Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-05-13
GENERAL NEWS OF THE week
A Brief Summary Of Happenings in
the State, the Nation and the World

on February 26, 1907
Austin THE sixteenth annual ses-
sion of the United Daughters Of the
Confederacy met here Tuesday. morn
ing.
Rio Grande City.-Severo Lopez,
a ranchman living near Falfurrias,
was shot and instantly killed on the
street here shortly after midnight
Tuesday, by State Ranger Levi Da-
Wis of Capt Johnsons command.
Davis was arrested and his examin-
ing trial begun before Justice of the
Peace E. Zarate. There is consider
able excitement over the killing.
Davis claims the shooting was acct
dental The killing occurred near
a restaurant, where Lopez had gone
to have good time with some
friends, when he was met by three
Rangers, who had gone there to dis
perse the party, which was COM
posed OF the best young men of the
City. 1t is claimed by these young
men that they were roughly han
died by the Rangers and shot at
while running away from them. The
body of deceased was examined by
Drs. Deadly and Horner and showed
several bruises in addition to the
wound in the abdomen which
caused instant death.
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Laredo.-The jury returned a YER
dict of not guilty against Henry Huff,
who killed two Mexicans in a Laredo
saloon last fall
Greenville.-Th jury in the case
of Israel w. Thomasson, tried in
Judge Porter's Court on a charge
of killing his father-in-law, j. H.
Newly, returned verdict of not
guilty.
Austin.-The State Convention of
the Texas Woman's Press Associa-
ton, after selecting Houston as the
next meeting place, elected the fol-
lowing named officers: President,
Mrs. Mary Mcclellan O'Hair of Cole
man; first vice president, Mrs. Noble
Sayre Of Houston; second vice presi-
dent, Mrs A. H. Jarvis, of Fort
Worth; third vice president, Mrs. M.
q. Bryan of Houston; recording sec
rotary, Mrs, Mary Tate of Con
tales; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Hughes of Wharton; treasurer, Mrs.
Lochridge of Fort Worth: poet lau-
reate, Mrs. Nettie Houston Bring
hust Of San Antonio.
Galveston.-After a "vindication'
trial in the Criminal District Court,
Sudie Gossett of Palestine, wife of
Mack Gossett, was declared by a
jury not guilty of the murder of her
twin infants in this City on January
IS of this year.
Austin.-The Court of Criminal
Appeals affirmed two death SEN
fences, being those of John Janca,
from Fayette, and will Mcintosh,
from Lamar County. Janca was CON
victed of killing his wife. Mcintosh
killed W. R. Draper.
KnoXville.-It is reliably stated
that John G. Gray, a whiskey distil-
Ter of Lafayette, Tenn, will test the
constitutionality of the so-called
manufacturers" law, which pro-
hibits the manufacture of whisky
and beer in Tennessee after Janu-
airy L.
DOMESTIC.
Chicago Grover Cleveland
Memorial Committee has DECIDED
that the most appropriate memorial
which could be erected to the late
President would be statue. Ac-
l'cordingly finance committee has
been named, which will have charge
of the details of raising 100000
for the purpose. This statue prob
ably will be located on the lake
front
Reno, Nev.-"Two men took me
off the train at Verdi and down the
river, where l have been kept three
days. If you find this, help me for
| am almost crazy is the note
found in bottle floating in Truckee
river. The sheriff is endeavoring to
locate the writer, although he thinks
it may be hoax
Chicago.-May wheat advanced to
new high water mark shortly af-
ter the opening of business on the
Board of Trade when 1t reached
$1.29 1-2. July wheat rose one cent
from Tuesday nights close at SLY
Dry weather in Kansas and Nebras-
ka are the new bull influences
Las Cruces, N. M.-Wayne Bra.
eel was acquitted of the murder OF
Pat Garrett. The jury was out fiji.
teen minutes. Pat Garrett was one
OF the most famous officers of the
Southwest. He was killed February
20, 1908, while en- route from his
Dog Canyon ranch to Las Cruces
where he had an engagement tc
meet Jim Miller, who was lynchec
at Ada, Okla, several days ago.