Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-03-29
ALL OVER TEXAS.

The household property Of Mrs Cas-
sic l.. Chadwick was sold at auction
Friday to A. D. Nelson of New York
for $4,000.
Hugh Montgomery, who came to Ok
lahoma at the opening, killed himself
at Edmond by cutting his throat with
q razor.
R. H. Novel;, a citizen of West Par
10. died at the City Hospital from the
effects OF blow inflicted on his lei
by horse three months ago.
Terrell has received 2S,O92 bales of
cotton by wagon during the season
just past. The receipts the past week
have been greatly increased by an ad-
vance in the price.
VIII Dawson, a negro about IS
years old, was strangled to death on
paling fence at Hillsboro He was
subject to fits and was seized with one
and fell on the fence.
In a case brought before the SUI
preme Court of South Carolina on
demurrer. a decision was handed
down declaring that it is libelous to
publish a white man as negro.
An anti-cocaine war has been start.
ed in New York. the purpose of which
Is TO curtail the sale OF the drug by
boycotting druggists who make hab.
it Of retailing coke in any form.
The new joint depot at Mckinney
Is to be a one story combination brick
and wooden structure, 90x23 feet, ex.
elusive OF projecting steps and bay
windows, and is to cost between 1000
and $4,000.
An aged African, known as Uncle
Washy Edwards, is dead at Columbus.
The old man was among the last of
the negroes brought from Africa about
1880. and was estimated to have been
over hundred years old.
The possibility Of Dentson having
league baseball team this season is
gone. The committee appointed to
secure the subscription of $1,000 for
this purpose reported that it was un-
able to raise the amount
The Methodists Of waxahchIe have
accepted plans for $4,000 church
building, and on April bids viii be
opened for the construction Of the
building. It is to be built OF brick
with limestone trimmings.
= Harvie Jordan OF Monticello, Ca,
president Of the Southern Cotton
growers Association, will arrive in
Dallas March %, and will address the
people of the city on the cotton situa.
zion at o'clock in the afternoon.
The threatened general strike Of
cotton mill weavers at Fall River be-
cause of grievances over the number
of looms each operator was required
to run was averted when the manu-
Sacturers agreed to post notices OF
new prices to be offered for weaving.
The installation of DR.. A. e. Turner
as president Of Trinity University and
the formal dedication of the Sims pub
lie library will take place in Waxaha,
chic April &c. Arrangements are be-
ing made to make this Joint celebra-
ton an event of considerable impor-
lance,
Carl Anderson, a saw mill employe
at Longview, In a difficulty, was knock
ed on the head and badly hurt by Ju.
illus Stevens, negro. The next morn
ing a mob broke into the Jail and shot
the negro to death.
Solomon Rugle is dead, at Hillsboro,
at the age OF 80. He fought the III.
dams in the early days OF Texas, serv-
ed under Gen. Houston in the war for
Texas independence and shared the
hardships of the Confederate army
through the Civil War
In fit of dependency. Geo. Holden
OF Georgetown, aged fifty years, com
mitted suicide by taking big dose Of
chloroform. He was dead when found
in his room. He leaves wife and two
daughters.
c. M. oliver, charged by Indictment
with arson and murder, is on trial il
the district court at Hillsboro. Sever
al years ago the Commercial Hote
was burned up and two men were
burned to death in it. Oliver wal
running it at the time.