Louis is
feeling the impetus of Exposition
business which has averaged large
lately and promises to expand as the
day Tor the opening the Fair approach
es. Jobbers in most sections are doing
better than year ago.
A team Of athletes will be brought
from Ireland to compete in the Olym-
pic games at the ST. Louis exposition.
They viii make the trip under the
auspices Of the Greater New York Irish
Athletic team.
There is growing sentiment among
southernera in favor of making an at