Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-11-14

They left signed statement that they
were dissatisfied with the retention of
Prof. Moncrieff, who not long ago stab
bed Rev. G. g. Miller, president of tho
college. The president is still quito
i'll from his wounds.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
marriage of President Porfirio Dlaz
of Mexico and Nine. Carmen Romeo
Do Diaz was celebrated in Mexico
City. Among the kilograms of con-
graduation received from abroad was
one from Emperor William of Ger
many.
A report is in circulation in Moscow
that the League to Combat the Re-
volutlon" has sentenced former Pre-
mier Count Witte to death in the event
of his return to Russia.
The president has announced the
appointment of Atty-Gen. William
Henry Moody to be justice of the su-
preme court Of the United States to
succeed Justice Henry Billings Brown,
who retired some time ago.
Il Is stated ut Washington that the
president has decided to discharge
rioting negro soldiers.
Mrs. Margaret Bush, of Clymer, N.
Y. sister OF Horace Greeley, died in
that city, aged SO.
The interstate commerce commits
sion modifles it's ruling and permits
railroads to issue mileage for adver-
Using.
Texas railroad commission takes
steps to compel the Pullman company
to reduce its charges 20 per cent.
Henry w. Herring, cashier Of Paul
Stensland's bank in Chicago, goes to
join him at Joliet penitentiary.
George T. Dexter, vice president OF
the Mutual Life Insurance Co., has
announced that he will not go from
New York to Tennessee in response
to the summons OF Insurance Com.
missioner Folk to answer complaints
of policy-holders that their money was
being used in an effort to re-elect the
present management of the company
He intimates that if the commissioner
desires to see him, he can be found In
his office.
Dispatches have been pouring into
Halifax, Nova Scotia, bringing news
Of vessels wrecked or in distress, OF
wires Frustrated, and Of damage done
by gale and sea along the coasts Of
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, N. B., and
Prince Edward island.
District Judge Stanly WEIGH was
assassinated at Rio Grande City, Tex.
The Judge was asleep in bed at the
time.
Because she feared her husband
was going to leave her, Mrs. Vivian
Garfinkle, of St Louis, aged 25, and
handsome, fired bullet through her
heart, at New Q;ieans: Garfnkle'n
relatives IN st. Louis did not know
that he was married.
While a westbound Santa Fe pas.
senger train was standing on the
tracks at Gallup, N. NJ. three men,
armed with revolvers, entered the
coaches and forced the passengers to
hold up their hands. They secured
several hundred dollars in money and
several grips and overcoats from the
passengers, and made their escape.
The crew at the time were in the
dining room.
The faculty of Augustana college
has suspended over so students for
participating in tittup demonstra.
ton against members of the board of
directors recently. because the di-
rectors had refused to sanction inter.
collegiate basket ball.
At San Francisco, Louis Dabner has
confessed to Chief of Detectives Duke
that he and John Siemsen had com.
mitted number of crimes that re.
Gently have startled that city. He
stated that he and Siemsen killed
William Pfitzner and William Friede,
merchants, robbed the Japanese bank
and murdered Cashier M. Munataka,
and also robbed DR.. T. d. w. Leland,
though for this crime another man is
now serving imprisonment.
Bluff Reno, at one time a wealthy
cattle dealer in Illinois, is reported in
the poorhouse in Madison county.
In a cheap lodging house at Balti.
more, Nd, DR.. j. Baxter Mathews, of
Greensboro, N. c., blew out his brains
with 32-caliber revolver. He had
been convicted of wife murder.
The Farmers and Miners bank Of
Ladd, I'LL, a mining town, was held
up and robbed by two men in broad
daylight, who bound the cashier and
secured several thousand dollars.
A telegram containing a summary
Of the declaration of policy made by
Premier Clemenceau In the French
chamber OF deputies was sent the
pope. After its perusal the pontiff Is
said to have remarked: 1.-THE French
churches are prepared for all kinds OF
persecution. They have already
shown the power of resistance they