Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


A bigamy trial at Stephensyille results
In an acqulttal.
z. o, Sanders is shot in cold blood near
Belleville, Mo.
The public debt was decreased IS 600.
600 during July.
Tom Murray is sentenced to be hanged
at Georgetown.
The Baptists are holding an important
meeting at Bartlett.
A young Scotchmau named Lander is
drowned at pecos City.
The full proceedings of the Jack county
convention are printed.
Mrs, Mclaughlin, the heroine OF Waco's
sensation, Is improving.
An Arkansas girl dies from the effects
OF two rattle-snake bites.
j. M. Flnney, a fireman on the Texas &
Pacific, is killed at Taylor.
The Southern Methodists are conduct
ing camp-meeting at Waco
The cotton ginners of Grayson county
meet and fix scale Of prices.
Van Zandt county instructs for Ross,
Maxey, Jones, Hogg and Cooper.
The Summer Normal at Stephensville is
well attended, and is successful.
Popular demonstrations against the
Jesuits are being made in Peru.
John W. Lawrence, prominent cattle
man OF Bastrop county, is dead.
Several men and boys are cut in a row
In negro church near Winsboro.
An ovation is rendered the English cut
ter Galatea at Marble Head, Mass.
The indications are that the Wabash
railway win be reorganized at once.
Delegates are coming from ireland to
attend the Chicago Irish convention.
A Montana girl loses her life after saw
ing three people from watery graves.
The tobacco manufacturers of ST Louis
are going back to the ten hour system.
The Anderson county primaries pass
off quietly with full turn out OF voters.
Duncan Brown, private soldier OF
Fort Bliss, is killed by passenger train.
Wise county Democrats discuss the
necessity of nominating county ticket
There will be no opposition to Gen
Gordon's candidacy for governor of Geor.
gia.
De Lesseps is strainmg every nerve
to make the Panama canal boom sue
cess.
The Franco-Texss Land company hold
its regular annual meeting at Weather
| ford
All branches of trade have recovered
from the great labor agltations of las
spring.
Weatherford is anxious for anothe
railroad and will pay literally to secur,
one.
The weekly report of the condition @
spring wheat and corn shows no improve
ment.
Smallpox has made its appearance al
Panama, being brought by steamer from
Jamaica.
The Montague county delegation tC
the state convention at Galveston is solid
for Ross.
The Grayson Rifles have packed up ant
are ready to leave for Galveston Tuesday
morning.
The Oregan Railway and Navigation
company's lines have been sold to the
Union Pacific.
The jury of inquest fails to reveal the
| identity of the man found murdered neal
San Antonio.
Two Sherman contractors find from
experience that cedar-elm makes excel
lent cross-ties.
The nominating convention of the
Nineteenth judicial district meets al
Marlin to-day.
Cincinnati man is sent to the peDl
Tertiary for three years for fraudulently
counting ballots.
| The bodies of the seven victims Of The
upsetting Of the schooner-yatch, Saral
Craig, are recovered.
Germany is all torn up with socialistlt
| fright. The socialist law seems to dc
more harm than good.
| A fatal row occurs at an excursion IL
Indiana. One mans neck Is broken an6
another's head is crushed.
There has been no rain in Bowie yet
but good rains have fallen In other sec
tions of Montague county.
over twenty thousand people attend {
mass meeting of the Knights of Labor Al
Union square, New York city.
The citizens of Weatherford think the
work of Texas protecting herself against
Mexico should begin at once.
The decision, If any has been reached
| in the Cutting case has not yet been made
public by the Mexican government.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage breaches OF
the book of books, proving its authenti
city and showing its style and effect to
be right
From the way congressman are hasten
ing home to tend to their fences congress
win have to adjourn in day or two foi
want OF quorum.
Carl Brannon, one OF the Robbers
Cave witnesses, is fred at by three mer
near San Antonio. He returns their fire
killing one Of them.
Erath county reports rains in sections
of the county, and 1t is thought enough
wheat and corn have been raised to sup
ply home consumption
A project is being agitated in Chill "a
bring about the election OF the president
of the republic by majority OF congress
instead Of by the public.
Several measures viii at once be put II
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