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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

HAVANA, Nov. ga statement just pub
lished by the superintendent of the treas
ury, giving the customs receipts for the
island at Cuba during the month of August,
shows the total receipts to have been $751;
36l. 30-a decrease, as compared with the
receipts for the corresponding month last
year of 1851 $780, At Havana the receipts
during the month amounted to s66S, 42S so,
at Matanzas to s91, 0s3.05, at Santiago de
Cuba to SOS, or %, at Cardenas to SCI, O22 81,
at Cienfuegoes to S74, $3.50, and at Sagua
to $50 2S7.50.
Mr. Joseph A. Springer, vice United
States consul-general here, has been author
lied to assume the duties OF cousul-general
during the temporary absence from his post
of Consul General Williams.
Palenzuela, the bandit who was shot to
death by detachment of troops in the San
Juan woods, near Colon, to-day, was one of
the most bloodthirsty bandits that ever in
tested the island of Cuba. He was sailor,
and. with Manuel Garcia, who was re-
Gently executed at La Cabana castle, and
whose inseparable companion he was, was
building canoe for the purpose of escap-
ing from Cuba when Capt. Gen. Polavieja
began his active campaign against the
brigands.
Palenzuela had been sentenced to death.
Among the crimes in which he was impli-
Gated were the kldnaping of Seniors
Cam pillo, Martinez, Alfonso, Sardinas,
Hoyos and Vento and the derailing of a
railroad train, the conductor of which he
killed at Empalme
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
Story of the Inmates.

When the reporter had viewed both the
man and woman, and while the physicians
were at work with the victims, he set about
to learn the cause of the tragedy From
the landlady of the house and three of the
girls the following story, In substance, was
told:
Frank Simons is railway conductor on
the Denver. He has been in Fort Worth
since last Thursday. He visited the house
in which he was shot at various times, and
while not drunk was more or less under the
influence of intoXicantS. He came to the
house about one hour before the tragedy
occurred. asked for klttie and went to her
room, the room in Which the tragedy &C.
CURED. The two were in the room together
during most of the time, kittie being out
perhaps moment or two on two or three
occasions. One time she came to the first
floor and went into one of the girls room,
threw herself upon the bed almost ex-
hausted, and said: Frank has had me on
my knees begging for my life.
He says he will kill me, and
kept his pistol to my breast
while 1 pleaded with him. He says 1 must
marry him, and l can't. He threatens to
kill me and himself if l refuse to marry
him. l feigned sickness to get away from
him, and he permitted me to leave the room,
but said if | was not back in five minutes
he would follow and kill me. If the madame
would only go and get that gun.'..
She returned to the room, and was
heard to be pleading with him again, and he
told her to order bottle of beer, and she
called to the porter to bring it, but before
the boy did so the two shots were heard to
ring out
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
TARRANr CouNrYLANDs-

Gen. Clarke, secretary of the Fort
Worth Chamber of Commerce, has a
plan for putting more farmers in Tar
rant county. All that is necessary is
cooperation on the part o. he land
owners. In the past, especially the
years the Spring Palace was held, Fort
Worth did much to bring settlers to
the Panhandle, the Brownwood and
the Abilene countries, butno organized
effort was made to settle up the vacant
lands of Tarrant county. We have
right at our door, according to Gen.
Clarke, who has had considerable ex-
perience in his line, "a first-class coun-
try for farming. 1t has but little waste
land. is mostly prairie, probably one
third wooded. 1t has good soil of black
waxy, gray sandy and chocolate Loans.
The average of its crops is twenty to
thirty bushels OF whest, forty to fifty of
corn, sixty to ninety OF oats, two and
ons-half to Eve tons c. hay, and three
fourths bale of co..nu to the acre. But
il also is-what is most desirable. close
TO large city-a splendid frui: coun-
trt. have had some experience in
fruit growing, ard I know that more
por ~ could be made on ten acres OF
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
The Particulars.

In the southwest corner room of the sec
ond floor of Rusk street resort, lay the
almost ifeless form of Frank Simons,
while in the room adjoining and just the head
of the stairway, lay kittie Clarke, one of
the female inmates of the house, seriously
but not fatally wounded.
AT 5:45 the report of two pistol shots rang
out, and people passing in the neighborhood
of Eleventh and Rusk streets soon located
the shots, and a rush was made for the
house, and the first to gain the front
gallery met Kitty Clarke rushing
the hall and out on the Rusk street side
walk screaming, HE has killed me, Frank
has killed me-
Constable Bob Irwin was among the first
to enter the house, as he was riding along
Rusk street when the woman ran out.
Other inmates of the house ran out
and seized kittie before she fell
in which she now lies, while the officer and
others rushed up to the corner room,
(kittie's) where they found Frank Simons
lying on his back on large bed, the bed
clothing and his own one mass Of
blood, the pillow despatched with brains
and clots of har, and blood and
brains gushing from two holes in his head,
one ball making the two holes, entering to
the right side of the forehead, just above
the temple and between his right ear and
eye, ranging upward and coming out about
an inch and half from where it entered,
but going deep enough to pass through and
to the side of the brain.
Irwin and those of the crowd who rushed
in were soon followed by Chief Maddox,
Policeman Kits, Ben Mccullough and w.
w. Menasco, the latter two intimate friends
of Simons, and they as soon as possible by
Drs. Parker and Duringer and a GAZETTE
reporter. Simons was unconscious from
the time the bullet entered his head.
The woman, Kittie Clarke. was placed on
bed, her clothing torn open, and it was
discovered she had been shot, the ball en-
tering just TO the left of the pit of her
stomach, ranged around and passed out
about four inches below her shoulder on
the left side, just missing her heart. 1t also
passed through the feshy part of her
left arm after coming out at her side, as it
appears her arm was slightly thrown back
when the shot was fired and she was in
standing position.
The weapon used was double-action Al
caliber Colts, and was found on the bed on
which Frank Simons lay when Constable
Irwin reached the room.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

to Wichita Falls and Clarendon. He had
been in the city since Thursday night, and
he ana MIR. MenascO contemplated going to
Velasco after the Railway clubs meeting
tonight, and their intention was to 60 into
business there He had been with US all
day, and up to about one hour ago. He left
US, though I'VE insisted he should not, for
we knew where he inten He'd going, and only
this morning while sitting in our
room he talked something about what he
intended to do, and while we passed it off
lightly had an idea he would, If angered. do
something desperate. He had no gun when
having it. He had fine gold watch
on when he left us, and when
found dying here he had this
fob, the watch gone, and the fob pinned TO
his vest, and there was also So or s. in his
pockets"
Chief Maddox, who was listening TO their
story, suggested that perhaps he had after
leaving them pawned the timepiece for the
pistol and the money found on him, as ii
was said he had little, if any, money during
the afternoon.
Continuing the story concerning Simons:
''He is railway conductor, well liked by
his associates and employers, is addicted to
drink when Off duty and with the boys, but
is not quarrelsome. He is member in
good standing of the order
Of Knights Templar in Omaha
but he and his wife have not lived together
for some time. For this reason he re-
sorted to drink and women when of duty.
His wife is in Illinois or Iowa with her peo-
nois or Iowa He stands well in railway
circles
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
His Comrades in Grief

Frank Simons' friends could see he was
fast dying, and took it to heart very much,
and shed tears over his bloody form as
though he were brother.
His Clarendon friend. Mr.. Menasco,
seemed to think the inmates of the house
were responsible for the tragedy, and was
very bitter in his denunciation. He said
they had kept Simon secreted from his
friends on several occasions, and blowed
him for all his money, and would not take
to the idea that his watch had been pawned,
and said he would not believe it until the
timepiece was produced from a pawnshop.
The dying mans friends secured an am
bularce, and at about o'clock con-
veyed him TO the hospital, where he
died at sos O'Clock, less than four hours
from the time he was shot. Messrs Wilkes
Guaze took charge of the remains, and
he will prepare them for burial, but just
where he will be inferred could not be
learned last night as his friends were await
ing instructions from his relatives who were
wired concerning the sad affair.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

fruit III Tarrant county than could be
made On eighty acres Of grain 100 miles
from Fort Worth. There is plenty OF
water, plenty of firewood. There are
twenty-six running streams in the
county, and if artesian water is wanted,
it is there for the digging. Why the
county has not been thoroughly adver-
tised is a mystery to me. Railroads
run all through it direct to Fort Worth.
SO the fruit grower or farmer could
ship his produce into the city under
exceptionally good facilities"
Gen. Clarke is daily in receipt OF in
quiries about farm lands close to Fort
Worth. Why can't the land owners
get together and through Gen. Clarke
make an organized effort to locate
actual settlers on these rich but vacant
acres? Good county roads and more
farmers in Tarrant county will aid
wonderfully in the upbuilding of Fort
Worth.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
THE DISCRETION OF THE JURY.

The Paris News, commenting upon
the verdict in favor OF THE GAZETTE
in the libel suit of Alger Perry, says:
$50 long as the juries do their duty it
makes no difference whether the legis-
lature comes to the relief of the news
papers or not"
The News takes very short-sighted
view of the conditions affecting the
publication of news in Texas. How is
a newspaper to know that juries will
''do their duty" in the rendering OF
verdicts Doubtless they may be de-
pended upon to do what they conceive
10 be their duty, but as this is but re-
Election of the individual minds of the
members, the defendant publisher has
no means of knowing what they are go
ing to do about it until the mischief is
done-and the verdict of petit jury is
one OF the two uncertainties of life. A
wise man once gave directions by
which mushrooms could be distin-
guished from toadstools. eat Them"
he said, land if you suffer no harm
they are mushrooms, but if you die
they are toadstools." That is some
thing like the way the newspaper has
OF determining whether news item is
libelous or not. Publish it, and if a
jury acquits the newspaper it is all
right, but if verdict for damages is
given it is libelous.
Newspaper publishers do not ask to
be relieved from esponsibility in the
publication OF news. They only ask
that the law of libel shall be made SO
plain and clear that they may know
what to publish and what to withhold.
1t is not libel law that they complain
of, but the lack OF libel law. In the
case that the Paris News speaks Of, the
testimony, the law and everything
were so plainly in favor of THE
GAZETTE that there could be no other
verdict than the one that was rem
dered. But how are other newspapers
or The GAZETTE to know what to pub
lish, SO far as the law goes?
No reputable Texas newspaper-and
that includes nearly or quite all of
them-asks for special privileges in
the dissemination of untruthful news
or malicious reports. They endeavor
to publish the news as it occurs, and
to publish it truthfully. Sometimes it
happens that their accounts of an oc-
currence that is legitimate news varies
from the exact facts, and in this case,
if it reflects upon any person, there is
libel suit and the jury is left to say
whether damages shall have to be
borne by paper that had no thought
of inficting injury upon anybody.
Define the boundaries Of news and
let us know when we are violating the
law. That is all we ask and have asked
for in-yain.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
THE DEADLY BULLET
1t is Sent on Its Fatal Errand in
Rusk Street Resort.
CONDUCTOR SIMONS DEAD
By His Own Hand and Kittie Clarke Lies
at the Point of Death-The Details
of the Trasedy-What Witnesses
Say About the Sad Affair.

Much excitement prevailed in the neigh
borhood of the corner of Eleventh and Rusk
streets at 5:45 p. In. yesterday, when two
shots rang out and women's voices were
heard screaming, and in less time than it
takes to tell it the streets Whereabouts were
thronged with excited people, and
when horseman dashed up Rusk street
and stopped in front of a prominent physi-
clans office on Main street. and hurriedly
stated a man and woman had been killed
down town, the excitement up town was in
tense, and crowds rushed to the scene of
the shooting
4 GAZETTE reporter arrived on the scene
about fifteen minutes after the occurrence
and found man, Frank Simons, breath
ing heavily and the bed on which he lay red
with his life's blood. Men and women
crowded the rooms and hallway. the former
anxious to get look at the dying man, and
the latter wringing their hands and
asking ''Wil kittie die?" The
reporter sought another room 10
which portion of the crowd were pressing,
and found woman, Kittie Clarke, lying on
Il bed suffering from a pistol wound IN her
breast. Her clothes, too, were well covered
with blood, and the two presented sight
sad to gaze upon. Willing hands were do
ing all that could be done to relieve the suf-
ferings of the two people, but it was plain
to see that the man was dying, while the
woman was conscious, and begging that her
clothes be removed, that she might breathe
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
Healy Horse-Whipped,

DSnlIS No NOV i.+s s charis. MeDermett
nell, to-day publicly horse-whipped Mr..
Timothy Healt, NJ. p, the most bitter of
the anti-Parnellites. The horse whipping
received by Mr.. Healy was the indirect out
come of the language used by Healy at
Longford on Sunday last when the anti
Parnell leader referred to ''Miss Parnell,
the widow of the late Charles Stewart
Parnell" The details of the assault are as
follows: Mr. McDermott caught Mr.. Healy
by the throat to-day at the four courts in
this city, and then in the presence of a
number of persons he thrashed Healy about
the shoulders and body until the latter was
rescued by the police. Mr.. Healy, when his
assailant had been taker into custody, de-
clined to make charge against him, so Mr.
McDermott was released and went his way
surrounded by a number of sympathizers.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

The man who served his country by
going to the polls yesterday and voting
his sincere convictions is patriot, no
matter how he voted. He may have
been Democrat or a Republican, a
Prohibitionist or Peoples party fol-
lower, Socialist or anything else, if he
expressed the sincere conviction of his
principles he is better citizen than
for nothing at all. His party may have
won or it may have lost, but that is
nothing to him-the doing of duty is
the triumph that all American citizens
should look forward to as the greatest
and best reward.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

Henry NJ. Stanley has lost all the popu-
larity he had in Eng land.
Professor Virchow, the eminent German
scientist, has published 125 works. He is
seventy years old.
Mark Twain is sailing through the chief
French rivers in tiny fishing boat. He is
low descending the Rhone.
NJ Nathan Harris of Rich Valley, Va,
has a daughter nineteen years old, who is
only two feet ten inches in height and
weighs just forty and half pounds.
Mr.. Labouchere, who was a member of
the parliamentary committee that inquired
into Queen Victoria's savings. asserts that
her majesty's fortune is surprisingly small.
Robert Browning's admirers place a
wreath Of flowers over his grave in West
minister Abbey every day. The tomb is
covered with tile about eighteen inches
square.
Conductor William w. Willer of the Bos-
ton and Albany railroad has ridden more
than 1900. 600 miles while on duty during
the forty-seyen years he has been in the
service.
Parnell, ct school, is described by the old
lady who taught him, in Derbyshire vii
lage, as silent, solitary child, repelling the
advances of kindly sympathy with his
early SORROWS.
Col. L. L. Denning of New York enjoys
the honor of being the child of parents
welded by the poet William c. Bryant,
when the latter was a justice of the peace
in Long Island village.
Cardinal Lavigerle was once a beau sab
reur Cardinal Howard formerly held a
commission in the Life Guards, and the
cardinal archbishop of Perth was in youth
the smartest of Austrian hussars.
Lord Salisbury, when he was plain Rob
ert Cecil, was reporter, and was always
ready, after night in the gallery, to 60
out with the boys and invoke nightmare on
a supper of Welsh rarebits and London
stout.
Chief Justice Fuller's daughter, Miss
Mary Fuller, will soon return to Germany
to resume her musical studies. She takes
a younger sister with her. Miss Fuller de-
votes six or seven hours day to her piano
practice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne of Knox
ville, Tenn, are soon to celebrate the
seveuty-second anniversary of their mar
rage. They are respectively 1o1 and
ninety-two years of age, and have 800 de-
scendsnts.
Michael Moore of Brooklyn is The Oldest
second lieutenant on the army list He
was for years musician, was made a lieu
tenant in 1869 and two years later was re-
tired. He now draws three-fourths pay
l$l0ol month. and is supposed TO be not
less than ninety-one years old.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Shoshone Falls, Idaho, are offered
for rent.
The Philadelphia mint coined $4,000, 600
pennies last year.
Massachusetts has more free circulating
and reference libraries than any other
state.
Cranberries are gathered on Cape Cod
with scoops designed for that particular
purpose.
From the American aloe tree is made
thread, ropes, cables, paper, clothing, soap,
sugar and brandy.
Hawaiian natives have a superstition
that evil spirits land from every war ship
that enters their port.
Among the recent inventions is calen-
dar that will register for the next 200 years,
besides telling any date figure within that
period.
At Sharon, Ca, last week, 4 lot of fodder
was sold that was gathered in 1859 by a
slave. 1t was as bright and sound as on the
day it was put up.
A family living near Augusta, Me, have
as pet a tame crow, which accompanies
them whenever they go to the city on Sun
days or market days, flying above and
little in advance of the horses.
The Veteran Soldiers and Sailors associ-
alton of jefferson county, Iowa, is proud of
the fact that, out of a population of Is, 900,
1,6O0 men were sent to the war from Jeffer-
son county, more than any other county of
equal population in the United States"
It is said that fully $4,000 deaths occur
red in one Of the recent epidemics of small
poX in Guatemala, but notwithstanding this
frightful mortality and the frequency of
smallpox scourges, the government has
taken no pains to introduce any scheme of
vaccination, and the state is without any
vaccination law at all.
Squire" Charles Walker, Washington
justice of the peace, is very proud of war
rant in his possession dated April 10, 1866,
charging General Grant with fast driving.
1T is Endorsed, ''Fined So; paid" Below, in
the generals handwriting, are the words,
Il will appeal at p. m. U. S. Grant" No
appeal, however, was taken.
The doctors and citizens in the town Of
Stuttgart, Ark, are at loggerheads. A
short time ago the leading physicians of
the place formed protective league against
those citizens who fail to pay their Doctors
bills. Every doctor in the league is prohib-
tied from visiting a patient whose name ap-
pears on the black list. This action aroused
the. inhabitants to high pitch of indigna-
ton, and over three hundred of them as
sembled in mass meeting and agreed to boy
colt the offending doctors.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

GUTENBERG RACE Track. Nov. -.
race, selling, five fIrlones. Some won - =,
nobia second, Hardy Fox third. lin.
1:l0lz.
Second race, six furlongs. s. Fe,sy,r,-
Charade second, Rialto third. nina
1:l4$..
Third race, five furlongs, Ne..ie B-y v,-
Tormentor second, Early Blossom thin,
Time, l:104.
won, Banquet second, Kimberly TIM;
Time, l :55
Fifth race, selling, one mile. lgcts,,,
won, Castaway second, The sheriff ;s,r5
Time, :4+3l.
Sixth race. selling, six and one. half fr..
longs, Torchlight won. Be;hmIna sesars
Under Cover third. Time. IA
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

Mr.. EVAN JONES and Mr.. Harry
Tracy avow that they are Democrats.
They also assert that there is no differ
ence between the 1.-TWO old parties. 8"
Well, if they are Democrats, and there
is no difference between Democrats and
Republicans, they must be Republicans
also. And as they belong to the Peo-
pies party and the sub-treasury Far
ners' Alliance, they are almost any
thing you choose to call for. 1t is said
that the meat of turtle has in it the
taste of all other meats-pork, beef,
chicken, fish, anything one can name.
Jones and Tracy may be said to par
take of the nature of political turtles.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04

THE people of San Antonio had bet
ter chain the secretary of their COM
mercial exchange, to keep him from
going East and running down his state.
He reports in New York that the Texas
railroad commission has crippled the
Texas roads and is frightening capital
from the state-and then forgets him
self and describes a magnificent new
railroad $50 miles long that is just COM
pleting. Mr.. Bowen had better be
chained at home, or have his mouth
padlocked when he runs about. at large.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
SPORTING.
Nashville Races

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Nov. 3.-Firs.
seven frrlopgs; Catherine 3. won, $ IL l.,
Second race, five f;;rlongs, Minnie /
wen, Beverly second, Elsara third T sA'
l :04. ~s
Third race, one mile, Melania won ,.
Carter second, Liallina Laindsey rb; IS
Time, l :43. '-''~
Fourth race, seven furlongs. Toy p.r
Won, Sidanpni second, Torrents 10.
Time, 1:24 ''-
Fifth race, one and one-sixteer.b nil.
Annie House won, Sophia Hard -
Dulcett third. Time, l ~ '-'
Sixth race, seven furiongs, JOHN C. -,
Tom Hood second, War Plot third TIN.
l:24 A''-e
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-04
His Friends Interxiswed.

BY this time the physicians had done
about all they could do for both the man
and woman, and the reporter went to
he could OF the man. A number of his
friends had by this time arrived, and
willing hands did all that could
be done for the dying man
Among those were Messrs Ben hIcCul-
Tough and Conductor Larrimer of the Den
yer, and W. w. Menasco of Clarendon.
From them the following was learned
Crank Simons was a freight conductor
on the Denver. His run was frora this city