Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-08-03
ALL OVER TEXAS.

hand caught in a saw while working
and the three last fingers of the left
hand were cut off.
M. L. Cope, well-known resident of
Denton, celebrated his 10th birthday
by display ing his ability to chop two
cords Of wood a day
Katydids are making their appear
ance and weather prop bets are hgur.
ing that frost will fall within ninety
days from date of their appearance.
Tom l. Baldwin, an aeronaut known
in Texas, is building an air ship at
San Juan, Cal. which is soon to be
tested at San Francisco.
A servant and the wife of Bias De
La Tore, Of Brownsville. who was
found murdered in his bed, have been
arrested charged with the crime.
Mrs. Wilmuth, wife of a farmer liv-
ing some twenty miles southeast of
Paris, was found in the yard in dy-
ing condition. Her neck was found
broken, presumably by fall.
The reunion OF the Confederate Vet
eran Association of Erath and Co
manche Counties will take place at
Dublin on August 3, and S, together
with midsummer carnival.
The sum of SOS has been subscribed
by Bonham business men as pre-
MUM for the first bale of cotton sold
there this year. Also 15c a pound is
guaranteed for the FIRST bale,
The twenty-seventh annual reunion
Of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry Assoc
citation will be held in Texarkana,
Tex. on the first Thursday and Fri
day in August, the 4th and 9Th.
Secretary of State j. R. Curl, says
that quite good many county officers
are sending him the result Of the pri-
mary elections held on July 0. The
law makes no such requirement.
o. p. Bradshaw, manager of the
Mistrot store at Waxahachie, died at
that place Monday Of typhoid ever
Truck growers around Mt Calm
have organized a truck growers asso.
citation.
A horse that he was riding slipped
and fell, then ran away with Henry
Randell, negro boy at Dallas, dang
ling by the stirrup. His skull was
crushed and he died without regainins
consciousness.
About thirty thousand butcher work.
men who laid down their tools ON the
18th inst. returned to work Friday
The new $4,000 jail for Miller
County, Arkansas, at Texarkana has
been finished and accepted.
The Wichita Falls irrigation com
pany claims to have empounded suf-
ficient water to irrlgate $4,000 acres
of land. The company now has 1000
acres under cultivation and will add
1000 acres more next season. 'a
A meeting was held by the State
Executive Committee Of the Epworth
League. The original plan Of having
an encampment at LaPorte was aban-
doned for this year and Houston was
selected as the next meeting place.
It has been decided to have the
TESTERS Jubilee or fall carnival at Aus.
tin, on November 10 and from pres.
emit indications 1t will eclipse all pre-
vious efforts in that direction, and the
event will be well advertised.
]. g. Price, citizen of Caldwell
County, had accidentally shot and kill.
ed himself near Comanche, Texas. Mr..
Price was on fishing and camping
trip and had with him his wife and
three children.
The The board Of summer normal
examiners began its labors Thursday
at the State house. It will pass upon
the papers Of several hundred appli.
cants for positions to teach IN the
public schools, It will take It two
months 10 complete the work
Fire broke ont in the Texas Refine !
~ and soap Factory at Greenville. The
engines. soap kettles and lard com.
pound machinery were destroyed, in
volying loss Of some $4,000. The
company will rebuild
The claims for expense incurred
il the spanish-American war by Tex,
as, heretofore disallowed on account
of hainp for services after the mus