Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-07
SHERMAN.
|ousnnd People Witness the Cele.
itlon on the Glorious Fourth.
|ows Base Ball Nine Win Another
|ictofy Over the Sherman Nine.
~ Respected Citizen Incidents
and Accidents.

people were IN attenuauce oi TIC
btion here yesterday, and the
Kissed Oil without any disturbance
+ the harmony of The occasion,
|ck The possibilities of the most
4 uprson who visited the place.
II altering attendance from
poelllk towns, and all went home
SIo6ooli with their visit.
Huh boy named Charles Ussery,
q Widow living on East Null
|Btreet, went too close to hobby
|bWing, the lever struck him In
Ide md threw him SO violently
N = tree that he was unconscious
Early an hour. A rumor got
b that he was dead. but The GA
scribe visited the family and
that he had revived aud the
bet was favorable for his speedy
Dry.
|ernl prizes were awarded for diff
objects by the managers Of the
|atiOn, and the day was passed in
Ieral found of interesting incl
not usual ON Fourth OF July
|htions. Only one short speech
hade by Mayor Buckler to well
the crowd, and there being no
|lp eloguence in reserve, this
! the wOrdy entertainment.
|nalf-past three o'clock a race for n
|ver water set came off between the
fling horses: Jim McCool's bay
hg, 10 Warden and sons sorrel
hg. Charley Newton's brown
Single dash of half u mile.
Iol'b horse won in .54S.
J nextwas IA half-mile uash for sad
I0rses for a $50 saddle, between
Mny'e bay gelding, Simmons
nhre, Rucker's bay gelding, and
Kicks sorrel mare, which WAS
by Mays horse by over two
|he, In 81 seconds.
bre were no competing hook and
Il companies but the Sherman
|any made the run of one hum
yards and hoisted the ladder with
b OH top, NJ the grand stand, in
|,0nds.
3 Shernan Juniors, composed of
from 30 TO IA years old, with
'small wagon and short ladder
the came run i'll - seconds, be-
he fastest time recorded by
xas company. Each company
+warded n handsome silver COB
| the committee.
lille these things we're anger way
Continental baseball club of Sher-
and the Lone Stars of Howe
| d = match game in front of the
u stand, which was watched with
interest on account of the COM
'ts male at the result of a game
Len the same clubs last Sunday,
Iiich The Stars were victorious by
lie rub OF 80 TO 20. This return
:reaulted in victory for the Stars
core of 80 to -,
target rifle contest for silver
I to each of the four gentlemen
losing the winning team, was
by team No. 2, composed of DIR.
4 Petit, John +. Young, r.. q,
VnAn and Harry Mitchell, against
No. y, composed of VIM. Kelley
~. Stinson of Jacksboio, NJ. j
knRx1f aud DR. Johnson of Pilol
N. Both clubs did some fine
Ing and the contest was very
The electric lights We're run
!, late last night, 30 that every
ftr could have an opportunity
Judge of their success,
h lighting up a city
Ills mas only been a preliminar,
,0show what they can do, so tina
lily authorities and business mel
Erntelligently consider the subjec
s)ntract for lights hereafter. Fh
!, Mr.. Decker, is taking then
| to-day, aud we understand vii
,pmediateiy to Fort Worth for
,lere. We can assure your peopl
The Hight is bright and sironI
| "a to give satisfaction unless the,
md perpetuai day.
e.te Hannah, whose sickness w
l,.oned In our last, died yes ell
fiernoon about 4 o'clock. Th
ftal services took place this morn
IL o'clock at the Catholic church
Us remaius were laid TO Test il
Grated ground in the Catholi
ssery hitter these services. MIX
!, an has been Il respected citize
y srman for several years, and nj
Unit conduct has made for "A q
- frlendS as any man In the i'N
as honest, industrious and lai,l
u hlB friends In every emergenc,
and ailectiopate in his fitn.il
mike Humans word passed f,
slch as any mans III Grayso
|. ", Whatever his station in lii,
osRves a young wife and two sma
Even 10 mourn the loss Of the
IND truest friend, but with the
Pe'0f eorrow will be mingled tho
pany strong man who mourn
VISA Of ii true friend and neighbo
~ B. Brisban of Grand Rapid
~ Arrlved in the city this luorl
~ Attend ,he funeral of his sc
PnAns who died here on July
opreluaips were deposited in Il
In ~ the cemetery to await h
y and were inferred this afte
VIZ appropriate religious ST
tut BY Rev. MIR. Shelton of Il
| msp41ot church.
H. Q0g our many visitors yesterdl
10 p4c former fellow-ciuzen IA
n. fisherman, Mai. VIM. Lev
- ding dry goods merchant
k01 who can always be COUNT
yit l1[ever "the city OF his love al
hub xfnIy jerusalem has any unusu
TIM. The major still holds b
ksteo property here, aud says tn
be- ls gathered to his fathers h
4 b. con secrated to the tribe
be s4Ul he hill west Of the city shs
But Dld what's left ot him M
sl=11 pet of the res direction ca
LED An to Judgment and Then VIII
! a4- Ire opened to lie eternal,
sku it all the more because SD.
!, IN be the first object on viii
~ ening about 3 O'Clock I
ipb1 by the Pacific Express co.
~ rturned the wagon at the O.
suRf custom and Travis stree
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