Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-24
WACO.
Petroleum FOund-The Religious
Gathering.
Special to the Gazette.

WACO, TEX. Jan. % Quite sensa-
tional trial was held i'll the county court
this afternoon. Professor Louis Leopold
was charged with being a lunatic. Pro-
fessor Leopold is quite character and
certainly most intellectual and accom-
plished man. BY birth he is a German,
but he reads writes ana speaks fuently
not only his mother tongue, but also
English, French, Spanish and Italian.
He passed a splendid examination i'll law
and is member of the Waco bar. In
addition to this he is musician of emf
nent ability, playing all instruments
with ease, but his speciality is the flute
which he plays with remarkable
brilliancy He lived in Galveston for
short time several years ago and while
there he made some bitter enemies
among the Israelites and has always since
been under the delusion that they were
hiring agents to poison him, and believed
that the Israelites of Waco were in SYM
patty with his Galveston enemies. Two
years ago he publicly renowned the He
brew faith and joined the Episcopal
church, which brought him into great
disrepute among his race. He Is a
brother-in-law of Mr.. r. Leasing, one of
the wealthiest merchants in the city and
Leasing, Solomon s. Rosenthal, whole
sale dry goods. A few years ago that
firm put into his hands some accounts for
collection. He made charges against the
firm for attorneys fees which they con-
sidered exorbitant, and a suit was the
result. Leopold lost the case and became
inimicable to Mr.. NJ n. Rosenthal for
the part he took in the matter. He has
since accused him of being the agent of
the Galveston people, and made some
wild threats about him. Mr.. ROsenthal
is q very nervous man, and these threats
have kept him in constant fear of his life.
This morning as Mr.. ROsenthal came out of
his house he saw Professor Leopold stand
ing out on the sidewalk in the rain. He
said nothing but followed Rosenthal to
his place of business. Rosenthal made
the complaint against him for lunacy,
and the jury brought in a verdict of in
sanity His family refused to give evil
dence in the trial. He is thirty eight
years old, and native of Wurns, Ger
many.
DR.. Andrew Goddard, county sur
veyor, brought in to-day from near
Bruceville, a pint of crude petro-
Ieum which he took from an
artesian well on the place
OF MT. WALTER III ETdIn. Inc wei Is
245 feet and the water rises within few
feet of the top. There is on top of the
water stratum of petroleum three feet
deep. The oil is of an excellent quality
At the second days session of the con-
vocation of the northwest district of the
diocese of Texas held at st. Paul s church
to-day, Rev J A. Duncan read paper
on modern unbelief. Rev. Harry Cassit
of Calvert, was elected secretary of the
convocatiOn and Col. +. A.
Jones of Waco, treasurer. Dean
W. W. Depart read paper
on missions. Rev. Y. C. Bittle, Phi.
D., read paper on "A Land mark in
Missions The dean and the secretary
were appointed a standing committee on
missions Rev. J . A Duncan of Bolton
was appointed conversational preacher.
Calvert was chosen as the next place of
meeting to be held Wednesday, April "A.
The conyocation adjourned.