Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29
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The Peter Smith hose company held q
regular meeting last night in Central
fire hall.
Louis De Mouche is laid up at home
with an abscess lodged behind the drum
of his ear.
a marriage license was taken out yes
terday by william Mathews and Miss
Susan Boze and by W. B. Daniel and
Miss Mollie Luton.
A special meeting of the council is
called for tonight to consider the an
nexation election. 1t is expected that
there will be lively time on hand.
Yesterday the fact of C. 1. Tingstrom g
house having been entered the day before
while the owners were at the Palace was
reported. Everything was upset and S3l
in money stolen.
A Texas and Pacific engine ran into a
couple of Missouri, Kansas and Texas
box cars last night down at the Union
depot, and piled them up, but the en-
CINE suffered the most damage.
When the fire alarm 16 was turned on
Yesterday the hook and ladder company
were unable to leave the engine house on
account of single-tree breaking. The
fire was in Taylor Rays house, and
luckily was easily extinguished without
the fire department help.
Work is to be begun on the repairs of
the bridge at once, but it is impossible
to say how long il will be before it is
in safe condition, as every day 8 work
will probably bring out new facts in re-
gard to its condition. 1t was on that
ground that Mr.. Haines refused to make
an estimate on the cost.
Officer Craig captured colored man
last night whom he saw on the run and
found on him coat and a couple of
shirts which he had stolen from W.
Goldstein. The man gave his name as
Jesse Green. When the officer went
back over the route he found check for
S38 in the coat pocket payable to Peter
Gruenwald. There was another man
with Green, but he escaped.
The Parmlee Post of the Grand Army
of the Republic, the Women
Corps and Sons of Veteraas Sat
o'clock, and$SfE6ees8 t6Sfhe Cemeteries to
hold the oHihr Memorial day decora-
9ian f8des. All ex-soldiers and friends
'Sfe invited to participate in the observa-
ton of the ceremony.
The fire alarm yesterday forenoon re-
suited in q small blaze and serious dam
age to the steamer "Stuart Harrison, -
which was tipped over in rounding the
corner of Seventeenth and Rusk streets,
and while avoiding running into a wagon.
The engine struck the front wheel and at
the same time the street car track and
NO nH Txun NH
on the engine, White and Chenoweth,
were severely bruised; but the injury is
not considered very bad. The engine
is IN a worse condition, as it will need to
be sent to the factory for repairs.
James W. Swayne made a very hand
some speech last night at the prelimary
meeting of the commission club, in
which he made the announcement that
he was running for the legislature under
no pressure from outside. He
he preferred to run alone.
draw attention to the fact that there was
something to be run for and lie might
have competitors. But he finally stated
in earnest that he was in the race but
was willing TO withdraw if the better
men of whom there was an abundance
would enter.
The little nIne-year-old son of George
Greer, while admiring pet lion in
cage in the lower part of the city yester-
day about noon, was pushed against the
cage by Pat Cusick, who was intoxi-
Gated, and had tormented the lion into
rage. The animal reached out one of its
paws, catching the little fellows arm,
and badly lacerated it in three
different places, one cut be-
ing three inches in length and
very deep. The owner of the animal
very much regretted the occurrence,
and Immediately carried the youngster
to DR.. Cooper's office and requested
proper medical assistance, which was
given. He bought the young man suit
of clothes and had him conveyed to his
home, near the old cemetery. While
the wounds are very painful, the at
tending physician says they are not
necessarily dangerous.