Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-19
DALLAS.
A Telegraph Operator Found Mangled
on Railroad Near the City.
A Woman Attempts to Abandon Her Offspring.
An East Dallas KIllIng-Doings In
Police Circle,-Notes.
KILLED BIZ THE CARS.


| Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. lS.-Another
| horrible death on the railroad was made
known this morning. The body was
found early this morning on the track of
the Dallas and GreenvilIe railroad near
the city limits, but no evidence was pro-
duced at the inquest to show how the ac-
Cident happened or at what time during
the night. From papers found the man 8
name was learned to be r. 7. NJ cDonald =,
O telegraph operator, and his home at
Atlanta, Ca, where he has wife and
one child. In memorandum book found
in one of his pockets wes q request that
in case anything should befall him that
word be sent his wife or s. B. Crews, No.
81 Crews street, Atlanta, Ga. Deceased
was about twenty-five years old. Moth
ing of value was found on his person,
and his remains were to-day Luried by
the city.
NIPPED IN THE BUD.
About noon to-day fire was discovered
on the second floor OF the building No.
S48 Elm street, and but for the prompt
action OF DR.. Barham disastrous con-
f1sGra:ion might have ensued. The fire
Drs. Showers s. Barham's dental par
lors and the art studio of L. L. Herbert,
and is supposed to have caught from
cigarette or lighted match accidentally
thrown into a box of paper fans stored
under the stairway. The fire depart
ment responded to the alarm, but their
services were not needed. Loss very
little.
A
To-day, just before the departure of
the north bound Santa Fe train, a lady
entered the depot having in her arms q
babe of about two months. She got
lady TO hold the child for her under some
pretext and then left the depot. When
the train departed the lady holding the
child left the little one in the depot and
went north. The police were notified of
the desertion, and officer Marshall ap-
peared, as did the woman first having the
child. The woman, when questioned,
said she was from Anna, Tex; that the
child belonged to friend of hers, and
that the mother had recently died, leav-
ing the child in her hands, requesting
that she find home for it. This she
claims to have done, and that lady re-
siding at Fsrmersville was to meet her
at the Santa Fe train to-day and take
the child, giving 1t home. On being
further questioned she owned to
being the mother of the
child, and says her husband
was a scot ion foreman on the Cotton Belt
road, but that he had deserted her be-
fore the child was born. She came to
Dallas in hopes of getting employment,
but failed. She at last claimed 20 have
friends at Fort Worth, and that If she
could only reach them she would be
provided for. A ticket was given Der
for that place and she made the depart
ure to her friends. 1t was evidently an
attempt to abandon the child but did not
work.
INTO THE GREAT BEYOND.
Alice Marshall, an inmate of an Anstin
street bawdv house, last night took q
dose of morphine. with suicidal intent.
At first It was thought her attempt was
unsuccessful, but this morning the fatal
drug accomplished its work.
PEDESTRIAN CONTEST.
On next Sunday there will be q walk
ing match at the Oak Cliff baseball park
for purse of S25. c. H. Richardson,
the Boston pedestrian, will walk ten
miles against five local pedestrians, they
each walking two miles. Music and
other sports will also be had.
"PRoFEssoR" o'CoNNoR DEAD.
Professor Thomas O'Cunnor, the
man who was run over by the Texas and
Pacific switch engine on last night, is
dead, and was to-day buried by the city.
CASE OF DEsTITUTIoN.
A case of want and restitution is re-
ported at l27 Bryan street. Mrs. Sirks,
a washer-woman, has had hard work to
support herself and FIVE or six children.
sister of the lady has been
added to the household, and with her
baby of few days. The new mother is |
in q weak condition, and the child Is re- |
ported dying from lack of proper nour- |
lshment. |
A SALOON ROW.
Last night Perry Webster became en- |
gagged in a difficulty with q man in a ss-
loon on Austin street, and his antagonist |
knocked him down with a chair, and he |
was taken to his residence in q semi-con-
scious condition. 1t was reported that
Mr.. Webster was dead, but the report
was erroneous land he Is reported as rest
ing easily. Lawrence Rousseau has been |
arrested charged with the assault.
AN OLD DIFFICULTY REVIVED.
Last night Jacob Fishel was attacked !