The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-23
FORT WORTH.
SENATOR COKE AT THE FORT
Senator MaIey to speak There To-Day
Maj. Elliott Internationally interest
Ing Data - Hotel walters
Strike-Cutting Scrape,

FORT WORTH. Sept. o. Special. l.
Hon. John d. Templeton is in the city
on his way to Colorado City where he
speaks tomorrow. He will also address
the citizens of Abilene, Cisco and Al
bany.
senator Coke was in the city tonight
on his way home for brief rest. He
will speak here later in the campaign.
Senator MaNey will address the young
Democracy and citizens at the court
house tomorrow night.
Maj. Elliott, Chief Commissioner from
Texas to the New Orleans exposition,
was in the city to-day and was subjected
TO an int rView by your correspondent.
Maj. Elliott says he has been at work
since the middle of MAY, and is now
getting our exhibits provided for. lie
has secured over 5000 botanical speci-
mems, 1000 chronological specimens,
400 specimens of minerals, iron ore,
copper, coal, sandstone, limestone, mar
bic, granite, etc. Native grasses To the
number of 800 varieties have been
collected, and loo varieties of
trees in rough and polished
form. Woman's work, paintings,
embrOideries. tine arts in measureloss
quantity will be sent. over sixty
county exposition societies are at work.
Texas will, as far as heard from, lead all
the States at the exposition; no State up
10 date has reported such progress ny
ours. On October 10, the gentleman
goes to New Orleans to arrange the eN-
hihits. Texas live stock will be well
| represented. agrams of all the water
courses in the State are being prepared,
and thousands of photographs of
/ public buildings, scho0l-hOusss, ele-
/ giant private residences will be shown.
Capt Kennedy, of the Pickwick, heard
this morning after breakfast that the
| dining-rOum mon intended To strike for
81 per week, they nov receiving 81 per
week and board. The waters never
struck, they were discharged at once
bell boys and head waiter attending "a
the patrons of the house. new crew
will be on duty tomorrow.
Last night about or 7 o'clock at Ber
Hartgrave's restaurant, on Houston
between Ninth aud Tenth, there was
bad cutting scrapo between John Glenn
from Weatherford, and lIartgraves
Glenn says he has been stopping at til,
restaurant and had asked a frield will
him named NJ. j. Baton, or Doc Baton
Glenn was lying down when no wa
, roughly spoken TO by Hartgraves, VIII,
asked him what he was doing there anC
to get up and leave his bed. Glenn sal,
he replied by saying that he had pal,
90 cents for the bed and he was going {,
stay. Upon this IIartgrave
made an attack on him will
terocious looking knife with
blade ten inches long and two inche
wide, IA bread knife. lie cut six gashe
to tho sRnll bone from An inch to tire
inches long. lie then clutchod Hart
graves, threw him and got the knit
from him, and Hartgrave yelled muI
: der. Hartgravo says that when he oI
, uered Glenn out, the latter said hs va
running the house himself and ssarte
TO attack him and threw his hand bac
, rs II no had gun and that he tho
4 struck him. Glenn then seized II
r knife and 1t was in the struggle that /
! cut himself.
officer Flushing, indicted for murde
p has given hOnd In the sum OfS2j,00.
- The young Democracy held an enthl
I. siastic meeting tonight.