Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-10
TEXAS STATE NEWS.


Major Penn will hold campmeet
ing near Cameron, July -, ana at Bel
ton on August O.
The Texas state grange will hold IL
annual meeting in Dallas on the second
| Tuesday in August.
Houston Agc. rhe splendid success
of the Fort Worth GAZETTE has made
half a dozen other papers want to get
to he the property Of a. syndicate oil
Z capitalists.
Tyler Reporter: Ex-Gov. Il. Ii.
I Hubbard returned home Wednesday
evening in company with his charm.
ing daughter Miss Rena, who has
/ been attending Holins Institute, Nir-
ginia. where she graduated with high
est honors.
( The Crockett Patron says the famous
San Pedro panther is dead, but the
mustang beast is still alive and increas-
( ing in audscity. A few nights ago he
came up 10 the residence of Mr.. Tom
! Tunstali and uttered his fearful
screams: in the morning his tracks
were within fifty yards vi the house.
Tyler Couricr: Last Monday even
ing about four o'clock lightning struck
the Methodist church building in this
city, but did not set the building on
fire as was thought by few who, see
ing smoke escape from the building,
sounded the alarm of fire and created
n general rush OF people in that direc-
ton.
Waco is going to have the fire alarm
system, and wall be the only city in.
the state except Galveston with this
facility for calling out the fire boys
promptly. The Examiner says: when
IL comes to fire-flghtiDg service and
the apparatus for it Waco always takes
the lead 1t might also have said
that Waco takes the lead in number
of fires.
Georgia leads the South this year in
putting the first bale of new cotton on
the market. For several years past
Texas has had an undisputed monop-
oily OF the first bale business. But
Texas will market more bales of cot
ton during the season than Georgia or
any other state, and therein is the con-
ISOLATION over this scoop"
Bonham .Adrocdto: A little three
year old daughter OF John Graham,
living near Dodd City, was shot by
her uncle last Saturday, and died Sun
day morning. The pistol was an old
one that had been lying about the
house for years, and was supposed to
be mot loaded,n and the uncle was |
swapping it at the children in fun.
\ young lady Of Cameron and her
lover started for Arcola to get married,
but the romance was spoiled by the |
lady changing her mind near the depot.
Her intended lost so much time in try
ing to persuade her that he missed the
train that was to have carried him 10
happiness and had to be shipped on
freight, but he went alone.
Saturday negro boy of Walker
Station attempted 10 ride in a lady's
saddle, sitting sideways. The horse
was wild one and SHE'D at some
thing, throwing the boy oil. He fell
N the road, and his leg caught in the
ariat, dragging him to death. The
lorse was caught two miles away by
several convicts, with the body still
lragging after him.
Montague Cross TiB,6crs.. A paod
many of the 'eXcurtersn who went
)ack OH the train Thursday morning
ooked as haggard as the battle-scared
'eterans ofone hundred years ago. In
to inibibe the spirit of '76
hey evidently got the wrong bottle.
Fort Worth 1913, y makes man feel
powerful patriotic on the 4th, but
ECKER eli ID you never did see on the
It'll.
Ddiios Times: II is now said that
he Synagogue troubles are far from
nded, and that Il new move is on the
oards. That the signers OF the
harges against the Rabbi and the
hief owners Of the stock in the
hurch which was chartered. and
nat they will freeze ont or be frozen
ut. The manner in which this is to
e done is not known to lis, but the
lurts Will probably get jurisdiction 1
the subject. All this is rumor
nd no one in. particular told us of this.
therefore, no one need to apply to us
n our authority. 4
Montague Cross 7jmJers: Thursday A
ight about O'Clock Bowie was sud
shly aroused by a courier from the
'uIllry Witn the startling announce
eht that a little child of G.. w. TinkIe
no ilVes about mile east OF town
""H'Sicu IiitO TIE WOODS and
uld not be found. The thought of
'atiling infant lost in the darkness A
Id n frantic and distracted mother
home spurred our citizens 10
e rescue and in less than a
lrty minutes there were nearly n
lhdred men at Mr.. Tinkle's most of :.
nom were provided with lanterns 4
ne crowd was Xuickly arranged i'm n
he stretching from the house out into !.
wood aud under the command Al
H. {. Lite they proceeded to
IKE circuit Of the house but f0un6 Al
trace of the little one. Again folm- 4,
IN iine they marched directly TO- "
ros the railroad and when they had
Ne ABOUT a quarter Of a mile voice
IN Inc house rang out to them the
icome word found, and with wild At
sers they retraced their steps carer =.
.a,cil glimpse of the young truant ca
e little fellow was only twentv-one
Mus old--just large enough 10
hp over the yard fence and had -
hdeTed away about dark. a