Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-11
General News Of the Week |
A Brief Summary Of Happenings in the
State, the Nation and the World


Legislators to merely pass appro-
priation bill will not be enough.
Galveston.-G Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows and Rebekah degree were
in session here Tuesday.
Austin Skinner oratorical
contest was won by Towne Young
of Vernon in the University debate.
Austin.-A special election has
been called to choose a successor to
G. A. Allen, deceased, Representative
from Colorado County
Beaumont.-The turpentine pro-
ducers held a meeting here and took
preliminary steps toward organic
ing and marketing corporation.
Austin. State on Tuesday
submitted it's brief in the case
wherein the Western Union company
has appealed from a judgment of
custer.
Weatherford.-Su has been filed
In the County Court by Mrs. Bess
Stephens Lanham to set asile the
will of her deceased husband, the
late Edwin Moultree Lanham, on
the ground that he was laboring un-
der an insane delusion at the time
it was written. Edwin M. Lanham
an estate valued at from $4,000 to
100000.
Houston.-The Great Southern
Life Insurance Company of Hous-
ton, capital $1,OOO,OOO, has been
chartered.
Center.-Price Defriend, charged
with cutting a telephone wire,
pleaded guilty and was finel 5000
in the District Court here Monday.
Lockhart. - A well developed
white baby about weeks old was
found floating in Cleark fork, three
miles west of Lockhart Tuesday by
Will Larremore. Examination was
held by Justice of the Peace Shook
Galloway and DR.. Corley, which
showed that one foot and one hand
were gone, having possibly been
eaten by turtles and crawfish.i A
stout calico string was tied around
the remaining foot and deep cash
was on the forehead. The body
had been in the water so long that
1t was impossible to determine the
sex.
San Angelo.-Thomas Moran of
Midland has purchased thirty acres
of land near the Fair Grounds in
this City, for which he paid $50 per
acre.
Cleburne.-A. A. Schneider, part
owner in the Royal Foundry and
Machine shop, while at work a few
days ago, accidentally stuck a file
into the pit of his stomach. Death
resulted.
Dallas.-The Texas Zionist Asso-
citation of Dallas is determined that
the local organization shall be the
largest of it's kind in the State.
This determination is the result of
a mass meeting of that body held
Austin.-John Dowell is convicted
in connection with the shooting last
April in an Austin Hotel, and SEN
fenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
Fort Worth.-A new State bank
with capitalization of 100000,
has begun business here.
Galveston State saengerfest
is to be held in this City in May in
stead of April.
Paris.-L. S. Buzbee, Deputy
County Tax Assessor, who has been
travelling through the West part of
the County great deal assessing
property, says nearly all farmers
have either built storm houses or
are preparing to construct them as
they are all up with their work,
waiting for planting time, and have
nothing else to do. Mr.. Buzbee
says some of the storm houses are
very substantial and expensive, be-
ing constructed of bricks and &C.
ment.
Tuesday at the Shaareeth-Israel
Synagogue, called for the purpose
of strengthening the organization,
and to interest its members in the
Importance of the Zionist movement
now under way. At the meeting
Judge j. A. Rosenfield, To-
cal attorney, was the principal
speaker, and addressed his hearers
on the subject of "Zionism in Gen
eral." Other prominent members
of the organization delivered adj
dresses, among whom were H. Ely,
president; Solomon Weinsteln, l..
Todas, Ben Greinstein, Ben Gold
berg and Rabbi S. Margolis. Fully
three hundred members of the or
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gogue during the meeting, and be-
fore its close fifteen new members
had been added. A literary COM
miftaa was annnintad fnr the nnr-