Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

thrown into the ditch, couple af them
being completely wrecked. They were
freighted with lumber, fish plates snd
| other railroad material. BY the after
noon the debris had been cleared away.
The proprietors of Fort worth's three
variety theaters are much exercised to
know what is going to be done with their
places OF business under the resolution
passed by the city council on Tuesday
night. Nobody knows yet. The reso-
luton has not yet become effective for
reason that it has not been signed by the
mayor pro tenn. 1t may never receive
his signature. The council Is not a unit
on the policy of abolishing variety
theaters. Said an influential member
last evening; al never yet saw O city
amounted to much without them. Some
people do not like them. Well, 1t takes
many different kinds of people to make
city
The county commissioners meet next
Monday. Their session will probably not
cover more than three days, as there is
no unusual amount Of matter to be dis
posed of. The quarterly reports of
county officers will be presented and
passed upon. Some OF them have al
ready been fled with the commissioners
court clerk, J. T. Prosser. That of
County Treasurer Thomas Bratton, gives
the total receipts for the quarter,
SITS. A; the disbursements, SIS ,69S So.
The disbursements are made up thus:
Jury fund, S225S 20; roads and bridges,
S93l4.s0; general county expenses,
SIPS. So. The roads and bridges fund is
overdrawn to the amount of S5603. Al
The cash on hand is SCI 527 .2S.
Three suits for divorce were entered IN
the district court at Fort Worth yester-
day, and a remarkable feature is that
two OF them were entered by women who
sought separation from convicts. One is
by Mrs. Lizzie Lowan, who wants tli-
vorce from o. ] Mosteller. Mosteller !
is the man sentenced to the penitentiary |
recently for the killing OF John White in |
Fort Worth. The woman alleges that |
Mosteller coZened her into a |
marriage, telling her that he |
was widower, whereas at the |
time of their wedding he had wife liv- !
ing, and he therefore committed bIgamy. |
Mrs. Jennie Vieau wants divorce from |
John Vieau, who is serving term in the |
Denitentiary for theft, having been SEN
fenced in Erath county. Desertion and |
cruel treatment are alleged. Annie f |
ROark wants divorce from James Roark,
on the grounds of i'll treatment.
Some weeks ago Mrs. J. F. Waller and |
her sister Miss Tommie Malone went to |
Chicago to pursue their studies in music,
an art in which both possess much apti-
tude and proficiency. Intelligence re-
ceived from the Lake City recently in
dictates that these two ladies have made
q strong impression upon the critics and
people there. A few
days ago the soprano of one
Of the leading oholrs, a lady
whose voice is famous. over the
was given leaY of absence by
the church that she might visit Europe to
acquire the latest innovations in sacred
music. Casting about for some one who
could ill her place most aooeptablY, this
lady requested Mrs. Waller to favor her,
she having heard and been most favor
ably impressed by the vocalizatiou of the
two sisters. Mrs. Waller concluded to
ill the place. And thus do the Fort
Worth artists 60 forth to conquer in
every sphere.