Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1, Wednesday, November 23, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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Mrs John C D Taborprominent
among the Womans Itellet corps work-
ers of Texas died at her home In Dal-
las Tuesday >
The Dallas Millinery Companys
wholcsalo millinery Btore was burned
Friday entailing a loss of piobably
25000 with about 20000 Insurance
C S Looney whllo working at Rey
nold Brothers gin at Carbon had his
right hand cut and mangled so badiy
that his hand had to be taken off near
the elbow
An election has been ordered for
Galnesvlllo to decide whether or not
the city electric light plant shall be
sold the election to be held on Wed-
nesday jbcci 7 r
The petition for the lmmedlato sup
prcssionot gambling In ElPasocity
signed by 1400 white voters waspre
sented to Sheriff Boonotoday by n
committee of citizens
Mrs Hickman wlfo of a farmer In
the northern corner of Lamar Coijn
ty near Woodlandfdlod Mondaylffroro
burns received while in thoiyord wain
Ing two weeks ago
The store of W A Oreen Dallas
was damaged by flro Friday to the
amount of about 36000 and thethree
was nearly wrecked Tho damage is
covered by Insurance
J A Murray a stockman of Dllley
Texas was struck by a Southern Pa
clue passenger train at San Antonio
Wednesday night and killed whlld
walking along the track
Dorothy tie 3yearold daughter ol
QO Turner of Texarkana got hold
otsomo matches and whllo striking
them on thejlopr her ressbccamj
asia driverfaTyOklahoma
from tho hlghscat of oitransfeWwagon
Saturday night and broke his neck
His death resulted three hours latex
Fred Douglass School House a lore
frame structure need by negroes at
Sherman horned Thursday oTenlngs
Origin of Are unknown hut thought tc
he a defective line Loss 090 tatrlj
well Insured
The Planters Compress and Ele
vator Company of Greenville owns the
round hale gin and compress and ex
pects to spend 15000 or 20000 Is
building an elevator and warehouses
for handling grain r
Staio Treasurer Bobbins issued his
fifth call for warrants registered
against the general revenue fund
Thursday Tho number was 8379ag
gregatlng 819Q8 This rpduces ihe
total deficit to 002931
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Ed Taylor a negro captured Wa
co and who is wanted In Quadalupa
County carged with assault to murder
Is at large with handcuffs on or al
while being conveyed to Seguln
Clifford Orr Connor tho negro wfo
waS so badly burned In tho napthaex
plosion at tho Trinity Cotton 011 < com
panys plant jujs aj wheriLjiba2Var
ren was burned to death died at St
Paul Sanitarium Thursday morning-
S i < j u t
Aj verdict for 4000 damages was
awarded Herman Hcmpkln Wednesday
at acoagainst tnoclflzens Sireel
Itallwoy Companyr for Alleged dam
ages received l > y MrslHompklns in
alighting from defendants car
PeterJohnson a resident ofHobo
ken has narrowly escaped a living
death Ja a Rwarap nearblshomo He
had sunk tohis chn ln tbe quljjljsand
when rescued By tfie combined efforts
of six men who pulled him out with a
rope
The Gulf Texas and Northerri hav
lng > won theirfeuftfor life old right of
way and dump from tho Texas South-
ern a e proceedlng ot onco wlln the
rj1 7
Vv
scapainLnihurnlngjt nemcnt house at
lsSTro utmari street In tho Vllliams
burg < Istrlct of Brooklyn twelve per-
sons met death shortly before 2
oclock Sunday morning
Two entire families tho30 of Ma
ranco Trlolo and Charles Polognlo
wore wiped outr the last living mem-
ber of each being now n a hospital
with no hopo of their recovery They
jare Charl s iPolognot 3 years oldand
Tony Trlolo 13 years old both of
whom are terribly burned Although
In the opinion Of the coroner all the
dead were suffocated the bodies were
hadly burned before they could be ta-
ken from the building by firemen The
burned bulldlngls In thd center of a
row of three story tenements extend-
ing tho length ofthe block and was
occupied by Italla ns The fire Is sup-
posed tohave sfarteiTIn the cellar of
a grflcerystoro qfAPtQnio Goalmbal
vos on tho ground floors Thecellar
was stored with inflammables and the
flames spread with lightninglike rap
idity All the occupants were asleep
at the time and there was considera
ble delajjfln sending in thtfTirst alarnu
JJialmbalvosJamlly lived in the
Thq
rear of the Btftrejandsdcc eded in
getting out of the building but bofore
BRECKINRIDGE DEAtJ 4
r A
Death Was the Result of a Stroke of
Paralysis
Lexington Ky1 Col William Camp-
bell Preston Breckinridge tiled Satur >
tlay ntghtom a stroke of paralysis
sustained on Wednesday t
The end came peacefully Ho had
been gradually slnkng for twentyfour
hours nnd for that length of time the
case had been known to bo hopeless
taklng
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the iTL Dffpm Central University
Richmond Ky and Cumberland Unf
verplty Tennessee He entered tho
army of the Confederacy as captain
later became colonel 6f the Ninth Ken
tuck Cuvalry and commanded the
Kentucky cavalry brigade when It
surrendered He was afterward pro
lessor of equity jurisprudence In the
University of Kentucky He was a
member of congress from tho Sev-
enth Kentucy district frpm 188 4 to
1895 being defeated for renomlnatlon
to the office In 1894 He was a gold
standard democrat
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Troubla In lowaj >
Des Moines Iowa Jlaco war Is im-
minent at Fraser Iowa where Thorn
as Albright ajwhitiT miner asjSat
u rdayjnlglitjshot and orfa found-
ed by James Price a negro The
white miners held a meeting SunSay
aferrio6nnnd voted to refuse to work
longer vlth the negroes in the mining
to
camp There are from thirtyfive
fifty negroes In tho camp and 1200
withthe handcuffs on
least ho escaped whltes Botn Bies are heavily armed
If PrlceMs caUght it lKbelieved the
mineraintheir preset state of mind
will1 do violence to him Abrlfiht is
alive but tho doctors say tjjat he can
Cut His Own Throat
Knxville TefinV Cromwell B jos
kins an insurance man committed
uulciddihere > lasWnlghti his deadibodyi
being foundthls mornlngrlyingolttjan
alley fR t hp bujdnqss dJstrlctuHe 1haJ
ciit his throat fronji arjtptear Finan
state thanager of th Aetna tlfeUh
suranco tjompay Hi s business parM
jer dVsTlo3kTnsnaa no financial
troubles that Ko knows of
J r i r i t It
i Rosk Expkdjd Dynamlfej >
Ghandtor OIc While lasUn In
v
constrijctlne tthe vatprjvorkav sys em
herea flying piece pfroolc Saturday
night fell into a box containing o nun
sevetfmoro teams at work on the grad ia i w
at Marshall
ing
Judge M MrBrooks of tho court of
criminal appeals mado a sworn state-
ment Thursday morning to the effect
that his election expenses were 1 50
This to pay to have his name printed
on the ticket In an obscure western
county
plosion foltowed wfhlch shook Jtha
earth for miles Mrs Philip Ho feld
althbugn several hundred feet distant
was fatally Injured and numerous
persons were sllg htly Injured Hun-
dreds of window glasses were shat-
tered
The SHinerk6afetteiAWp 8U 0f TEN j NT fiRl
T C HABERMACHEIl FublUhor
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SHINER TEXAS
ALL QVER TEXAS
The flower and baby show at Min-
eral Wells during thepast week was
well attended and aroused much In-
terest i U tf
TwoEntirePamilieSWipedOutinroolclynTlie
Bodies Rescued Brave Eiremen v
by
ft
Now York Nov 21 Smothered be the occupanti
foro they could reach the rear flro were aroused
cut off
Before tho
had spread to
but the occup
Ing and all
the firemen v
a time by tli
S the two other floors
iqlr escape had been
men arrived the flro
adjoining tenements
fi had sufficient warn
ped The Work of
greatly hampered for
irowds of frightened
Italians who Silled lh8 streets The
tenants In nj jjjS all the neighboring
buildings dragged thelrft household
goodsout Of flioibulldlngsVand wUh
them blocked tjgway of the flrcappa
ratus
Allthb boj
rear room of
was evident tl
fcated in thejj
escape at the
In his interva
lognio cried to
were fpund In tho
ie third floor and It
x all had been suffer
ffort to reach the fire
ack of the buildings
of consciousness Po
Is wiio and children
but tho physicians feared tno tidings
of their deathjSvould kill him and
have not tpldWpn of their Jiito
In their > Investigations as to the
origin of the flfe the police have been
unable to obfafir a statement Of any
kind from neighboring tenants The
street about Jjia burned bulidlng was
crowded wlihfllians all day but the
police roporttlfiat every ond question-
ed regnrdlng the persons > burned or
tho occupantsfifithe buildlnghasTe
fused to malveffiny answer > <
Suspense Continues
St Petersburg The suspenses en
gendered by S Japanese JattacWion
Poutilotf htll ntinues Tfils move
ment has jiroVecL successf ul iflffifid
merely to capture a Russian position
bift whejler llP as intended tp mask
activity at soniSothor point nlong the
front has notjMveloped Some corre
spondents Tfqrafwhat tn yy consider
significant Japanese movements on
the Russian rigit and othersthat a
Japanese coluninj is moVing fifty or
slx mllesljgward tuttheopinion
In min t ary55cjes seems obe > that
no great moverStflt Islikely lo trana
pfMeforttir o1yporl A u fl
dficided jAt the snme tme t is re-
called that Gen Kuropatkins great
aggressive movement offast month
war in fuil swing a week before the
outside Wdrld realized what was oc
curring r
Girl Killed by Brother
Hempstead Tejcas Saturday on
the Cuny farm auguf eighteen miles
fr6m here BeatricjijMcDade a oung
negro girl was llccTd htally snot and
almost Instantly kjjled by tho dls
charge of a shotgun in the hands of
her brother The gun had been load
ed by thegirl unknowji to ier brother
Shocked nd Fell
Beaumont Texasr George Legfjq a
lineman of the SlectrToJ Light Com
pari cdmfe in contact with a lfyo wire
at Ewlng knd LibtrTyi streets Sunday
mornln and rec ed a shock Sw lch
precipitated hlm fwjthe ground rie
sustained a fracturoof the bone of his
right unin
arm butwair pllierwise
jured though It lTObth Ing less than a
miracle that he if called death
Use StlnkjjBombi
t
Che Foo TheJlpcal 4ttuVsfab consul
has received frqm Port Arthur a let
tor describing thejuseby tho Japanese
of a peculiar mjssllej < 4 Thls nrisslle
looks liko a IbngyBausage The1 Jap-
anese throw Itlntb tho trenches and
it burbtsr glvlng ftfanodor so foul
thatt It Is nriVmmwri o ut lot the
ti9nches immeoffi ha soldiers
faint Thegas isKoVfa tal in ltsref
Jeot m < m i
tftjifi 1 >
t
lt SquadroijjSt Lajaeand >
n pqnenjiagen lTJi geepnUsecUon of
the Jtujsiant PactflcSiitadjon anchor
fe I Saturday mo Hnor hJvaid < itthe
iSlajjd oi Lartgclagj3 and i on Sunday
mirning je uu i
waid
csltWQurtcynorth
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Cfeorglans Go tQ consin for Jdeas
t Atlanta ga jorgp Foster Pea
body accompanllo fJj Governor Ter
rplI PresldenfslnijaJS nc r of the
Southern Rallwjm an a party of for
tytwo left Saturaity night for a trip
of Inspection ot 0l9 jJnlMJrsity of Wis-
consin at Madlsdn wls The object
of the trip is ti familiarize the gov
erning body u fhe university of Geor-
gia with tho methods and progress of
the Wisconsin institution
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F P LUCK Agent Shiner Texas
A v U i Y t i i J i
TMb fine beer is for sale in Shiner by E J Wnngemann Joe
Macks nnclJJ lJIHldebrnndtnnil ntDfeyer byA olpliSchulze
Bismarck Safijcfi < JFjSBS H t
THE BEST WHISKIES WINES 5 >
AND LIQUORS ALWAYS IN STOCK
NEXT DOOR TO WALTERS BROS
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MANWACTUJKfroGGO I
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seed and
pay the highest market price
HULLS AND MEAL ALWAYS ON HAND
Sell your seed to the HOME MILL and
patronize a HOMBi INSTITUTION
D C DANIEL Manager
OPEHA HOUSE BAR
22L ANDSEC MEH
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Having purchased thlB Saloon I Invite all my Frlendo
A and the Old Customers to >
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Iwill keep a full stock of the Best Whiskies Wines
Beer and Cigarjs and will always treat you right
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ALBEKT BEKCKENHOFFr
FTsFEHR NKMPt
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Not only carries a JPnlLStook ol tha Tory eifrj >
LUMBER SHINGLES SASH JiNB DOORS
But ha can also supply yon with <
Brick Paints Oils Builders Hardware
Barb Wire Poultry Netting Pumpi PipeFittings nd
DANDY WINDMILLS
Prompt and cloje nttontion siren to all crlom
S Moulton Testae
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Habermacher, J. C. Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1, Wednesday, November 23, 1904, newspaper, November 23, 1904; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth111631/m1/2/?q=%22ROSENBERG%22~1: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .