Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-23
WACO.
A Burglar Enters Store and Fakes
Therefrom Filthy Lucre Galere-A
Water.Haul az the Parsons.
Sensible Mayor wilkes Says No ousGan.
tine Until Disease u Epidemic
The Diamond King Party.

The Diamond King Party.
Special 10 the Gazette.
WACO, Tx, Feb sl.--ExperG cracks
men drilled hole last night In the safe
Of u. NJ Palmer, feed aud produce mer-
chant, corner Eighth and Franklin streets,
and rot away with between Nifty and sixty
dollars In gold, gfoenbacks and silver,
and also with two promissory notes.
They got into the building through
where a window-frame had been knocked
out and was covered over with canvas
and piece of wood. No trace has yet
been discovered as to who did IT,.
| Some burplarious indlvidual also last
night broke into the study OF the pastor
OF the Fifth Street Methodist church.
This proved as fruitless venture as II
he had entered clandestlnely the sanctum
Of an editor.
The rumor that shot was fired from a
pistol at an engineer on the Central Sat
urday night turns out to have been only q
torpedo placed on the track.
A good many mechanics and laborers
are coming In looking for work. Among
the tradesmen is a considerable number
Of painters. There are also good many
Italians.
Another patent medicine man has come
along He has established quite an ex-
tensiye camp Of tents on Eighth street,
near Franklin, where he has company
Of twenty-five persons, all OF whom pro-
pose TO remain here about two weeks II
Is snld.
Buyers were offering three cents
pound, live weight, for hogs this morn
ing.
Drummers are hero with samples OF
most beautiful Easter cards from whole
sale houses at distance.
The low-prlce marks on wooden goods,
temptlngly displayed by many OF the
merchants In front of their establishments
on Austin street. is sure indication OF
approaching warm weather; but some
indiscreet persons may lay off their fan
nels so previously that they will not long
thereafter need any clothes forevermore
Washington's birthday Is being cele-
brated this afternoon in an appropriate
manner at the university The following
Is the programme: Music. Essay, "Mary
Washington" Miss Laura morrill,. Essay,
"Martha Washington" Miss May Wat
son. Grafton, "Washington as Gener-
AL" II. Il. Chandler Grafton, "Wash-
ington as Statesman" Geo. Hammann.
Music.
The three literary societies Of Baylor
university, Calliopean, Erlsophian and
Philomathesian, met last Saturday in
joint discussion Subjects "Resolved.
that the signs OF the times indicate the
downfall of the present form OF govern
mcnt." The discussion was very inter-
esting. 1t began at . Il. m and lasted
- IN a1thAgtf,h I.n
were limited TO fifteen minutes each The
ladies' furnished music for the occasion,
"and everything went of grandly," MS
one Of the participants expressed 1t to-
day,
At yesterdays meeting of the Working.
mans Mutual Aid, at which only twenty
i've members were present, the subscrip-
tlon TO the university fund amounted to
$408 There was no special subscription,
and the contributions came from work
ingmen, whose interests in Waco are
based on general prosperity and not ON
their own wealth.
This afternoons Day publishes the fol-
lowing
BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR wILKEs
TODAY.
The more vigorous than graceful man
ner IN which the Dalasonians are going
for the Fort Worthers has attracted Il
great deal OF attention here and led TO In
yestlgatou aud calm consideration by
those whose duty IL Is 20 attend TO such
matter with Il thoroughncss aud prompt
ltude; and when the following appeared
In yesterdays Examiner II was criticised
and commented on by all classes who
read the paper;
There are n number OF citizens in Waco
who are anxious To have q quarantine es-
tahlished against Fort Worth. We will
certainly have to do something, or the
dreadful scourge, smallpox, viii certain
ly be brought TO our city.
The above paragraph was shown this
noon TO Mayor Wilkes, who said:
"Wheneyer smallpox Is declared To ex-
list In epidemic form In Fort Worth, we
will quarantine against II here. But IL Is
unnecessary TO do so now The health Of
Waco is good There Is no doubt about
that. We have carefully investigated and
| lind there Is no smallpox here at all No
disease OF any kind is existing here In
4 epidemic form. There are few Isolated
cases OF measles, and that Is ALL"
| His attention was called TO the rumor
that the patent medicine outfit had been
ordered to leave tho city, 10 which he re
| piled. CDR. Owens, chairman of the
sanitary committee, and myself went to
their camp on Eighth street Saturday, and
found they had clear papers from the
health officer Of San Antonio; that they
had been quarantlnod for month"; that
everything that had come In contact with
the chief, who had died OF smallpox in
San Antonio, had been destroyed; aud
that all the other articles they possessed
had been thoroughly fumigated. Under
these circumstances they are allowed to
remain whore they are"