Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-02-22
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Groenville Friday night from the eff
feet of fall on the ice Monday morn
ing
Edward Bruce, a former deputy Grim
inal district clerk of Galveston and
Harris counties, was appointed crimi-
nal clerk to succeed the late R. A,
Burney
August Black aged about So and
living near Jones Prairie Milan coun.
ty, died suddenly while carrying in a
turn of wood, it is supposed from the
rupture of a blood vessel.
The application Of L S. Darling,
w NJ Cardwell and others to organ
lie the First National Bank of seago-
Vile. with $4,000 sapital, has been
approved by the Controller Of the Cur
rency
The prize court has adjudicated the
Austrian steamer Siam (selzed byfthe
Japanese off Hokkaido on January 81
while bound from Cardiff for vladivos-
tok with ccaD and her cargo to be
legal capture.
Two saloons in Silver City, in Free.
stone County, two miles from Mexia,
closed Thursday night at 10 o'clock
that being the time for local option
to go into effect in that precinct
Powhattan varnell, one Of the first
settlers of Hill County, is dead at his
home four miles east of Hillsboro. He
settled there fifty years ago and ac-
Quired large possessions Of land and
stock.
Fire Thursday morning destroyed
the store and postofflce building Of
Mongan Bros, at Sparta The building
and it's contents we're a complete loss
estimated at $4,000 with only about
$4,000 insurance.
T. G, Phillips, president of the First
National Bank Of Bowie, Tex, bought
the private bank of Sunset. from Sam
Furman. MIR. Phillips Will run the bank
and Mr. Furman will 80 south on &C.
count Of his health.
Commencing March l7thi the Rock
Island trains, Dallas 70 Fort Worth,
viii handle mails, This IA viii
inure TO the great heneiii Of the Pam
handle and the Territories and to Dial.
sas business men,
A man giving his name as Charles
Mallnde, a Russian, speaking no Eng
lish, riding on the rods Of train from
the north, fell at Palestln and was SO
crushed as to lose his left foot and sus-
tain other injuries
A well defined movement is being
agitated atiAustin for the construction
of a trolley or interurban railroad be-
tween Austin and Fredericksburg via
Dripping Springs, a distance Of about
seventy-hye miles
Roland Jarrett, the young man who
accidentally shot himself Saturday
week while out hunting, died last
Thursday morning at the home Of his
father w. A. Jarrett, about ten miles
south of sWaxahachie.
Coleman is preparing for big car
niyal and street fair beginning Feb
20 and lasting one week The carnival
is under the management of the Board
t Of Trade, Low rates have been prom
4 ised on the railroads.
President Roosevelt has been chos-
, en- an honorable member Of the league
Of former German University students,
| an honor accorded to only one other,
the Grand Duke Baden, uncle Of the
} Kaiser and rector in chief Of the Uni
yersity Of Heidelburg
Charles Jean Jacques Maezau, the
distinguished French statesman and
judge, is dead. He served as minister
of justice in 1886 and was appointed
first president of the court Of Casa.
tion in 1890.
Louis A. Bacon, aged rs, died at
Waco Of appendicitis. The deceased
was member Of the association o.
soldiers who served in the United
States Army in the war with Spain
He won distinction in the campaign in
Cuba.
Heavy rains have started all the Ala
bama rivers on a rampage and the
food stage is reported at all points.
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