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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1900
Page
2
Rain yields strong crops across counties. Tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloupes, and vegetables plentiful. corn good but cut short by drought in some areas. Odessa and Blossom report heavy fruit and corn prospects. Cattle movements and cattle shipments noted. disease in cattle near Sweetwater. a dozen local notices on farms, auctions, and law actions significant to Texas and Indian Territory agriculture.
In New Orleans on July 27 crowds attacked black residents prompting Mayor Capdevielle to draft 500 special policemen and Governor Heard to mobilize 1500 militia. Saloons were closed and businesses shut as violence persisted. one black man was killed and about twenty injured. A separate wreck near Beaumont, Texas involved a westbound Southern Pacific train with no fatalities, three injuries, and a relief train sent to aid.
Hong Kong diary reports an Italian priest arriving after revolting violence in Sien Au Southern Hu an. The Italian bishop and three priests were killed on July 4 after mass conversion camps. six hundred converts massacred. seven teens on a river-boat coffin escape.
In Fort Worth Texas on July 27 two colored men arrested for a murderous assault on John Warner were identified by the victim today. He ascertained them as his assailants and they were returned to jail to await grand jury action. Warner is resting and likely to recover. The excitement has subsided.
Amarillo July 27. Lieutenant overvor J N Browning lists faculty recruits for the Sam Houston Normal Institute season 1900 1901 beginning September 19. Names include Mrs Anna M Park Hitchcock Miss Effie Stewart Hillsboro Miss Emma Clifton Kaufman Thomas Mallard Tehuacama Mrs J A Hibbetts Merkel.
In Dallas on July 27 a one year old boy, John Cocks, was killed when he darted ahead of an electric streetcar without a conductor on board. The motorman could not avoid the collision as the car struck and dragged him along the track. The accident occurred near his home as he rode on the rear of an ice wagon and failed to see the approaching car.
Twelve Port Arthur defendants charged in the Peter Sweeney lynching appeared in Beaumont district court. After a morning of preliminaries, all cases were continued to the November term as Judge West ordered a special jury pool of 200 men per case and nearly 100 witnesses packed the room.
In Eagle Lake Texas on July 27 a Mexican man named Castro killed a Black woman by slashing her throat then killed himself at daylight. The couple had left town edge together and returned where Castro stabbed himself twice after the murder. The woman was not found until late yesterday evening.
Yesterday another strong company filed for charter to build and operate oil mills in Texas and Indian Territory. The Indian Territory Oil and Cotton Company will have $175000 capital stock. Directors include M. L. Trout J. A. Stanfield Thomas Forbes Jr. B. Bennett Dr. John Grant J. F. Holt N. B. Birge F. G. Jamison. This is the second such organization in Sherman in a few days.
The Cottage City arrived in Victoria with about 100000 dollars in gold. It carried Klondikers and news of rich placer diggings at the Yukon headwaters. Over a number of miners have stampeded toward Glacier Bay seeking new strikes.
Fifty thousand grateful letters testify that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound overcomes painful periods and irregularities. Advice offered by Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts is available for those seeking help.
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