Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-28
LOCAL z TIES.

A. a. Grain. prominent young drug
gist of Dallas. is visiting TINS city.
carpenter named Miller was taken in
| "Wednesday on a charge of wife beating
An axle was sprung on fire engine No.
2 while chasing q false alarm on WeudeS-
day afternoon.
J. B. Richmond and J. P. Lipseomb.
prominent merchants from Grapevine,
were in the city yesterday.
J. W. Ditto, A. J. Rogers and Clint
Harrison. merchants from Arlington,
| visited Fort Worth yesterday, also
| Thomas Spruance and his wife.
| A man suffering from severe and seri-
! Gus kuife wounds was taken to DR.. Au-
! sell IS office. near the foot of Main street 4,
| for repairs Wednesday night.
A fire alarm turned in from box Z
about 8 O. o'clock last night called the de-
partment out West Weatherford street,
but the alarm proved to be false one.
The laying of the corner stone OF the
high school building will take place ct 10
a. m. to-day. All citizens are =
Vi:ed to be present, but the seats are re-
served for the pupils.
The teachers of the public schools viii
conduct their pupils TO Railroad avenue
south of the Spring Palace, so as to be
able to march to the high school grounds
at 9:45 a. N. to-day.
Miss Matte Warren, who has been
quite i'll at the institute, is now conva-
descent. She was taken sick at Profess
sor Brown $ school in Grapevine, whore
she is employed as teacher.
J. G. Harley of Denver, Colo. gen.
eral manager of the Equitable life assur-
ance society of New York, tame in yes
terday on the special which brought
Hon. T. r. Bonner of Tyler.
Four hundred dozen sheaves of oats TO
be used in the Spring Palace come from
the farm of E. e. Garrison, just north
of the city. The oats are of the crop of
1888, and were being hauled yesterday.
Robert L. Patterson, aged twenty
years, died at Rivers de, Cal. at 8:45
o. m. on March %. He was q brother
of the late W. F. Patterson Of Fort
Worth, whose lamentei demise occurred
in this city few months ago.
Peter Smith hose company No. 2 gave
q complimentary ball at Huffman's hall
last night. There was not q large at
tendance, but those who were present
enjoyed themselves thoroughly, and held
the floor until along into this morning.
1t is likely that Mallory will pitch for
Fort Worth at Dallas tomorrow, and
Mercer will go in the box on Sunday.
Tobias, it is said by those who have
watched his work, will make one Of the
star pitchers Of the league
The railway mail service bulletin for
March 26 records reduction of pay of
one clerk in the Sixth division for failure
to make q connection through coreless-
ness, and suspension of seven others in
various divisions for various Offenses.
A burglar made a haul at the Mansion
house yesterday morning during break
fast time. He got SIS in one room, $40
in another, and was discovered IN a
third. When the alarm was given he
fed, and only his vanishing coat tail was
visible thereafter.
Fort Worth can now boast the proud
distinction of being the home of a pro-
fessional baseballist. John w. Mahouey
yesterday signed q contract to play this
season with Colorado Springs in the Coll
orado league. He is well known as an
amateur player of some ability in Fort
Worth.
While the fire engines were answering
the alarm w edueSdaV afternoon "a pair or
horses hitched to a carriage above Third
street on Main became frightened. and q
serious runaway was only averted by
the presence of mind of a young man,
who seized them by the bit. As it was,
the pole was snapped in their frantic eff
forts to get away.
All the children of the city who will
participate in the exercises of laying the
corner stone of the high school building
Friday morning gathered In the opera
house Wednesday afternoon for practice
in singing. Prof. w. A. Mason of Boston
is in charge of the music and gave the
children, who completely filed the body
of the house. long drill. This is the
only time they will be together until the
Anal exercises.
''Webb Finley, the chairman of the
Democratic executive committee, was in
Fort Worth couple of days ago, said
a gentleman who occupies place in Fort
Worth 3 watch tower, yesterday. 81
didn t speak to him, but got it straight
that he expressed himself as OF opinion
that Fort Worth stood q good chance
for the Democratic convention il she
tried for it properly. The committee
meets at Lampasas on the first Tues
day in April, the day of the city cleo
tons, and it will be difficult TO get good
committee to go down on that day to
meet them; but. We should do the best
We can. San Antonio will send strong
Delegation in special car. -