Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-06
DENISON
The Runaway Arkansas Woman brought
Pace TO Face With Her Two
Husbands.
A meetlnG ~ iIo duy Council and
the business rboy vransacted--
Pafsonhi,


special 10 Tho Gazetto.
DENisOg, TEX, Dec. 5--1ho trial Of
ID Il. Lawson aud Mrs. Moore did not
come NJ this evening. Lawson Will be-
| taken ~ Little Rock, Ark, for trial, where
| tlern are several indictments against
| him. Marshal Cutler let the two hue
| bands aud one wife meet IN room 10
| dny 10 talk tic matter over, and Mrs,
Moore seems 10 favor husbnnd No. 2
more than No. !, although she has writ
| ten number Of timea 10 her hrst bus.
| hand 10 como after her. Moore offered
APPS for their arrest, bat Marshal Cutler
has M yet received nothing.
| Mr. Moore and wife came from Mar
shal county, Mississippi, whore they both
are highly connected They moved 70 Little
Rock from there, whore Mrs Moore met
the man Lawson while he was giving her
lessons on a droag.making chart, und az
! Mira Moore often showed that her mind
was little affected from the death Of her
| little bubc, Lawson made love 90 her,
while he himself had Il wife and four
children living NJ the time In Little Rock
The woman listened 10 his honey words
aud the sequel wax n happy home waB
| Hllpd with sorrow. About this time MrA.
uncle, aud from there 10 Conway, where
Mr.. Moore went after her. But In few
weeks she mystcfiously disappeared and
wns not heard from for some time, but at
last letter came from her 10 her huB.
| band begging him 10 come altur as she
she was held prisoner by Lawson.
! when her husband would get tp the town,
| they would be gone. Finally he heard
| from her nt TcXarknna and from there hc
| followed her here, where she was ar.
rested, and Lawson was arrested IN Shcr.
! man while selling soap powder aud lodged
| Ia tho DcnlsOn lml. MIR, Moore called on
| his wife last night not having seen her In
| fifteen months. The officers had quite II
tlmo IN locating thom, but MIR. u. r.
| Britain kindly loaned them bis assist
nnGo aud they were Boou run In, Mir.
! Britain IN something OF detective,
| having done some good work In Indiana.
| MIR. Moore brought suit against law
son and obtained Judgment for $1,000,
and he IL unable 10 get II unless Lawson
| is In Arkansas, where he owns COnaid-
cradle property.
Mr., BurRower, the grocer, loft for Fort
Worth this evening,
The adjourned meeting OF the council
met last night with the mayor aud Alder
men Ross, Porter, Rcnnle, Waltz, Tone,
| liandrll, YoGum aud Carter present The
minutes of the last meeting were read
aud approved Tho SALARY OF the city
officers and other bills for November
were presented mud allowed, amounting
In all TO SD5i,6 There being about
| $3.50 In the general fund Alderman Tone
moved to borrow 600 from the lire fund
! Carried
The school bills, amounting to
| ~ ,3Os50 wore prcHcntcd S1s8 being
all the money IN tho school fund
! the SUN Of 5000 was borrowed from The
| ire fund, and bills allowed.
Bills for streets aud alleys amounting
tn $92D rs were allowed. Eigty.llye dol.
| lars aud sGvcnty cents on the IRE fund
were nlHo allowed. By mo.ltOA of Tpnp,
5000 was placed on deposit IN Nrw York
to meet NCcrulng interests caruod
Tho bond OF the now secretary, Rnndln,
was approved
Tho report of the police, city assessor
and collector received aud fled
The committee on purchasing new
school grounds was allowed more tmr,
A n0w docket for the recorder aud u
stove for the city hall were ordered pur'
chased
A warm discussion took place In regard
lo changing the map OF the wntor-wOrks
pipe, and after considerable time lost Il
vote was taken which stood Ayes
waltz, Carver, Tone, Ronnlc aud Porter
Nnyca. tnndcll, Yocum and Bosst 40 the
map was ordered changed upon the ur,
rival OF MIR, Abondort
Tho matter Of the now city building
aud hrc hall was discussed, but laid on
the table.
Tho council adjourned until Thursday
night.
The Gate C,ty Literary society met las
night at the Christian church, with mos
all the members present. md u large mum
her OF visitors, the leading question iOi
debate being whether to open the Indian
Territory 90 white settlers or not Fo
the affirmative, Or, Wright and r. s
Allen, but bother holng present, w. w
Brown aud John Malone were substituted
IN their place, while MosIs Tom Ken
d nrdy and W, A. Johnson were for th'
negative, Aitcrp warm discussion mn,
good points htought out 10y both Sides
the Judges gave the victory 80 the mega
tlvuside. Several other questions wcr,
debated tipon, making those present huy,
u most enjoyable evening, quite mum
Der OF young ladios Joined the society las
night, aud II viii soon b0 u very popup
! resort for onr young people Anothc
regular meeting win he held on next Fri
; day night,
, very pleasant dance occurred Las
night at the residence Of Mr.. Rice, whcr
quite u numhor of the young folks On
loyed themselves until quito late hour
, daneingschoo has been organizing
und win meet at the hall under the busl
ness college on next Monday night,
Tho Labor sitlugs came out to-day n
, . npe.oolumn, clght-pago paper, with
new head, aud It's ncatness and genera
appearance h hne. u sgrowlng In popn
| lariiy very fast.
I The young folks that attended the bal
at potlsboro last night report having
i due time II was not givou by III
! knights of Labor az NJ ilrst reported,
The Dcnison News has Improved yer
Z much under the management OF MIR, Han