Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-10-06
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DOMESTIC.

Virginia Harmed Sothern the actress
Friday fled suit for divorce against
Edward H. Sothern, the actor, in the
district court at Reno, Nevada. Mrs.
Sothern alleges failure to provide and
desertion for a period of more than
pne year.
Missouri, heretofore the fifth largest
state in the union according to popula-
lion, will drop into sixth place with
population of S,292,335 and Texas will
step into fifth place with a population
In excess of 100000 certainly far in
excess of the showing which Missou-
ri has made. Missouris gain in ten
years has been 1S6,670, or 6 per cent
Its population in 1890 was 2,679, 1S4; in
1900 1t was 3,1O6,665.
The existence of a secret method of
making pearls which, If disclosed,
would make them as plentiful and as
cheap as collar buttons, was told Sat
urday by Professor Bashford, dean of
Columbia University, to the American
Fisheries Society in session at New
York City.
One of the best counterfeit $40 bills
of recent years has ben discovered by
the secret service in New York. The
note is such a fine piece of workman
ship that Chief Wilke, in warning
sent broadcast declares the bill will
give the public a great deal of trouble,
particularly on the Pacific coast.
The following is the democratic
ticket as made up in New York: Gov
ernor-John A. Dix of Washington
County. Lieutenant Governor-Thom-
as f. Conway of Clinton County. Sec.
rotary of State-Edward Lazansky of
Kings. omptroller-William Sohmer
of New York. State Treasurer-John
b. Kennedy of New York Attorney
General-Thomas j. Carmody of Yates.
State Engineer and Surveyor-John
A. Benzel of New York. Associate
Judge of the Court of Appeals-Fred-
erick X. Collins of Chemung.
Live stock and grain trade interests
OF the country showed material i'm
provement during August compared
withr previous months, according to
figures compiled by the bureau of sta
tistics of the department of commerce
and labor. Live stock arrivals at sew
en- primary interior markets amounted
to 3,674,3S5 head, the largest monthly
total of the year, and much larger
than the total for the corresponding
month last year The gain was due to
the heavy inbound movement of sheep
and cattle.
Cornered by flames on the top of a
three-story boarding house firetrap in
the Fifth Ward at Houston, Texas, on
Friday, with every avenue of escape
eliminated except through the win
dows, Albert C. Stewart, sick man
was compelled to make the leap for
life while hundreds of spectators, un
able to render the slightest assist
ance, looked on and shuddered at the
heartrending sight. Women screamed
and tainted and strong men shouted
themselves hoarse giving futile direc
tions to the desperate man in the tor
floor of the burning building. At last
flames appeared in his room and dense
smoke enveloped the frantically gesti
culating man. He was seen to swing
out of the window ledge and hang sus
pended in that position for several mo
ments in the hope that ladder woult
be placed for his rescue or at least {
net would be spread for him when he
dropped He struck on his face ant
was seriously injured
China Is declared to be on the verge
of another upheavel similar to tn,
Boxer uprising, and the lives of for
eigners are in jeopardy Advices re
ceived in Washington recently from
government officials in China express
the belief that an outbreak at any tint
would not surprise them. The stat'
department has instructed its official
TO maintain close watch on the inter
national situation.
Representative II. ]. G. Beckemeyer
on the witness stand before the Lori
mer investigating committee, in Chi
cago Thursday, testified that he receiy
ed $1,000 after he had voted for Sen
ator Lorimer and that the money wa
paid to him because of his vote TO
the junior senator from Illinois.
George w. Patten, retired million
aire board of trade operator and broth
er of James A. Patten died of tubercu
losis at the residence of James A. Pat
ten in Evanston, ILL.,, Thursday. Gee
w. Patten left fortune estimated a
S6,000,000, the greater part of which
st is said, win be left to public char
ities.