Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-28
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A Mattress Maker Skipped-Boyle's
Little Pistol-Thc Rape Case
Other Local Innings.

Barnes IL Chapman, mattress manu-
facturers, Is missing. The remaining
partner, Barnes, says Chapman SWIM
died him out of several hundred dor
lars. He has written to the police IN
Fort Worth and other cities to look
out for Chapman.
A shooting ARRAY occurred about
midnight last night between one
BOYLE, bar-keeper ut thp Parnel sa-
loon, on the plaza. aud Jim Lunsiord,
in The employ of the ice works. Boyle
fired two shots at Lunslord, but with
out hitting him Both arc under ar
rest and the grand jury is investigat..
| ing the matter. Too much whisky led
to the fuss
! The recorder had q full matinee this
morning, but for small offences. The
grand Jury has now returned nearly
four hundred indictments. Dis
| trict court business unimportant
to-day. 1t was adjourned until
Monday next TO allow Judge Rimes TO
30 to Bolton and hear the iickles
habeas corpus case, which is set for
! Monday.
Rev. II. T. Crisp, the newly APP
pointed Methodist Episcopal minister
| for Waco, arrived this morning with
his family. He is just from Minneap-
oils. Rev. c. T. Gddings, in charge
here for three years past, leaves for
Decatur, his new station, next week.
ST. Paul's tEpiscopal) Guild festival
is in full blast ut the opera house to-
night with n crowded house. a drama,
tablcauN, Music and refreshments con-
Stitutc the programme, and II very
good one, too.
The colored conference, headed by
Bishop Cain, visited the st. Paul
Quinn college in East Waco to day.
This is an educational institution for
the higher education ofcolored youths,
and is under the auspices of the \. NJ.
+. Church. 1t is literally endowed,
has fine buildings, an efficient faculty
and a large attendance, several from
other states. The universal and liter
AIRY exercises were greatly enjoyed and
praised by the visitors. The colored
conference will probably adjourn to-
morrow.
A false alarm of fire in an italian
restaurant on the plaza last night
called out the entire department. 1t
was caused by n defective tlue.
Ninety-two cases of violation of the
local option law, in one of the rural
precincts, were transferred this morn
ing fom the district court to one of
the Justices courts.
The Missouri Pacific south bound
train was nearly on time this morning,
for the first time since Friday.
Ice again this morning for the sec
ond time this winter. Cold and clear
tonight.
Waco, November 26.-.At late hour
last night Officers Joe Ellison and Nj.
+. Ammonit arrested in the rear of
the Narrow Gauge saloon, on the cor.
ner of Eighth and Mary streets, man
names Riley, who was charged with
attempting to rape ten-year-old girl
named Underwood. The substance of
the statements of Mrs Underwood
and her daughter is that about IL
O'Clock yesterday morning Riley came
to the restaurant of Mrs. Knight, on
Mary street, ut which Mrs. Under
wood works, and went up stairs. lie
met the girl, and taking hold of her
led her into Il room and locked the
door. There, according TO the girls
statement, he attempted to ravish her,
and she begged him to desiSt Riley.
she says. tore her clothes and had
nearly succeeded in accomplishing his
purpose, when her mother came to
the door calling her. The door
was unlocked, and Mrs. Underwood
pulled her daughter cut and ran
down stairs to seek help to arrest
Riley. When she returned he had
disappeared, and was not found until
the hour stated. Mrs. Und rwood is
the wife of the man who ran away
from here week or 80 ago for fear of
being injured by some of the gamblers
whom he had reported in the city
court. She says the girl is not yet ten
years old and is subject to fits. She
has to keep constant watch upon her
Her intellect is weak in consequence
oi her aflliction.
james Riley, the accused, who is
now in Jail, was interviewed and de-
MES in toto the statement rs above set
out. He says he took break faat, in
company with two others, at the res
taurant, and also dinner later in the
day. He says he went up stairs only
lor Il minute, to get some clothes be-
longing to friend, to have washed,
ana that he had nothing to do with
the girl. Riley is a section boss of see
llon No. g. on the Houston 4 Texas
Central railroad, and heretofore has
borne good reputation. He is mid
dleaged man, and has been in his
present position since August last.
The reported cases of fence-cuttipr
mentioned in my report of Yesterday
prove to he true. Two farms have been
rrded and the wire fences nipped.
Neither of the enclosures is large. and
III ut least one instance there is no wa
ter fenced in. Pure deviltry is the
only cause, This will not be tolerated
IN THIS county, and the fence-cutters
are liable to come to grief The grand
jury, now IN session, is investigating
the matter. John Il. Hearne of this
city, who is one of the sufferers, takes
the matter very coolly.
The Missouri Pacific train (south
pound due here ut ten q. NJ, yester.
day, was eleven hours late. T6ere is
great complaint on the part of travel
ing men, who haas been put to real
Inconvenience, that The Missouri Pa.
enc people did not put on a special
train running from Denison to Taylor
on schedule time until the ran i'm the
Indian Territory is closed up. The de.
lays Tor three days past have been very
annoying. ~ Wy
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