Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-27
WHAT WAS IT?
TAKEN FROM THE EARTH--WAS
THE STOLEN 4,ooo2
a Negro with BoX of Lemons-Applica-
ton for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for
the sun Correspondents.
ABANDONED HIS LEMONS.


| Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Ten, May 26-At l 80 this
| morning 4 number of shots We're heard in
quick succession at the corner of Main and
Harwood streets. a policeman had met a
| negro rolling Il wheel barrow on which was Il
box Of lemons. The man denied that the
fruit was stolen, and said he WIS going TO
eeliver them TO "Dago." The officer and
negro went together TO deliver the load
Ihe negro became frightened and ran from
fthe officer. The officer gave pursuit, but
the negro was the better runner Several
shots were fired to stop him. but without
avail. The policeman then followed the
wheelbarrOw tracks and found that the
lemons had been stolen oIt of the store of
jackson Il Co. on Elm street by being
thrown out over the transom.
TALE OF HIDDEN TREASURE.
4 fisherman who lives in a tent near the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway bridge
over the Trinity in the Southern part of
the city, comes up with 4 strange tale of
hidden treasure. just before day on Sun
day morning he had left his tent TO see TO
his lines. He observed four men digging
hole in the ground near the bridge. After
while large vessel was taken from the
hole, carried by the men to wagon near by
and rapidly driven to the city. The ques-
ton is was the uncarthed treasure the Sl4,-
900 stolen from the Fargo express
company over . year ago, for the theft of
which the unfortunate Sol Richardson had
such time to establish his innocence. The
fisherman says the men engaged in IN
earthing the pot were all white, and the
affair is causing some comment here.
SET Up FOR THEMSELVES.
The saddle and harnesSmakers, who. a
few weeks ago, quit work at the factories
here. have started business on their own
hook under the name of the saddlers' and
harncssmakers' cooperative association.
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the laws of the state of Texas with q
paid up capital of $4,000 Quarters have
been procured in the Alliance building, and
work will begin tomorrow.
WANTS JOHNSON RELEASED.
The attorney for j. Ennege johnson, the
Kansas City Sunday Sun correspondent,
now in the county jail, to-day made applica-
Johnson from confinement. The writ is
made returnable tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock.
THE WRESTLING CONTEST
which IS to take place at the fair grounds
on Sunday next between Louis Lee, cham
pion all-round athlete of Texas, and J. W.
Turner eff Dallas, for $50 ! side. is creating
considerable excitement among sporting
men. Almost everyone has something to
say regarding the match, for the men are
heavyweights, and are considered evenly
matched, although Lee is not as heavy as
his opponent, weighing Wnen IN conultlon
lis pounds, while Turner tips the beam at
100 pounds Lee has many admirers, and
is backed by those who are competent to
Judge of the merits Of 4 wrestler. His ex-
porience in catcb-aS-Catch-can style OF
wrestling gives him an equal chance, if not
the advantage oyer his antagonist. Both
men are undergoing the proper share of
training for the event, and promise TO be in
excellent form for the combat.
NO CHANGE.
The strike among the planning mill hands
has not materially changed since yesterday.
ISissymen quit work yesterday at Buell. &
sConnelly's, but four or five OF them re-
turned 10 work this morning. At the mill
of Leeds Il Conkling few hands are out,
but work is not hindered in the least. As
yet no men have quit work at any of the
other mills.
WORSE TOR RODGERS.
4 matter has to-day come 10 light that
shows Lafayette Rodgers now in Jail for
the rape committed upon little May DsAtep