Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN 1T is
NEWS, FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
Happenings the Wide World over Of
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
DOMESTIC.

The number Of people killed and in
5ured by the railroad companies of
the United States, according to the ac-
cident bulletin just issued by the in
terstate commerce commission for the
quarterly period ending March 81, was
100 killed and 21,232 injured.
Three former officials, formerly high
in the management of the Illinois
Central Railway, were arrested at Chi
cago Saturday in connection with the
alleged huge frauds by which the rail-
road company claims to have been de-
frauded of 81 100000. The men arrest
ed were Frank B. Hartman, former
general manager Of the road Charles
Il. Ewing, former manager of lines
north of the Ohio River; John NJ. Tay-
lor, former general storekeeper of the
road.
The first lot of gulf coast rice to be
marketed for the season of 1910 was
purchased by NJ. NJ. Dickensen for the
Texas Mills from Taylor Hebener,
rice farmer of Bay City. The consign-
ment of 400 sacks is now en- route to
Houston and will be used by the Tex
as Mills for their regular trade. The
price paid has not been made public
Thirty-five per cent of the weather
bureau stations in Texas reported rain
Friday, the amounts varying from a
trace to an inch. Abilene had a rain
of one inch and good showers have
been reported from Sherman, Nacog-
ol,
case amounting to more than 0.50
inch A number of other stations re-
ported less amounts.
The attorney generals department
Wednesday approved and the control
Ter registered 100000 city of Calves
ton seawall improvement bonds, the
proceeds from which are to be used
on the present seawall to make 1T
meet the original engineering require
ments so that the spray from high
waves may be thrown back into the
gulf.
In pistol duel, which took place
at Hot Springs, Ark. Wednesday with
in the shadow of the court house be-
tween Sheriff Jake Houpt and his
brother and deputy, Sid Houpt, on one
side, and Oscar and George Chitwood,
mountaineers of Ragweed Valley,
Lincoln township. on the other, Sheriff
Houpt was MORALLY wounded and
George Chitwood was shot and killed
Strong opposition to the proposed
plan of John Hays Hammond, Daniel
j. Sully and other cotton men to es-
tablish a chain of cotton warehouses
developed Wednesday at the opening
session of the Alabama Farmers Pro-
gressiye and Cooperative Union at
Montgomery, Ala.
Confederate Reunion in session at
McGregor, Tex, selected Beaumont
for next years meeting, to be held the
first Thursday and Friday in October.
Mrs. Kate Gerald Weaver, daughter of
Colonel G. B. Gerald of Waco, address
ed the Daughters of the Confederacy
on the duty of the state to provide
adequate homes for confederate vet
Grams and widows.
Oscar j. Rountree, former ranger,
was shot and fatally wounded Friday
az San Antonio. d. b. Chaplin of Chap
in was arrested charged with the
crime. One bullet from 44-calibre
pistol struck Rountree almost exactly
in the middle of the forehead, passing
through the brain and coming out un-
der the right ear
The population of Milwaukee is $780,
S57, an increase of SS,542, or 81 per
cent, compared with 2S5,315 in 1900
The population of Des Moines is &c.
S6S, an increase of 24,229, or 80 per
cent, compared with 62,139 in 1900
The population of Davenport is 43,02S,
an increase of MA. or 81 per cent,
compared with 1924 in 1900.
T. S. Mcdowell, former general sup
erintendent of the Missouri. Kansas &
Texas Railway of Texas, who has been
i'll in St Louis some four or five
months, died Thursday at st. Lukes
Hospital.
The captains and the kings de-
part and the reign of King Cotton is
over. Promptly at midnight Tuesday
the gates of the carnival grounds
closed upon the last of the stragglers
who were going home, and the second
chapter of the Galveston Cotton Car
nival, with all its work and its sue
cesses Is closed book.
Directors of the Standard Oil Com
pany held their summer dividend
meeting in New York Tuesday and de-
clared the regular per cent division
for the quarter, which calls for dis
tribution to Standard stockholders of
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