Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-07-18
ALL OVER TEXAS.

While at play with number Of his
playmates Monroe Ehrllck at Ledbet-
ter, was instantly killed by heavy
piece of timber falling on his head,
crushing his skull.
Former Judge A. B. Tanner. who
committed perjury in order to shield
bis law partner, the late United States
Senator John H. Mitchell, was pardon
ed by the President.
During thunderstorm in the vicin-
ity of Berlin, Ok, lightning struck the
house occupied by the Reese family in
stantly killing Wear Reese, aged II,
and severely injuring father mother
and another son.
While working at hay press one
half mile west of Dodd, Joe Finley got
his foot caught in the plunger and
broke his leg just above the ankle. He
was removed to the hospital at Bon
ham.
At Lafayette, Ind, Mrs. Solomon
Gobbau and her six children were
burned to death in fire that destroy
ed their home here. Solomon Gobbau,
the husband and father, was badly
burned, but will recover
DR.. A. W. Morrill,, an expert of the
Department of Agriculture, is ordered
to at once investigate the plan for the
eradication of the white fly pest in the
orange and lemon trees in the Texas
coast country and in Louisiana.
Robert Guidon a Dallas County far
mer, aged sixty-six years, whose home
was about FIVE miles west of Dallas,
dropped dead from heart disease while
going out in a pasture to bride a
Horse.
Two bales of cotton were ginned at
Olmita, few miles from Brownsville
Tuesday and will be shipped to Hous-
t0n. This is the first cotton ginned in
the United States so far as heard
from for the season of 1906.
Will Burrows, young man about
lwenty.seven years old, .Hias. sta5hsd
In fhe heart and Instantly Killed one
mile southwest OF Weatherford, near
Chautauqua Park. The officers now
have four persons in jail
w. A. Carper, a well-known carpen-
ter, and for some time prominent in
Central labor circles, has been APP
pointed by United States Marshall Eu-
gene Nolte as his deputy for the west.
orn district of Texas
}. W. Cochran, manager Of the Hun
ter transfer line, Texarkana, dropped
dead near the Cotton Belt depot He
had been sick for ten days and only
reported for duty. He was 40 years
cid and leaves widow and two small
children.
1t is likely that all of the State
Institutions will return to coal and
Ignite as fuel, as the bids to furnish
fuel are regarded as too high by the
State Purchasing Agent. The present
contract price is Coo and 64c per bar
rel delivered, while the new bids are
" 1-2c and $107 per barrel.
j. F. Strickland, who is in New
York financing the proposed Sherman
and Dallas Electric Railway, by Q
message received in Sherman an
nounces he will leave for Texas on Of
about July Is. 1t is authoritatively
stated that the progress made is yer,
satisfactory.
Colorado Socialists met in Denve
on the Fourth and nominated a full
State ticket putting at its head vii
liam D. Haywood, now in the Idah'
State prison. under Indictment 70
completely In the murder of ex-eover
nor Stuebeneck, of Colorado.
]. S. Wallace, yong man whom
an elderly man named Penny Satter
white shot some two months ago nea
Hope, Ark, because he objected 1
Wallace's attentions to his daughter
died at Texarkana few days since.
While J. II. Blrod and his famil
were on their way to Fourth OF Jul
celebration az Woodblne, their n
r,onih-old boy fell from the wagon an
the rear wheel passed over It's chess
crushing Il, causing Ita death In (
few hours.
Fro completely destroyed IIamlte
a nushy'H wholesale grain house, \
Shreveport A representative oi N
Ann eaVa Tho loan suill ha abani Nao