Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-05-30

charging engagement in combination
in restraint Of trade as defined by the
Sherman law.
Col. William F. Swltzler, historian Of
Missouri and nestor of the editorial fra
ternity in America, died at his home
in Columbia Mo, May "a, at $3.50 a. m.
aged 81 years. He began his newspa-
per career in 1841, when he became ed
itor of the Columbia Patriot.
Edward Payson Weston the veteran
pedestrian, now CO years of age, walked
from the city hall in Philadelphia to the
city hall in New York, distance of 96
miles, in % hours end 20 minutes,
breaking his own record made 25 years
ago.
Prof George A. wentworth, widely
known as an authorgof school text
books on mathematics, died suddenly,
of heart disease, at the Boston G. Maine
railroad station in Dover, NJ H., aged II
years.
Mrs Ellen p. Tootie, vile of j, j.
Tcotle, a Millionaire banker of s.. Jo-
seph, Mo-, was promptly granted a d.
vo-oe in the c,rcu court tie e, wi hin
a few hours of filing the petition, on
the ground of desertion and indignities
She was awarded Cloverly farm, the
'amily country mansion, and 100000
alimoiy in grsss.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
and the Presbyterian church in the,
United States have besn formally re-
united by action taken at general as
femblles CT the two bodies at Des
Mc'nes, Ia, and Decatur, Ill. There
Will be small separate body estab-
ished by the d'ssentients in the Cum
perland branch who fought union.
The New York Word says that the
nutualization plan for the Equitable
life Assurance society worked out by
xPresident- c evelaud, Paul Morton
nd others will be contested in the
courts by the minority stockholders Of
the company.
Chief of Police Briggs and former
Prose cutting Attorney Henry C. Muir
Thy, of South Omaha, Neb., have been
indicted and arrested on charges OF
matchmaking resort keepers in South
Omaha,
Some interesting testimony was ad
duced at the Interstate commerce com
MISSIONS inquiry at Cleveland, O., in
20 the me hods pursued by the Standard
Oil Co., to crush out rivals in the oil
business
Much testimony of unusual interest
was adduced in the trial, in the fedora
court, at Kansas City, Mo-, Of George
H, Crosby. George T. Thomas and L. B
Taggart on charges of conspiracy in re
ha ing railroad freight rates.
There is said to be a growing senti-
nent in the senate in favor of making
the proposed Panama canal appropria
tion applicable only to the construction
of a sea level canal. President Roose
welt is said to be much concerned.
Barney Oldfeld broke the worlds au
tomobile record for so miles, held by
himself, at Lexington, KY, covering the
distance in 1892, the former record
being 1:16:20.
George Lucas, for over 20 years
trusted clerk in the judiciary depart
ment and clerk of the supreme court OF
Hawai- territory, has been indicted fer
the alleged ENLIGHTENMENT of $500 OF
court fund.-.
Gov. Higgins of New York has signed
four amendments to the state banking
law, one of which will restore st. Paul,
Minneapolis, st. Louis, Milwaukee and
Pittsburg to the list of cities whose
bonds are considered safe for savings
bank investments.
Henrik Ibsen. the famous Norwegian
loet and 6ramtist, died at his home in
Christiana rather suddenly. although he
lad been failing for year past. II
was said that his funeral would be o
state function.
The grand jury at Springfield, Mo,
in the ease OF the recent lynching of
three negroes, found that no assault
had been committed upon Mrs. Nina
Edwards. as alleged, and that it was inn
| possible for the two negroes, Duncan
and Coker. to have been at the scene OF
the alleged assault at the time it was
said to have been committed.
Gov Deneen- of Illinois declares the
new primary law to be the best compro-
miss that could be obtained consider
ing that there were five factions, each
wanting different kind of bill, and
that 1t is a much better law that the
one declared unconstitutional.
j Social amenities between the ambas
ssdcrs of Russia and Japan have been
resumed in Washington. Baron Roser
taking the initiative by giving a dinner
to Viscount Aoki, the new japanese
Ambassador.
One Of the grounds on which Senator
Burton, of Kansas. will appeal for re-
hearing before the Unied States SUI
preme court is that Chief Justice Fuller