Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-26
TEXAS SPECIALS.
Weekly Resume of the Gazetts's Daily
Reports from All Over Texas.


AUSTIN, TEX O;t..2o.-Some co1sid
erab!e time back at the instance CT tbs
school board OF Aostip, eud through the
ir auence of Sapstor Coke sud Honorable
S:yers, our representative 10 Congress
bill WAS passed bv Congress suttof
izirgtae Secretsry of War to deed piece
of government property III Austin, known
IS the old Arsenal block, to the city Of
Austin to be used for educational pu-
poses. The Secretary of War did nske
AID foTwsId the deed to the City Courcil
Of Austin, bu. strange to say
Mayor N ale and a. mi riry OF. that ondy
declined the gift, conse quentlY the Sec
rotary of Wax hss chsrged the title in
the original deed which IS now
vested In the school bos of Austin
Mr.. Woodbridge, the efficient president
o. the school bosrd received a telegram
from Washington to that { feet to day.
| Seven bids for cork on the csritol
grounds hsva been received by the State
Treasurer aud 10 per cent paid in.
GREENvILLE, TEX, Oct. 22-Cotton
receipts s. Greenville have been consider
sbly diminished the past few dsye, owing
to the nl.7se. falling in prices. The MS
jarity CT farmers ere holding for better
prices. Two hundred and f'.y bales in
s,ssd OF four to five hundred will peranps
ne an average Of daily recsipts since the
depression In tha market.
Your reporter learns from the farmers
that nsuy are sowing larger acreage Of
whess ttis fsll Ia vie~ of the 50-bsrrel
mill thst the Alliance people Will have 10
readiness to buy II the coming season.
JEFFERSON, Tx, Oct. % The p
nix cotton seed oil mills Ct this city, the
largest IN the state, have been idle fer the
past two yesrs on account OF the trust
on the seed oil which they did nos balor ,
to sad with whom they were Eot
sble to cope. On las. Saturday
evening New York syndicate bought out
| the entire tock OF the compa1Y, and
Within KY days the Ptalix OIL works
! will resume work agsia on much larger
snd more extensive scale than ever It
! ia generally understood this. the Nav
| York men sre IN some way connected
with other large mills, which will enable
them &c do as they please regardless Of
the trJst.
These mills resuming work
sut the prospects of cur
iron being so soon developed have given
our city new life indeed Improve
nerts are being made on every hand
All the carpenters In the city ers very
busy for the first time in number OF
years.
Oar people sre patiently waiting the
arr,vsl OK the only absent member of the
Chicago capitalists, John K-uaP, VINO
Is expected from Old NJ 1co on every
train When ha arrives there Is not the
lesst doubt but ths. everything will Be
| fixed SO isfsctorily, ami the great iron
7GrHs-ot which there hss been 81 mach
tslk-Eill be reality. Tni9 will give
ths city Z boom, such as has never been
heard O;
The Uni'ed S:etes court house ard post
offl:e building, nav in coarse OF eFec!CT,
| is ceing rapidly completed. When the
| flashing touches are pui on It will be the
haas. building in this part Of the etGte.
GALVESTON, TEX, Oct. Ell. W
Grsdg, Governor Glrdon, Ex-Governor
Med Daniel, judge Newn,n, Senator Col
quit, Egau P. Howell, A P Bacon and
! Speaker Little OF G2orgia, President Nor
ton CT the Louisville snd NASHVILLE road,
John b. Newman Of New York, S W. In
inent persons from Virginia ami New
egbrk. Will leave A;lsrts, CT 10 morrow
sSTiehs en- route for the big D7ilss far.
fTheg will arrive 10 Houston en- Thursday,
and after brief etey will come TO GAL
| weston. From kere they Will go direct TO
Dsllss, arriving their Faidsy morning.
TExARKANa.;fs1 Oct. 23.-The gro
Gerry stoEssofG E HURT on West Broad
ksszss3kSs burglar I'D on Sunday night
Fry oseph + Ibinsor, Marion Harris eno
E ~ Bresssu, sill colored. This worthy
Trio eff C ed an enIrsnce from the back
OF the building and having carried { f
| something less thsn car load Of provis
ions returned for a tosd Of fsrc9 grocer
les and were captured By Marshall Tay
lor. They were all LEGGED in iail.
| A cold rain has been falling mere almost
constantly since Saturday morning. Cd
| settlers predict En- early and severe VIII
ter. Hunters say tea indications srs
| there Will be numerous numbers OF dues
AID geese IL the lakes and rivers CT this
section.
SHERMAN, Tx, Oct. % Kirk Kis!er,
young man only twenty-five years Of
sge, pleaded guilty to theft CT horse il
the District court this si.ernoou before
jurzoand according to the peculiar laws in
Lt6s.ase witnesses were examined to es-
ffsSRsh tie degree CT his guilt snd ne was
eEn FIVE yesrs in the periiepsiary.
| WAen the ofense WAS committed kisler
~ only seventeen years old stree which
| tie thees6dictment has been held sgsiast
hihss4es whereabouts being Unknown
untI recently, when be was arrested In
| apnthpr 0nrtirr NJ the ctHha AMI hYcrpht
back and lodged In prison. He broke
down ard weps bitterly daring the en-
tire investigation. The evidence having
| shown N to have been an honorable
citizsn since his arrival Of manhood and
his marriage. Every member OF the iury
voluntarily signed petition asking the
G.psrnor for bis pardon.
A csse which attracted great deal of
sttention WAS tried 10 the District court
IN this city this iorenoon1. concluding
early IN the afternoon and s.coptsihiDe
features OF So mess and romsESe. Say.
ersl months sgo james McCo WsIbts rsai-
road man, while apparently in .spssm u
insanity, sttsmpsed TO kill his yGu1g wife
at the Blanchard. hotel, where
they were boarding, By cutting
her throat with ka!fs. He
WAS lodged in jail, and snor.
TIME kfterwaTd his wife obtained d.
voice. Hs was. srrsigued in court thie
morning 10 have mis- csse investigated and
while hs WAS on trisl his wife wss mar
RED to smother man and o few moments
sitter her marriage she appeared on the
witness s,snd sttired in her bridsl
costume 10 testify against her former
husband who had attempted TO lake her