Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-11-16
ALL OVER TEXAS.

A special dispatch from MulKden
says the Japanese AFRO using dogs to
locate the positions Of the Russian
sentinels and outposts.
W. L. Earles, the day gInner at the
Lillard gin Decatur, got caught in d
pulley while putting on belt and
crushed up as far as the elbows.
Mary Hall. the S-year-old daughter
Of Robert Hall, a farmer on Emberson
Prairie, Lamar County, picked 1871
pounds of cotton few days ago.
A company with capital of $4,000
has organized to erect 2OO-barrel
flour mill at Prosper, Work will com
mence at once and pushed to compile
ton.
The gin plant of A. Q Wight of Rox-
ton burned Monday. 1t was an eight
stand gin, with both round and square
bale presses. Loss 10000; insurance
$4,000.
Wednesday night the store Of Stokes
q Ebbersol at Stanton was burglarized.
The thieves secured lot of jewelry
and clothing to the value of about
$500.
John Hancock, young farmer living
five miles west of Greenville, shot and
killed himself Sunday night. Family
and financial troubles are said to have
been the cause.
Rev George @. Rankin of Dallas has
advised Democrat nominees for the
Legislature that he would be candi-
date for chaplain Of the Texas House
of Representatives.
The two-year-old son Of Rev j. r.
Goode of North Fort Worth swallowed
an iron staple. The little fellow suf-
fered great pain, but was relieved by
a physician and is getting along well.
John Nesbitt was run into by an
eastbound Santa Fe passenger train at
Ogles Switch Friday morning and
knocked into the ditch He died that
evening.
James Motley, a farmer in the south
east par of Lsnar-eg ountyy-ne Mix
Ter charged with the murder OF Allen
McLendon, was convicted in the Sixth
District Court and given life sen.
tence,
Claude Edwards died at Greenyille
Thursday, from an operation for ap,
pendlcitis, He was manager Of the
Delaney lumber yard at Greenville,
was thirty-elght years old and unmar
ried.
A mans only chance to get ahead
in this world is to be born with one.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Southwestern Tri-State Medical Assoc
citation began in Dallas Friday. The
sessions, extending over two days,
were held. in the auditorium of the
Commercial Club
A special election has been ordered
in Sulphur Springs to determine
whether an extra tax of Csc on the
$500 shall be levied, the proceeds to be
used in the construction OF high
School and two ward school buildings.
Gov Lanham has appointed DR.. j.
H. Florence of Dallas quarantine in
spector at Brownsville to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of DR.. Arthur
Wolff The appointment of DIR. Flor
ence, who was inspector at Arkansas
Pass, caused vacancy there which
was filed by the appointment of DR.
]. j. Shaver
The receipts of the Terrell postof-
fee for the month of October amount
to s1,4S4.O5, as compared to s1,S6.9s
for the same month last year, show
ing a gain of s247.67 this year over
last.
While G. w, Tarnworth and son,
Robert, were gathering milo maize
near Loekney, the team started to run
away, and in some manner the knife
with which young Farnworth was
heading maize was stuck in his breast
the point entering his heart,
Delegates from all over North Lou
isiana, to the number Of several hun
bred, gathered at Shreveport Thursday
for the first days session of the boil