Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-14
WACO.
Little Town Of whitney, in Hill
bounty, Visitsi by a Cyclone
Saturday Night.
~. rye Woodchoppers Riot Quelled An
~ S.,lsgAttempt to Wreck an Bngine-ln'
~ vesting the School Fund


Special.
s,osNAco, TEX April lG DIR. j. 5.
| ssapier of Whitney, Hill county, Is
Ia.s ire today purchasing tin to recover
|ilSs hotel at Whitney, which was UNI
Assofed by cyclone Saturday night.
|er,Sssy 3 says the tornado struck the little
.Swn about 1880 p. M, lasted only few
". inutes and was followed by terrific
"til' and wind storm, The store of
,rsrter Bros was unroofed and the
|ex ,ork of goods much damaged. Or.
|sapier's hotel suffered considerably.
Fsl,ven or eight residences were also
iroofed aud more or less damaged.
|ssasArtunately there was no person killed
- Injured The damage will be be-
|-seeD $1,000 and $1,000. The cyclone
|ioksme from the west or little south OF
1est, The telegraph line was proc
and AS the Central does not run
|, yIkss.hndAy trains on its Whitney branch,
ibody here knew anything Of the
clone until Today.
|leeThe sheriH's deputies who were
ERY,nt from this city yesterday TO quell
e Tel wood choppers riot at Axteil, on
ks Aae tt xas d st. Loi Is railroad, eight
|nessiles east OF Waco, have returned
4 Hue difficulty grew out OF arresrages
~ wages due the wood. choppers. who
.ANAcreupop reused to allow wood
tos aims to be loaded or removed. The
,ilroad company paid the choppers
|5glpe money due them, and quiet and
I.-ftder were restored. The chief indus
, Try OF Axtell consists in shipping cord
, ~ God, supplying Waco very largely.
"A. -ts.sr 81
|z1erifi % deputies WAS going TO Axteli
Encountered Instructions on the
|;,s.zack, placed there with malicious i'm
|,SSOjlst. Tney Were removed, but ON the
D msturD trip fresh obstacles were found
ion q the track where there is sharp
--lrve and down grade, Had the dis-
| h-overy been made three seconds la or
Isss1ne engine would have been de-
|sssAiled and thrown over an
sadmbankme The officers jumped
|n ars tho engine and captured
! sfoy negro boy. about fourteen years old,
Ia. Who gave the name of Dan Sander
|Sonsaik, He con fessed to having at
empted to wreck the engine, and
,a.nrked near TO see how his scheme
|,rs1orked. He was brought to Waco
Mnd III ed
Uniied States district court, Judge
I1UfkAtAfOTtuiCh, COuNeDcu ueEc tu-uhy'
|slrss'ne principal business transacted was
|,ss, be Setting oil CASES The grand jury
~ fiii not be emp iuelled until the % h
s.nst, The Greer county land case will
v h1ssrobably come ulon the 2lst Inst.
! psisudge Pardee, IL Is thought, will be
ADHERE before the term Is over.
- Nudge b w. Rimes of this judicial
istrict ltft for [ leburne this evening,
|-s change with Judge Hall of the
district, aud Try Judge HALLS
d,S,l cnsed cases Judge Hall will come
loso Naco and occupy the bench here
Nv .v antil Judge Rimes returns, sometime
|rsa ext week
unds The treasurer of this county pur,
sts v.hased to-day, for the public school,
| Wind of the county, Sc GOO in the iif.
a. een-year per cent. bonds OF Tom
] sareen county, paying par The invest
lent Is made out Of funds MrLenDan
----as reali2-d from the sale Of the schOnl
IN snds dpuated her ny the state. She
ia ne now $1,000 in United Stat, s
j nd other houds
Miss Mary Flint, daughter of Col.
ohm L. Flint, a well-kDown lawy er
Il this city, has lost her reason; in
lact, IL has neen waning for some time
s-and is to be conveyed to Austin to-
w norIow aud placed in the institution
1 orthe insane
Aerrin. of he G. u!d system, and their
fSIarty arrived this morning in q spe.
Iial, looked at the town 4 few hours
\ Ind went south,
n The city officials elected last week
\ We're Installed to-aight.
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