Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-22
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Special 70 tho Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, May 2l.--Tho Ole
market-house on Main street, which II
the earlier days Of Dallas cost the city
$4,000, has been pronounced unsofe BY
committee Of experts appointed by tue
council TO examine II, aud IL Will be torn
down. The city owns the lot,and as soon
as practicable proposes to erecta Due city
hall on 1t.
VINE DEsKRTIoN.
John Shanks was an empl0ye at the
as-works. lie had wife and one child,
but loft home Tuesday last and now
his wife has discovered that
he has cruelty deserted her and her little
one. Mayor Brown this morning, out u
the city charity fund, gave her means
enough 70 go 20 Sherman, where she has
friends. Her distress, as she related the
tale OF her descfiion by the man she
low ed, was pltlful IA tho extreme,
ON TRIAL
The case OF Joseph II Brown Of Fort
Worth w. tho Western Union Telegraph
company, for damages caused by delay IN
transmitting Telegram, " on trial In the
United States district court.
The clerks IN the stores IN the city,
that is some OF them, are ngitatIng the
question OF only eight hours work during
the hot weather. They are preparing 10
hold a meeting and polltlon their employ
crs on the subj ct.
The speech of Mulyehill, made at
mass.neeting Of work.ngnen, has occa-
stoned no little comment, and the bulk OF
II not ~ all complimentary 20 him. Seem
ingly there are but few carpenters who
sympathize with his solf.imp0sed interest
IN the matter OF eight hours per day work
In their behalf lie IL not a carpenter
himself, aud bis efforts are looked upon
by Il great many as too entirely gratutous,
The resolution he prepared aud forced to
adoption last night, that on and after
June eight hours should be q |
day'a work aud 81 30 days wages, |
will DO but litle needed by the |
carpenters He, II Is said, has been the |
chief aglt0t0r in this eight hour move |
meut, and II Is 10 his well nlah incendlary |
Mlk aud GAhCrtations that llfty two |
buildings that were 20 have been erected |
have been delayed and scores oi men, |
Drlckmagons, carpenters aud plastorerH,
who would now have been at work but |
for this, are now idle. Numbers OF
knights Of Labor and workingmen, II Is
said, are expressing themselves as being
tired and sick OF tho Mulvehlll ct id omne
genus stripe, and think II they would
talk loss aud work more 10 would be bet.
ter all around. Wcstrup, who also made
a speech, Ia writing pamphlet on
free banking, he says, and tho en-
tire adjustment Of interest, which he
considers o sine qua non for the coun
.ryis salvation. lie Is going TO lecture
sunday night on anarchy, aud one would
udgo from his general talk that he in
,llned TO chaos generally lie IT. kno IN
~ "tho varlogated man, rs one side Of
ilH mustnch0 Is gray and the other brown,
while hla hair has gray spots intcrsporsed
through Il, lie says he used TO work,
lut quit because there waa no money in
a little after o'clock this afternoon
Prof Address, who has tent show here,
was sitting on the platform OF his travel
ng-car 10 Fast DallnA when u man giving
Tho name of Cooper came up curslng and
using vile Language. Address asked him
20 deSist, ~ there were ladies In the car
Cooper became greatly enraged aud
wore no would kin Address. lGong off
ne returned presently with q slX.shootcr
md opened Dire ON Address, but, mi' sing
nm, Address lodged into the car for his
pistol. A boy nauled prosser was sitting
~ Chalr on the platform asleep aud
Cooper shot him through one arm with u
ball and in the face with blrd.shot, with
which the pistol was loaded He then
llgod into the car windows Address had
gotten his pistol, hut his cook seized It
and firing AT Cooper missed him, Cooper
then ran on, but was captured by ON ,ers
Waller ana Baird, mounted police.
Cooper pretends to be very drunk lie Is
said 10 have had nm acoomphoe who es-
capped Tho boy Prcsser Is not danger
ously though painfully wounded.