Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

| Fire in Everads brewery, in New York
city, caused $1,000 damage yesterday
Ex-senator John Spooner of Wisconsin
| says President Harrison will be renomi-
| Lated.
At Woodbine. KY, Polk Williams shot
and killed James Lanham Ia q quarrel over
horse last night.
AT Liverpool yesterday thousands OF
bales of cotton were destroyed by fire The
damage IS over u quarter of a million.
At Sydney, \. 5. W. motion to grant
women the right of suffrage was defeated
by a vote of fifty-seveu to thirty four
At Morehouse Mo, yesterday, the large
Touring mill of J. Hunmelberger and its
contents were. destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
of this years crops We're received at New
Orleans yesterday Four sacks sold at 81
per sack.
O'Dwyer Gray, proprietor Of the Dublin
Freeman Journal, announces that he viii
henceforth reject the leadership OF Mr.
Parnell.
= general assignment of f. Holland &
Co, manufacturers of Ladies fine shoes,
to james B Doyle, was filed at Rochester,
n. Y, yesterday.
The English steamship Godmunding and
the Lorna sunk. Eight of the schooner's
crew were drowned.
Mademoiselle Boissar presented her.
self to Lyons hospital for treatment for \
possible attack of hydrOphobia. She had
been bitten by two pet cats.
Cashier Kirby of. the City national bank
of Marshall, Mich. who decamped six
weeks ago with 100000 of the funds, was
arrested yesterday in Sedalia, Mo.
At Medina, n. Y, S. T White, AGED sew
enty-fve, induced Lula Bissell aged four
teen. to elOpe with MIN and married her.
White was arrested, but escaped
About fifty Arabs, Arnenians and
Syrians arrived at New York on tn steam
ship p. Callain few DAYS ago. 1ley VIII
go South and want to engage in farming.
Balmaceda's cruiser Presidential Erar-
zurez left Lisbon yesterday morning and
anchored a short distance of shore. She is
being closely watched by the authorities.
At Higginsville, Mo, B. L. Wilson, Jr.,
formerly physician of the Chicago and Al
ton railway, who was cut in the head by an
oil dealer named K. f. Butler, yesterday,
died.
Berlin police are looking for a clerk
named Franck of the DeutsChe bank. and a
stock broker named Schwieger, wanted for
forging bills on the bank. The banks loss
is S255, coo
Very little Kansas wheat is being shipped
eastward, probably on account of the Wash
ington circular advising farmers to hold
their grain. Crops throughout the Wess
are favorable.
The scarcity Of cars to move coal this
coming winter may cause 4 coal famine in
the West, and the railway companies ara
fnstructing their agents to notify dealers 10
lay in their winter supply within the next
six weeks.
Intense excitement prevails at Onalaska
over the sealing edict. Two captures have
been made thus far. the schooners K. B.
Marion and Lanintt. Before the news of
the close of the season reached the North
American commercial company saey TOOK
1900 Sealskins.
d. B. Weldon, alias Strong, who had his
life insured for $50, 900 and left his clothes
on the river bank to lead TO the belief that
he was drowned. and forged two checks for
400 each at Birmingham, Ala, was ar
rested at Portland, Ore, yesterday.
Nicholas Roach, miner in the Buck
Ridge colliery, near Shamokin, Pa, was
attacked in the mines by a masked man
who demanded his money at the point of a
pistol. A desperate fight took place which
ended in the flight of the robber. Roach
had Just been paid $40 wages