Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-03-30
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

list Church at Roxton.
Dallas capitalists and contractors
are figuring on establishing complete
sewerage system in Greenville.
Paris business men are Weighing a
proposition to raise a 1000 bonus to
secure a .s75O,OOO duck mill for that
city.
A Jim Crow street car ordinance
went into effect at San Antonio Tues
day. Negroes practically boycotted all
cars.
Eleven cars Of seed potatoes have
been planted around Omaha. Texas,
this crop largely supplantlng cotton
on some farms.
Miss Rosa Finster, OF Iowa Park,
aged IS. was thrown from horse, and
suffered conclusion Of the brain, and
her recovery is doubtful
At Cisco Mrs. Vim. Kliner shot John
Walker In the head, with shotgun
Walker killed her husband about u
year ago. Walker is still living
Frank schorer, a well known gun
loclSsmith of Galveston, was accident
ally killed in the yard at his home by
bullet from parlor rifle, the trigger
of which was sprung by pet dog.
Ground has been broken at Hlco for
the erection of the new City Hall that
was voted upon lately 1t is to be an
artistic structure, to cost $500. and
will be completed at an early date.
Last Sunday some boys were throw
ing stones at some quail, near
Graham. when Ottie Smith accidental.
~ struck and killed Luther Moore.
A university graduate has been ar
rested in Chicago for robbing street
letter boxes He secured as much as
$50 a day, on an average by his. plan.
A disastrous prairie fire has just
been checked after a two days burn
north OF Haskell sixty miles About 200
sections burned, which will prove quite
loss at this time Of year
While pointing a smole-atack on the
engine room Of the Slayden-K irksey
Wooden Mills, negro answering to
the name of Dan" fell to the ground
ma was almost instantly killed.
County Judge B. H. White. Of Dom
ley County, is dead. He was the first
elected judge Of Donley County and
served continuously from 1882 until
the day Of his death. and had no doubt
Cerved longer continuously than any
other County Judge in all the great
State of Texas,
Mrs. Hetty Green, Americas richest
woman. has Joined he millionaire col
ony by purchasing home on upper
Fifth avenue, She has lived in rent
ed house in Fifth Avenue. near Wash
ington Square. Her new residence is
handsome fve-story mansion of tho
most modern design
Union labor leaders in Chicago have
bought 10000 acres OF land in Missis-
slppi on which they propose establish
ing colony of 6OOO people. The. es-
Establishment of the colony is done I'M
der the belief that II farm labor is
unionized then terms can be dictated
to the balance of mankind.
At a birthday party near Kinston, l.
T., on Saturday night Sid Chafin was
shot in the shoulder near the heart
and may die Nat Vincent was cut in
the neck and back seriously but ne
may recover
A Judgment was rendered in favor
of the waxahachie Cotton Mills,
against the Cincinnati Beaumont Oil
Company OF Beaumont for $4,000 for
Breach OF contract to furnish fuel oil
to plaintiff.
A dispatch from Bartlett says the
south WIND has brought millions Of
boil weevils to this section. They are
blown Into houses through open win
dows and doors, and vessels left out Of
doors uncovered catch them by the
hundreds.
Two negroes from Bolton went to
Killeem to do scavenger work. under
contract with the authorities. At II
o'clock at night they were assaulted
by gang OF armed rufhns and Sc
yereIy beaten andpriven out of town.
Dick Faulkner Of Mckinney aged
eighteen years, was cut and danger
ously wounded By another boy on the