Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-09-15
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tawa, ILL.,, legislative minority leader,
charged with bribery in connection
with the election of William Lorimer
of Chicago to the United States sen.
ate, was acquitted by jury in Judge
George Kerstens' division of the GRIM
inal court at Chicago Friday. The
jury, which took eight ballots, was
out twenty-one hours. On the first
ballot the jury stood eight to four for
acquittal. This was the second trial,
the first jury having disagreed.
Brownies eyes filled with tears as the
clerk of the court finished reading
Inc verdict.
Florence Cohen, daughter of H. B.
Cohen, merchant of Waco, found a
burglar operating in her fathers
store of general merchandise, in the
residence portion of the city Friday,
and attacked the intruder, VINO is be-
lieved to have been a negro man. The
young lady was outclassed physically,
by the intruder, who wrenched him
self loose from her grip and made a
successful getaway.
The eleventh annual convention Of
the Sunday schools and affiliated
young peoples societies held its first
session at Mexico City Friday, with
more than five hundred delegates rep
resepting all portions of Mexico and
many communities in the United
States, in attendance.
Ravages of the Asiatic cholera in
Russia, Germany and Italy and pos
sibly of the plague being brought to
this country by infected immigrants,
has alarmed the public health and
marine hospital officials Surgeon
General Wyman has detailed Sur
geon Carter to visit the plague cen
tiers at once and report by cable.
officials of the interstate commerce
commission are aghast at the immen'
sity of the tasks before the commits
sion in the matter of express rates
and the tap line contention thct they
are common carriers and as such enti-
tied to division of through rates on
freight handled by them.
Although the ultimatum delivered
by the Southern Pacific Company to
the striking car repairers and build
ers from that road at Houston created
some excitement among the strikers,
none of the returned to work this
week in compliance Herewith. This
much was admitted at the office Oh
Vice President Thornwell Fay and at
the headquarters of the strikers 1t
was stated that the men would never
return to work unless the company
granted them the courtesy of hear
ing in regard to contract such as all
other employees of the road work un-
der,
The articles of association have been
signed by a number of citizens OF
Orange, capitalists for the purpose OF
building another railroad into Orange
1t is proposed that the road shall be
started on the opposite side of Or
rection to the Red River, where it will
connect with other lines.
With simple and impressive cere-
mony a delegation representing the
membership of organized labor of Pa
lestine Thursday presented to Cover
nor Campbell a beautiful loving cup,
which they had intended to present
to him Labor Day at Palestine, had ne
been able to attend the celebration Of
the laboring people of his home. The
presentation took place in Governor
Campbell's private office in the pres
ence of a few friends, nearly all of
whom are prominent in organized la
Dor circles in this state. r. A. Gar
ner, president of the Trades and La
Dor Council of Palestine, presented
the cup.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, ex.
president of the United States, at Chi
cago Thursday, barred Senator VIM.
Lorimer, junior senator from Illinois,
from the Hamilton Club banquet at the
Congress hotel by refusing to sit at
the same table. The incident came
unheralded. The program of the big
event under the guidance of the Ham
ilton Club has for days announced
that Senator Lorimer and others would
sit at the speakers table with Colo
mel Roosevelt.
The demand for cotton pickers in
Texas is greater than the supply,
hence prices for the work are going
up. ranging from soc to 81, according
TO conditions and circumstances. Cot.
ton appears to be opening in all fields
at once, hence enough labor can not
be secured to supply the demands.