Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-29
A DAY AT DALLAS.
pss,euatIcn Of Rabbi Schuhl-The Part
ing Gift Of His Friends.
The Cotton Frapds-A Jury Empaneieo
in the Baum Trial.
The Baxter Telephons--Strange Freak
or the Trinity River.
Special TO the Gazette.

Special 10 the Gazette.
DALLAS, April 2S.-Rabbi Henr
Schulz, who has for several years pee
in charge Of the synagogue ana con
gregation Emanuel, has resigned OF
account Of dissatisfaction in his flock
and It Is said that he will shortly leav
81 Dallas. The congregation presented
him with 81, 900 cash as parting gift
The resignation is the immediate re
sult of the recent cowhidiDg OF Bel
Hirschberg by Mrs. Schulz.
The case of the State vs.. Ike Loeb
charged with the murder OF Manue
McCloudy, colored, which was set fol
TODAY. was continued until Monday
next. Nav 5, the cotton swindliDl
cases being up before the district cour
with the prospect of occupying its at
tention ali the week, at least.
The case of the State vs.. +. Baum
charged with swindling in connection
with the Texas & Pacific bogus bills
of ladirg for cotton, issued 10y +. ID,
Easton. agent at Sherman last fall was
tnll.U Ill TIE hIrtlllb ODuis thAo iipi
ing. The state announced ready, and
to the surprise OF nearly every body
present, the defense ditto. Sup
pressed applause in the audience The
defense then withdrew heirannounee-
ment Of ready, temporarily, to secure
u lit of witnesses from the state,
which was furnished, and both sides
were ready for the work of
selecting a jury. This consumed the
day up TO 3.35 p. M, the attorneys on
both sides being very critical in their
examinations into the qualifications
of JUROR. Two venires were exhaust
ed before the twelve peers" were Sc
cured. After the jury had been sworn,
Baum was arraigned. County Attor-
ney Clint read the long, tedious in
dictment, including copy of one of
the bogus bills of lading, setting forth
that the prisoner had swindled the
Dallas banking firm of Oliver d Griggs
out of 50 600, and for which Baum was
indicted on March Il, 1854. The de.
PENDANT pleaded mot guilty." and
the trial was ready to proceed
to the taking of testimony. Baum
is represented in the way of counsel by
Wright d Wright, Crawford & Craw-
ford and Cowart & Cowart; the state
by County-Attorney G. +. Clint. AS
sisted 10y i. j. Brown. attorney Of the
Missouri Pacific road tat Sherman.
Among the lengthy list Of witnesses
furnished by the state appear the
names of Morgan Cammack, T.. ID.
Easton, Joe Lahnstein, Detectives
Furlong, Baily aud Herbert of the
Gould service; Mrs. Morgan Cammack,
her mother, Mrs. Powell, Mrs. f.. ID.
Easton and Levi Kraft, one of Lain
stems boudsmen. The first witness
introduced was &. b. Sears, agent
of the Pacific Express company at
Kansas. He was asked only
II few questions before the defense
raised an objection to one in regard TO
certain transactions of one All. Il
Clark" AN alias of Morgan Cammacl)
at Emporia. at a time subsequent To
the date of the swindling alleged in
the bill OF indictment, on the ground
that 1t could not be part of the
alleged swindle after the act had
been contaminated. The Jury were
excluded from the box and the wit
ness queAton in the presence of
the court, who also heard argument of
counsel. Judge Aldridge finally de-
cided that the testimony was compe.
tent, and overruled the objection of
the defense. 1t was by this time :
O'Clock, adjournment hour and the
court adjourned till O'clock Il. m. to.
morrow. There has been n large
crowd in attendance, who manifest
Keen interest in the proceedings. No
one ventures an opinion as TO how
much time the case Will consume, but
no one anticipates that it will conclude
earlier than the end of the present
week, and II may consume twice that
much.
Col. f.. A. Maguiness of Louisville
Ky, ge neral agent of the South western
Overland Telephone and Telegraph
company, is in the city endeavorlng [,
organize IA Joint stock company 20 oper
ate his telephone and telegraph com
pany in Texas. 10 is known Us the
Baxter telephone. aud Col Magazines.
wants Dallas business men 10 take
three-fourlhs OF the 5000 OO(
stock desired, and have tn.
headquarters for the state In this city
An Informal meeting was held to-day
which adjourned till tomorrow fol
the purpose of efiecting an organ
ization. This is long-range Iele
phone, which is claimed To be superio
To any other in existence. This com
pany claims that the telephone was Il
existence before either Bell or Edisoi
took out patents.
The Messrs. Harry Bros. this morn
Ing put large force of men at worl
on Main and Jefferson streets. and i'm
augurated the laying of the additionn
three miles OF street paving they hav
contracted TO put down before 0ctobe
10 next. The material used Ia Boi
dare blocks.
The work of grading and tieipp In
new Belt street railway was begun 10
day. "
A heavy storm prevailed seyera
hours last night, the rainfall helm
enormous. About daylight Il was dI.
covered that the Trinity river ha
changed It's course aud was runniu
up stream towards Fort Worth, ln
stead OF Galveston bay, carrying viii
" logs, driftwood, etc. The en- ls
OF this unnatural proceeding VIA
learned to be OH account of the gre,
quantity OF water that fell south ,
Dallas, swelling the Trinity and il
tributaries To such proportions tht
bacx-water' movement set In, an
has temporarily made a literal exen
plihcatlon of"water running up-hill.
Thousands Of people visited the rive
banks to-day 10 witness the ncy,
sight. Old settlers, among them Co
John q. Mccoy, state that such a frea
OF nature occurred ia the same strear
about twenty-five years ago, but Ia
not since repeated itself till tue pre-
emf. Tue storm was so violent MS I
deluge large scope of countr
between Dallas and Hutchins causln
= serious washout on the Houston .
Texas Central road, six miles south I