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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
WORTH MILLIONS.
The Very Wealthy People of Cleveland John
D. RockefeIIer's Income Nearly Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars Day.

The Very Wealthy People of Cleveland-JOhn
D. RockefeIler's Income Nearly Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars a Day.
Chicago Tribune.
CLEVELAND, ONO, July 12.-Mr. H.
NJ. Flagler said a short time ago that
John D. RockefelIer's income had
reached 50 200 200 a year. This startling
statement, coming from a man as well
informed as Mr. Flagler regarding the
affairs of the Standard oil company, was
the basis of a careful inquiry among the
brokers and we'll informed financiers as
to the wealth of Clevelanders generally,
and it can be safely said that there are
no less than siXty-three millionaiTes
within the limits OF the Forest City, to
say nothing of immense estates owned
jointly by heirs.
Mr.. Flagler 5 statement regarding Mr..
Rockefeller 5 income would make the
head of the great Standard oil tFnst
worth $50 900 900 on per cent basis :.
He said his own income was So 900 900
year, and estimated Col. Oliver Payne 5
wealth at about twenty two million dol
lars. But the Standard oil people are not
the only wealthy residents of Cleveland
whose holdings are represented Ill seven
and eight figures. Selah Chamberlain is
worth Sl6 900 200, most of which is in
vested in the best Of railway securities,
and the s. Y. Hardness estate,
divided but a short time ago be-
tween Mrs. Anne NJ. Harkness and
three sons, is said to have footed up
S28 900 goo. The combined wealth of
Jeptha II Wade and his grandson, Ho-
mer Wade, who have already inherited
an immense fortune, is certainly not less
than seven million dollars. 1t is only
short time since the East Cleveland street
railway company, in which Mr.. Wade is
the prime mover, offered n clear million
for the three street railroad lines con-
trolled by the Hathaways and RobisoDs.
The developments in street railways have
turned attention 70 Mr.. Wade's
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real estate interests in the East
End of Cleveland, and If is only of late
that it has become generally known
that he owns twelve miles Of street fronts
in that neIghberhoOd. The Wade Park
property alone will eventually cover q
street frontage of nine or ten miles
Scores of other Clevelanders who long
ago passed the single million point are
put down for amounts ranging from two
to five times that figure. Charles a.
Otis, w. j. Gordon, john Huntington,
Charles Brush, Samuel Andrews, Judge
Stevenson Burke, Senator H. B. Payne,
John L. Woods and DR.. II. H. Little are
millionaires several times over. Follow
ing is the list of sixty three, and it is
possible that few have been left out:
John D. Rockefeller, Col. Oliver
Payne, SeIah Chamberlain, J II. Wade,
Senator H. B Payne, j . H. Wade,
Jr., Charles A. Otis, John Huntington,
L. E. Holden, DR.. H. Little, John L.
Woods, Charles Brush, w. j. Gordon,
Sam Andrews, J. B. Perkins, John T.
Rust Judge Stevenson Burke, Mrs. Sen
atOr Payne, Mrs. Amasa Stone, Mrs s.
Y. Hardness, c. w. Hardness and two
brothers, Mrs. James f. Clark, Mrs. S.
s. Stone, Mrs. William Bradford, Mrs.
Ava Bradley, Mrs. george orthIn%-
ton, Mrs. Sarah Beckwith, Samuel
Mather, James Pickaifds, Ralph Worth
ington, w. c. Scofeld, NJ. A. Bradley,
C. G. King, w. J Rainey, Frank De H.
Robson, Charles Hickox, Nj. A. Hanna,
G. w. Pack, L. Botsford, w. p. Soth-
worth, 7. ID. Crocker, Col. W. H. Har-
ris, Daniel p. Eels, f. e. Thomas, w.
J. Boardman, c. j. Sheffield, E. 1.
Baldwin, c. s. Bissell, q. h. Herrick,
Col. John Hay, Henry Wick, e. b.
Hale, r. E. Mix, J V. Painter, Charles
Bulky, James Farmer, W. Il. Corning.
Leonard Schlather, c. E. Gehring and
r. H Harmon.
No reference is made to the estates of
A. Montpelier, E. GrasseH, d. NJ.
March and several others. which would
certainly foot up in the millions.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
Open Your Windows at Night.
Sanitary = ord.

An extraordinary fallacy is the dread
of night air. What air can we breathe
at night but night air: The choice is be-
tween pure night air from without and
foul air from within. Most people prefer
the IatteT-au unaccOuntable choice
What win they say if it is proved to be true
that fully oue-haIf of all the diseases we
suffer are occasiOned by people sleeping
with their windows shut? An open win
dow most nights in the year can never
hurt any one. In great cities night air is
often the best and purest to be had in
twenty four hours. One could better
understand shutting the windows in
town during the day than during the
night for the sake Of the sick The alb
sence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to
make the night the best time for airing
the patient. One of our highest medical
authorities on consumption and climate
has told me that the air of London is
never so good as after 10 O clock at night.
Always air your room, then, from the
outside air if possible. Windows are
made to open, doors are made to shut-a
truth which seems extremely difficult Of
comprehension. Every room must be
aired from without, every passage from
within.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
M'DANTEL'S DEFEAT.
Doubtful if Mac will Ever Again
Enter the Political Arena.
His Loss will Be Felt in Republican
Conventions and in the First
District Campaigns.
Col. DeGress Game and Dashing as Ever Not
to Be Downed by Quincy or the Lack OF
an Offce-Texas Notes.
VIII Make a Good Democrat.

VIII Make q Good Democrat.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-The failure to
appoint Judge Mcdaniel collector of in
ternal revenue for the Third district is
apt to have wider reaching result than
appears on the surface. As is well
known, Mcdaniel is able, highly es-
TEEN and q brilliant party leader. If
any Republican could be returned to
congress from his district, Mcdaniel is
not the man to be ignored for
one who had no record
as a politician and was scarcely
known as a Republican. His defeat is q
keen disappointment. Had he won he
would have again been the standard
bearer of his party in the next congress
sional campaign His failure i'll this case
will put an end to all that, and it is
doubtful if he will ever again enter the
political arena. Another result is the
chasm between Mcdaniel and the man
whom he regards as the chief instrument
of his defeat,
COL. J c. DEGREES.
How it may effect the latter's personal
aspirations remains to be seen, but there
are some who think that DeGress may re-
pent having antagonIzed his former
ally. The colonel has not yet been pro-
vided for, but conducts himself in his
characteristic game ana dashing manner,
and it is plain that he doeSn t regard
himself as a man who will be downed.
He has his hopes still fixed on the FL
Paso collectOrship.
John Donaldson Is rather blue about
his candidacy for the Sherman postof1ice.
He meets with slim encouragement, and
no promise of speedy change is held
out.
It is thought that new collectors viii be
named very soon at Brownsville and FL
Paso. Corpus Christi aud Eagle Pass
have not yet been considered.
J . } Dickerson, the new Texas mar
shall, left for home tonight.
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A REMARKABLE CASE.
Maumee Baby Causes FIutter in Scientific
Circles-A Remarkable Case OF MaI-FOr-
nation.
Toledo Blade .

nation.
Toledo Blade.
In little lane that leads off the river
road just as you enter the Third ward of
Maumee, more commonly known as
Miami station, in a little white frame
house near the river lives Henry Burke
and his wife They are people i'll the
ordinary walks Of life, weTl-to-do, and
their health has always been good. A
little over three weeks ago Mrs. Burke
was confined and presented her husband
with a baby which, from a scientific
point of view, is a most wonderful
curiosity.
Physicians have for years, even centu-
ries, been endeavoring by all manner of
experiments on different dumb animals,
by Yivi-section and all the ways known
to science, to obtain even a brief view of
the vital organs of the human system
while III action, and especially of the
stomach and bowels. The birth of this
child has given to science q chance to see
a part, at least, Of what it has so long
desired, as its bowels and stomach, i'll
stead of being confined within the
body, protrude and hang in sack
about as large as the child 8 head.
The sack is transparent, and the action
of the stomach and bowels can be plainly
seen, as can the blood cOuTsing through
the veins and arteries which run AROUND
the sack and from a scientific standpoint
is a most wonderful curiosity, although
source of sorrow to its unhappy, parents.
Hearing of the case, a reporter of the
Blade drove out to Miami yesterday even
ing to see the child, but on his arrival
there found that the child after
living three weeks had died, and
been buried the day previous.
The case was neighbOrhood talk, how
ever, nearly every one having seen the
child In conversation with Miss Clara
Owen, an English lady, who Is a gradI-
ated nurse from an English hospital, and
vino said she had watched the case with
Iruch interest, he was told
that the probable cause of this alb
normal location was shock to
the mothers nervous system while en-
cieute 1t appears that some months ago
q wandering qUack came to Miami, and
advertised to give q series of lectures
in the shoolhOuse, which he
did before large audiences, illus
trating his talk with highly colored
plates, showing the internal workings, Of
the human system Mrs Burke attend
ed one of these lectures and saw these
plates, and being in SO delicate condi-
ton, was unable to overcome the feeling
of disgust with which they inspired her.
The pictures have been continually on her
mind since, and when her child was born
il was disfigured as described above.
The physicians who saw the child say
that il was the most remarkable case that
ever came under their notice, and, with
the exception of the cause related, have
no theory for such mal-fOrmation.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
COURT TRAGEDY.
Sensational Scene in a Chicago
COURTROOM at Midnight.
A Man on Trial for Criminally Assault
ing an Eight-Year-0ld Girl is
Found Guilty.
He Protests His Innocence and Sticks His
Pocket knife Into His Left Breast-Ths
Judge Greatly Excited.

CHICAGO, Ills. July 2S.-There was
sensational scene in Judge MoConneH's
court room last midnight.
James w Smith had been on trial on
charge of criminaIly assaulting an eight
year-old girl, who had been taken by
Smith ana his wife from an orphan asy-
lum at Akron, Ohio, for adoption.
The case was given TO the jury in the
afternoon, and ut lI:45 last night they
returned 4 verdict, finding Smith guilty,
and fixing his sentence at nine years in
the peniteutIary.
Smith was greatly affected, and rising
to his feet exclaimed:
81 am innocent; 1 swear before my
God whom / IN about to meet, 1 am limo
cent.
As he finished he raised his hand, and
with a small pocket-knfe stabbed himself
in the left breast.
He fell backwards on the floor while mis-
wife who had been sitting beside him
screamed wildly:
''Oh, jim, why did you do that?''
Doctors were hastily summoned and
found the wound an inch and half deep
about three inches above the nipple.
They don't think the would-be sui
eide win die.
In his pockets as found q letter
addressed to Judge Mcconnell, but the
Judge was too much excited to read it.
Smith had always borne a good repu-
tation and was employed as craftsman
in the railroad offices here.
James w. smith, Who attempted te
commit suicide in Judge Mcconnell 5
court lasE night when given nine years IN
the state prison by jury, was removed
from iail to the county hospital this
afternoon.
The stab which he expected would re-
suit in his immediate death is pronounced
not so dangerous as at first supposed.
The blade was driven into the breast
three inches above the left nipple, and it
is thought punctured a blood vessel.
Strange as it may seem mis- wife, who
first started the ugly rumOrs Of her nus
band crime, remains near him night
and day.
He may recover.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
4 LITTLE IRONY.
What Chief Mays Says Of Harri-
sons Cherokee Commission.
Como of the Commissioners Not Aware
that the CherOkees Have a Con-
stiutiOnal Government.
r. uaras they win Go Home with the Belief
that the Cherokees Are Civilized
Professional Crank.
ROUGH OF THE COMMISSIONERS q.

unTr-# Oh lie NOhMl S5iDN EihS1
s-so.-- 20 the Gazette.
~,r-rgrAu. /. T., July 2G.-Chief
,,.r. was found in his apartments this
.ra--aon. but refused to give his ideas
49,, what action VIII be taken upon the
ora-. q the Cherokee commission.
.,t,y idea is that they viii not consider
any proposition whatever, " he said.
.r have never received any instruc-
,.rs ami go not know what they viii
An up what they expect to accomplish.
T.,rr Fuaw Is is supposed they are com
.,.r.r regard to the sale OF the land. l
-.l..a ro say wuetucrI am in favor of
selling or not, put everybody Will know
ina few DAYS. J viii only say that if we
,rerr II. sell we can get good deal bet
,.---.r. than am told they will pay for
- can secure - an acre or more. >
.J- there any foundation to the claim
~ -ga Jlaveuues and ATrapahoes to
crr.rr + 900 900 acres of the Cherokee
outlet:
uNone whatever. do not think that
no will have any trouble at all in set
ting fiat part Of the question or in
REGARD f0 the CheTOkees having the
le.l title to the strip. will say that
while such men as Congressman
Perkins viii uphold this idea, those
who are perfectly acquainted with Cher
rsae aGatrs will not. l am personally
acquainted with Perkins and know him
~ laa professional crank on this sub
fert Even the men who compose tins
commission are not acquainted with the
present condition Of the Cherokees, and
T. rv certain knowledge some Of
them Iid not know the Cherokees have
constitutional form of government
lasel upon that Of the United States. In
conclusion, hope that the commission
er. may accomplish q good work, and
that they will leave with the impression
upon their minds that the Cherokees are
Ggg..Iled people.
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A BIG FAILURE.
He may recover .
Tho New York Dry GoodsS lHIs
Go Under for s4.GOOOOO. Z

10 UuutE lot btsOUVsUOUs
New YORK, July 24.-The ann,unoe-
ment that notes of the heavy dry goods
firm of Lewis Bros. & Co. have gene to
protest was the aE-absOrbing CONVERSE
ton in mercantile circles to-day.
According to current report, the Iabil-
tiles of the embarrassed firm amount to
nearly four million dollars, which it was
thought could be more than covered BY
the resources when the latter were N
shape TO be Immediately available. A
reporter who visited the firm store, No.
Sc North street, to-day found the mana
ger and employees on hand and apparently
as busy as ever.
HAS the firm made an assignment
was asked.
''NOt yet, - was the reply.
''DO you think the house viii tide
over the difhculty?"
eyes; but the members of the firm
are not here and L can t speak posi-
lively.
The absence of Lewis Bros & Co. from
their place of business during the fore
noon gave rise to the sUppositiOn that
they were endeavoring to make arrange
ments to take up the protested notes.
1t was understood if the firm could
be given little time they
would be able to pay in full
and continue business without detriment
to either themselves or their customers.
The members of the house are Walter
II. Lewis, J. W. Lewis, Penny Lewis
and John l. Bourden, all well and
widely known in the business community.
The store occupies four buildings on
Worth street. 1t is one Of the largest of
the kind in the United States.
The assignment of Lewis Bros. was
filed in the county clerk 5 Office here this
afternoon. Cornelius II Bliss of Bliss
Fabyan is assignee. The assignment
was executed III Philadelphia. There
are no preferred creditors.
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TIE CHEROKEE COMMISSION.
The Ua7d Feelings Between the Creeks and

The Hard Feelings Between the Creeks and
gherokees Grow More Bitter.
Foar GmsoN, 1. T., July 2G.-The
Cherokee, commission was met here yes
,.far bv d delegation of Creek Indians,
headed by Indian Agent Bennett. who
asked that the Creeks be heard at once
Interference TO certain technical matters
concerning the sale of their remaining
LAM. Tu. request was granted and Gen.
I..u.Il has arranged TO meet the
Greek. al NuScorce to-day. The hard
feeling u.r,greu the Creeks and Chero-
KEGS crows more bitter as the pending
negotiations come to focus. The Cher
.s.g, uuarI.I the Creeks for the OklahO-
ma deal. ANA their Indignation in
oreases as the Creeks make further
preparation 10 sell. The CherOkees are
a.m... 81 INIT i'm their opposition to any
a.dau transactions by which their lands
ar. % Doe marketed. Chief Mayes dem
unsrut.I "a hrmuess in refusing to call
The Council that bids fair to handicap
The Ia..vs of the commission at their
outset fje is reported to have
w..'g stated to the commanding Off
Gers ar Fort Gibson that he would not
call au extra session under any ciCcum-
s.u..s Gen. FairchiId expressed de-
.r. f. confer with the chief 1t Table
.... a- -.aa as possible, ostensibIy with
.......t .l inducing him to call an eX-
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
A SEA OF ICE.
For Seven Days and Nights Bark is TANNED
Between Enormous Icehergs.


Between Enormous Icehergs.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 26.-The
bark Ivigtut, which arrived yesterday
from Ivigtut, encountered a remarkably
stormy and perilogs passage, occupying
in all forty-eig days, in which forty
seven 1cebergs were passed. She sailed
on June 6 and on that day became fast
damned in an ice pack, the area of
which could not be determined from
aloft AS far Jas the eye could
reach nothing tbut long waste
of thickly packed ice could be seen.
Little or no Roadway could be made.
For seven long days and nights, amid
great suffering the battle with ice con-
tiuued and finally the craft found her
self gliding through dear water once
more. On the following day the Their
mOmeter gave indications of ice again,
and it was but a short time until twenty
five tremendous glittering monsters
doomed up in full view. On the 18th
seventeen icebergs equally as large were
sighted, and, on the 10th five were seen.
Favorable winds. carried the Ivigtut be-
yond further distractions of this kind.
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MASONIC EDICT.
The Cerneau Scottish Rite Under Ban in Amer
ica-A Warning to MasOns.

The Cerneau Scottish Rite Under Ban in Amer
ica-A Warning to MasOns.
WASHINGTON, July 28.-The contro-
versy which has been general among the
Masonic fraternity throughout the eoun-
try respecting the Cerneau Scottish rite
has eliminated here in the issue of an
edict by Harrison Dingman, most wor-
shipful grand master of the MasOns of
the District of Columbia, under date of
July %, pronouncing the Cerneau
organization clandestine and warning
all members of that rite that they are
liable to discipline from the grand lodge
unless they at once withdraw from said
Cerneau body. The main reason for the
edict aside from other questions arising
in the Scottish rite controversy is stated
to be that the Cerneau organization has
established relations or amity and Ma
sonic correspondence with the Grand
Orient of France, governing the body of
Masons in that country, which is under
the ban of at least every English speak
ing grand lodge in the world be-
cause the Grand Orient has
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
Classification of Wool Waste.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The treasury
department to-day decided an interest
ing question in regard to the classical
ton of so-called garnetted wool waste.
The question arose on an appeal by J
Wild & Co. from the decision of the
collector Of customs st New York assess
ing the duty at 30 cents per pound OH Il
recent importation OF that merchandise,
which they claimed to be dutiable at. the
rate of 10 cents per pound. 1t appears
from the special report Of the United
States appraiser that the mer-
chandise consists Of so-called
WOODEN waste which has. been
garnetted or put through some process
BY which it is practically restored to the
condition of manufactured secured
wool of the first class. In a letter to the
collector Acting Secretary Batchele r says
that the question as to classification of
merchandise of this character was de-
cided by the department on the Goth of
October, 1887, and it was then, as it was
on the 18th of July, 1887, held that
wooden waste which may have been
broken up and put through a garnetting
machine becomes practically secured
wool The collectors decision IN the
case in question is affirmed.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
Sinking IrrimatiOn.

TOPEKA, KAN, July 24.-The sub
committee on irrigation, auxiliary to the
United States senate committee, has Wis
tied Garden City, made an investigation
OF the irrigation system in use there, and
also listened TO the theory of irrigation
by the so-ealied Understandings sewers.
Believers in the new plan say there is an
inexhaustible supply of water in the lower
strata Of sands IN Western Kansas which
their system can. bring to the surface.
The subcommittee viii visit the irri-
gatable portion of Nebraska.
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Mrs. Heron safe.

WASHINGTON July 25.-In response to
his telegram of Tuesday respecting the
case of Mrs. Heron, reported TO be un-
der sentence of death in Corea for
preaching doctrines of Christianity, Hon.
IF. Wharton, acting secretary Of
state. this morning received the follow
ing cablegram from Minister Dinsmore at
Seoul, COrea:
To Wharton, Washington.
The report concerning Mrs. Heron is
wholly without foundation.
DINSMORE.
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ira session at once. During the delay
that must ensue before the delegates as
semble the general says the commission
viii go to the Cheyenne and Araphoe
agencies to consider their claims in the
Cherokee strip. The most important
facts that have occurred to the commits
sion thus far are the length to which
their negotiations must necessarily ex-
tend and the hostility demonstrated by
the Cherokee authorities. It may be
several months before preliminary ne
gotiations can be opened The commits
sion goes to Muskogee:to day
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The Oldest Man in the World.

In your issue of Saturday, July 90, was
published an interesting article COM
,mencing as follows: 1.-The oldest man
m the civilized world, it may be said with
reasonable, safety, is Macy Ference, a
peasant in Barcs, Hungary, l2l years
old - l write TO call attention to the
fact that the honor of having the
oldest inhabitant' belongs to the
United States, thanks to the
''glorious climate of California. -
He is nearing his 150th year of his
stay on earth; his name Is Gabriel and he
lives at Monterey, Cal. You viii find
his picture and an interesting sketch of
his life, with the proofs of his age, in the
July number of Leonard 5 Medical Jour
nal, Detroit. 1T appeared by authority
of DR.. Hood of Monterey, and is rein
forced by the statements of Father Sor-
rento, the parish priest of Salinas, as
well as Mrs. W. S:SJohnson, contributed
TO the Monterey Democrat. Yours
truly, WI. 3 CLARKE, N. D.
indianapolis, Ind. July %, 1889.