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

Allel lI1dl ldSlluS ABOUT leH uayb,
DR.. Frank l.. Brouwer, indicted for
the murder OF his wife by poison, was
acquitted at Toms River, N. j. The
jury brought in verdict of mot
guilty" inside of an hour
The grand jury of the special term
of the United States district court at
Jackson, Miss, Judge John Il. Mccall,
presiding, has returned a voluminous
Indictment against the Standard Oil
Co. of Indiana. The charge is trans
portation of separate carloads of oil
at rates discriminating in favor OIL
the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. AL.
legged shipments for the past three
years are covered
Capt. Lloyd. Arson Ryder, known
in California as "Old Grizzly" and
one of that states pioneers of 40,
died at the residence Of his grand
niece, Mrs Thomas II. McClintock in
Brooklyn. He was IS years of age.
A mass meetings of citizens, held in
Union square, San Francisco, called to
form committee of public safety,
broke up in disorder, two factions
striving to gain control of the assem-
blage.
Fraulein Bertha Krupp, the richest
woman in Germany, and Gustav Won
Bohlen und Halbach, an army officer,
were married One hundred and
eighty thousand dollars was distrib-
ued among the employees of the Krupp
gun works on the occasion.
Mrs Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the confederacy, who had
been i'll for week, died at the Hotel
Majestic in New York city. Death
was due to pneumonia, induced by
severe cold, which Mrs. Davis con-
tracted upon her return from the Adj
rondacks, where she had spent the
summer months. Relatives were at
the bedside Interment beside Mr.
Davis at Richmond, Va.
Samuel Porter Jones, evangelist,
known throughout the nation as Sam
Jones, died on railway train near
Little Rock, Ark, while on his way
from Oklahoma City to Cartersyille,
Ga, his home, where he intended to
celebrate the forty-ninth anniversary
of his birth with a family reunion.
His wife and two daughters were
with him when he died, as also his
friend and co-worker, Rev. Walter
Halcomb.
Fourteen of the II balloons which
started from Tagal, near Berlin, in
the race for Emperor Williams cup.
reported landed the following day. 1t
appears to be certain at this moment
that the Ernest, the smallest of the
balloons, won.
DR.. M. G.. Pingree, cousin Of for.
mer Gov. Pingree of Michigan, COM
mitted suicide In Chicago by looking
himself minis bathroom and turning
on the gas. No cause for the suicide
is known.
Count John A. Creighton, one OF the
founders of Creighton university,
Omaha, Neb.. has decided to that in
stitution two buildings in the whole
sale district worth about 100000.
The first action taken by the con-
gress of the League OF the Russian
People was to dispatch telegram
20 Emperor Nicholas, declaring that
the autocracy alone was able to con-
solidate the empire and assure the
welfare of his majesty's subjects.
William Cheney. prominent resident
of Lockport, ILL.,, and a foreman in
the employ of the sanitary district of
Chicago, was murdered by Antoni AS
fronta, an italian workman, whom he
discharged.
| Secretary Taft Assistant Secretary
of State Bacon and Gen. Funston
sailed from Cuba, their labors there
being completed. The government OF
Cuba was turned over to Gov. Chas.
e. Magoon In a simple American man
ner, devoid OF show.
The big steamer James Laughlin
broke the wheat cargo record at Du
luth, MINI. She loaded $4,000 bush
els. The cargo is the largest individ'
ual one of wheat ever foated. The
boat gets freight of az cents bush
ell for transportation of the grain to
Buffalo.
The British steamer Hankow was
burned while lying alongside hel
wharf at Hongkonk, China. Hundreds
of Chinese passengers, mostly women
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