Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPIToME oFyTHE 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.

Locomotive engineers in the west
are said to have organized a move,
ment for a universal advance of tho
wage scale.
Secretary Taft counsels Cubans to
avoid Intervention, and expresses tho
belief that when they are brought
face to face with the danger of losing
their independence forever all. patri.
otto Cubans will be willing to make
concessions.
George W. Ryder of Youngstown,
O., who is charged with blowing up
cemetery where the father and
mother of William j. Bryan are buried,
has been sued by woman whose rel.
atives were Inferred there. The Gem.
etery is at Bears Den, and Ryder
bought 1t recently to add to his farm.
The Ross and other families have
been buried there since 1872. Head.
stones were used by the owner for
walks. Bryan In 1896 attempted to
locate his parents graves there, but
failed to find them.
Further rulings in connection with
the enforcement OF the meat inspec.
ton law after October l next have
been made public. Frankfurter sau.
sage can no longer be known as such,
but must be called "Frankfurter style
sausage"
According to figures compiled in the
state auditors office 70 out OF the rs
counties in Arkansas have 1888
white poll taxpayers, to 49,966 negro
taxpayers.
John 7. Morse, who was Haryard's
oldest living graduate and sole sur.
viyor Of the class Of 1882, died at his
home on Beacon Street, aged 90. He
was born in Boston, and came of
long line of Harvard graduates. He
fitted for college at the Old Round Hill
school at Northampton when 1t was
under the direction of George Ban.
croft, the historian.
Final preparations have been made
for filing objections to the probation
of the will of the late Russell Sage.
Several OF the fnancier's relatives
have expressed their intention of try
ing to- get a bigger 1ss &c cor estate
the ptoy1s1vfz lse Will, A,i-.4.t.,-
now however, as il the brunt of the
contest will be borne by Edison Con,
rad, the eight-year-old granddaughter
of Mr.. Sage, in whose name papers
will be filed
-Four proposals have been submitted
to the isthmian canal commission for
the furnishing of Chinese labor to be
employed In the construction of the
Panama canal, but the award, If any,
will be announced later. One firm
agrees to furnish $4,000 Chinese la
borers at 9 cents per hour.
A crowded express train on the
Great Northern railway in England
jumped the track near Granthan, the
engine and several coaches going OIL
the bridge to a roadway. The debris
! caught fire, but neighboring fire
company extinguished the flames. Al
least ten people were killed and many
1 others were injured.
General Nikolaieif, of the Russian
army. was assassinated at Poland. He
was enormously thought to be mem
/ Der of the field court-martial.
/ The president has issued a procla
nation opening the Kiowa and Co
manche and Apache Indian lands IL
oklahoma. The interior department
will announce the date for the recer
ton of bids for the 505,O0O acres o
land to be disposed Of to homestead
ers.
Secretary of War Taft and Assii
tant Secretary OF State Bacon, o
their arrival in Cuba, began to hea
the stories Of both sides of the Cuba
difficulty. 1t is believed that tn
limited States administration will d
wise means of settlement whic
Will mean virtual occupation OF ID
island.
John Frick aged IS years, ca
penter. went into Mayor Boehne's o
fee at Evansville. Ind, and, 1t ID d
clared. made threats. The mayo
fearing the man would assassina
! him. called for help, and Frick WI
! locked up. Both Prick and h
wife were declared to be insane by
commission later. 1t is said Fri'
! had made several threats again
Mayor Boehne. because he imagtn
he is a relative Of Henry @. Frick.
All counties In Arkansas have
Z uorted the vote on the education
\ amendment, showing that It receiv
4 Ds,2s7 votes. with 47,S76 vot
4 against.
\ Mexican Independence day pass
A OF without bloodahed, contrary to pl
y dlctlons. The Mexicans and Anne
y cans marched arm In arm at Canan'
\ where the race riot occurred recent
4 The saloons were closed throusho
4 tho republic. by orders OF Preside