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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1902
Page
6
Texas counties report student totals and facilities funds while officials meet fiscal demands. Secretary of State collected 16651.50 in June as rail and bank actions surface. Reunions, court appointments, counts of missing or deceased, and local incidents fill a broad Texas snapshot.
Mineola Texas July 14 Mr Wood of Mount Pleasant was run over and killed by a freight train switching in the yard. Memphis Texas July 14 Frank Wilder of Memphis killed by a freight train near Estelline Hall County.
In Blanconia, Beeville area, a four year old boy fell feet first into a narrow five inch well while Susan Griffith’s family were nearby. Helpers dug around the shaft but could not reach him before he died from suffocation.
In San Antonio a freight car loaded with baled hay on a sidetrack held two Mexican boys from Wallis station. One boy, Andreas Ramerez, was found dead, smothered, after a yardman heard a voice crying to open the door. The other boy, Juan Carrion, nearly collapsed. The car had been sealed with intense heat inside.
Greenville Texas July 14 Lee Bird a farm tenant in the Jacobin community was killed in Oklahoma Friday afternoon by an accidental shotgun discharge. He reached for a gun in bushes and the weapon fired into his left breast tearing the jugular vein. death followed quickly.
Weakahachie Texas July 13 Mr P R Thompson manager of East ham plantation near Astonia was in town arranging to attend the Farmers Congress He farms 1400 acres including Ellis county's largest cotton operation He reports 400 acres of corn cut for fodder and maize Kaffir corn and June corn on hand He will join the Enterprise party Tuesday morning for the A and M college
A Hot Springs Arkansas report says a Riverside Park picnic and barbecue party fifteen miles from the city capsized on the Ouachita river. John A. Scott of Kewanee Illinois drowned, while Harry Moore saved the two ladies Etta Beatty and Wilma Longbotham. Scott's body was recovered minutes after the accident. Anderson reports that the Navasota river is losing fish due to dynamite.
Fort Worth reports managers Northrop and Kerr of American Refrigerator Transit Company inspected shipments from Smith and Cherokee counties. So far 1100 cars of tomatoes and 300 of cantaloupes have shipped with peach shipments expected to reach 2200 cars by mid August. Peach sales alone may net over 1.5 million dollars. The Moral Orchard Company plans 8,000 acres of peaches and 1,000,000 tomato plants for next season.
Seattle dispatch says Tracey, wounded and ill, eluded four sheriffs who chased him through wet brush all day. Despite intensified vigilance and circling cordons, deputies found no sign beyond rumors, with the hunt continuing tonight and tomorrow. In Martinique Mont Pelee erupted with flames and thunder but caused no fatalities, prompting a French scientific team to travel from Guadeloupe.
Seguin Texas July 14 City Marshal George Holloman was fired on by a Mexican at the Southern Pacific depot. Holloman returned fire twice as the train paused and the man fled into brush after the exchange, the shot piercing the express car. Authorities expect a chase and possible fight upon capture.
A storm damaged a storehouse belonging to J. K. Graves ten miles southwest of Carthage killing Fields and Ponder and injuring Graves. The Chadwick barn four miles west burned with its contents as heavy rain and wind washed bridges and swelled streams across the county.
A pithy saying notes irony in waiting and the occasional exception for the patient as time and circumstance shift. It suggests interruptions to routine delay and humor about timing in daily life.
A Kansas story says farmers urge men to work hard by offering a daughter as a prize. In New York a woman on a street car loudly claimed Russell Sage gave her money, and fellow riders deemed her insane.
A Filipino senator named Villegas was sentenced to twenty years in prison for violating his oath of allegiance to the United States. The commentary suggests the case will serve as a warning to fellow-islanders. A Philadelphia street paving project used compressed grass, saving the city the trouble of removing the crop.
Lord Beresford warns Britain must expand its party to maintain sea power. The case of a Massachusetts woman who killed thirty-one people is cited as evidence that female refinement is not influencing men.
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