Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-05-23

rested In Chicago, on an Indictment
found by the federal grand jury
charging him with having used thu
mails to defraud
Marathon; Wis, had q big lumber
fire that destroyed ABOUT 3,0O0.O00I
feet, and owing to the extreme dryl
ness and surrounding forest fires tho
town was placed in imminent PERIL
Fire destroyed the plant of the Boond
(Ia) Cereal Co., owned by Fred Fear
& Co., of New York city. The loss is
placed at $lO5.O0O; insurance, $43,25O.
Dan Weston, an employe, was injured.
Six steel rail-producing corporations
in the Pittsburg district have booked
within two weeks, orders for 100000
tons of rails for delivery in 1907
A, j. Cassatt, president of the Penns>i
sylvania Railroad Co., on his arrjyra1 in
London, declined to dlssuss-tr7fe report
cabled from Philadelphia that he was
cnpsiderings ~eti:ir1ng from his position.
The general assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church is in session at
Greenville, S. c., with 20 commission
ers, representing every one of the 50
preshyteries of the south, in attend
ance.
George w. Jlminez, the New York
policeman who went to Panama to re-
organize the police department of that
republic, has given up the job, declar-
Ing that political considerations render
the task impossible.
The last imperial garrison in Cana
da, that Of Esquimalt, has been re-
placed by Canadian troops and the Brit
ish troops have started for home.
United States Marshal Darrough is
confident that 1t is only a question of
a short time now until the three Wick
life brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, are
either killed or captured
Fourteen men were injured, three IA
tally in the National tube works at
Benwood w Va, by the collapse of a
scaffold, on which they were at work,
under the weight of huge casting.
Miss Harlan Child, granddaughter Of
Associate Justice Harlan, OF the SUI
preme court of the United States, and
Erastus Corning, Jr., Of Albany, N. T.,
were married In Washington, d. @.
Business was practically suspended in
the interior department for half the
4
Carl Schurz, former secretary of the in
terror,
Prof. Paul S. Reinsch Of Madison.
Wis, has been appointed one of the
American delegates to the Pan Ameri-
can conference at Rio Janeiro, in place
Of James S. Harlan, who has been
obliged to decline, owing to an accident.
President Roosevelt, speaking to a
delegation Of the Merchant Marine
league who called upon him at the
80 " ID Cd 4 "a fl Tossed Riilse -. w
heafIIiy IN favor Of the ship subsid
bill now pending in congress,
President Castro of Venezuela, it
said, will resume the reins Of govern
ment May Is.
Rev. DR.. Hunter Corbett, distir
guished missionary to China for man
years, was chosen moderator of tn
Presbyterian general assembly at De
Moines, Ia, after a spirited contest, o
the third ballot.
1t is expected that every necessar
building of the Leland Stanford un
versity at Palo Alto, CAL, necessar
for the welfare OF the college will be
perfect condition by September next.
Rev. DR.. ]. J. Tlgert, secretary of IL
general conference; Rev. DR.. Set
Ward. Of Texas and Rev. DR.. JOSEF
Atkins, Sunday-school editor, wei
elected bishops by the general confe
enoe Of the Methodist Episcopal churc
south at Birmingham, Ala.
Two men, belonging to constru
ton gang. were killed and five othel
injured one fatally by prematu
explosion Of dynamite near Blooming
ton, Ind, on the line of the Indianal
oils Southern railroad.
Michael Davitt, the well-known Iris
nationalist, has had to submit to Sc
ond operation for blood poisoning, al
though in very enfeebled conditio
may have to submit to third, to sa'
his life
The Standard Oil Co. has issued
statement to its shareholders in Whit
1t denies positively the charges tn
the company benefited by secret rat
for the transportation of its product
and declaring that whatever Of pre-
perity 1t has enjoyed has been due
its elaborate economical and industri
organization.
The National Society of Daughters
Founders and Patriots held its eigh
annual meeting in Washington, D.
Mrs. Henry v. Boynton was elect
president and Mrs, Lucy M. 0. Mar
secretary
The worlds conference Of the YOU
Women's Christian association held