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New-York tribune., 1891-04-29
THE YEW-ORLE4NS LYNCHINS.
DisrR1cT-ATToRNEY GRANT MAKES HIS RE
PORT

Washington. Apni s.-Attorney-General Miller
THIS afternoon received the report of District
Attorney Grant at New-Orleans on the killing
OF the Italians in the Parish Prison there last
month. He Immediately sent the report TO Secre-
tary Blaine, for whose use, he said, it had been
obtained The Secretary refused 10 give the re-
port out for publication, or 10 indicate In any
way the nature Of its contents.
New-York tribune., 1891-04-29
that that bill take precedence of all other orders of
| the day
THE PoPE,s COMING EyCYCLCAL.
HOW THE SOCIAL QUESTION WILL BE TREATED
AIMING TO FURNISH ALL CATHOLICS
WITH A COMMON GROUND OF ACTION.

WIN n SOAldON ONOtND VI HN-A~-
Rome, April 2s.-A representative Of the New-forN
Associated Press has had an interview with pVom
nent dignltary Of the Roman Catholic Church regard
Ing the forthcoming encyclical letter Of Pope Leo
Mi On the social question. This person gave INC
Pope much assistance in drawing mp the document
"The ency yclical letter is pady" the eccesiasc sa
"but the Pope has decided to wait until the lst OF
May Is past before giving it to the public This en-
cyclIcal IS the principal work OF the present foh-
tlfcate. TIE Pope has worked at IT for many years
sometimes for long periods without interruption. lie
has condensed tie doctrines OF the greatest doctors
and tleoodans on these matters, and adapted them
to the requirements and conditions Of the present
epoch He has also brought into requstion the ieau-
Ing intelects Of the United States and OF Europe
The Pope has aimed at finding a superior syithcsS'
a fruitful unity OF all the various doctrines lie III
sists with equity, the rights and duties OF every
thing and of ALL Of capital of labor of the State ana
OF the individual. lie IS utterly Impartial he Is
neither foe nor against any interest or school, lie
gives the truth, and proclams justice upon all anu
for all O,.o of the principal ends that the rope
has in view is to furnish Catholics OF all counIFes
with a common ground Ct action. He desires 10 de-
prlve his adversares of the slightest pIeeNt J" Pe
tending that the Church has only charity ~ Der prV
gremme and nothing definite or precise to oifer 10
sociev The pope speaks OF charity in this encycca
but he delmlts It's sphcCe of action lie mas deVo.eu
rpch space 10 set forth its greatest claims. out MS
object. above all things, has been the teaching Oh
social Justice o,.f ,.u
"Wbat are the Popes views in regard to state inter
yent.on?s was asked .
GThat is the delicate point answered "e
ecclesastc ait IS incontesable that the Churrh can
not give upon these purely hIsorca contingencies ao
sorelv definite instruction The social prObltms are
continually changing and modifying. TheretGe Leo
XIII will be found, from doctrinal point of wow
some what reserved on this matter even though IL DC
leading subject OF times Neverhelcss' ne ue-
mands this relative Intervention, changing accoiuine
TO places and circumstances, whenever justice esu
mate interests and dlsregarded rights require H.
Thus for our particular tme he exacts state inter.
vention in favor Of fixing the maximum number OF
bours for work each day, OF fixing day OF resi-, vi
ncescrbinp tle minimum wage, Of regulating the Worh
Of women and children, and of intervention IN mater
REGARDING hygiene and the conditions uhuer VIZ
work is performed In factories. In these Fespe'''
the Pope strikes the exact medium ..,. , oddod
"The supreme inspiration OF the document, aor ond
the sneaker is 10 put Catholicism d0ct1nalF auu
Intellectually at the head Of the social movement
New-York tribune., 1891-04-29
HILLS NEW TACTICS.
THE ASSEMBLY PASSES RESOLUTIONS AU.
THORIZING SHEEHAN TO NAME SIX
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES.

TO INQUIRE INTO THE OFFICIAL CONDUCT OF
VARIOUS REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS = THE
GOVERNOR DIsREGARDs HIS OWN
PLEAS OF SPECIFIC CHARGES"
PARTIsANsHP AND EX-
PENsE-sENAToR EKwINs
STRONG SPEECH.
New-York tribune., 1891-04-29
BIG BANK DEFALCATION.
THE NINTH NATIONALS LOSS.

ROBBED BY IT'S TRUSTED PRESIDENT OF
S4OO, 900
New-York tribune., 1891-04-29

Edouard Lockroy whose speech has opened the great
debate on the tariff in the French Chamber OF pep
mites Is at the head Of the Free Trade pbaahA !u''
as NJ. Melne is the spokesman Of the Protecuohis'S
no4b ~ thoro have been Ministers Of Agriculture ana
Commerce in different Cabinets, though NJ LocKroy'
who IA vaudevilllst ana literary man, was htVe pro
nared at first by his studies for occupying suol al
office Since that time he has given greal at'en'ion
70 questions Of political economy, and' beihg c1e
man there is no doubt that he mas made an eloquent
nea In favor OF free-trade doctrines But IL is uh
ntev that he will induce the Chamber 70 adopt them
According 10 the latest information, there were OUT Oh
$40 Deputies about $50 determined ProtecuohlsS, anu
only eighty Free Traders no less absolute In their
IDEAS The rest Of tbs Deputies represent depart
n,ents in which consumers and producers equally
influential and IL is difficult 10 guess now they VIII
vote The situation In regard to the composition OF
the Senate is s worse for the Free Traders Tor they
number hardly forty partisans, aca 50 200 Pr0tec-
ZIONIST Senator'S The Freyclnet Cabinet mas urea le
bes TO cOnciliate, In preparing It's IarH Dill, the
evidently Protectonst tendencies OF the legislative
majority with the diplomatic and international neccsS
ties OF France.
II ,s certain already that the Government has
succeeded in preventing the Tariff Committee OF the
Chamber Nom adhering TO any prohbitive measures
Extremely high duties are, inteed, proposed Oy tnc
committees bill upon some foreign products but
none is under the ban Of absolute prohibition. Inc
posslbity remains, therefore, to the Governmeht oi
negotiating with other countries specIal cohc oi'i
convep+lons which will take the place OF the treaties
Tor4 40 no terminated. 1t Is known that those
tpaes were concluded ny Napoleon III, after he had
been persuaded, in 1860, by Cobden and MichaeI td
Cbevalier that free trade was the best system 10
edont The treaties renewed by the GoVernlniSn'
Of he French Republic and the time Of their expUa p
Hon bes arrived But the general sentiment OF S utc
country Is that the prooctonst policy must edoPEs1,
sfnce The freetrade system mas proved, aiter thrS
wears, ewperiencc TO have been injurious 70 h
bneH cesolved TO establish general tarn having
moTimnm and minimum scale. Tie tarn PIepII.eu PpIeu
% I'VE Cbanber committee is great deal hleher tuah
tat nronosed bv the Government, and the present. 1e
Tt in The Assembly will decide which tarit Is 10 DC
definitely adopted
New-York tribune., 1891-04-29
OPPOSING THE FRENCH TARIFF PROPOSALS

por,. Anr,I os-In the Chamber Of Deputies today
n Iocl,rov made strong attack upon >e neW tariit
proposals. The proposals, he said would put upon
France the risk Of economic and political Isolation
The proposals were not justifable, since French eN
nort continually increased and French commerce ana
industries fourlshed. A tariff such as the commission
ropoeod ,ropd Inevitably draw upon the country re-
Prigpois fatal to worlnen and manufacturers alse.
r Ioclrny advised the Government 10 recur TO the
system Of commercial treaties
New-York tribune., 1891-04-29
The statement given out by the Clearing House
Committee was as follows:

All examination made by the National Bank E1
aminer A. b. Hepburn. Of the resources and liabh,
ties of the Ninth National Bank shows that loss OF
about 100000 has been made by misappropriation
OF its funds by It's lao president, extending over
period of -Sveral years. We have examined the
assets and have compared them with the statement
of the Examiner, and VIC find that the capital OF
tho bank is unlmpaired, and we believe 1t to be
worthy Of tho confidence Of the depOsltOrs and the
public. The Clearing HOuse Committee
WILLIAM A. NASH Chairman,
II. HAMILTON,
+. II. PERKINS, JR-,
II. W. CANNON,
]. EDWARD SIMMONS,
F. ID. TAPPEN.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
Portion of Cooke County.

special 10 the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE. TEX, May 1S-A terrific
hail storm fell in the southwest part of this
county last evening twenty miles from here
and destroyed every vestige of crop in its
path. The country passed over by the
storm is twenty miles long and two miles
wide, the best wheat belt in the state, and
it is estimated that %, 900 acres of the finest
wheat ever seen in this part of the state
has been annhilated. The hail fell to the
depth of six inches, and in many places was
knee deep to horses. The hail stones were
very large and they destroyed everything
in the crop line in their path. Several
thousand acres of corn, hay, oats and cot
ton were destroyed as completely as the
wheat crop. Farmere here to-day whose
farms were visited by the hail report their
losses in numerous instances at $1,000 each,
while some losses are much larger
Scarcely any one of the farmers had less
than 100 acres in wheat, besides large
acreage of corn and cotton, while many of
them had from 300 to 600 acres in wheat.
Not straw will be fit for harvesting,
though yesterday the fields gave promise of.
thirty bushels per acre, and would have
been ready for harvesting in ten days. The
hail storm came in the form of cloud burst
and lasted but five minutes, but so abund-
ant was it that great icebergs were formed,
much of which lasted nearly all day, not
withstanding the very hot weather Par
ties of Denton and Montague counties also
suffered The loss to farmers ON crops
alone, at the least estimate, is placed at
S10O 600
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21

ONE of those ''inscrutable dispense
tons Of Providence that it is hard to
reconcile with our conceptions of d.
vine justice, has overtaken and almost
overwhelmed the farmers of the north
ern part of the state The hail storm
that passed through Cooke, Denton,
Grayson and a few others of the finest
farming counties Of the state, came at
time to do the greatest damage to the
wheat crop, which was about ready for
the reaper: and thousands of acres Of
the most promising wheat were rem
dered worthless. A week or two later
the wheat would have been cut and the
fury of the storm would have spent it
self IN vain. After a year of toll and
drouth, when the yield was discourage
ing. the farmers were congratulating
themselves on the fairness OF the harvest
IN store, and when on the point of send
ing out their reapers they see in one
hour their hopes dashed to the ground.
Job had hard time of it when the
devil got hold of him and began to de-
stroy his substance, but we can't see
that Job had much more to complain OF
than our Texas farmers have to put up
with sometimes.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
NO SkCLKERS.

Farmer Bill Shaw-whom THE GA
ZETTE has had good deal of fun with
-denounces the signers of the Austin
circular for ''skulking" at the Waco
convention. We suppose Farmer Shaw
means that they didn't attend the
Waco convention, and their staying
away was ''skulking."
As THE GAZETTE understood that
remarkable gathering. it was purely a
private affair, and only those with
cards of invitation and door tickets
were allowed to get in. 1t was called
by Evan Jones. DR.. Macune and
Steerer Tracey do work that they had
laid out for ii. That work was to
whitewash Macune and Tracey and
condemn THE Alliance members who
Gut the Austin circular. They
picked the men to do the work that
had been designed, and called them to-
gether. The others were ignored.
Rogers, McCunningham, Sellers and
other Alliance members of the legis-
'irrfre were the men to be pilloried,
and it was not the proper thing to have
them at the entertainment. They were
not there. They had no invitation.
They had no cards OF admission. If
they had presented themselves at the
door ii is not likely that they could
have got in. They didn't skulk.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
VIRTUE OF THE MCKINLEY BILL.

A shipment of Italian queen bees is
held at the New York custom house.
but the consignee has been notified
that upon payment OF fine, in the
nature of an import duty, he can have
them released. The Mckinley bill ex-
clu6es from free entry all animals. inn
ported for breeding purposes, unless
they are recorded in a pedigree book,
and as bees are not pedigreed, the i'm
porter has to pay 20 per cent of their
value for bringing these Italian bees to
this country.
OF course. this is as it should be.
We cannot allow our bees-our queen
bees, at that-to be brought into COM
potion with these pauper bees from
Italy, that work all through the flower
season storing up honey for the sweet
toothed capitalist. They have no re-
gard for the nine-hour day, and work
as long as daylight let them work.
They are alien in mind and in habit.
They are Italians, too, and may belong
to the Malta. Though it is against the
settled etiquette Of well-ored American
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
DISTRICT CONFERENCE.
FORT WORTH DISTRICT METH
ODiSTS IN SESSION HERE.
Yesterdays Proceedings-A Loved Minis
ter-A Parsonage to BE Built at Fort
Worth-The Sermons.

The district conference met Friday
morning promptly at O'Clock having
been preceded by a half hour of prayer
and praise.
After the reading of the minutes Rev.
Jerome Harralson was introduced to the
conference and addressed the body at some
length in behalf of the Vernon college, of
which he is the agent. He represented that
the college at Vernon was located in the
midst of fine country that is rapidly i'm
proving The college at Vernon Is the only
institution or the kind in all that section,
and the outlook for it is fine. It is possible
that promising young preacher, well
known in Fort Worth, may be called on to
take the presidency OF the school at no
distant day.
The presiding elder called up the unfn-
ished business of the day before, the spirit
ual state of the church. Rev. 3. +. CASA
way led off in a stirring speech on the need
of spiritual life and power in the church
He was followed by Rev. William Price in
a strong speech in favor OF class meetings.
Several other brethren made speeches in
the same line Rev. j. Nj. Barcus called
attention to the Importance of family re-
ligion, prayer meetings, etc.
Rev. w. F. Lloyd then introduced reso-
luton pledging the conference to attention
TO the old and well tried means of grace,
such as family worship and class meetings.
The subject of missions in the district was
then taken up. Mulkey Memorial church is
less than two years old, and has heretofore
been receiving help from the board of mis-
sions. On the statement of the pastor, and
some of the brethren of the church, it was
found that the church was in a very pros
.saxays state, and in their opinion could get
on without help in the future. The confer
ence so recommended.
The presiding elder called up the subject
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
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PAENELL'S EMIT.

Never perhaps, did man of fame
descend SO rapidly from the meridian
of his glory, and hasten to his setting
as Parnell has done. The men who
lately stood to him for the good he did
in former years, are now forced to
abandon him to his fate to which he
persists in rushing with the reckless
ness of mailman. In the loss of the
two Harringtons and Dwyer Gray,
editor OF the Dublin Freeman's Journal,
the most powerful paper in Ireland,
he loses his principal supporters.
The tragi-comedy in which he has for
a few months been playing the leading
part. is now degenerated into a miser-
able farce, and the hour has arrived
when the curtain should be rung
down on the most disappointing polit-
ical failure of the present decade. Par
nell as the architect OF his own ruin
has done well.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
franklin County Suffers.

special 10 the Gazelle.
MOUNT VERNON, TEX, May 1s.-The
most destructive hail storm that ever
passed through this county struck our
town about 10 O'Clock last night. Its width
was five or six miles, and lasted only about
ten minutes, but did much damage to crops.
Many persons say they will be compelled to
replant cotton. Their corn is also entirely
destroyed. The fruit crop is almost en-
tirely destroyed. There was considerable
damage done to town property. The dry
goods and millinery store of L. NJ. Pirtle
was blown to the ground. His damage is
unknown. The furniture house of H. H.
Weaver was blown down. His damage is
unknown. The o." of c. NJ. Porchman' s
hotel was blown down, and the postofiice
which adjoined the store of T. NJ. Pirtle
was also blown down and badly dam
aged. Large trees were torn up by the
roots and fences blown in every direction.
All the merchants of the town closed their
houses and rendered Pirtle and Weaver as
sistance in removing their goods.
Another hail storm passed here this
evening about 8 o'clock, which was not SO
severe as that of last night, although the
hail stones were as large as billiard balls.
DIR. w. c. Crutcher lost horse, which
was killed in his stable last night during
the storm.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21

queen bees to go armed, these Malta
bees, no doubt, carry poisoned daggers
with them, which renders them a
dangerous addition to our apiary popu-
lation. They are also clannish, and
swarm off to themselves, and are open
to other objections which will occur to
the mind of the thoughtful and patri-
otto citizen.
All honor to Mckinley and his bill,
which guards us from this threatened
invasion of Italian brigand queen bees!
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
mot BURIED ALIVE"
The Report that Mrs. Ella Blackman was
Buried Alive Contradicted by DR.. W.
II. Davis of Arlington-HIs Theory.
ARLINGTON, TEX, May l6, 1891.


Editor Gazette.
On March %, 1891. when Mrs. Ella
Blackmans body was disinterred l was
one among the first 10 inspect the remains.
| saw nothing Substantiating the idea of
her having been buried alive as stated in
your valuable paper of Thursday, May
IA. The body was found lying on the
back with arms folded and hands resting
on the breast. A thin cloth was spread
over the face and every article of dress
was in its proper position, showing i'll
every respect to have remained just as
it had been placed by the kind and SYM
pathizing hands of relatives and friends
when the body was placed in the coffin.
There was not the slightest evidence that
a single muscle had been called into mo-
ton.
The presence of a four months f9tus in
the coffin, if considered a mystery, is to
my mind solved in more plausible man
ner by attributing its partial expulsion
from its home in utero by the violent
muscular contraction which is said to
have Immediately preceded her death, it
remaining in the vaginal passages until
chemical changes had taken place sufficient
to accumulate gases in the abdominal
region sufficient to serve as
a visatergo force which expelled the
fRtus to the world and
the position it was occupying when the
coffin was opened.
In performing the post mortern examina-
ton (Which was rendered very difficult and
unsatisfactory by the eiapse of time, she
having been dead three months), could
form but little idea as to the cause of death,
and hoped only to solve the question of
poison by thorough chemical examination
of the organs preserved for that purpose,
and which has been done and reported mega
lively by Professor Harper as to the pres
ence of arsenic and strychnine.
l make this statement simply to show to
the public, as well as the friends and rela-
tives. that Mrs. Ella Blackman, beyond ali
possible doubt, came to her death from some
other cause than being nailed closely in a
coffin and buried in the ground.
W. H. DAVIS, NJ. D.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21

THE Kentucky Democratic conven-
ton voted down a resolution indors-
ing Mr.. Cleveland for president.
Nothing else could have been expected
from body Of sane men. There are
number of good Democrats who are
likely to be considered when the time
comes for the states to instruct their
delegates to the national convention.
1t would be very widely out of place
for lot Of men who were not elected
for that purpose, and who have no in
structions from the people, to say
that Kentucky is for Mr.. Cleveland for
president as against all other men.
The Democratic party believes in Civ
ing every man show, and no SNAP
judgment"
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
Great Damage to Wheat.
Special to the Gazette

SptSldl " IdZCtec.
PILOT POINT, TEX, May 1s.-Yesterday
about p m. a severe hail storm, beginning
about eight miles west of Pilot Point,
swept across the country in a southeasterly
direction, covering strip two to three
miles wide and eighteen or twenty miles
long The town of Aubrey, south of US,
was in the track of the storm and suffered
severely. Reports from the country south,
east indicate very serious injury to crops.
S. F. Bomar, county commissioner for
this district, reports the wheat crop in his
neighborhood comepletely ruined Mr.
Carroll Jackson's crop of 200 acres of wheat
near Parvin. is reported completely de-
stroyed. Fruit was beaten OFF the trees.
Many chickens were killed
Mr.. NJ R. Taylor reports that after
twelve hours the hail lay six to eight inches
deep in the burrows in his field. Cotton
will have to be replanted.
At Aubrey, metal roofs on stone build
ings were perforated by hailstones, many
of which were as large as hens eggs.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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rejected manuscripts Persons wishing 10 pre-
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Tx and not to any Individual
Al communications intended for publication
mast be- acCOmp panied by The writer's name and
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Gcnce O; good faith. No attention paid to
ANONYMOUS communications.
Parties writing 10 THE GAZETTE on business
personal 10 themselves VIII please enclose
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The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-21
SELTzER WELLS, TARRANr CO
Editor Gazette:

May TO- 1891. (
Editor Gazette:
Crops are looking fine. There will be a
great deal of fruit raised here, in spite of
the frosts.
Capt. j. P. Moore, after spending over
$1,000 on his artesian well, has now plenty
of water He will soon build fine resi-
dence and barn. We need only few more
such men to make this locality blossom
like the rose. Capt. Moore is also planting
an immense orchard.
Another first-class man is negotiating for
controlling interest in the seltser wells,
who has both money and ability to make it
what it should be,
Steps are being taken to secure q first
class wagon road to Fort Worth Every
farmer in East Tarrant should work for it.
Every liveryman in Fort Worth
should work for it. Every mer-
chant in Fort Worth needs it.
Even county commissioners should vote for
it. The right-of-way will be largely or
fully donated TO the county. also large
amount of work is offered in order to get
at once the best road IN the county 10 Fort
Worth.
Anumber Of Fort Worth and Dallas fam
iles are arranging 70 visit these well this
summer and suburban home seekers should
keep an eye on this locality.