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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
FIRE DEPARTMENT STUNNED.
Pools of Water and Buildings Charged With
Electricity

Pools of Water and Buildings Charged With
Electricity.
EVANSVILLE, IND, July 15.-This city
was visited Dy heavy rain and wind
storm yesterday afternoon doing, much
damage. About 10 clock last night
when the power at theeslectric light sta
ton for street Inflammation was turned
on, numerous wires which had been
blown down, charged buildings and
pools of water III the streets With cleo
tricity Fire foot high was emitted in
places ,~earsing an alarm to he sounded.
The fire department responded and being
unaware of the condition of things,
rushed into what was almost
certain death The horses and firemen
were alike knocked down with electricity.
Others rushed into a building that was
apparently on fire only to be thrown vio-
leutly down. Citizens rushed in and met
q similar fate, and the excitement ran
high. messenger fastened to the sta
ton and had the electric power shut of
and then the work of rescue began. A
dozen or more men were found Uncon-
scious, But their lives were saved by
laying them upon tine wet ground. Sew
eral firemen are yet in precarious con-
ditiOn
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A SICKENING ACCIDENT.
A Man Literally Torn Into Shreds at the Cable
Line Power House in Denver

A Man Literally Torn Into Shreds at the Cable
Line Power House in Denver
Special to the Gazette.
DENVER, COL, July PA most hor-
rible accident occurred at the power
house of the cable line on Fifteenth
avenue and Broadway at 80 this after
noon. Edward Fritz, a German laborer
employed in cleaning under the thirty
five ton drum, took an unwary step or
was sucked into the vortex caused by the
fly wheels revolutions. He was whirled
up and out into the air, and his head and
trunk crashed against the ceiling twenty
five feet high, to drop lifeless mass upon
the stone floor beneath The mammoth
drum is the one around which the cable
is wound and is twenty feet in diam
eter. IN the one revolution made by the
unfortunate man he was literally torn
into shreads His head was severed
from the body, his arms and legs torn
off and the body cut in two at the waist.
His heart and lungs were thrown into
one corner of the room twenty feet from
the wheel, while, other portions of his
body were acattered over the large en-
CINE room ina most sIckening manner.
Traffic ON the road was delayed an hour
by the accident
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
BLAINE'S RESIGNATION.
The RumOr Officially Denied by Cabinet Min
listers.


listers.
BALTIMORE, MD. July 1.-THE Sun 8
Washington SPECIAL says: As far as can
be learned the rumor that Secretary
Blaine has resigned IS without founda-
ton. Secretary Rusk said: 81 know it is
without the slightest foundation Mr..
Blaine never thought of resigning. OF
course if he should get sick so as
TO be unable to attend to the
duties of the office he would doubt
less resign, but Mr.. Blaine is not sick /,
he was in better health when he left
here on his vacation than he had been
at any time since the administration
began. There could be no other reason
for his resignation. for his relations with
the president have been of the most
pleasant character. No, sir, you can
safely say there is no truth in the
rumor.'
Attorney-General. Miller stated that
there was no truth in the rumors of Mr..
Blaine's resignation. He said Mr..
Blaine's health was good and that the
relations between Mr.. Harrison and his
secretary of state were most cordial.
Subordinate officials in the state depart
ment also deny that there is any ground
for the rumor, and say it IS only another
of the periodical scaTes about MIR.
Blaine g health
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To Collect Cotton statistics.

WASHINGTON, July 15.-Superintend-
ent of Census Porter to-day appointed
Edward Stanswood of Boston special
agent of the census office to collect sta
tistics of cotton manufacturers through
out the United States. Mr.. Stanswood
was formerly editor of the Boston Adver-
User and is statistican of considerable
note in the Eastern states having written
several valuable pamphlets on the pro-
ductive power of New England.
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a divorce leaves home in anger, and does
not return for several days. The wife
takes the hint and departs.
THEY ARE TOO NUMEROUS.
valley 81 the Ganges the Most Densely POpu-
lated Spot on Earth.

lateQ spot on Earth
Chicago Tribune.
This valley of the Ganges has more
people than it can support, and it is prob
ably the most densely populated part of
the world. The people live in villages,
and the average country town consists of
one-story mud huts, too poor and
lily ventilated for American pig
pens. You would not think of hav
ing such outhouses as the resi-
dences of the majority of this vast popu-
lItion would make, and in a large part
of India, and especially in the best part
Of this Gauges country, the holdings
average from two to three acres apiece.
AT four to the family, this represents a
half acre per person or over twelve hun
bred persons to the square mile.
When it is remembered that these people
live by agriculture it will be seen that this
condition is far worse than that of China or
any part of Europe And still the people
are bright. The are brainy, too, and you
will find few sharper business men bet
ter cut faces and more polite people than
these people of India. Their faces in
this part of India have much the same
characteristics as those of the Anglo
Saxon. Those of the highest castles are
more like those of the Greeks, and I see
faces every day which, if the skin were
white, any American might be proud to
own. They belong to the same race
germ that we do, and under the same
training and Christian influences they
would be strong competitors with us.
But what can a man do on cents
day, or how can man learn when he
has to struggle to exist? The population
of India is continually increasing. En-
gland eats the lion IS share of the prod
ucts of the country, and though the
people are perhaps better off under
her government than they have
been in the past, it is the same old
story of the wealth going to the rulers
and the people working their flesh eff
their bones to support them. The gov
ernor-general of India, who by the way
is the rich Marquis of Lansdowne, gets
500 COO a year. Quite contrast with
the wages Of the masses at cents day!
Ism 4 il?
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HE Is FHE MAN.

Rev. E. F. Flelnon Identified as, the South
Carolina Murderer.
PTrTsBURG, PA. July fSss-This after
noon United States Marshall Storm and
Deputy Thomas J. Lyon went.sto the
county jafl-to see if they could identify
Rev. E. F. Flemon as John Yeidell, the
alleged South Carolina murderer. Lyon
got all the colored men in Jail fixed up
with hats on and marched them in front
'ofthe bars in a row facing the officers
The officers stopped moment, looked
along the line and went at once up to
Flemon and took hold of bis hand. The
officers expect no trouble In securing
their man when habeas corpus pro-
ceedings are instituted.
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A TEXAN LAID UP .
River improvements.

WASHINGTON, July 15.-Reports of
United States engineer officers in charge
of river and harbor improvements re-
celved at the war department show the
following estimates OF appropriations
necessary for the prosecution Of river and
harbor works in Louisiana and Texas next
year:
Bayou Cortableau, La. S2l07.
Bayou Plaquemine, La, $500, 600.
Sabine Pass, Tex, 81 900 900.
Alcasiu river, Alto Pass, La. $40 900 4.
Sabine river, Louisiana and Texas
S4521.
Bayou LaForche, La, $500, 900.
Tickpaw river, La, $1,000.
Anute river, La, $3.50.
For Arkansas works the estimates are {:
Arkansas river Ark. $3.50 900; re-
moving distractions from same, $50 900.
White river, S9lS5.
Fourche river, $3.50.
Black river, Ark. and Missouri, SIG, :
O0O
Black river, Mo. $26, 900.
Petit Jean river, S35 900.
ST. Francis river, Ark. SIG 900.
ST. Francis river, Mo-, $25 900.
Red river above Fulton, $40 600.
Little river, $4,000.
Mississippi river commission, salaries
and expenses, S35 900.
Continuing surveys, $50, 900.
For the Mississippi to the mouth of the
Ohio, 81 900 600.
For work at Hickman, Ky, Sill ,25O.
AT Greenville. Miss, $3.50, 900.
Vicksburg Sl75 900.
Natchez, $3.50, 600.
New Orleans 5000 600
Red river and Atchafalaya river,
$500
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WATCH CHAIN UPHIS NOSE.

Singular Cause of Child's Trouble Discovered
by Its Working Into the Throat.
FREDERICKsBURG. VA, July 11.-Dr.
Carmichael of this city was called yes
terday to attend the son of Mrs. Eustice
Moncure, who was APPARENTLY suffering
from a troublesome cough. Upon ex-
aiming the child IS throat the doctor
found part of a watch chain protruding
from the nasal canal into the throat.
To-day the chain, about six inches long,
with an acorn charm attached to one end
of it, was taken from the child 3 nostril.
The operation, very delicate one, was
successfully performed and without IN
juring the child IS nose.
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any sort of exercise as all for fear of
starting the bleeding afresh. For the
past two weeks the young man had been
confined to his bed, being too weak to
sit up even, and this morning, bleeding
at the nose having set in, he soon passed
away. Physicians were sent for from
various cities in the East, but they could
do nothing for him. A new skin could
not be grated on, and it was but ques-
ton of short time until the patient
would bleed to death.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
QUEER USES OF WORDS.
cu,,ous expressions Peculiar to the North
and South.
Chautaunuan
Chautauquan.

=. zaens the most natural thing in the
I'D for q southerner in calling another
-.or 70 say, 80, John!'' but it always
MS 70 amuse our friends across the
Il is the ''0'' that excites their
arriment, and in attempting to give
4bo neculiarity they often represent US as
InT s'Ho. John, - which we never
'"y ,notber Southern expression which
LAYS sounds queer to Northern ears is
o. rse of the word "mighty' as an
s5,,erb. But to those accustomed to it,
a1,,iohty pretty" conveys an idea of
,..a,,+r mat the overburdened Northern
- 1Iovely'' doesn t reach. Turning
'. webster to see if il must be given up,
"a End that it is allowable when used
a.lIoouiallv. Good? We should never
eront 70 use il except colloquially.
In the North a man fills his wagon
,nhov,' with corn and ''draws" it 70
.oTn. in the South he fills his wagon
o., with corn aud hauIs'' it to the
same place.
In New England they say ''the going -
l1eaniug the conditions of the roads, is
nod. in the south they say "the travel
ling is bad. Perhaps to say the roads
ore had would be more ineligible than
either.
asUsbe looked like she wanted to go. -
They laugh at it in the North and IN the
some breath say s'as'' for fthat ''-'I
ont know as / ever heard it here -
and then the Southerner laughs and both
are happy. So ingrained are both ex-
T,rassious. however, that the dellnquents
ere seldom conscious of the delinquency.
A large proportion of grammatical
mistakes are common to the uneducated
wherever they are found, but there are
some which are so peculiar 10 certain
sections that their use settles at once the
opestion of whether the person using
them is from the North or the South.
The expression 81 seen - for 81 saw -
very common mistake in the South
and rare in the North, while 81 seen
him Yesterday - for 81 saw him yester-
nav, " so common even among educated
people at the North, is never heard in
the south.
This makes it difficult for writers who
have never lived in certain section to
initiate successfully the dialect of that
people. Ihey are apt TO DE betrayed IHIo
the mistake of putting into the mouths
of certain class in.another part of the
country such words as they would
hear from the same class in their
own section. This undoubtedly is the
difficulty which many Northern
writer's find in truthfully portraying
the negro dialect. They take as models
the negroes they have known, and
Judge, incorrectly, that the talk of the
Southern negro would be the same; con-
sequeutly, practiced ear can almost
always detect the difference between one
who assumes a familiarity and one
who is "'to this manner born. -
The iucongruity of making a
Southern negro say, "Whar be you
goin '?' as we saw recently in some
story, is mexpressibly ludicrous to one
familiar with their dialect. He might
say, "Whar you n'?' or "Whar is
you goin '?' but never "Whar be you
gOin 20 The honor of the expression
"You be" belongs exclusively to the
North. What he would be most likely
20 say is, ''Whar you gwine?'
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Divorce in Five Countries.

If the wife of a Turkoman asks his per-
mission to 90 out, and he says $50, -
without adding "Come back again, -
they are divorced.
In Siberia If a man is dissatisfied with
the most tri1ing acts of his wife, he tears
cap or veil from her face, and that
Constitutes a divorce.
In Siam the first wife may be divorced
bat not sold rs the others may be. She
may claim the first child. The Others
belong to her husband
Among the NFoors if the wife does not
become the mother of a boy she may be
divorced, with the consent of the tribe
and can marry again -
In the Arctic region a Inap who wants
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A PECULIAR AFFLICTION.
Young Nan without skin Battles the Ply
sicians.

CHICAGO. H., July William
Crawford. the son of the well known tug
captain of that name, died this after
noon. He bled to death at the nose, but
had lost so much blood previously that
the hemorrhage from the nose was not
great. Young Crawford, who was but
twenty-five years of age, was peculiarly
afflicted. He had but one skin, which is
TO say he had nc outer skin at all The
veins stood out all over his body in the
plainest manner possible.
From the time he was six years of age
young Crawford had been subject to
bleeding spells, which were liable to
break out at any time and in any part of
his body. He lost vast quantities of
blood in this way, and was afraid to take
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
A FIENDIsH DEED.
a Mother and Child Murdered ana crave
Ready for the Husband and Father.

Mother and Child Murdered and Grave
Ready for the Husband and Father.
EMPIRE CRY, OREGON, July H.
Mrs. Eatenhover and child were brutaIly
murdered on the farm Of John Gilman
near COquille City, on Thursday night
and buried in guleh near the house,
where they were found to-day. The
husband was working up the river ana
and returned home Saturday. The
family were tenants Of Gilman who
wanted them to leave, which they re-
fused until their lease expired. After
the murder Of the wife and child Gilman
laid in wait on Saturday and attacked
Eatenhover. on his approach to his home,
but he escaped and gave the alarm which
resulted in the discovery. to-day Of the
remains OF the wife and child and
ready-made grave for the husband. Gil
man and his wife were arrested and may
be lynehed.
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A REMARKABLE CASE.
The Fearful Affection of John Burke, Chi
cago Stone Mason.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER

Inc Fear1uI .A1nlcGlOn or JOnn Bufke, Cnl-
cago Stone Mason.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
One of the most fearful cases of hernia
on record was seen at the Central station
last night.
About o clock an old man tottered in
and applied for lodging He gave his
name as John Burke and said he was
sixty-eight years of age. Just a year
ago, while working as a stone-mason in
Chicago, he tried to lift a heavy slab.
Suddenly there was a snap in his abdo-
men, and Burke became unconscious
At the hospital the doctors found
that the wall of the abdom-
inal cavity had split its en-
tire length. Given up as in
durable by the Chicago physicians, among
whom the case attracted great attention
he went to ST. Louis. The doctors of
that city gave great attention to Burke s
aff1iction. A large bag was hung to his
shoulders, and in this receptacle was
placed the abnormal enlargement, which
is fully the size of a bushel basket. They
also decided they could do nothing for
him, and a few weeks ago told him that
the injury would result fatally in a short
time Having his death sentence thus
pronounced, Burke set out for his son g
home in Morrowtown, Ohio, where he
expects 70 die. His money gave out by
the time he reached Cincinnati, and he
was forced to appeal to the police au-
thorities for aid. He will be forwarded
to his destination this morning.
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4 majority of the sioux win sign.

FORT BENNETT, OAK, July 154-
ssGsn. Crook, speaking of the outlook of
the Sioux commission, expressed his
belief that the requisite number of names
would be secured. The commission, he
said had been on the reservation thirty
eight days, and had secured nearly
twenty-six thousand signatures and only
about fifteen hundred were needed. OF
the 21oo Indians who have not yet
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Negro Murderer Lynehed.

MEMPHIS, TENN, July 1S.-Y Yesterday
morning Swan Burns, a negro, charged
with the murder of a young white man
named whitehurst, was lynched at
Duke, Miss. A mob of 100 men forced
the jailer to give up the keys and took
Burns short distance away and hanged
him to a tree.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
An Accident to the belgian arinister

WASHINGTON, July Information
has been received by friends here of an
accident to Hon. E. B. Terrell of Texas,
minister to Belgium. AS he was board
ing the steamer in New York he struck
his knee against projection, injuring it
so badly he had been unable to walk
since he reached Brussels, but has been
confined to his room and has not yet been
presented to the king. In a letter Mrs.
Terrell says she fears the result VIII prove
serious,
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Cattle Dying with Fever.

.wELLNGToN, KAs.s July 15.-Arriv-
ais from the Cherokee strip to-day report
that Texas fever . playing havoc with
cattle there. Several were seendead in
one pasture yesterday and in Others from
seven to twenty-fiye earcasses were lying
around. Hundredsof cattle, they say
are dying in oklahoma, aud they pre-
diet not hocf will be taken from there
to the North fo,' some months.
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Too Much for the Baby.

Gushing visitor-o 90 title -tsenty
weenty toozIe oozie singl Tum here and
ct me tiss its title turly tootsie- wootsie,
90 itty. pity singt
Boston baby really beg your pardon
madam, butowIng to what, perhaps, Is
a foolish prejudice on mamma s part 1
have not been allowed TO commence my
language studies. am .verrysserPy but
1 will have t64ask you tosaddress me
solely N the EnglAA language.
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The aIississippi Cohtention.,s' $

JACKSON, MISS, July 15.-rbe Demo
cratic state nominating convention which
meets here Tomorrow win be the largest
ever held in this state. Some counties
entitled to only six votes have sent as
many as fifty delegates.
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Almost Equals 1t.
~ E-

wibble-what is the most remarkable
example of INDIGESTION you ever heard
of, wabble?
Wabble-I guess the jaokass between
the two haystacks is about the most not
able.
but street laborer who has a shoveIfuI
of dirt half way into the cart just as the
noon whistle blows almost equals him.
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NOT YET PRESENTED
E. Fl. Terrell, the New Minister to
Belgium, Meets with Mishap.
The Newspapers Still Claim Blaine Is
Too Sick to Attend to the Duties
of His Position.
The Query of Texas offIce-Seekers- Estimates
Made of the Cost of Improvements on
Southern Streams
The Denial Not accepted.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-The newspa-
pers persist in saying that Secretary
Blaine is too sick to attend to his work,
and that he meditates an early retire.
ment from the cabinet. Blaine himself
says his health is good. and that he has
not felt as well Tor years as now. HIS
colleagues of the cabinet in interviews
published to-day declare the stories in
the newspapers false and written for
sensational purposes.
KHoULI KHAN.
When the Persian minister, with the
long nose, left Washington so uncere-
moniously the other day never more to
return he made no official announce
ment further than that he had
obtained leave of absence, but
there is nothing to indicate the cause.
Mr.. Khouli Khan has wearied of Amer
lea. The amiable relations between
Persia and tins country have been
severed. The trouble with Khouli Khan
was, prominent official said, an eX-
aggerated idea of his own Importance,
and it is said he never recovered from the
shock his dignity received when on first
landing at the port of New York salute
of 100 guns was not fired to welcome
him.
TEXAN LAID UP.
A private letter from Brussels states
that Minister E. H. Terrell met with
severe accident just before embarking for
Europe. In going on the steamer he
fell and hurt his knee so badly that he
has been compelled to stay in his room
ever since and has not yet been intro
duced to royalty.
MAI. KRETZ OF TEXAS,
chief of division in the treasury, has
resigned to take effect on the 21st inst.
AS the terms of several Federal office
holders in Texas haYe expired, or will do
SO shortly, the faithful few who have
been here since the 4th of March are be-
ginning to fear Harrison means to con-
tinue Cleveland IS appointments through
out his own administration
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MOUTH,OF THE BRAZOS.

Rapid Progress Toward Deep Water : The
Latest Soundings.
Special to the Gazette.
HOUSTON, TEX. Gully 10.-A gentle
man just up from Quantana, at the
mouth of the Brazos where the harbor is
being dug out, reports that the high wa
ter in the Brazos washed away some of
the piling, but did not disturb any of the
mattresses. The last soundings show a
depth of sixteen feet, which is two or
three feet more than the contractors had
expected to secure up to the present time.
They feel confident, however, thar they
will have twenty feet by December, if
not eapIIeF.
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signed, only a few hundred are reported
hostile. and nformatianz1rpm Rosebud,
Pine Ridge. Lower ,Brule and Crow
Creek is to the effect that additional sig
natures are being secured every day. -
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PITTsBURG, Pa, July ia special
from Erie, Pa. says United States Mar
shall Baryng of Wnksbarre, Pa. left Tor
that city tonight, having in custody
James K. Farrell, the missing Starrucc~ e
Pa, postmaster, who is charged
robbiDg the mails Of registered leer
Farrell fed to Canada, but to-daEss
entieed to the American side
rested fe
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This country consumes 5000, 900 900
pounds of sugar a year, and an iniqui-
tous trust only has to raise the price
cent to make $50 900 900 out of sugar
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Queen Olga OF Greece can
the cooking Of dinner or tx
with equal skin.