Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-09
DALLAS.
An Estimable Lady Dies from an Over.
dose OF Morphine Administered
by Mistake.
\ Festive Parson Elopes with n Married
woman--A shotgun Play Promised
Black and st. Joe Kid
snecIaI 10 Lhe Gazotte.

death last night of Mrs. Elmira A. Q
wife of Eugene A. Crowdus of !
the j w. Crowdus Drug company. She +,
had been suffering with dengue fever, and :
about $50 yesterday DR.. Crowdus, her :.
father-in- law, took three grains Of NOR !,
phne to the house, giving of a grain. !,
lie then prepared another dose OF like ,
amount and left IL and the remainder OF
the powder in the room, with instrnc-
tions to administer the small dose in an
hour If she was not sooner relieved. At the
end of that time Mrs. Crowdus asked for
the medicine TO be given her, and Il young
lady who was present gave her the con-
tents of the wrong paper, containing
instead of one-eighth of a grain two and
three-Quarter grains of the powerful
drug. She Immediately sank into
stupor from which all the efforts OF the
physicians called could not arouse her,
and at o O'Clock at night breathcd her
last.
Mrs. Crowdus was formerly a Miss
Wolf and was one of the most popular
and accomplished young ladies in Dallas,
being possessed of splendid voice, |
which had been cultivated to a high de-
gree. She had been married about two and |
half years, and was the mother of Il
bright and promising boy sixteen months /
of age. The funeral took place ut 1880 /
this afternoon, and was attended by a
| large number of relatives and friends of
the family.
1t is stated now that Black and the st.
Joe Kid will use solf gloves instead of
hard in their coming bout at Shady View
park on Saturday night,
ON the old Crockett place, west of
town, this morning Caleb Sanderson, son
of Mai. Sanderson, had his hand badly
crushed in threshng machine. Dr.
Cornelius was sent Tor to dress the
wound.
Hon. Sawnie Robertson started for
Tyler yesterday to qualify as Judge, but
owing to the wreck ut Mincola could not
get through, and 80 returned to the city
this morning.
In the county court to-day u judgment
was rendered in favor of Abraham Herr
and against the Texas 4 Pacific railway,
for S30G52, for boarding section hands.
Capt. Al. Houston, clerk of the United
, States district court, and his
assistants have just completed
{ u transcript of the record in
/ the case of Hunter, Evans & Co., of East
t st. Louis, H., vs.. the estate of John
q O'Neill, the City National bank of Fort
4 Worth and John Dawson. Judgment was
: rendered in favor of plaintiffs mt the last
h term of court for SIS, 900, and the City
n National bank of Fort Worth and John
n Dawson have taken an appeal to the SUI
+ plcme court of the United States. The
transcript covers GO pages of legal cap,
II probably the largest ever made in North
v Texas.
q Mrs. Taylor is the wife of j. II. Taylor
y a laboring man OF this city, and is the
~ mother of five children The Taylor
Is family lived in a small house in East Dial
las and next door TO them resided one
re Convey, Baptist parson of the hard-shel
in variety who lately moved here from far
&c off Michigan, where he left wife anC
e, several children. Parson Covey and Mrs
t Taylor met and loved and this mornin!
DO while Mr., Taylor and his two Oldest boy
of were out in the country picking cotton
Ii they, the said Mrs. Taylor and the parson
H. packed their grips, took a child apiece
leaving one at home to tell papa, an,
yamooSed the ranch. They had beef
ut gone only about an hour when Mr.. Tay
IN lor returned and got the word left b,
IS, his wife. He was badly broken up an,
e. repaired Immediately to the Office of tn
Sc city marshal, went thence TO the sheriff
=" Office, was sent from there to the count
by attorney, where he learned that nothin!
could be done except to swear out
cr warrant. Mr.. Taylor speedily came f
his the conclusion that the shotgun was tn
le only proper arbiter in such case, AM
e, swears that he will appeal to that tri
It's bunal il he catches sight Of the festiv
Ike parSon.
he Isaac Bowers, a blacksmith of this city
nm has become insane. He appeared at tn
I'D shcriff's office this morning and tried t
ITS borrow Il gun with which to defend him
by self from parties who were pursuing hin
Ike He said they started after him on tn
ire other side of the river running hil
by through the stream and that he had
Tor hard struggle to escape with his lif,
in Sheriff Smith thought it dangerous t
allow him to run at large, and so ha
nut him locked up. He has been drinkh
pretty hard for some time, and his aberri
,ck ton of mind is probably due TO that.
mr. The denguc still has the call on Dallas
Il great many persons being confined I
their beds.
cs, Edward Elliott, formerly a brakema
'si- on the Texas & Pacific road, was run ov,
La and killed by switch engine net
cX- the coal chute in East Dali,
last night. Elliott, when last seen aliv
was pretty full and the supposition
that he started for the coal chute, Il
all place about which drunken men most {
CulElcSdlc WHEN lHcy want 10 snake II
on, police, and got on the track in Il
the wrong place and at the wrong time, wi
er- fatal results. He was over fifty years
age Coroner Schulz held an inque
in over the remains, the jury finding
verdict Of accidental death.
Pm Deceased was regarded rs
ave very important witness for 4
ing railroad in the case of the Dubl
lst. brothers against the Texas & Pacific f
eep $4,000 damages for killing their moth
no in April hast, and was 10 have been
me Leake llcnry's Office this morning
but have his deposition taken.
ely The committee on the fire DEPARTING
made report to the council last mig
red generating Chief Kohn from the char
ded recently published against him by I
and Eycuing News. He was then re-clect
ect- chief with z, Wlkerson assistant.
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M ANS0N.
un-
ms The Strange Action of a. -. Kirby