Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPlToME OF THE MOST I'M.
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digestsd and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Observation-Disclosures
Secretary Root will be in Panama
September 16. He viii leave the cruis-
or Charleston, cross the isthmus, and
make the journey home on the cruiser
New York.
An institution entitled the Amer
ika Bank" is about to be organized in
Berlin. with a capital of $6,250,000, to
handle American securities and CO.
operate in large financial transactions
in the United States, Canada and Mex
leo.
The secretary of the treasury will
make further deposits with national
banks to facilitate the Importation of
gold, and relieve the money strin-
gency in New York. Approved bonds
will be accepted pending the arrival.
of gold from abroad. Actual engage
ments of gold must precede the de-
post, and must be paid back as soon
as the gold arrives. An almost sim
liar order last April brought into the
country over $4O,000,000 in gold
Capt. John Low, who served on the
confederate cruiser Alabama, died in
London.
81 have been fooled. Segal got all
the money. There is no one to blame
but myself" This note is said to have
been found near the body of Frank
Nipple, president of the failed Phila-
delphia Real Estate Trust Co., who
committed suicide.
Vice-President Fairbanks will lay
no Nf
house in Chicago, September 81. Gov.
ernors of states adjoining Illinois have
been invited to attend the ceremo
MES,
Two battleships will be provided
for the presidents trip to the Isthmus
of Panama-one to carry the presl
dent and the other to act as an aux
iliary. A smaller vessel will be pro.
vided to enable the president to visit
points in shallow water.
The republicans of California nomi.
mated Congressman James N. Gillette
for governor defeating the present
incumbent, Gov. Fardees-~I'he Plat.
form is opposed to the admission OF
Japanese and other Asiatcs, and ia.
vors the removal of the tariff on
building material to be used in San
Francisco during the next three years.
Speaker Cannon suffered severe
chill during his campaign In Maine,
and was compelled to go to bed; buj
he pulled himself together and made
speeches.
Both the democratic and republic
an conventions of Arizona passed res.
olutions in opposition to joint state
hood with New Mexico.
A tablet in honor of Gen. William
Clark, soldier explorer and terrific.
rial governor, will be unveiled in st.
Louis September 23. His great-great
granddaughter. Marie Christy Church,
will remove the veil.
The National Irrigation congress, in
session at Boise, Idaho, elected Gov.
Chamberlain of Oregon president. and
adjourned to meet next year at Sacra.
mento, Cal.
The election of Father Meyer, an
American. as head of the Order of
Jesuits, or "Black Pope, is said to
be opposed by the pope.
Speaker Cannon of the national
house of representatives in an ad.
dress before a large audience at city
hall in Lewiston, Me, criticized Sam.
Samuel G. Gompers, president of tho
American Federation of Labor, call
ing him a car.
An official communication ambodv-
ing the whole government program
has been published in st. Petersburg.
The program embraces court mar
tial for political crimes, and an in
crease of the penalties for revolu.
tlonary propaganda, and expresses
firm determination to preserve order
1t also promises liberal measure of
reforms. Useless restrictions on
Jews shall be abolished forthwith.
Peace is in the air in Havana, and
on all sides there is hope that matters
Will be arranged between the govern
ment and the insurgents so far as to
avoid further bloodshed
The pig iron market is still active,
and in some districts prices are high
er.
The decline in live hogs has not
lowered the Chicago provision mar.
ket.
The Garments union of San Fran.
cisco has voted to return TO work on
the trolley roads in that city, and
leave the question of hours and wages
to arbitration.
Mendall Burnett, merchant, com
mitted suicide at ST. Joseph, Mo-, by