Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-08-29
ALL OVER TEXAS.

Walter Williamson, a butcher Of
Workman, fell off his wagon and broke
his ankle.
Mr.. Clark, bartender for Warren
Hart at Dearborn, Texas, was killed
Friday.
The general store of Hoolins & Co,
at Richland, has burned. Loss $4,000;
insurance $4,000.
The board of health OF Waco has
ordered all old wells and cisteIns fill
ed up as a sanitary measure.
Lindale received her first bale of
cotton Thursday. Weight $50 pounds,
and sold for ten cents anS a premium
of SIS.
Dallas and Dallas County are being
redistricted as to voting precincts
The change will become operative on
January /, 1907.
Tom Moody, driver of delivery
wagon for Corsicana firm, had one
OF his arms broken by being thrown
from the vehicle.
The State Holiness camp meeting
at Camp Appel, three miles east of
Waco, where the association has
a tabernacle, ended Thursday night.
"A permit to do business in Texas
was granted to the Monarch Type
writer company, of New York,
capital 100000, with Dallas as the
headquarters.
President Roosevelt has directed
the War Department to make full
report to him on the trouble between
troops and citizens at Brownsville.
Although it will be about two weeks
before cotton is ready to pick in Ellis
county, farmers are bringing negroes
TO the county from South Texas.
Eduardo Lepbey aged 80 years, sec
rotary of !. the Colombian Consulate
in the City of Mexico is dead, as re-
rult of being run over by street car.
Reports from San Antonio section
are that this years pecan crop will
be record breaker. The same re-
ports come from the Concho country.
Two negro children were bitten by
supposedly mad dogs at Ennis Friday.
The driver OF an ice wagon saved him
self by rushing through a gate and
slamming 1t shut.
Word comes from San Saba that a
little son of Charlie Rogers, formerly
of Hutto, accidentally shot his little
brother while playing with target
rife. The child died.
An absolute quarantine of the In
fected Texas fever district in Chero-
kee County, Kansas, has been insti-
tutod and will continue until existing
cattle fever cases have entirely dis
appeared.
Bob Davis, a. negro, made an at
tempt to rape young white woman,
was foiled and raped negro
girl near Columbia, S. c. He was
captured, identified by his intended
victim and the negro girl, and sum.
marily lynched.
Out Of the sixteen States producing
gypsum in commercial quantities,
Texas ranks fifth and Oklahoma sixth.
In an official report on the subject
just ssued by the geological survey,
the production of Texas and Okla
homa are grouped together, their four
producers reporting total yield Of
14S,947, short tons at value of 81 per
ton.
The city taxpayers of the city Of
Austin are up lin arms at the action
of the City Board of Equalization in
increasing the taxable values OF the
city from 10 to so per cent. Consid-
cradle vigorous kicking is. being in
dulged in.
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Baptist General Conven-
tion Of Texas, Waco was selected as
the place OF meeting of the general
convention this fall. Mineral Wells
also sought the convention.
During a ball game between Daw-
son and Blooming Grove the grand
stand at the park fell. carrying down
with It about a hundred men and wo-
men. Two Young men. Richard Hall
and wiz I3urns;. were seriously in,
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