Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 6, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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ALL OVER THE COAST.
NEWSY ITEMS FROM VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE STATE.
General Summary of Crops Produced—
Immigration and Improvement Notes of
Our Sister Cities—Pickups That are of
General Interest.
A Methodist parsonage is to be built
at Truby.
The Odd Fellows at Caddo will build
a new hall.
Laredo is to have an irrigation con-
vention next month.
Smith vide expects to have electric
lights next month.
A creosote mauufactory is'"to be es-
ta bushed at feouierville.
Jefferson county has a lady deputy
county clerk, who waits on the court.
William Tolliver, an old citizen of
Kaufman, was kicked to death by a
horse.
Three families at Will’s Point were
poisoned by eating sour meat, but all
recovered.
The farmers of Tarrant county are
preparing to try the experiment of
sugar beet culture.
G. W. Galvin’s store was entered by
burglars at Kerrville and a quantity
of provisions stolen.
The Clay Station coal mines near
Brenham are to be put in active oper-
ation soon.
J. O. Owen, a Southwestern univer-
sity student at Georgetown, was sej
verely crippled by a runaway horse.
Encinal county wants to cut loose
from Webb/for judicial and all other
purposes and organize on her own ac-
count.
An enormous bear was brought in
Thursday from the Neelies river
swamp, about eight males north of
Beaumont.
Mr. E. .T. Holmes, after having spent
one year truck gardening in Beau-
mont, has returned to Wallisville to
engage in the same business.
The schooner Mermaid of Galves-
ton. owned by Dr. T. W. Shearer of
Wallisville, has been sold to Captain
Emanuel Enos of Turtle Bayou.
The body of a drowned man, sup-
posed to be Cornelius Gray, a former
sailor, was washed ashore north or Cor-
pus Christi Sunday about 4 o’clock p.
m.
The Alvin post. Grand Army of the
Republic, has organized a colonization
scheme to settle a large number of old
soldiers and other Northern people in
tha- a- '-'Mon.
11.0 3 and 4-year-old
po. This is the bigge-d
iny cattle sold in this
V. Kohler
Oathine this
fed beeves
price paid
section this*fall.
The cabbage crop of Alvin is being
moved and quantities are being ship-
ped daily. Pear and peach trees have
been blooming all the fall. A cold snap
would do good.
Robert Davis and a white boy were
playing with a supposed empty pistol
recently at Lyons. The pistol went off
killing Laura Harris, a young negress
about 20 years old.
The Daglish hardware company of
Tyler, Joe Daglish proprietor, executed
a deed of trust Monday night, naming
W. L. Cain trustee, to secure creditors
to the amount of $27,000. Preferred
list given.
The fourth-class postmasters of Tex-
as have been called upon by W. C.
Erwin, postmaster at Granger, to meet
in Austin the first Tuesday in January
for the purpose of taking steps to have
themselves placed under civil service
rules.
Millionaire Green and a sporting
party of gentlemen from the North re-
cently spent some time viewing the
beauties in and around the B-luf'f City.
They left for Rock port in their special
car, from which place they will jour-
ney to their homes.
A very sad accident occurred in Cor-
pus Christi recently. A little Mexican
girl fell into a large furnace and her
body was burned to a crisp before her
parents could rescue her. She lived
two days in the greatest agony. She
was 5 years old.
Mr. N. C. Cunningham, a highly re-
spected citizen and farmer, who lives
six miles from Lexington, was way-
laid and killed about three miles from
town the other evening. As yet no
clew has been found. Parties are out
with bloodhounds.
Messrs. Baldwin and Yates, two of
the United States engineers from
Washington, D. C., arrived at Quin-
tana recently. Their chief, Hon. H. L.
Meridian, having gone by the way of
Galveston, will not arrive until Mon-
day.
Saturday evening about 4 o’clock at
Grapeland, the clothes of Mr. G. D.
Mullens’ youngest child, aged about 3
years, accidentally caught fire and it
died about two hours later. There was
no one at home except some children,
and by the time Mr. Mullens got word
and got home the child was dead. He
lives about two miles from town.
The East Texas Telephone company
has opened up headquarters in Beau-
mont at the corner of Main and Crock-
ett streets, near the postotfiee. The
company is getting along rapidly with
the line to Sabine Pass.
Messrs. Roberts, Moore and Four-
ntey, the commission appointed by tba
government to investigate deep water
facilities at the mouth of the Brazos
river, will not arrive at Quintana until
January 0, and these engineers have
come in advance so as to be able to
report to them on their arrival concern-
ing the Brazos river and its surround-
ings.
A. L. Baldwin and C. C. Yates, part
of the engineering corps to examine
the Brazos and report to congress the
extent of the work done at Velasco, ar-
rived at that place Saturday. The
emef engineer has not yet arrived, hut
is expected oh every train. General
Robert. Mr. Robert Moore and Secre-
tary Forney of the commission will ar-
rive about the middle of January.
The Jack county railroad committee
has paid the Gulf and Brazos Valley
Railway company the last installment
of their cash bonus and a contract has
11ren closed for the immediate con-
struction of tiie road from Mineral
Wells to Jacksboro. The work of con-
struction between Millsap on the
Texas and Pacific and Mineral Wells
will be completed within thirty days.
A tenant house belonging no T. H.
Trippe of Waelder burned Monday
and in the ruins was found Mary Pul-
len, colored, 18 years old, with a hole in
her skull. It is supposed that the
young negress was murdered and then
the house was burned to cover suspi-
cion. As yet there is no clew to the
crime.
Tom Cunningham, the 17-year-old
stepson of Mr. J. C. McMickle of Bee-
vi'Jle, is a probable victim of the holi-
day festivities. He was found near
the Aransas Pass stock pens Friday
morning with his abdomen and legs
burned to a crisp. He claims to have
been shot with a Roman caudle
Thursday night. The unfortunate is
in a deplorable condition and the phy-
sicians say his recovery is doubtful.
J. J. Taylor, who has been on trial in
Houston two days, charged with cattle
theft, was found guilty and his punish-
ment fixed at two years in the peniten-
tiary. There were nearly 100 witnesses
in the case and it was one of the hard-
est fought cases of the term. The
Stockmen’s Protective association as-
sisted in the prosecution. There is an-
other charge of cattle theft against
Taylor, and it will come up next week.
Bridge Jumper Higgins jumped, or
rather dropped, from the San Jacinto
street bridge into the bayou at Hous-
ton Sunday afternoon. A large crowd
turned out to see the performance,
which was free. A ladder projected
out over the edge of the bridge frame,
and Higgins swung down by his
hands and dropped, feet first. He wa
pulled oil t of the waterby waiting
friends, and beyond a rip in bis tights
no harm was observable.
W. G. Brooking, a switchman, aged
about 40 years, and an employe of the
San .Antonio and Aransas Pass; rail-
way. was badly hurt while on duty
Sunday morning at Yoakum. It seems
that ids foot became fastened between
two rails while attempting to make a
coupling, and the cars knocked him
down, mangling and mashing his left
foot. The arm has been amputated
just below the shoulder joint, and two
toes of the injured foot have been
amputated also.
Improvements in Ciiero for the com-
ing spring in the way of substantial
buildings are a three-story hotel on the
Muti site, a brick block on. Runge’s
corner and the new power, water amid
light plant by Bushel Bros., from their
dam on the Guadalupe, now in course
of construction. There is a chance for
more good people there with energy and
a little money with which to buy cheap
lands.
The strange engineer corps at work
in the vicinity of Millsap running lines
down the Brazos valley are still in the
field, and it is surmised that they are
in the employ of either the Santa Fe
or Rock Island, arranging for a con-
nection with the Gulf and Brazos Val-
ley road. The grading outfit of the
Brazes Valley read has gone into camp
here and will resume work Monday.
Property in Millsap has doubled in
value since work has commenced on
the Brazos Valley road and twenty
business lots were sold last week.
Strawberries are coming into the Al-
vin market more freely and some
crates are being shipped out. One
crate was shipped to Houston on the
21st. This fruit is aM raised in the
open field, as there is only one man
there trying to grow berries under pro-
tection, and his berries are not in ad-
vance of the open field, as yet the wea-
ther has been so open and spring-like.
One crate was sent to the Tremont ho-
tel in Galveston. Several crates are
brought in each day, but most of them
ard sold to passengers on the trains.
Miss Nettie Gray, daughter of Coun-
ty Judge E. P. Gray, manipulated the
clerical end of the special session of
the commissioners court at Beaumont
last week. She is the first lady to oc-
cupy such a position, and she did it
with credit to herself and her sex.
Albert Cohn, of Brenham, dealer in
dry goods, notions and men’s clothing
and furnishing goods, at 6 o’clock Mon-
day afternoon filed in the county
clerk’s office a deed ef trust for the
benefit of preferred creditors, naming
Sig. Lewin as trustee. Liabilities about
$6000; assets not stated.
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.
James R. Burton, 47 years old, shot
himself through the head with a pistol
at his home recently at Prairieville,
Kaufman counity.
The Pacific Express Company’s safe
at Yorktown, DeWitt county,was blown
open and robbed several nights ago,
but only $25 was secured.
H. Graves, a white man, was arrested
and jailed at Bryan recently charged
as an accessory to the killing of Tom
Rowden, a negro, on Thompson creek,
a few days ago.
Pearl Adams, living at Blum, Hill
county, died from the effects of a blow
the other day which he received a
short time ago. Harry Hunniwell was
arrested and carried to jail.
F. W. Hensel, employed at Nolan &
Higginson’s livery stable in Denison,
got his hand caught in the gear of a
feed cutter a few days ago, lacerating
the first and second fingers.
John Hubbard, a negro, died a
short time ago at Luling, Caldwell
county, from a blow received with an
axe during an altercation with another
negro a few days previous.
George Dawson, a section laborer a4
Colbert, Grayson county, got the mid-
dle finger of the left hand caught under
the end of a tie the other morning se-
verely mashing and lacerating it.
Messrs. Bass & Coffey recently made
their last shipment of turkeys, 1,800
from Denton, Denton county, making a
total in weight of 16,500 pounds having
left that town in the last few days.
W. T. Claffin was arrested recently
for selling patent medicine at Arling-
ton, Tarrant county, without license.
He entered a plea of guilty and was
fined $5 and costs, the amount of the
license.
Glenn Lewis, a 19-yea.r-old negro boy
who lived on H. F. Kowles’ place, four
miles east of Brenham, Washington
county, drank a little over a quart of
whisky the other night and died the
next morning.
A few evenings ago the 14-months’-
old child of Frank Sumrail, about three
mile3 from Colmesneil, Tyler county,
was fatally scalded by a stove toppling
over and causing hot water to fall on
the child’s head.
Several nights ago on-the Galveston,
Houston and Henderson track, below
Houston, a train struck a wagon driven
by Jim Arnold and cut it in two and
perhaps fatally injured Arnold. The
ho; were unhurt. ”,
'--bound freight on the Santa
’e
son county, several njornings ago, dam-
aging several cars apd severely injur-
ing Conductor Osman and slightly
bruising the brakeman.
Frank Clark’s fine gin, grist mill and
machinery burned the other day at
Rockwall, Rockwall county. The fire is
supposed to have originated from some
one stepping on a match in the gin.
The total loss is $8000 and no insur-
ance.
Oliver Lippineott, formerly an agent
of Parker Bros., Meriden, Conn., was,
arrested at San Antonio a short time
ago on an affidavit charging him with
embezzling a piano, valued a;t $325 and
also $325 in money from Barker Bros.,
in Waco, some time ago. He was re-
leased on bond in the sum of $750.
A little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Hadley, living at Hillsboro, Hill coun-
ty, while playing around a pile of burn-
ing rubbish the other day, got his face
severely burned by the explosion of a
cartridge that was in it. His eyebrows
and lids were burned off and his hair
badly burned. It is feared that he will
lose his eyesight.
Dick Lane, colored, is in a critical
condition, and Jackson Jones, colored,
is in jail at Sherman. The complaint
charges him with having been the
cause of Lane’s discomfiture. A gener-
al affray came up the other night in
Sherman over a jug of whisky, and
Jones is charged with having struck
Lane on the head with a breast-yoke.
Mrs. C. P. Stro was arrested recently
at Greenville, Hunt county, on a charge
of bigamy. She had a divorce in Okla-
homa last year from her husband, G.
F. Norton, and married Mr. Stro. Af-
beiward the divorce was annulled,hence
the suit.
The new courthouse at Decatur,
Wise county, is completed, and the dis-
trict court met in it for the first time
the other day. The building is of gran-
ite and one of the most substantial as
well as artistic buildings in the state.
It cost $130,000.
Several mornings ago Walter Carr, a
negro, was shot and instantly killed in
Greenville, Hunt county. The affair
took place on Lee street in front of a
barbershop, where Carr was a boot-
black. A negro named Hall was ar-
rested and put in ja'iL
Sam Smith, colored, whose home is
in Jefferson, Marion county, had both
legs cut off at the knees by Texas and
Pacific train No. 3 at Atlanta. Cass
county, a few nights ago, which caused
his death in a few hours. He was on
the train and attempted to get off be-
fore it stopped.
SIGNS OF TH E PLANETS
INDICATIONS THAT AFFECT
EVERY HUMAN LIFE.
Prof. Cunningham’s Free Headings for
Our Readers Have Become Very
Popular—Some Instructions for the
Guidance of Applicants for Horoscopes.
T(
HE astrologer is
receiving many re-
quests for free
readings through
these columns.
Each request is
numbered when re-
ceived and every
one will be an-
swered in its turn.
The astrologer
again calls atten-
tion to the fact that each request must
state the date, place and hour of birth,
also sex and color, with full name and
address of sender. The initials only
and place of residence will be used in
the reading.
Be exact about the hour of
birth. If applicants do not know the
date or hour they should send two
two-cent stamps for special instruc-
tions. Persons wishing their horo-
scopes made immediately and forward-
ed by mail must send twelve two-cent
stamp to cover expenses. Name and
address must be plainly written. Ad-
dress all communications to Prof. G.
W. Cunningham, Dept. 4, 194, So. Clin-
ton street, Chicago.
This weeks readings are as follows:
Betsey: Monroe, Mich.
According to data, you are a mixture
of the signs of Taurus and Gemini, and
therefore Venus and Mercury are your
ruling planets or significators. You are
medium height or above, and medium
to dark hair, complexion and eyes; the
eyes have a peculiar sparkle and
sharp light; you are energetic and am-
bitious and will make a great effort
to rise in the world, yet you will find
many obstacles to overcome and will
not be appreciated or paid in accord-
ance with what your ability should
command, yet you will succeed far
better than the average of people. You
are a natural horn orator and if you
take ordinary care of the money you
get into your possession you will be-
come wealthy.
C. A. J., Webster City, Iowa.
According to data, the sign Leo,
which the Sun rules, was rising at your
birth, with Mercury and Venus on the
ascendant, and therefore the Sun, Ve-
-nns-arird- Mercpry jreyour ruling plan-
several mornings ago, dam- ets or significators.
You are medium height or above;
medium to light complexion, hair and
eyes; you will be disposed to baldness
early in life; you will be active, ambi-
tious, energetic, and will hold a good
position in any locality; you will always
he regarded as a leading man not so
much from your wealth as from your
ability. You will also be noted as hav-
ing a great gift of language and as an
orator you would make a great suc-
cess. You are very popular with the
ladies.
’ W. A. W., Dubuque, Iowa.
You have the zodiacal sign Virgo ris-
ing and therefore Mercury is your rul-
ing planet. You are medium height or
slightly above with a well proportioned
figure; the complexion, hair and eyes
from medium to dark; you are rather
reserved in your manner until you get
well acquainted. When young you
were quite bashful, modest and avoided
strangers. You are active, energetic,
ambitious and industrious; you are
very humane in your nature, kind to
all, make many friends, and will be
very popular with the ladies; you are
gifted in one of the fine arts and very
fond of any kind of art work; you have
good command of language. You will
rise to a high position in life, and if
you avoid hazardous speculation and
take good care of the money that comes
into your possession you will become
quite wealthy. It will be hard for you
to keep money after you make it.
Gertrude, St. Joseph, Mo.
You have the zodiacal sign Cancer
rising, therefore the moon is your rul-
ing planet; you are medium height or
above, with rather well proportioned
figure; the shoulders good width, the
complexion fair; eyes light; hair me-
dium; you are fond of making changes
in certain ways, and will be rather of
an emotional nature, and will some-
times change your mind very quickly
and apparently without any good rea-
sons for it. Your constitution is not of
a robust kind, and you are subject to
feverish ailments and especially severe
headaches when these attacks come
on. You are fond of having your own
way and are liable to rebel if opposed
strongly. You are endowed by nature
with strong intuitions, and might easily
develop some mediumistic powers if
you would make some effort in that
direction.
Remarkable Confidence,
She: “It is remarkable what confi-
dence that Mrs. Storms has in her hus-
band! Believes everything he says.”
He: “Well, why shouldn’t she?”
“Why, man! he’s a clerk in the weather
bureau.”—Yonkers Statesman.
“The principal value ox an educa-
tion,” wrote a little negro boy recent-
ly, in reply to the question, “is so you
can read the sign-boards at the cross-
roads, to tell you which road to go.”
What educator could give an answer
more condensed and comprehensive?
The supreme court of Idaho decides
that women can vote if they desire to,
and now that they can their desire to
do so is not as strong as it was. Like
lots of other pleasures we anticipate—
a little realization weara off the nov-
elty.
A man carrying an armful of fire-
wood would not ordinarily be made the
subject of comment. When, however,
the man represents a people who used
to think that such labor was a degra-
dation, he is interesting from a socio-
logical point of view. A correspondent
of the New York Evening Post, writing
from Montana, tells of seeing a Chey-
enne Indian walking from the brush
up to his lodge carrying wood. By his
side was a tiny girl with a backload
of little twigs. A few years ago an
Indian would have been ashamed to be
seen doing what he would have called
a squaw’s work. To-day the tribes are
directly, and consciously, and of neces-
sity adopting civilized ways. The little
girl at play represented the past; the
man, a promise of the future.
It is said of a combined telegraph
and telephone apparatus, the device ol
an army officer, that while one soldier
is sending a message in Morse charac-
ters, a second soldier may use the same
wire to talk telephonically with another
station. The distant receiving opera-
tors hear only their own messages.
This apparatus, it is further said, may
be carried conveniently in the user’s
hand. What if Napoleon could have
availed himself of such a contrivance
at Waterloo? Would history be just
the same
The interval between a presidential
election and an inauguration affords
about four months for entirely profit-
less newspaper speculation as to the
make-up of the in-coming president’s
cabinet Coming immediately after the
seeming hysteria of partisan appeals
to voters, this variety of newspaper
folly amounts almost to a public of-
fense.
“Walter Baker & Co., of Dorchester, Mass.,
U. S. A., have given years of study (o the skilful
preparation of < oeoa and chocolate, and have
devised machinery and systems peculiar to their
methods of treatment, whereby the purity,
palatabllity, anj} highest nutrient <'
are retained. '
world over and have rece
ments fi om the medical
are :
world (
,1 practitioner, the nurse,
and the intelligent housekeaper and caterer, .
There is hardly any food-product which may he
so extensively used in the household in combin-
ation with other foods as cocoa and chocolate;
but here again -we urge the importance of purity
and i
I shall recommend Piso’s Cure for Con-
sumption far and wide.—Mrs. Mulligan,
Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 8, 1895.
Ebony knobs and handles are of fre-
quent occurrence on silver tea and cof-
fee services.
FITS -
after first
cured. No fits
eat N erve
The mother of Moses did more for
the world than the king who built the
pyramids.
Mrs. Winslow’a Soothing Syrup
lor children teething, softens thegume. reduces inflam-
mation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle
Many a life has been spoiled by not
snowing the difference between thrift
and stinginess.
Cancer
01 the Face.
Mrs. Laura E. Mims, of Dawson, Ga.,
says: “A small pimple of a strawberry
color appeared on my cheek; it soon
began to grow rapidly, notwithstand-
ing all efforts to check it. My
eye became terribly
inflamed, and was so
swollen thatfor quite
a while I could not
see. The doctors
said I had Cancer of
the most malignant
type, and after ex-
hausting their efforts
without doing me
any good,they gave
hopeless. When in-
father had died from
the same disease, they said I must die,
as hereditary Cancer was incurable.
“At this crisis, I was advised to try
S.S.S., and in a short while the Cancer
began to discharge and continued to do
so for three months, then it began to
heal. I continued the medicine a while
longer until the Cancer disappeared en-
tirely. This was several years ago and
4here has been no return of the disease.”
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