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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1899
Page
4
Special notice item notes postpaid year subscription details for Shiner Texas. It reports Humphries lyncher Carn guilty with a life sentence, unconfirmed capture of Aguinaldo by General Joe Wheeler, death of evangelist Dwicut Moopy in Northfield Massachusetts, and assorted overseas war commentary. It also mentions cotton crop forecasts by Arnoon Vioet & Co and gold standard shifts among Republicans.
The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Charles McMurray's two year penitentiary sentence for the killing of Prof. Charles Ledbetter. Ledbetter had been indicted for killing McMurray's father. The ruling ends the appeal and leaves McMurray without a new trial, prompting disappointment among his supporters.
Dallas lawyer K O Harrell was fatally shot by fellow attorney F M Etheridge around 9 AM in the rutande of the North Texas bank. Three bullets struck Harrell, entering above the stomach and breaking the left arm. recovery was deemed impossible. Etheridge, described as a man of prominence, committed the act.
In a building where the men met both drew guns. Harrell's weapon failed to fire. Attorneys clashed over depositions more than a week earlier and nearly sparked an open court room altercation. The long standing feud led to the shooting incident described.
The chief railway mail clerk Thomas Hathaway of Houston was found dead in his car in Luling at 2:30 am with a bullet to the heart and a pistol nearby. His remains were sent to Houston for the family. Fellow clerk Lippold doubts a pistol and the Houston office orders a crime inquiry to determine if robbery occurred.
London report notes the duke of Marlborough, a lieutenant in the Oxfordshire yeomenry, will lead 15 men and horses and provide equipment. Other peers including the earls of Warwick Dudley and Lonedale and viscount Galway have volunteered for service against the Boers.
An old advertisement offers BAL LARD OREHOUND SYRUP for bedtime use priced at 25 cents and 6 cents. Sold by Aty Grave.
In a rural town a new postmaster printed an inverted ad in the weekly paper. The notice warned that ten letters remain unclaimed and if no one notices and calls by month end the letters go to the dead letter office. Recipients are urged to check if any belong to them.
Beeville Texas December 13 Mrs J H New wife of Jake New a farmer near Beeville died yesterday morning at six after weeks of illness She was a Christian Scientist and refused all medicines despite urging from relatives and friends She leaves eight children.
A 19th century advertisement claims Lard's Snow Liniment gives immediate relief and heals any wound for 50 cents, offered by Aug. Grave. The fragmentary notice references remedies for broken limbs chilblains burns and sore throats.
Several Hillsboro clerks and laborers subscribe to the proposed cotton factory. The town’s growth and industrial prospects are tied to the project as supporters hope for local employment and economic uplift.
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