Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-25
SHERMAN.
The Business Men Take Organized
Action TO Bring Grayson County's
Cotton TO sherman.
IN Embryo Board of Trade organized-
a Supposed Murderer Arrested
After Twenty-Five Years.


Special to the Gazette.
SHERMAN, Tx, Sept. IA large
number of business men met at X Il.
Halls counting-room to take action to
protect the cotton trade of the city. Nm
impression had gone over the country
that the cotton buyers had combined TO
keep down prices, and the farmers have
signined that they will find other markets.
I'm agreement signed by business men
representing about S2,0O0,000 has been
entered into, and these gentlemen or
ganilcd with II. G.. Hall as chairman and
j. II. Dills as secretary. IN executive
committee was elected, composed
of r. G.. Hall, William Levy, A. l.,
Darnell, Tom Richards and j. NJ. Cullcrs,
whose duty IL is to employ an experienced
buyer and pay for the cotton that comes
the highest market price during the
season. The proceedings will be pub
lished and circulated throughout the
county with view OF restoring conf
dence and drawing trade to its common
center A committee of citizens also
waited upon the commissioners court
and proposed TO contribute any sum that
the court would duplicate 20 the amount
Of $1,000 to improve the roads coming into
Sherman.
Oatcn Wood who has been on trial for
murder committed in the Nation, was
held over to-day by Commissioner Rickett
without bail, to answer at Fort Smith.
A meeting was held at the courthouse
last night to organize board OF trade.
Il. G.. Hall was elected president and six
yicc-prcsldents were appointed, who will
preside In his absence In che order
50. AL h...r l.tn
bered from first to sixth, and they
are also to constitute board Of directors
to conduct the affairs of the board A
secretary and treasurer were also APP
pointed in the persons of Mr.. Marshall,
druggist, and c. c. Jones N the City
bank.
Mr.. NJ, Jennings, who runs blacksmith
shop on East Houston street, was severe
ly kicked by mule last evening and
stunned so that II was some time before
he returned to his senses. He received
the blow in the face, and il left deep
cut on the cheek bone. He does not yet
know what he was doing to the mule, nor
what the mule did to him, except that he
knows something flew up and hit him.
Louis Jackson, colored of Kentucky
Town was brought TO Jail to-day from
Esq. Skagg's court and was committed for
assault To murder another negro by shoot
ing at him through the window at night.
John NARROW Of Denison was also com
mitted on charge Of theft of Il mare, and
Tom Tate for assault.
A sensation was created here to-day by
the arrest OF Rev. Newton Chance, who
came down from the Nation as witness
in a case pending before Commits
eioner Ricketts, court. lie was
as the man charged with the
murder of Il. Junius Foster, an old man
who edited paper here in 1868, and
against whom an indictment has been
pending since 1865. James ID. Young
and Charles Cox, jointly indicted with
Chance, have been heretofore tried and
acquitted, but the defendant has been alb
sent in Missouri and the Nation and came
into the trap to-day He passed as a
preacher, u doctor and "A lawyer in the
Nation. r,