Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-10-24
NEWS OF THE week
AN GPlTOME OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully DieestAd and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

A simple and brief funeral servica
Davis at the Hotel Majestic, New
York. The service was private, only
the mebers of Mrs. Davis family, rep
resentatives of the United Daughters
Of the Confederacy and small number
of intimate friends being present, a
wreath sent by President and Mrs.
Roosevelt was on the coffin, Inter
ment was at Richmond.
William Scully, formerly Lord Scuuy
of London, Eng, died in London. He
was peer until 1900, when he became
a citizen of the United States, and re-
sided in Washington. His fortune S
estimated at about $50,000OO0, includ-
ing 100000 acres of land in Illinois,
Kansas and Nebraska.
Gen. Herman Sturm, brigadler
general commanding Indian troops in
the civil war, general purchasing agent
of the Mexican army during the French
invasion, afterward president Of the
Mexican Cuernavaca & Pacific rail
way, and of late years engaged in min
ing in Colorado, died at Denver, Col,
aged rs.
Japanese Consul Uyeno intimates
the possibility of international com
plications between the United States
and Japan. unless Japanese children
are allowed to attend all the public
schools at San Francisco, instead of
being relegated to the oriental schools
with Chinese, Indians and negroes.
Announcement Of carefully-planned
campaign to secure the repeal of the
10th amendment OF the constitution
of the United States, that which gives
the negro equality with the white man
as a citizen, was made by Gov. James
K. Vardaman OF Mississippi, while in
Chicago. M
n The dry goods jobbing trade at
New York reports the largest recorders
from all parts Of the country ever
known at this season of the year.
Many cotton goods agents are unable
to do business owing to the inability
OF mills to name prices under present
market conditions.
Two hundred and fifty-eisht skilled
Flemish weavers, with their familieg,
have left Client for Bremen, from
whence they will sail on steamer of
the North German Lloyd line direct for
Charleston, s. G.
George B. Cortelyou to be secretary
OF the treasury, George Won L. Meyer
TO be postmaster general, Victor
Howard Metcalf to be secretary Of the
navy, Charles Joseph Bonaparte to be
Charles Joseph Bonaparte TO be
attorney general. is the programm 3
January l.
Stuyvesant Fish, president of the
Illinois road, and William Nelson
Cromwell, representing E. H. Harri-
man, president of the Southern Pacific,
clashed openly before $50 stockhold
ers, at Chicago, who had come from
various parts of the country to attend
the meeting. On the face of the re
cord, Mr.. Fish appears to have been
the victor, but that the victory is not
q final one is insinuated by Mr.. Crom
well.
A verdict OF guilty OF granting re
bates on sugar shipments has been re
turned by jury in the United States
court at New York City against the
New York Central Railway Co. and
Frederick L.. Pomeroy, the company's
general traffic manager.
Secretary and Mrs Taft, Assistant
Secretary of State Bacon and Mrs
Bacon, Gen. Funston and others com
posing Secretary Taft's party have ar
rived in Washington from Cuba.