Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-24


year. He asks the council to allow him 81
for every conviction in his court. As there
were COCO convictions last year, the chances
are that if the council grants his request
Judge Force will have q picnic" in the
salary line
GETTING TOO PREVIOUS.
The harmony of the big Thirteen in
the city council is sadly disturbed by the
actions of Aldermen Harry and Briggs, who
shiyer lances with each other at every
meeting of the council. Two policemen
lowered in their immediate vicinity last
night, and hostilities were not dropped
when the hour for adjournment came.
BowDEN ARRESTED.
Joan Bowden, the negro who shot William
Anderson, the alleged defiler of his wife,
near Arlington yesterday, was brought in
to-day by Deputy Sheriff Darby, and q
charge OF assault with intent to commit
murder was entered against him. The
woman says that Anderson cid not touch
her. Anderson says that he did.
THE ALLIANCE.
The Alliance of Dallas county has de-
clared war on the delegates to the Fort
Worth convention, the opponents of the
sub-treasury and the Farmers World of
this city. The Dallas county Alliance nu-
merically is powerful weak, but for noise it
can doubly discount four Chinese bands and
brass foundry thrown in for good meas
ure.
DEAR MACUNE HERE.
The willy DR.. Macune, friend of Pat Cal
houn of Georgia, the power behind the
throne of half a dozen Alliance newspapers,
founder of the sub-treasury hereSy and
statesman of the newt school of political
economists, was in the city to-day en- route
to Washington, d. c., from Mckinney
The good doctor was cloSeted an hour or
more with Milton Park of the Mercury He
says the Alliance is booming, the sub
treasury idea sweeping the country and
that the enemies of the producers had as
well put their houses in order preparatory
TO change of climate and business.
SAD, SAD NEWS.
Dallas sports who went TO Chicago to
bet on the races and paralyze Ed Corrigan,
George Haskins, Mike Mcdonald and other
magnates of the tart failed to make the
rifle 1t is stated here on reliable au-
thority that Johnny Thompson, a plunger
from Plungerville, dropped 81, 900 on the
races and then retired; Knight of the firm
Of Jones & knight. lost $4,000, and threw
up the sponge; Hugh kerne, the gamest
sport of them all, dropped his role, drew
on the reserve fund and went East to
change his luck If rumors be true, several
Fort Worth sports, with penchant for do
ing the races, are in it." and the wind
blows through their flowing whiskers on
lUe DdnhS OF Lake Michigan.
He Is ATTORNEY.
The county attorney of county not
thousand miles from Dallas received let
ter from Governor Hogg notifying him that
the law breakers in his bailiwick needed
Judicial roasting. The aforesaid attorney
sat him down and penned an answer:
Governor Hogg: 1 am county attorney of
county" And there the story ends.
BOT KIDNAPPED.
The seven-year- old son of W. Fl. c. Moon
is gone. At the city park Saturday a
strange woman seized the toddler who was
at play with his little companions, and the
boy and the female have as completely dis
appeared as though the earth had opened
and gulped them down. Moon has had two
wives, and put the first away by the divorce
route. 1t is surmised that she came from
distant state, recovered the offspring of
her ill-starred union, and has thrown the
pursuers off the trail. The father is reti
cent and refuses to throw light on the
rather mysterious case.
SPORTING NEWS.
A new box Of pugilists was opened in
Dallas to-day. S. B. Kinsey was chal-
lenged by Jim Hanpigan to enter the CORY
ring for purse of $3.50 and the gate re-
ceipts
tween Shields and Turner will draw an i'm
mense crowd. 1t is said large delegations
will come in from Fort Worth and adioin-
ing towns.
THE COURTS
julius Caesar and Snowfall James, Afri-
cans and not Romans, were given three
years each in Judge Burke's court to-day
for the theft Of u watch. Lucian McDuf,
also an Afro-American, captured a two
years term for the theft of bicycle from 4
prominent citizen.
ARRESTS TO-DAY
A young man named Bonner was held on
suspicion at the central station. The wife
If a friend missed her diamond ear
rings and Bonner was looked upon as a
man surrounded by strong chain of cir
evidence. He has always
borne a splendid reputation.
IN THE GUTTER
Oracle LIE Roy and A. Brewer were
ocked up on suspicion of being concerned
in the breaking open of trunk. Oracle is
1 white girl in her teens, passably fair, and
consorts with black bucks under police sur
veillance. She has husband, white man,
out his abiding place is unknown. 1t is a
shocking case, and even the police force
we're knocked out by the total depravity of
he fair Desdemona.
PERSONAL MENTION.
President H c. Cross, Superintendent |
IF Transportation Mike Sweeney. Division
Maxwell, Train Master j.
5. Mcdowell and Chief Engineer George
NJ. Jarvis, all of the Missouri, Kansas and |
Texas, spent the forenoon in Dallas and de-
parted for the North at l p. H. Engineer
Jarvis informed your correspondent that
he Katy needs q peg to Houston worse than
she needs the Sherman and Dallas extern
sion, and he believed both branches will be
built when the financial gloom blows over
md money becomes easy again.
Hon. Tom Nash of Garland is in the city.
&c says the third party will cut no figure in |
lis neighborhood that crops are the heav-
est for years, and that future prospects are
most glowing.
Ed Cole, well-known newspaper man,
las gone to Nashville to try his fortunes |
lie is product of Texas and a rustler.
A party of Dallasites, including Milton
0urgan and wife, Ed Gray and wife, George |
Dexter and Mrs. Hugh Fitzgerald and |
Cleve, departed for Waukesha, |
Wis, tonight oyer the Missouri, Kansas |
md Texas. Mrs. Fitzgerald will visit |
friends in New York and Washington after |
visit to the lakes, returning early in Sep |
ember.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jamasney have returned |
rom a visit to Sedalia, Mo. Mr. Jamasney |
S connected with the claim department of |
he Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
Gen. W. L. Cobell will 90 to Mexia to- !
morrow to talk to his old comrades-in-ar |
It their grand reunion.