Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-08-15

The annual W. o. w log rolling will
come off in Bonham, August 8, 8, 10
and II. On the afternoon of the SEQ
ond day Senator Culberson will speak.
Fire, supposedly of incendlary orl-
gin, completely destroyed the gin of
Higgins Holman. near Waters Park,
nine miles northeast of Austin. Loss
about $4,000, partially insured.
Matthew Cole, the negro who. was
shot Thursday morning in the eastern
portion of Marshall, died from his
wounds. Ida Cole, his wife, surren-
dered and was locked up in the county
Jail to await examining trial.
G, H. Nugent, painter, who was at
work on the Olive & Myers building
near the intersection or the Houston
and Texas Central railway and Com
merce Street, Dallas, fell four stories
to his death.
United States Marshall George H.
Green has announced the promotion
of l.. B. Parish to the position OF office
deputy vice Whit Dryden, deceased.
Mr. Parish has been assistant office
deputy for seven years.
Beginning August every employe
working outside the regular office men
at Fort Worth packing houses here
will wear white duck suits. A laun-
dry will be maintained and the pack.
ers will wash the clothing free.
Miss Della Davidson, of Kelleen, a
young lady of II years, took her life,
by drinking quantity of carbolic acid.
two years and this is the only cause
for her rash act.
On account Of the increased activ-
ity in the work of graveling the road
bed OF the Cotton Belt between Tex.
arkana and Mount Pleasant, 1t has
been found necessary to double up on
the roundhouse force, In order to
handle the AIDED engines.
The attorney general has approved
the charter of the Title and Guaran-
ty Company Of Dallas. Capital stock
100000. Incorporators; VIM. Breg,
J. H. P.ckrell and Thomas Shearon,
Of Dallas. Purpose, to guaranty land
titles, etc.
Out one mile from jacksonville.
where Camp John G. Walker was
holding its annual reunion and in the
presence OF several hundred people,
Virgil Speer, whose home is at Love
lady, ran his horse into a strand Of
barbed wire and sustained fatal inju-
.ries. ~ ..s NJ.
Five white men and four negroes
escaped from the Fort Worth city
calaboose Fiday morning, a dozen re-
naming behind because they didn't
care to risk a term in the pen The
delivery was effected by digging
hole in the rock wall foot square.
The evening preceding the Demo
cratic State Convention which con-
venes in Dallas August IA, memorial
exercises will be held In honor OF the
memory of James Stephen Hogg, F. H.
Lubbock and John II. Reagan. The
memorial exercises viii be held in the
auditorium at the Fair grounds.
At the Ardmore Driving Club races
on the Eagle track, near Philadelphia
u. Bryan. bay geiding, broke the
worlds trotting record for two miles
on a half-mile track. The horse GOV
cred the distance in 1853. The best
previous record was STA.
Fifty mouiders in the Southern
Pacific shops who had been on strike
for a week on minor grievances have
returned to work. giving up their de-
inands
The lifeless and manGled remains Of
Henry Melody, a white man, were
found on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas tracks about three miles east
Of Garland. Melody was twenty-nins
years of age and lived with his wife
and family at Fate, Texas.
orders have been Issued by the Of
ficlals OF the Northern Texas Traction
Company to the effect that all train
men Ia the employ u the company