Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-04-09

including some counterfeit money
cases.
Yoal1um. the last fiscal year
the business in the Yoakum Postof-
flee has increased to an extent to
raise the salary of the Postmaster
$500 per year and entitle the city to
free delivery of the mail.
Austin.--The students of the State
University took the faculty by sur
prise by walking out in body on
April 1 to celebrate April FOOLS Day |
A number of professors were taken |
along for an outing, while others |
locked themselves in their offices and |
would not bulge.
Brenham.-The Gulf, Colorado & |
Santa Fe Railroad Company has
called in all outstanding railroad |
passes issued to Sheriffs through |
whose counties the road passes, as
Sheriffs of other counties have APP |
piled for the same privileges.
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Ell Paso.-The general shops of
the Southwestern Railroad have been
opened again after a short shut
down The G., H. G S. A. shops are
still closed.
Marshall.-The Texas C Pacific
shops, which have been closed down
for some weeks, have been reopened
under the same conditions existing
when closed.
DOMESTIC.
Kansas City, Mo.-The National
Bank of Commerce, which suspended
payment last fall, opened for business
again this week with S2,S70,000 cash
| on hand.
San Francisco, Cal.-Durham
| White Stevens, the American diplo-
mat in the Japanese service, who was
| shot by young Korean, died of his
wounds in the St. Francis Hospital.
Springfield, Ill.-The Republican
State Convention endorsed Speaker
Cannon as candidate for the Persi-
dency, and declared for revision of
the tariff.
Washington, ID. C.-rThe Aldrich
bill was passed by the Senate by a
vote of AZ to 16, after the Bailey
amendments had been rejected.
Tallahassee, Fla.-Governo Brow
ard appointed William Hall Milton to
succeed the late W. James Bryan in
the United States Senate.
Thomaston, Gonna clock is be-
ing finished here which is said will
be the largest in the world, the dial
measuring 2S feet in diameter. 1t
is intended for Jersey City soap
| factory, and will be visible from the
New York piers.
New York, N. Y.-Mrs. Lila Ray
mond, a stranger, made two trips into
a burning house after giving the
alarm, and saves a mother and five
children, who were unconscious of
the danger
Hanna, Wyo.-An explosion of the
gas in the Union Pacific Coal Mine
Company's Mine No. kills fifty min
ers. Most all were married and had
families.
Butte, Mont.-The first stone has
been laid for the highest dam ever
erected in the world, on the Shoshone
River, in Wyoming. Preliminary
work has been going on for two years
and when completed the dam will be
315 feet in height. Water will be
Chicago, m.-A new feature has
been inaugurated to combat prohibi-
ton fanaticism. Forty lectures,
mostly preachers and some women,
will go out to make anti-prohibition
speeches, advocating temperance but
fighting prohibition.
New York.--A Russian Anarchist,
enraged by the charge of police on
laborers in labor demonstration, in
tended throwing a bomb into the po-
lice squad, which, however, exploded
prematurely in his hand, killing linn
and wounding companion.
}, Guthrie, OlSla.-The State Corpora
: ton Commission ordered a 40 per
cent reduction on all express rates.
4 New York, N. Y.-Wholesale and
retail ice dealers have given anthem
tic intimation that the price of ice is
to be advanced 60 per cent.
San Francisco, CaI.-The body of
Durham w. Stevens, the late Ameri-
can advisor of the Korean Council,
will be taken to Washington, d. Z. by
his sister.
Il Auburn, N. Y.-Chester E. Gillette
paid the penalty for the brutal MUIR
der of Grace Brown. He goes to
the electric chair without any percep-