Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-10-24
ALL OVER TEXAS.

State Fair of Texas.
G. G. Williams, an inmate of the
Dallas County Jail, under indictment
Tor murder, committed suicide Monday,
using sharp razor that had been fur
nished him for shaving himself.
In runaway which occurred at the
race track at Fort Worth Miss Edna
Smith was thrown out of carriage
and painfully injured Three other
occupants were slightly hurt.
The sawmill of the Red Water Lum-
Der Company at Red Water, sixteen
miles south of Texarkana, was burned,
entailing loss of about $4,000. The
plant was insured for $1,000.
Hill County Camp No. 1G6, U. C. ",
has endorsed Mr. o. Y. Stevens Of
Hillsboro for appointment to the posi-
ton Of superintendent of the Con.
federate soldiers Home at Austin.
DR.. B. A. Dinwiddie sold a bale OF
long staple cotton for 1S.1Oc per pound
at GAINESVILLE. Capt. j. B. Doncho
sold three bales for 1S.O21sc and 9th.
ers brought IS cents.
The International Salt Company an.
nounces the project of building sever
al new plants in which a newly in
vented process will greatly reduce the
cost of salt.
The Central Amusement Company
has been chartered by Dallas organi-
cation, with capital stock of $780,.
600. The purpose is to build and oper-
ate a huge skating rink at Memphis,
Tennessee.
Bill Skein, white man was sen.
fenced to five years in the penitenti-
airy on a charge of criminally assault
ing a twelve-year-old girl. The case
originated at Waco several weeks ago,
at which time Skein was arrested.
Adjutant General Hulen has an
nounced that It cost exactly $2S,353
to pay 1920 officers and men of the
Texas National Guard for services dur
ing the recent encampment at Camp
Mabry.
Arrangements are being made by
the Reorganized Republican executive
committee, the headquarters of which
are In Terrell, to inaugurate a vigor-
GUS campaign. Speakers are TO be
sent to various parts of the State.
H. l.. Mays, negro, was hanged
Friday in San Antonio for the murder
of Lee Woods on July 29,1905. The
drop fell at 11:21 and he was dead
twenty-four minutes later. He made
no confession.
The railroad commissions annual
report will show 200 miles of newly
constructed railway between July and
October and 200 additional by Jan. 1.
The proposed mileage for this and the
coming year is placed at 1900.
Grandma Franklin died Sunday
night at Pendleton. She was so
years old and had been a member of
the Baptist Church for seventy-six
years. She came to this State eighteen
years ago from Montacello, Wayne
County, Kentucky.
At Purdon one day last week fifty
bales of cotton were burned. They
were the property of j. II. Farrold,
and were insured. The fire was eaus-
ed by party stepping on match
near one of the bales, which lgnited,
the flames soon spreading to all Of
the cotton.
The Texas Central is pushing work
west from Stamford and at this time
lacks but fourteen miles of reaching
Rotan. Arrangements ave being made
for q big town lot sale at Rotan as
soon as the line shall have reached
that point
A railroad surveying party is at
work in the neighborhood of Ravenna,
Telephone and Ivanhoe, in Fannin
County, locating line for the ex-
tension Of the Denison, Bonham and
New Orleans Railroad to Paris.
The gin belonging to the Hunt
County oil Company, located at Hicl-
CRY Creek, six miles west of Wolfe
City, was totally destroyed by fire.
Twenty.eight tons OF seed were burn.
ed. also fifteen bales of cotton; value
OF gin, $4,000
Senator Bailey announces that on
Friday, Oct. 20. he exneeLs 70 anealI In