Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-03-28
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

dueed in the Lower House Monday,
signed by seventy-six members.
Owing to an epidemic of smallpox
In a portion of Kaufman county, the
Health officer of the county has issued
notice urging every citizen to be
vaccinated.
Felis Gondass, aged 30 years, was
run over by freight train near Trent
Monday, and. was carried to Abilene
for treatment, but died few hours af-
ter he arrived.
Warren Bros livery stable at
Blooming Grove was destroyed by fire
Tuesday evening, loss $4,000, insur-
ance $1,000. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
phe green bugs that did so much
damage to grain in Texas are ravag-
ing. the wheat and oats around Ard
more, l. T. Dat land is being planted
In corn.
The new electric sign in front of the
First Methodist Church, Dallas, was
lighted up for the first time Sunday
night and was visible for several
blocks. The sign reads: "First Metho-
dist Church. Strangers Welcome"
Work on Wichita Falls $4,000 cot
ton oil mill was started this week. This
sama common, ,,,t1t o1,o 49,. . 49,
press to cost big amount, and both
plants will be ready for business by
fall.
One of the most disastrous wrecks
OF the year occurred Thursday night
on the Frisco near Woodville, 1. T.
Seven ars of naptha and one ar of
lumber We're burned. The ties for FIVE
hundred yeard were destroyed.
Col. Scion E. Rose, aged eighty.
eight years, is dead at his home in Pu.
laskl, Tenn He was once elected to
the United States Senate from that
State, but before the vote could be an.
nounced the vote was changed and
there was stampede to Hon. Howell
; Fl. Jackson.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas will
shortly put on fast train for Texas,
leaving st. Louis about noon. This
train has been under contemplation for
some time, No date is as yet set for
its advent, but it can be stated upon
reliable authority that the train will
soon be in operation.
A Frisco oil train was wrecked be-
tween Woodville and Kingston, /. T.,
Thursday, and four or five cars of
oil We're burned. 1t is reported that
no one was killed or injured. Smoke
from the burning oil was blown into
Texas and caused great alarm at
Pottsboro.
1t was nearly seven years since the
passage of the act authorizing the or
ganizatio nof national banking asso-
Citations with minimum capital of
$4,000, and in that period under this
act 2,149 banks banks with an author
lied capital of s56,O1S,50o have been
chartered in the United States.
William ]. Oliver, of Knoxville,
Tennessee, whose bid for the construc-
ton of the Panama canal was recently
rejected, has been elected Vice Presi-
dent of the United States Trust Com
pany of Washington, d. c., which re-
Gently organized with 100000 CAPT
tai.
"A special train on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad containing
Six coaches filled with Japanese la.
borers passed through Texas Friday
en- route from Mexico to Sioux City,
Iowa. There were $50 or 400 Japs in
the trainload.
Sheriff H. M. Denny, of Otero Coun.
ty, n. M, Monday arrested at Este
City William Mitchell, alias Henry
Russell, stockman, charged with
murder committed in Hood County,
Texas, thirty-three years ago.
Maurice Grau, perhaps one of the
best known managing dlrectros of
grand opera companies in the United
States, died in Paris, France, Thurs
day. His fame as an organizer and a
manager in the operate world Ii,
spread to all other countries.
Miss Della Payne. daughter of ]. D.
Payne, daughter of ]. d. Payne, mer.
chant Of Brock, |. T., ate two spoon