Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-01-09

class of securities 1896, 1863.
Four white men, one negro and
about thirty Mexican labSrers lost
their lives in wreck on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railway near
Volland, Kas. Two fast trains coli
llded, the wreckage taking fire and
cremating the bodies of the Mexicans.
A number were burned alive. A 49,
year-old operator, with orders to hold
one of the trains, allowed it to go by.
He notified the officials, and for FIVE
minutes hundreds OF employees on the
system knew that the wreck would
occur at the expiration OF that time.
The amir of Afghanistan is on his
way to pay an official visit to India
He Is accompanied by great retinue.
Considerable Importance is given to
the visit by the British, who are try.
ing to impress him with his greatness
and their greatness The amir has
given 1t out that he can put nearly
half a million men in the fed.
At the close of business on the last
day of 1906 the interest bearing debt
of the United States government was
$940,O71,777. The cash balance on
hand in the United States treasury, in
Guiding the $150,OO00 900 reserve fund.-
was $sSS,997.O7G.
John d. Rockefeller In statement
says he is sorry that he is misunder
stood; that he bears no i'll will to any.
body, and that at is a great thing to
think that this is SO by the grace OIL
God. He says that generalization of
business had 70 come; that we must
adopt ourselves to new conditions. 1T
can't be otherwise.
Only six railroad receiverships were
appointed Curing 1906. There were
small ronds, aggregatng total of 2O2
miles. Eight roads, 262 miles. were
sold in foreclosure.
A cold wave caused considerable
damage to vegetables in Florida The
thermometer went as low as "a in
ncrthern Florida Heavy frost showed
as far south as Tampa. and was quite
chilly on the Manatee river.
Sailors from the United States crui.
ser Cleveland caused a panic in
public park of Cenfuegos, Cuba where
a concert was going on by engaging
in fight and firing many shots. The
police restored order by arresting sew.
eral of the sailors.
A message was found in a bottle on
the north coast of Ireland containing
a message from several members of
the crew of the steamship Huronian.
The Huonian has not been heard
from since 1902. When the message
was written the vessel was sinking
fast.
United States Senator Joseph W.
Bailey won a sweeping victory in the
election, held in Comanohe county,
special for or against" Bailey pri
mary election. He regards his re-
election to the senate as assured.
The dowager empress of Russia is
said to be insane. Since the death of
General Trepof. by assassination, last
September, she is said to have been
demented One story is to the effect
that she was in love with the general
and another is that she realized that
the royal family had lost an iron
handed protector She is now in Den.
mark and will later be removed to the
Riviera.
Mr.. George B. Cortelyou, postmaster
general, announces that he will retire
as chairman of the republican national
committee March 4, upon taking his
place as secretary of the treasury. 1t
is believed that Mr.. Harry New, of In
diana, will succeed him.
Sir william Peace Rowland, former
y postmaster and finance minister of
the Dominion of Canada, and later
lieutenant governor of Ontario, died at
Toronto.
The Church of the Assumption,
Catholic institution at Detroit, was de-
stroyed by fire. At the rear of the
structure was grotto, to which many
invalids journeyed. 1t was said that
miraculous cures had bsen effected In
the grotto by prayer
John d. Rockefeller has given near
ly $3,000,000 additional to the Uniyer-
sity of Chicago, the bulk of which goes
to the endowment fund and the re-
mainder to be used to pay deficits and
increase salaries of the faculty.
The archbishop Of Paris, Cardinal
Richard, and the titular head of va
rious other religious orders in Paris,
who always in past have been among
the presidents guests at luncheon,
were not invited New Years.
Thomas Harris, 90 years old, shot
and killed his stepfather, Henry Mil
Ter, As years old, at Miller's palatial
home, 1904 Hartford street. The
young man claims that Miller was
abusing Mrs Miller, who is the young
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