Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-10-19
ITEMS Of INTEREST
NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN 1T
is NEWS, FOR ALL.
OOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
happenings the Wide World over Of
important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
DOM STIC.

The board of prison commissioners
h its September report, submitted to
he governor of Texas Saturday, re-
ports 3,415 convicts. At the end of
he month there we're in Huntsville
40 convicts; Rusk, 1853; on the
arms: Harlem, 212; Imperial, 361;
Ramsey, 1877; Wynne, 63, and Goree,
"; seventeen in insane asylums; a
otal OF 1852 of the system proper.
Leased on contract were 497 and on
Ihares 1,056.
The submerged wreck of the gov
eminent dredgeboat Captain c. W.
Howell, which sunk in the gulf off
Matagorda in the early morning of
September IA, has not been located
The party which went out Monday on
the government tug Captain Tailor
returned Saturday morning after a
Ruthless search of three days, during
which time large area of water was
covered.
Six and three-quarter inches of rain
,ell at Eagle Pass Friday. The south
western portion OF the city of Piedras
Negras was flooded and hundreds of
families homeless.
Robbers who entered the postoffice
at Mulberry, fifteen miles east of
Pittsburg, Kan, early Saturday, es-
,aped with several packages of regis
erred mail. One package is said to
nave contained $4,000, being sent to
he Sheridan Coal Company to pay
its miners.
A systematic robbery of freight
cars has been in progress at Browns
Vile for some time, according to the
local officials, and eight arrests have
been made in connection with the af-
fair.
The Texas board of pardon advisers
have an accumulation of approximate
ly 700 applications for pardon.
z The plans for the eight-day cam
paign to be conducted in Houston
under the auspices of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement Decem-
Der 4 to IL are taking very definite
shape. Several different committees
headed by some of the most promi-
nent business and professional men
are busily engaged in working out
every detail. The pastors are all coop
Grating and committees are organized
and at work in most of the churches.
Each week Populations of laymen and
pastors go out to the surrounding
towns for conference with the church
leaders and to assist in arousing such
interest as will insure large delega-
lions attending the Houston conyen-
ton. Full information may be Sc
cured by addressing Mr. T. F. Viewer,
executive secretary OF the Men and
Religion Forward Movement, Hous-
ton, Texas.
Waco was selected as the 1912 meet
ing place for the Grand Lodge Of the
Order of the Eastern star, officers
were elected for the ensuing year and
the convention, which has been in
progress for four days in Houston,
came to an end on Thursday night
after the grand installation Of officers
Hoke Smith will relinquish the gov
ernorship of Georgia on November Is
preparatory to taking up his duties
as United States senator, to which
office he was elected By the last leg
islature.
Edward W. sewalI, vice president
OF the Carson-Sewall Company anf
one of the most prominent business
men of Houston, was found dead II
bed Wednesday morning
With a crash that could be heart
all over Akron, Ohio. the reinforce,
concrete viaduct over the Cleveland
Akron and Cincinnati railroad col
lapsed Thursday. crushing the. rail
road company's freight house likl
pasteboard. The viaduct was erecte'
only few years ago at a cost o
$250,000.
The southbound Santa Fe passen
ger train on the Center branch wa
wrecked six miles above Bronson
Texas, at Steep Creek Wednesday
The engine struck a COW, resulting
in the locomotive and baggage car be
ing thrown from the track.
Fifteen governors have indorse'
Governor Colquitt's plan for confer
ence to check cotton price decline.
With thirty Cinnamon in charge
United States Marshal Eugene Nolt
left San Antonio for San Francisc
Wednesday, where the Celestials wi
be deported to China. These me
have been spprehended along the Tel
as border during the past thre
months and have been in jail at Sa
Antonio. Del Rio and other points