Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The viii of the late Hannibal Hamlin has
been probated. 1t makes no public be-
quests. A movement is on foot at Bangor,
Me, to erect monument by popular sub
scription.
If the engineers pronounce in favor of
proceeding with the Panama canal. NJ.
Christople, the credit financier, says the
financial plans to retrieve the enterprise
would not fail.
At Memphis, Tenn, yesterday fire dam
aged the furnishing store of Sample & Hill
$50, 600 insurance $4,000.
Nimrod Shepard. murderer under sen
tence of death, escaped at Little Rock,
Ark, last Wednesday, and took refuge in 4
cave near White Fork run. A posse sur
rounded the cave last night, and III the fu-
silade which followed, Willard Johnson,
one Of the posse, was MORALLY wounded.
Shepard was smoked out and raptured al
most dead from serious wound.
j. r. Dillworth, president of the Dill
worth cattle company, was shot and killed
Yesterday 100 miles southwest or Billings.
Mon, by young t'renchman named George
Demuer, over a disputed land claim De
muer surrendered.
The Citizens bank Of Nevada, Mo, has
failed. The depositors will lose nothing.
An order has been received at the depart
ment headquarters at jefferson barracks
from Gen Miles, assuming command of the
department of the Missouri and locating
his headquarters at Chicago.
A threshing engine exploded at Bruce
vile, Ind, yesterday, killing John Fleck
and mortally wCslnding Dick Price and
badly scaldiug VIII Coan, Newton Baker,
Charles Gibson and GUIDE Baker.
Secretary Foster stated that Mr.. Pew
deriy's open letter resembled a campaign
document and he would not answer ii and
engage in Il controversy on a such basis.
Edgar A. Saltus, the author. has been
declared guilty Of conduct unbecoming
husband and a decree of absolute divorce
has been granted his wife.
Rev. Phillips Brooks has been elected
bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts by
the house of bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal church.
Ex-Governor St. John in a temperance
lecture at Thurston, Y. Y, attacked the
political parties as well as the government
as being enemies of prohi bition.
At Shoals, IND, yesterday fight oc-
CURED after the performance between the
employees of Sells circus and toughs, in
which tent sticks and revolvers We're used
James Rlchey Of Shoals was struck on the
head with d stake and his skull was frac-
tured He died before the circus train left
No arrests Were made.
At Hum, South Dakota, yesterday the
reform press association for South Dakota
organized. They will work with the
Farmers Alliance and the Independent
party The neutrality-suspicious. con-
ference closed yesterday and practically
adopted the Cincinnati platform.
Bob Fitzsimmons has recovered the
diamonds lost in the robbery al White
Bear Lake, MINI.
The wooded portion OF Chippewa county,
Michigan, and the Canadian territory north
of it are on fire Detour, Bay Mills, Gates
vile, Raber, Wellsburg, Seaman Cove and
other places are in imminent danger.
NJ. Privett, counselor of the French
court OF appeals, will request American
magistrates to inquire into the agreements
entered into by the directors of the Panama
canal company and the contractors.
Forty thousand people are reported TO be
without food in the Volga region of Russia.
Their sufferings are very great.
The excessive heat and drouth in Spain
have caused great suffering and damage TO
the vineyards. All the springs have dried