Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-29

! OF q cold-Dlooded murder committed neal
/ Coperas creek. Four men waylaid Mr.
Tennyson, and poured volley into his
body There has been some domestic
difficulty which aroused his wife's rela
lions, and they are suspected although nc
arrests have been made.
Deputy Sheriff Franks of Mavericks
county committed suicide at Eagle Pass
April l4th by shooting himself through
the head.
The Mexican ore company will erect a,
Eagle Pass corrugated iron building,
and the sampling works will 90 into i'm.
mediate operation; the cost of machinery
VIII be $l5, 200, and it is expected they
Will ship 1000 tons per month.
During the storm on the night OF the
10th, near Tioga, five head of cattle were
killed by a stroke of lightning, and the
house of a widow narrowly escaped. The
lightning entered the house and melted
the works of q clock, doing no other
damage.
The smallest calf Of the season is on a
farm ten miles from Dublin. 1t is ten
days old, fourteen inches high aud weighs
twenty pounds.
A dead ostrich, thrown of the train
near Glidden, attracted considerable at
tention. There were two car loads en-
route for California
Caterpillars are said to be doing con-
siderable damage to the fruit trees in the
vicinity of Burnet.
On the 9th a terrible hail storm visited
Groveton, seriously damaging fruit and
gardens.
Nnar Navooo+o n ,,on,,c, ~, ~, $40. t-;Irod
by an unruly horse, both horse and rider
coming in violent contact with rock.
Owing to the drouth and bad condition
OF the cattle, application has been made
to the Pecos Valley association to defer
the general roundup.
The kids who peel cedar poles for VIM.
Cameron & Co. at Gordon made a sue
cesstul strike few days since. They
asked for higher pay, and on being re-
fused armed themselves with "nigger-
shooters" and with good supply Of buck.
shot so successfully defended the pile of
poles as to compel the agent to accede TO
their demands.
Oracle Prathee, the three-year-old
daughter of Col. w. l.. Prather of Waco,
met with a most distressing and singular
accident. She attempted to drink from
the faucet connected with the water
sink, ana her tongue was drawn in. 1t is
supposed the suction was caused by the
opening of another pipe on the same CON
nection. The ligaments of the tongue
are torn away, her mouth lacerated and
lhroat so swollen as to make 1t extremely
difficult for her to swallow even LIQUID
food.
Miss Kate McCampbell of Live Oak
county was severely shot in the leg.
pistol was left in the bed she was making.
ana the hammer caught In the sheet and
went off.
A negro In Victoria had an ENLARGED
loot amputated weighing twenty-tive
pounds. This abnormal growth is the re-.
suit OF gunshot sound received in the
bottom OF his foot more than forty wears
ago.
The Roby Town company is making
strenuous { Efforts to secure the county seat
OF the new county Of Fisher, donating
lois ior SIX churches, twelve lots for
school buildings, courthouse, built and
donated, with $4,000 to be paid a county
luuge, ihsuring the county from burden
some taxation, as far as public BUILDINGS
are concerned. both now and in the
future.
Rooy and Fisher are contestants for
the county-seat OF Fisher county. the
former claiming many superior adyan-
tages.
D. Bunker of Sulphur Springs was
awarded $500 damages against the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway for Injuries sus.
tSlned from fall from his horse vhile
tlding over defective bridge.
Lampasas is working hard 10 yecpre
'hs state encampment there this year.
MISS LA Bendt committed suicide nv |
taxing poison. She was only sixleen
ana lived near Industry, Austin cn,mtv
4 ne cause - said to be disappointment
10 love
Hon John Hancock Is mt work in tho
ineerestS OF Fort Davis as the county |
seat OF Preside. county.
Inc town of Gresham Is being sprvavad |
INTO lots, aud tners VIII soon be a nnII,c
sure there, 1t is situated four miles
SCUM oil Runnels and is on the linz of |
the Santa Fe. D0 iino "a
. r. lawson was arrested at Denison |
ana conveyed to Houston, whare no -
with abstractlng 500 from sn
eApIess package while acting as messan'
ger ior Wells, Fargo G Co.
y Is decided that there win be a cot
~, compress bnilt in Greenvile which
WIZ De ready for the fall trade. "
= Snaries Burnet killed A. Burpes near
noiuenwalte last week; family tronhIa
supposed TO be the cause.
hlneial Wells was visited bv a mos.
lire on the 18th, Nj. n Frvs,ss
are mercantile house and contents ~
Wy destroyed. 1t is supposed ~ 49,
ossn sccldental.' Mr.. Fryar,s H.
o oesf'y $4,000, with an lnsursI,ceat rs $40
ali ATS Branch died at Brownwnoa l.s,
wsek, tne third victim ii the sra ,ss lass
SSosuoyed both house and home. 4 , rrSn
wy Yen years Old persisted Ia tie aa,nes s