Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02
fELEGRaPHIC BREVlTlEs.

The Mississippian Of Canton, Miss, viii
say in letter from Senator George that he
will come out squarely in favor OF the
Ocala platform.
Word from Mason county, H., says the
army worm IS playing havoc in the wheat
and corn.
r. ]. Hinton, special agent, says the great
Colorado plateau can be made arabic by
means of irrigation.
A cloud-burst in Cherokee county. North
Carolina, killed Harvey Agnew and Jacob
Newton, illicit distillers.
Miss Helen Craft, handsome Brooklyn
blonde of good family, wishes to compel
Ralph Langston, of negro descent, to marry
her TO save her honor.
Work on the first of the Worlds fair
buildings was begun yesterday.
Advices from Cherokee, Iowa, say the
damage by floods is greater than hrst re-
ported. Hundreds of head of stock have
been lost.
At Wilkes Barre, Pa, yesterday Edwin
Mcmillan, who murdered his wife by burn
ing her with red not irons and poured Goals
IN the wounds was convicted of murder in
the first degree. Both were drunk at the
time Of the murder
At Des Moines. Iowa, yesterday, William
G. Bennett was killed by touching the
guide wire of an electric light pole.
Near Lathrop, Mo, A gang OF sharpers
robbed Stephen Trice, farmer, of $500
last Friday, and threatened if he told
any one he would be killed. He said
nothing until yesterday.
Certificates of incorporation of the Man
haitian AR ship company of New York were
filed in Hudson county, n. j, yesterday.
Capital stock, $50, 900 The company viii
manufacture balloons and air ships, and
operate them for amusement.
At Findlay, Ohio, thirteen glass factories
have shut down for summer vacation un-
til September l. Two thousand employees
are out of work. No wage schedule for
next season has been fixed yet.
4 cyclone passed over the country twenty
miles east Of Denver Thursday night
Houses, trees, crops, stock and poultry
none seriously Hail stones as large as a
mans fist fell.
Near Atchison, Kan, the Missouri river
has cut through Deliphan point The new
channel is getting wider every hour, and in
less than forty-eight hours the entire cur
rent will change, leaving lake eight miles
long in the old bed.
At Vincennes, Ind, the body of Jarves
Baker, Sr.. well-to-do farmer, was found
il the Wabash river. Marks of violence
and his pockets inside out indicate murder
and robbery. He is supposed to have been
decoyed to the river.
The sultan of Turkey has ratified the
Brussels anti-slavery act
A census bureau bulletin says the United
States are the leading producers of alum
mum.
The drouth in British India continues.
The poorer classes are suffering for food
and water.
Five prisoners escaped from the Charles
ton, Mass, penitentiary yesterday. Two
were recaptured.
Fire destroyed Warren & Evans dry
goods store at Bowling Green, KY, yester-
day. Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
At Lawrence, Mass, John Raitch, aged
twenty-four, shot and killed his sweetheart,
Maria Burkett, eighteen, and committed
suicide.
The province of Verona, Italy. was
visited by an earthquake yesterday. Walls
and chimneys collapsed. There was no loss
of life.
The comptroller of currency has author
ised the First national bank of Big Timber,
Montana, to commence business with CAPT.
tai of $4,000.
In Baldwin county, Ala, Jesse Cart
wright killed his brother-in-law, John WILL
Jams, with buckshot and then cut his wife's
throat Cause, Jealousy.
The Indians will be reduced to destitute
circumstances by the closing Of the Behring
meDt will be asked for relief
The Emperor William left Heligoland
yesterday morning on the steamship, Prince