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

iNObSiI INeilHSIi teu years Oiu, lei anu
was fatally injured. He died at once.
The cotton warehouses at Greenville
1o0x150 feet, with capacity of 1900
bales, has been completed and is rapid
ly filling up with II cent cotton.
Plans have been prepared and will
be presented to Congress for propos-
ed battleship to rival anything afloat
and to cost about S6,000,O0O.
The store of the Bond-Turner Hard.
ware Company at Hillsboro was en-.
tered Saturday night by burglars and
two pistols and Csc in money stolen.
The nine-monthsold child of Mr..
and Mrs. Lon Couch of Italy, was
burned in frightful manner last Sat
urday by overturning a can of hot
grease that was on the cook stove.
Triplets, all boys, were born to ].
r. Lee and wife, who live in the east.
ern portion of Red River County, last
week. Two of the little ones died
within two days from their birth.
Sears, Roebuek & Co. of Texas, of
Dallas, capital Stock $4,000, has been
incorporated by R. w. Sears, E. l..
Scott. e. NJ. Hatch, A. H. Loeb, ].
Rosenthal and A. M. Stafford.
j. G. Peterson, Dallas barber, shot
and killed o. Parish as the result of
a dispute arising over a small amount
of change, about which there was q
misunderstanding.
The gin of Fate Boyd at Lone Ce-
dar, in the southern part of Ellis
county, was completely destroyed by
fire Wednesday morning. The loss
was about $4,000.
Ernest G. Rosseaux, the 18-year-old
son of G. Rosseaux of Terrell, was kill.
ed by freight train at Grand Saline
Thursday about noon. He was brake
man and was assisting in mixing
switch and in some way was caught.
Sam Miller, vice-president of the Me-
lissa State bank, and one of Collin
county's most substantial and highly
respected citizens, died last Thursday
at his home a half mile southeast of
Melissa, after brief Illness.
1t is learned that the annual report
of the affairs of the Belton-Temple
Traction Company, which operates the
interurban line between Temple and
Bolton, will make a flattering show
Ing.
The General Land Office has direct
ed that $3.50 acres of land in the Fort
Elliot Military Reservation in Wheeler
County, Texas, be sold at auction on
November l. The reservation has
been abandoned by the Government.
Dick Kenard of Hughes Springs was
asleep on Katy passenger train No. Q
returning from Dallas Sunday night,
got up in his sleep and walked to
the rear platform and jumped off.
The retail grocers of Dallas arc
preparing pure food exhibit and the
atrical performance which will be
held during the meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Retail Grocers,
which will convene in Dallas in Jan
uary.
The County Attorney has filed eight
cases against bondsmen of saloon men
in Bolton and other places for felt.
ure OF same on account of principals
allowing minors to remain in their
places of business and selling to min.
ors.
A stock company has been organized
for the purpose of purchasing the In.
ternational and Great Northern lake
at Bell Branch, Ellis County. The wa
ter of the Lake covers seventy acres
of land and is sixty feet deep in the
main basin. 1t is well stocked with
fish.
Spindletop oil has reached 10 cents
a barrel, the highest price in tho his-
tory of the field except that period
Just preceding the opening OF .he
Sour Lake field, when oil went up TO
nearly dollar barrel.
A new railway is being promoted
from Dallas to Eagan. point on the
M. X. & T. Railroad In Johnson county.
Railroad clerks OF the Southern Pa
cifie railroad walked out at San An
tonic Thursday. The strike now ex-
tends from Houston to El Paso.
It Is learned from reliable and trust.
worthy sources that tho Santa Fo
hallway expects to spend 100000 at