Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-14
DALLAS.
The Trinity River Out of Its Banks.
West Side Settlers Compelled to Flee.
A Number of Small Houses Washed Away-The
MilIers Confess to Over Hundred sas
Burglaries and Robberies.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 13. = John
Howard, ''of and for Texas generally,
but of and for Wichita county partiou-
larry, was in the city to-day for the pur-
pose of securing space for premium
raking exhibit from the ''banner wheat
county. - Mr.. Howard says that
Wichita is preparing a splendid exhibit,
made largely from the splendid crops
harvested this year. The average yield
of the county is placed at twenty-five
bushels to the acre, and other crops in
proportion.
S. K. Williamson made an assignment
to-day.
The morning newspaper talk is still
heard all around. The St. Louis Repub-
lie, it is said, offered to estab-
lish a branch in Dallas if
the citizens of Dallas would sub
scribe 500, 900 in stock This PROPOSE
ton has, it is understood, been accepted,
and parties are now in ST. Louis endeav-
Oring to effect arrangements for the en-
terprise.
The Fort Worth amateur ball team will
play the Dallas amateurs at Oak Cliff
Sunday. Tub WEIGH, Cedar and Fabian
will be the beneficiaries
The Trinity river continued to rise
throughout the night, and this morning
overf1owed the settlement at the foot of
the hills on the west side of the river. No
lives were lost, but men, women and
children had to get out of their homes
Several small houses were washed away.
All day fragments of buildings
or fur
of the river, showing that considerable
damage must have been done up the
river.
Howard Peak of Fort Worth was in the
city to-day.
The niger MIllers who were arrested
as the East Dallas robbers, have con-
fessed to over a hundred burglaries and
robberies.
Manuel Benjaman to-day reinstated
divorce proceedings against Bell J Ben
jaman of Limestone county, alleging
adultery on the part OF the defendant.
Chester F. Daugherty asks for the re-
moval Of his disabilities as minor.
Dulcenia Kimble, joined by her ~hus-
band, Tell KimbIe, entered suit against
Henry Trice, in which it Is alleged that
Dulcenia Kimble and the defendant en-
tered into a certain agreement and CO.
partnership, by the terms of which
plaintiff and defendant agreed to live to-
gether as husband and wife and to con-
tribute their joint labor and the proceeds
thereof to the accumulation of Joint
property. That in pursuance OF
said agreement said plaintiff and defend
ant did so live together and con-
tributed their labor and the proceeds
thereof to the accumulation of joint
J 'operty until on or about the 9th day of
: y, 1889, when plaintiff, Dulcenia
!Nmble, was duly and lawfully married
20 her co-plaintiff, Tell Kimble. That
by said marriage said agreement was
annulled and said copartnership dis
solved. While they were so living to-
gether it is alleged they accumulated
property, real and personal of the value
Of $4,000. Dulcenia sues to recover her
share of the property and asks that it be
partitioned
- ne case ~ Braley against Halter,
5 4 yesterday, Judgment |
Va IL arc eoI the defendant.
AIe. =. q Herman this morning took
judgment by default against Herman |
Bros. for $3.50. 81. The clerk was di- |
rected to pay over 30 her the proceeds of |
the attachment sale, which amounted to |
only SG143.75.
George H. Giddings, late of Ell Paso, |
was admitted TO the bar upon an exam /
nation conducted this morning by Seth !
Shepard, j G. Kearby and w. H. John
son. ~