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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
A NEW RACKET
By Which Unsuspecting Druggists are I'm
posed upon by Forged Orders
DENIsoN, Tex, Aug. 5, 1890.

DENIsoN, Tex, Aug. s, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
There has been sharp scamp in this
city, playing on the credulity of
the unsuspecting druggist, as follows:
He would watch his chance to get in a
Doctors office when he was out, and
then he would slip in aud look around
for blank prescription on some of the
various stores that the doctor sent his
orders to, and if he could see the doctors
handwriting on onythirg he would take
the blank and write an order on some OF
the drug stores, aud request the drug
gist to pay the bearer a small amount,
generally not more than 81 or S.. The
druggist would honor them, and not
wishing to rush at the doctor early the
next day, probably would let it go for
several days before mentioning it to the
doctor, and then find out to his sorrow
that it was forgery. 1 write this to let
you put the other druggists OF the state
on their guard. 1 remain, very respect
fully yours, w. H. ROBERT, JR.
n. B.-I neglected to state that the
orders always had the Doctors name
signed to them, and promised to pay the
same in the morning, stating that he had
no money in the house at the time. The
unsuspectlng druggist would always pay
them, not wishing to get the enmIty of
the doctor. thinking that they were all
o. k, and not find out until il was too
late for him to recover his money or to
have the thi-f arrested. Yours,
ROBERT.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
AWAY WITH ELEoTRoCUT1oN.

That was singular remark by DR..
Spitzka Immediately following the
judicial killing of Kemmler, singular in
the face of the extraordinary scene that
had just been witnessed, and more
singular still in view of another state
ment by him moment later. ''I re-
gard this,'' said he, "as far more
dignified execution of law than any
hanging that have ever witnessed. I"
Wonderfully dignified TO be sure, to send
powerful current of electricity through
man until his flesh sizzles and smokes.
But dignified as il was, the good doctor
was moved to declare further that owing
$50 scientific uncertainty and the ex-
pense and time involved, this Is the first
aud last electrical execution" Well we
should hope SO. Every man, woman and
child in the land that read the story of
the revolving scene in Warden Durston .
executive chamber, will CRY amen to
that.
Better go back to the rope and the
scaffold. There is no scientific
uncertainty" in good stout hempen
cord. The expense is nothing and
no time need be wasted. A neat
job of hanging Is as painless as though
the victim was struck by On electric bolt
from the heavens, and only maudlin
sentlmentality is upset by it. Electric
ity is all right in its place, but it is now
clear that it is no substitute for the rope.
The prime object even of execution by
electricity, to wit: secrecy, and the
prevention Of any report Of the usuai
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
A TRIPLE KILLING.
The Leaders of Two Opposing Parties Killed
and Several Wounded.

The Leaders of Two Opposing Parties Killed
and Several Wounded.
GREENWOOD SPRINGS, COL, Aug. g.
Thomas Welsh and Alex Levelle have
for some time disputed over the owner
ship of certain lands In the northwestern
part of Gunnison county on Muddy creek
Yesterday Levelle and five helpers were
cutting hay and, expecting trouble, they
were all armed. Welch and his son
with three others. soon came up
aud opened fire, which was Immediately
returned, the parties exchanging about
100 shots. WEIGH and son and Alex
Levelle were killed outright; Charles
Purham was shot three times and will
die; Pete Small received two bullets,
but 1t is thought he will live; 81. d.
Jones, Charles Magore, E. Harvest,
Charles Purham and Pats Small, consti-
tuted the Lavelles party. Jones came
down to Glenwood for the sheriff, but
the killing was in Gunnison county and
our sheriff had no jurisdiction.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
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ton of third or farmers party. To-
day 1t unanimously adopted resolution
dsnouncing the lottery amendment, and
urging all farmers to vote against IL at
the election in 1892. II also decided to
try and elect Alliance men, or II man
holding Alliance principles, to congress
from each of the districts in the state.
Each district will be considered separate
" by the delegates from the parishes in
cluded in it. 1t is understood that
NJ. W. Blanchard, sitting member from
the Fourth district. will DO opposed be-
cause he has refused to support the sub
treasury bill. The sitting member for
the Sixth district, S. NJ. Robertson, has
had several interviews with the Alliance
men. II Is said that he has agreed 10
their terms, and will be supported by
them for re- election. 1t is probable that
C. J Boatner IN the Fifth district will
also be Endorsed, but his case has not
yet been acted on. The alliance claims
to have 800 branches in the state aud
80 900 members.
OKLAHOMA DEMOCRATIC.
Special to the Gazette.
OKLAHOMA CITY, o. r., Aug. 6.-Ths
first election ever held IN this territory
JdSseu Ou QHIttlJ ySSteluug duu nv
trouble is reported from any part of tho
territory. In this county (Oklahomal
about $500 votes were cast. Three coun-
cilmen and five Rssemblymen were
elected. The Democrats captured two
of the councilmen and three of the as
semblymen. Both parties fought hard
for the supremacy. Returns from the
other counties in the territory show that
the territory has gone Democratic by a
small majority. The names of these
councilmeu and members of the logislat-
ure are:
Council. L. Brown, Republican;
l.. G. Pltmand and DR.. Howard, Demo-
Gratis.
Assembly-C. G. Jones, L. NJ. Tros-
per. Republicans; Il. G. Perry. Charles
Burke and j. P. Pack, Democrats.
MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS.
Big RAPIDS, MICH. Aug. 6.-The
Republican congressional convention for
the Ninth district yesterday renOminated
Byron NJ. Cutcheon UNANIMOUSLY.
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.
MONMOUTH, ILL, Aug. 6.-The
Democrats of the Eleventh district yes
terday nominated Benjamin T. Cable of
Rock Island for congress.
CoLoRED ALLIANCE CONVENTION.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 6.-The
colored Alliance convention, which met
at Akin yesterday consisted of only two
county Alliances. The meeting was not
of a political nature, though some
speeches made approved Tillman. but
denounced tbs other men on his ticket.
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DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
April "A, 1890.
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CAMPAIGN NEWS.
Oklahoma Territory Safely Democratic-Louis.
lana Anti-LOttery Dem.
ocrats.
OKLAHOMA POLITICS.

Special to the Gazette.
GUTHRIE, o. T., Aug. 6.-Returns
from yesterdays election throughout
this territory are not yet all in, but 1t Is
conceded that the complexion of the leg
islature will be very close as between
Democrats and Republicans, with three
Alliance men to gamble on. The race
for councilmen at large is close, and can
only be decided by actual count, with
the chances in favor of Democrats.
Friends of Guthrie for the capital
claim a majority in their favor.
The popular vote designates for this
county the name of Logan as against
Springer, each receiving a strict party
support.
In speaking of the political complexion
of the Territory, the Evening Democrat
of the city to-day truthfully says: "This
election has conclusively proved
that only about one-third of
are adherents of the Republican party,
negroes-trulY O grand old party
This county gives 800 Republican ma
jority, which is due to the negro vote
and the disgruntled Democrats who have
voted with the Alliance party.
LOUlSlANA ROLlllSS.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW ORLEANS, La. , Aug. 6.-Some
200 delegates left here Tonight to attend
the convention of the anti-lottery DEM
ocrats, which opens in Baton Rouge to-
morrow. The convention promises to
be a large one, as nearly all the parishes
in the state have elected delegations.
The Farmers Alliance now in session in
adopted resolutions against the lottery,
and it Is understood that the two bodies,
the farmers and anti-lottery Democrats,
will fraternlze and join hands in opposi-
tion to the lottery.
FARMERS ALLIANCE AT BATON ROUGE.
BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. 6.-The
Farmers Alliance are sitting with closed
doors. Reporters only get such matter
as is given them by the secretary. In his
annual address, referring TO the atti-
tude of the alliance toward the Louisi-
ana state lottery company,
President Adams cites the fact
that the Alliance was the first
secular ORGANIZATION to announce its OPP
position either to recbartering either to
the Louisiana state lottery or TO charter
ing any lottery. This opposition stands
as a pledge on the part of the order,
which must be kept inviolate. Mem
beers of the convention expressed the be-
lief that an adjournment will not be had
before Saturday. No action yet taken
regarding congressman.
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 6.-The
Farmers StateAllianoe of Louisiana con-
vened in Baton Rouge yesterday and
will be in session for several days. Its
sessions are mainly secret, but the
action is made public to the press. Mr..
L. A. SIallings of Lincoln parish, dele
gate and chairman of the constitution
committee and also q member of the
stats legislature, was excluded from
the session because he voted for the lot
terry bill in the legislature. The Alliance
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Boy Probably Fatally Injured.
-nonist fo fha fnJafta


WACO, TEX, Aug. News come to
the city this morning OF the serious
wounding of Bunyan Corbell, aged ten,
stepson of Mr.. Frank Burr, near Bell
view. The boy is supposed to have been
kicked by horse. He and his little sis
ter went out 10 turn the stock out of
the lot last night. Buuysn held the
gate open and the little girl drove the
horses out. After driving them
through the gate she discov-
cred her brother lying PROSTATE
on the ground with an ugly cash in his
forehead, from which the blood was
flowing profusely. The little girl
screamed, and the family were soon at
the side of the almost lifeless son and
brother. DR.. Brown of Crawford was
summoned, but could not resuscitste his
patient, and this morning Mr.. Frank
McMahan was dispatched to Waco for
surgeon. DIR. w. IL. Wilkes went out
there, but 1t is thought there is no chance
of the boy s recovery.
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scenes attending a judicial execution {,
was defeated, and every detail of the
sickening farce was made public a. fast
as it TRANSFERRED.
It was failure in every way, and
should never be repeated again, or at
least not until scientific certainty can be
guaranteed. But perhaps it would be
well to do away with it for good and all.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
THE HOGG TOTE GUESSING.

In answer to q correspondent THE
GAZETTE states that one person can guess
as often as such person may desire. This
is one case where ''voting early and
often' is permissible.
All guesses must be made out on the
blanks printed IN THE GAZETTE.
The guesses should come in separate
envelopes (and one envelope may enclose
rs many guesses as desired). The en-
Velopes are preserved as evidence of tas
day and hour they were received, as
there may be tie, and the award will
be made to the party whose guess was
first received.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

So COARSE and brutal has Speaker
Reed been in his treatment of the Demo-
crats IN the house that for the first time
since the foundation of the government
the usual resolution of thanks, which is
always offered by the opposition, will be
omitted in his case, if we may trust the
assurance of the Washington corre-
spondent of the Republic.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

IT is pretty evident now that Senator
Hoar will not be given an opportunity to
fire the Northern heart by long-winded
harangues on the Lodge bill. If Hoar
and few more like him could be fred
from public life, the country would live
in quiet for time at least.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

SENATOR DAWES vote with the Dem
ocrats IN the senate for a reduction Of
the tariff on iron ore shows that he no
longer believes in protecting SO very
generously the thousands who work in
the iron mines. New England philan-
thropy even willis when you touch its
Dopk bOolc
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

"DENsE CLOUDS" of grasshoppers go
ing southwark were reported from Hal
leck, Mimi, Wednesday. If grass
hopper plague is to succeed the drouth
then indeed will Uncle jeremiah Rusk %
cup be full of woe
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

The doctors at Waco are divided as to
whether the malady affecting number
of people there is chickenpox or small
pox, and the veterinary editor of the
Day is unable to decide the question.
Better call it smallpox and establish
rigid quarantine.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

SENATOR COKE Is loaded with a big
tariff speech which, owing to the rheum-
atism, he wants to discharge sitting
down. Let the motion for consent TO sit
be made when Granny Blair is absent,
lest he too sit down-on it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

THE combiners will bolt and work
against the commission amendment at
the polls should the convention adopt q
commission plank, will they? And all in
the interest of Simon pure Democracy,
tool Well, we don't believe it. The
threat sounds like q good-natured bluff.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

The Houston Post cannot understand
why "the supporters of Hogg are wor-
rying over the two thirds rule" Small
wonder; because they are not. Why
should they, when they have two-thirds
and more of the convention at their
booly2
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

EMBEzzLER QUAY has tumbled to the
popular verdict, and breaks silence long
enough to say that the Lodge force bill is
doomed. OF course the boss regrets it
sorely, and depIores the short-sighted-
ness of his recalcltrant brethren in the
senate, but there is no help for it, and
the wolves must retire hungry.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

THE Democratic victories in Alabama
and Kentucky Monday were oyerwhelm-
ing in character, far exceeding the ex-
pectations of even the most sangulue.
This is only the picket firing to apprise
the enemy of what they may expect later
in the fall
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
Texans Abroad.
Special to the Gazette.

Special 70 the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Aug. I'D. t. Igle-
heart, Austin, Everett; G. II. Mccoy
J. K. Skinner, Galveston. Grand Gen.
trial; It. Rousseau, Galveston, Sturte-
want; j. G. Todd, Houston, Sturtevant;
W. Axes, Texas. ST. James; L. School,
Hearne, Metropolitan; j. Sleeper,
Waco. St. Nicholas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

UNCLE SAM must not blush at blowing
in $50 900 to help elect Reed while he is
being urged to send the army and horde
of mercenaries into the South to protect
the sacredness of the ballot.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

THERE are some funny things in life.
The man who walked from Pittsburg to
Chicago years ago because he was too
poor to pay car fare, doesn't pay now
when he is rich. Not much. He rides
on q Dass
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

THE fact that the railroads allow
oheerfully half rates to the delegates to
the state convention is proof that they
view the situation with far more eqea-
nimity and confidence than do the yawp-
ers who set themselves up as organs and
mouthpleces for the roads.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

THE GAZETTE may be ian nrglfyer, -
as the San Antonio Express says, but If
1t is, it must be admitted that it "argi-
fys' to some purpose, which the same is
more than can be SAID for some that we
know Of. Is it not SO?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

THE Seventh congressional district is
satisfied that W. H. Grain can hold his
own with Rory o 'Moore, and so voted by
exclamation to keep him st Washington
for two years more.
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THE GAZETTE will give 5000

THE GAZETTE will give $1,000
,C the company, community or
association which shall build the
first free road from the city OF
Fort Worth to the Tarrant coun-
ty line, in any direction. The
read to be at least fifteen feet
wide, graded and macadamized
or graveled, said road to be COM
pIeted on or before November |,
1850.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

III Col. Brice as senator from Ohio
does no better than Senator Payne on
the tariff policy of the party the country
will probably regret that he was not
permitted to pursue his business on Wall
street uninterrupted by the cares OF
state.
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Vote, 4" care Fort Worth GAZETTE. No
attention will be paid TO any guess sent
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year and also a copy OF the original Webster's
unabridged dictionary, 1881 pages. express
luhsCriber.
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For So. so the Daily Gazette sciH DO sent sio
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

IT is to be hoped that the ''snap shotn
philosopher OF the News will not
overwork the punning features of the
Austin dam injunction.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08

]. W. Alderman to Sam G.
Jackson, lot 6, block 3,
College Hill addition. IS l 800
]. L. Tyler to Char lesBound,
lot 1, block %, Moore
Thornton addition ......... 1900 o
John q. Ryan to E. c. SUIT
ton, lot 4, block l, Ryan &
Bergen's addition. -. 1850 0
Il. Il Lacy to E. Friedrich,
lot 3, block 2, Lawn Place. $50 o.
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ADDITIONAL DONATIONS

Tie JOlOl1fng gentlemen desire 10 ala s"
:I,yodd movement TO the extent ofthe amour
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London Wool Sales.

LONDON, Nov. 27.-At the wool sales
to- day the attendance was good, compe-
tition was brisker, and prices were
steady. New South Wales merino sold
fairly. prices were In active demand.
New Zealand was largely sought; secured
cross breeds sold steady; greasy cross
breeds, mostly coarse, realized fairly
good prices. Cape woods in steady re-
quest; prices have hardened. The total
amount Withdrawn WAS 1000 bales. Fol-
loving are the sales and prices obtainedI
New South Wales-2000 bales. Secured !.
7nd@ls SID; secured locks and pieces.
7Ad@ls I'd; greasy. 71ad@ Is 4d; greasy
locks and pieces. 3@915d.
QueensIHnd-l20Ob bales. Secured IL I'D
OILS 40; secured, locks and pieces, l0d@
Is I'D: greasy. 5l4@l01ad; greasy. locks
and pieces. 81. @9i.
Melbourne and Victoria-l00 bales.
Secured. 9d@ls 4Ad; greasy, looks aud
pieces. 61a@Ild.
New Zealand-2200 bales. Secured.
Sd@ls 4d: secured locks and pieces.
sd@ls 21ad; greasy, 5d@ls I'D ;Igreasy I,
locks and pieces, sd.
South Ausrralia-2OO bales. Secured
Is I'D; greasy. 71a@8d.
Cape Of Good Hope and Natal-49O0
bales. Secured 734d@ls SGD; secured :,
locks and pieces, Sgd; greasy ,6@316d.
Falkland-32 bales. Greasy, 516
634d: greasy. locks aud pieces, %
as I'D,