Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-09-02
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eleven Cinnamon slipped across the
Rio Grande border and hid in va
cent shanty. where they were soon
discovered and taken charge of by a
deputy sheriff They will be given
trial as soon as possible, and likely
be deported to China.
With the aid of bloodhounds and
with the avowed intention of inflict-
Ing summary punishment, posses are
securing the woods in the vicinity of
Meridian, Miss. this week in an
effort to appremend an unidentified
negro who attempted to assault the 16-
year-old daughter of Jos Williams,
prosperous farmer. Failing in his pur-
pose, the negro started fire which
destroyed the Williams farmhouse.
AS a result of the explosion at noon
Friday of roo pounds of dynamite at
Boca Chica, twelve miles from Key
West, on the Florida East Coast Rail-
way, twelve men are dead, five are
probably seriously wounded, and at
least dozen others are suffering
from less serious injuries. The ex-
plosion was caused by a member of
the railroad construction force care
lessly throwing lighted cigarette In
TO box of fuses.
Pension Commissioner Bolmes an
nounces that he will not consider any
applications for pensions received af-
ter Saturday until March l. He de-
cares that this step will be necessary
in order to make the apportionment
on Sept. for the first two quarters
under the new pension law. and that
after this apportionment is made for
two quarters on the number of APP
plicants on hand, that he can not con-
slider further applications.
Surgeon General Wyman Of the Pub
lie Health and Marine Hospital serv-
ice at Washington, cabled Surgean X.
A. G. Wootenberg, stationed at Naples,
to proceed at once to Rotterdam,
where cholera has appeared, to assist
American Consul Listoe in seeing
that the treasury department reguIa-
lions regarding vessels sailing for
the United States are carried out. The
greatest precautions are to be taken
to prevent the introduction Of the dis
ease into the United States
Al severe drouth which set in five
weeks ago in South Carolina, is caus-
ing cotton to rust and the leaves are
falling on rapidly. Forty thousand
bales are produced In Anderson coun-
" annually and leading farmers an
nounce that the crop is now being
damaged at the rate of from $4,000
to $4,000 daily,
The longstanding threat of the Gal
weston chamber of commerce to ap-
peal to the courts for an order forbid
ding the observance of the differen-
tial principle in the making of freight
rates to and from Galveston was made
good Thursday, when R. L. Penn, at
torney for the Galveston organization,
filed an application in the Twenty
sixth district court of Travis county
for a perpetual Injunction against
the enforcement OF all OF the railroad
commissions tariffs and orders IN
which differentials are used.
Two 55,000-barrel capacity oil tanks
of the Gulf Pipe Line Company at
Elyista, near West Port Arthur Texas,
were fred by lightning Tuesday after
noon. One tank contained about
5000 barrels of crude oil and the other
100000 AS soon as the fire started
the pumps began pumping the oil out,
and 1t was estimated that the loss of
oil would be about $4,000 barrels, val
ued at SAC, 600 The tanks we're valued
at $500 each and will be total loss.
urt.1 n ,tof
OF Texas will try at the next session
of the legislature to get a law passed
for the garnishment Of wages for debt,
1t is said r. H. Harriman's retire
ment to his country home in the Ram
apo mountains for long rest means
his retirement from activity in the
management of his railroads. Wall
street and the railroad world expect
before many hours, the formal an
nouncement from the Hartman offices
that the affairs OF the Southern Pacific
Union Pacific and the allied Hartman
lines have been committed to the
hands OF Judge Robert s. Lovett and
Julius Kruttschnitt.
Angered, it is believed, because two
OF his friends had recently been shoi
by police officers In Monroe. La, vii
liam S. Wade, negro, Tuesday ran
amuck In the principal business street
of Monroe, with double-barreled shot
gun, shooting first every white man he
saw and then firing unfortunately
at every object before him. The fire
was returned and the negro finally fell
dead with a bullet through his heart
but not before twenty-nine men, three
OF them members of his own race, had
been more or less seriously wounded