Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-10-10


Detroit. Mich, ON THE Bible and
Word of God" declared that the Bible
was not the word of God, and that
the teachings TO the contrary are the
most prolific source Ct unbehef the
church has to contend with.
The Japanese naval department has
decided upon a naval programme for
the improvement of the Japanese navy,
the expansion to cover a period OF
eight years. The diet is asked to vote
$3.50, 100000 for the purpose. 1t is
proposed to construct eight battleshlps
and 2S cruisers.
In an address to the students of the
Havana university, Secretary Taft told
the Cubans that they need to stop
quarreling and get to work
Insurance men, after careful exam
ination, place the loss at Mobile, Ala,
from the hurricane and tidal wave at
one million dollars.
The thirty-third annual convention
of the National Women's Temperance
union will be held in Hartford, Conn,
October 26 to 81, inclusive.
Secretary Roots diplomacy has re-
stored confidence in the United States
on the part of South American coun-
tries.
Charles e. Magoon, the retiring min
lister to Panama and governor of the
canal zone, says conditions on the
isthmus are most favorable, and the
canal zone well governed. He said
that work on the canal was progress
ing satisfactorily. There are from
1000 to 1900 Chinese on the isthmus,"
said Gov. Magoon, land l do not think
they make desirable laborers. They
can not be depended upon. AS soon
as the Chinaman has earned enough
money he starts shop, and the gov
eminent loses man."
A. NJ FORBADE. aged 81, was killed
by Wabash freight train at Jackson
Vile. ILL.,
In discussing the Cuban question
with members of his cabinet, and with
callers at the White House, President
Roosevelt stated that the interven
tion in Cuba was solely for the benefit
OF the people of the island, that he
had no thought of annexation. but the
formation of a stable government
Following an assault upon girl by
negro, near Mobile, Ala. mob
stormed the Jail, thinking the negro
was there, but he was not. In fu
silade, Roy Hoyle, special officer,
and Alderman Sidney Lyons, chairman
of the city council, VINO were with the
sheriff and deputies in the Jail, were
shot, the alderman in the hand and
Hoyle through the lungs. Hoyle died.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. son of tho
president of the United States, who
is student at Harvard has been
summoned to appear hefore-t asr grand
jury Of Suffolk county, Massachusetts,,
to give testimony in regard to an as
sault on an officer on. Boston COM
mons
Gen. Frederick Funston will COM
mand the army of occupation in Cuba.
Several Russian newspapers havo
published editorial articles on the
events at Atlanta, Ca. comparing
them with the anti-Jewish massacres
in Russia. The Novoe vremya ex.
presses the hope that the United
States excuses to official provocation,
instead of admitting that they are the
result of natural racial animoslty.
In making its report on the case OF
an unidentified man found dead in st
Louis, from accident, the coroner's
jury said: I'VE, the jury, are unable
to ascertain the manner in which the
deceased came to his death, because
of the failure of parties who. perhaps
witnessed the occurrence, to take
enough interest in human life to re
port the matter to the proper authori
ties"
mated Gov. Beekman Winthrop, OF
Porto Rico, to be provisional COVER
send sufficient force TO maintain or
der. The insurgents have laid down
their arms.
Former President Palma left the
palace at Havana for Matanzas, where
he will live. Gov Taft will take III
his residence there this week. The
departure of Cubas first and las
president was scarcely known, excep
by few members of his cabinet anC
friends. And not until he was ABOARD
his train waving adieus to few
cheering admirers did he give way tc
his pent-up emotion. Then he wept
An American won the James Gordon
Bennett cup in balloon race, going
from Paris to point so miles north
Of Hull, England
The grand jury at Washington hai
returned two additional Indictment
against local ice companies.
The Kattowitz Zeitung. BerliI
newspaper, says that as the result o
an investigation made in the volgi
district the fact has been established
that fearful misery and starvation ex
ist there Several millions of per