Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-07-13
ALL OVER TEXAS.

Gay last week OF ElDeita peach
shipments.
Water meters are being installed
In Sherman so that consumers may
pay for the water they get,
company has been incorporated at
Liano, capitalized at 100000, for the
purpose Of manufacturing boil wee
vii machine that collects and elemateS
insects on cotton plants.
The Texas Worlds Fair Commission
has entered suit in the federal court
against the Kirby Lumber Company
to collect $4,000 subscription to the
Fair fund. - *
Greenyllle has just passed an ordi-
nance providing for the issue Of s16.-
900 in 4 per cent bonds, the money to
be used for building an additional
school house.
For the first time in I'VE years Tex
as will be an exporter of corn. So
far as can be learned the prospects
for this cereal is the brightest known
In many years.
Contracts amounting to $457,905
have been awarded for the enlarge
ment and Improvement of Fort Sam
Houston and the preliminary work has
already begun.
~ no
ceipts at the Dallas postofIice amount
ed to s2G,2O1,72 against a total for the
same month last year of $22, 44O.05, a
gain of sS,7G1.G7. or nearly II per cent.
A young. farmer named Dick Ogle,
while running some horses to pen
them near Lone Oak, was so severely
injured by his horse running into
bois dare tree. that he died next
morning.
John Jones, the negro assailant Of
Mrs Banister, at Cartersvllle, was
lynched near the scene Of his crime
about nightfal. The negro's body
was rlddled with bullets, more than
400 shots being fired.
The building OF the Hotel Majestic,
a heightened family hosiery, com
renced in Dallas several months ago,
win be rushed to complexion now that
unexpected financial diRculties that
stopped work on it, have been arrang-
ed for.
The contract for the first twenty
miles of railroad from Cotulla to Car
rizo Springs, to be called the Rio
Rio Grande and Nueces Valley Rail
road, has been let and the work Of
construction win begin at Cotulln In
thirty days.
Returning home from Karnes CITY.
four Polish farmers were preclpitated
into San Antonio river, distance OF
about 80 feet, by the bridge giving
way. None we're killed though all
were more or less seriously hurt.
The dead body Of man registered
as Pat Ross OF San Francisco was
found in bedroom OF the Laclede
Hotel at San Antonio. A bullet wound
was in the right temple and beside
him on the bead lay revolver
Near Astern, twelve miles north of
Flatonla, Joe Kubala. a prosperous
bohemian farmer about % years Of
age, while watering his horse at a
tank, was shot twice with shotgun
and killed Mat charba, neighbor
OF the Kubala farmily. married man.
about As years old, surrendered to the
oficers.
The city OF San Angelo has pur-
chased fine new FIRE wagon, the first
the town has ever had. The wagon
has arrived and is a beauty. The city
IS endeayoring to purchase fine team
OF fire horses.
A two weeks suspension OF work
will be granted the miners and oper-
ators Of the Joplin district, beginning
July .. A notice to that effect has
been sent to mine operators and pro
ducers by the Missouri and Kansas
zinc Miners Association.
Judge W. A. Ives, 81 years old, died
at his home in Beaumont Thursday
afternoon, after a lingering illness
Judge Ives was for more than twenty
years connected with the municipal