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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
sHoWEgING A PRISONER.

regarding the existence of q plot to blow
up the building with dynamite and effect
the release of the 100 convicts there con
fined. Several days ago Warden Hale got
an linking of the conspiracy, and promptly
put seven men whom he thought to DE the
ringleaders in solitary confinement on d
diet of bread and water. The suspects re-
fused to confess, and at the next meeting
of the prison directors the following reso-
luton was adopted:
Resolved. BY this board, after due investi-
cation OF the evidence adduced showing a con-
spiracy to escape on the part of c. II. Thorne,
Abraham Turcott, @. Q. Sullivan, Charles Mans
ming, II. w. Hanlon, John Wood, alias De-
laney, and George Ross, that the action of the
warden in placing the said convicts in solitary
confinement is hereby approved, and he is fur
Their directed to infiict such additional pun
ishment rs may be permitted by the rules and
regulations of the prison if in his discretion
the same may be deemed necessary and expeZ
dent.
The law allows the warden to fog, trice
up by the thumbs and cold shower retrac-
tory prisoners. 1t is said that if be finds
it necessary he will try the cold shower,
first. When this punishment Is inflicted
the subject is strapped, nearly nude. to
what is called ladder" and a stream
turned on him from an inch hose with a
one-eighth inch nozzle The sensation is
said to be horrible, yet the water doesn't
kill, MAIN or mark" The most minute
search has so far failed to reveal but a Dor
ton of the arms and dynamite thought to
be secreted about the prison. Whether re-
sort to medieval methods Of torture will
wiring any Information from the suspects
is yet an open question.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

that the American farmer and pro-
Queer would be the principal sufferer.
But it was all vain and futile. Argu-
ments, protests and remonstrances had
not the slightest effect on Harrison.
Minister Ryan might just as well have
Travelled two or three thousand miles
in the opposite direction, and poured
his complaints into the hairy ears of
the first iackass he met on the plains
OF Patagonia.
a contract had been made with the
Colorado mining barons by which they
fried out to the tune of 100000 to aid
the blocks-of-fve "soap" dealers in
electing Harrison, the consideration
promised being monopoly OF Huxing
ores. 1t was scoundrelly job, but
they demanded performance of the con-
tract, and Harrison lacked the courage
and manhood to repudiate the infamous
deal entered into by his managers.
The tariff was laid, and number OF
domestic refners or reducers of ore
were either bankrupted or driven out
Of the country, while Harrison's friends
in Colorado, who may be expected to
come down very literally the next
time, are luxuriating in the enjoyment
of fat monopoly guaranteed them by
Harrison, the friend of reciprocity,
and the guardian angel of the toiling
masses. The new Maharaja of Mani
pur, selected by the British, doubtless
for his humane tendencies as ruler
over the conquered province, is as
thoughtful a friend of his squalid sub
jects as is little Ben of the farming and
toiling millions of this happy land OF
the plundered and home of the slave.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

Mr.. John Sherwood says it is not unus-
ual for New York hostess to spend $1,000
on luncheon for twenty women.
The king of Siam is attended by 4 body
guard composed exclusively OF 1890 of the
prettiest young women i'll his realm.
1t is said Patti has learned and likes
'Annie Rooney" II she ever sings it in
this country it will certainly be her fare
well.
EX-Juige William Strong, who retired
from the United States supreme court
bench in 1876, is nov living IN Washington
at the age of eighty-four years, in feeble
health.
\ son of Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian
violinist, has inherited some of his fathers
genius. and will soon make his debut in
Paris as a solo violinist. He is q youth of
about twenty-five years.
Mrs. Dodge, the editor of St. Nicholas,
occupies the prettiest of the Onteora cot
tageS in the CatslIiils. II is eXquisitely
furnished and appeals more to the heart of
the owner than does her winter home III.
New York city.
One of Gen. Harney's old soldiers says
that the famous Indian fighter, who was Il
finished athlete. was remarkably fond of
pugilism. and used frequently to get into
rows beneath his dignity simply to display
his pugilistic skill.
Sophie Gunsberg, the beautiful nhilist
privately executed some weeks ago in a
Russian prison, is said to have been the
original heroine of Col. Savage's novel,
My Official Wife, Col. Savage is said TO
have met the fascinating intriguante in
Paris once, and to have been completely
tanned by her charms.
The ages of some noted women are given
as follows: Harriet Beechcr Stowe is
eighty; Julia Ward Howe, seventy-two;
Belva Lockwood, fifty-one; Susan 3. An
thony, seventy-one; Marion Harland, fifty
six; Mary NIapes Dodge, fifty-two; Kate
Field, fifty; Fanny Davenport, forty: Ada
Rehan, thirty lone: Emma Thursby, thirty
four; Ella Wheeler Wilcox. thirty-five;
Lillian Russell, thirty-one; Clara Morris,
forty-four; and Mary Anderson, thirtytwo.
II is sad coincidence that Ex-Governor
Morehouse of Missouri, who committed
suicide few days ago, is the third ex-
governor of that great Western common
wealth to take his own life. Governor
Thomas Reynolds, after serving four years
term as governor killed himself at Jeffer-
son City in 1911, aud in 1857 Governor
Thomas C. Reynolds fell through circular
hallway and was killed. There were many
of his friends who attributed his death 10,
accident. but those who knew say it was
done purposely.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
SOME CURRENT COMMENT.

Dun & Co. say, whoever gets on the
wrong side when this country is growing is
liable to be hurt" Send for the surgeons
and get ready the splints and bandages for
Mckinley and Harrison and the rest Of that
set Kansas City Times DEM
1t is not a little significant that in spite
of all the tai to the effect that silver would
drive the gold away, the yellow metal is
coming i'll rapidly, while we continue to
put out silver certificates on 1900 900
ounces a month"; Atlanta Constitution,
(Dem.)
District Judge Paschal of Texas refused
to grant naturalization papers to an appli-
cant because he declared that he was So
cialist and subscribed to the doctrines of
Herr Most. The judge was right No man
who believes in anarchy is lit to become an
American citiZen.-[New Orleans New
Delta.
Free sugar is great benefit. shout the
Mckinley organs. Yes. indeed, even if we
pay an immense bounty to the Louisiana
planters for it. But il free sugar is such a
benefit, what bliss it would be to have
reasonable tariff and free wool, lumber,
coal and iron orc.-[New London Telegraph
(Dem.).
The Massachusetts Republican conven-
ton pointed with pride to the enforcement
of the civil service policy by this admins
collection of 5 per cent from the Federal
officeholders at Washington for the promo
ton of Mckinleyism in Ohio.-[St. Paul
Globe Dem.)
The people of this country have no OBJ
lection to any action the farmers may take
to advance prices, provided they do not ask
the government to become their banker II
is i free country. where a man has the
right to prosecute any legitimate scheme
for the betterment of his own fortunes
memphis Appeal-Avalanche.
There isn't the slightest possible doubt
that James G. Blaine can carry every Re-
publican state by larger majority than any
other Republican, but a question that will
probably be debated in political circles is
whether he can carry any state that any
other Republican can OF. That he is the
most popular Republican among Republi-
cans, without comparison, in the nation,
no man Of common sense pretends to dis
pute.-fDayton Journal (Rep).
So the gold is coming back in the natural
channels: it is coming back for invest
ments: it is coming back for the crops we
have to sell and Europe has to buy. The
bankers have failed to realize their profits
upon it. The premium did not materialize,
but the lost by abrasion, freight and cost of
exchange did. and they lost instead of made
by their smartness. The stream has turned
this way, and it will gather volume and Gel
Gritty as it flows Baltimore News.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
gases is creating great deal of interest in

gases is creating great deal OF interest in
England.
Oyster shells fourteen inches in diameter
and others twenty-five inches IN length are
found in the desert west OF Yuma, Cal,
once an inland sea.
The New York Democrats are making
good use of Chauncey Depew's excoriation
of Platt and F'assett last winter for their
acts in preventing New York from secur-
unable to support Fassett with any grace.
Advices from Brazil state that there are
revolutionary tendencies in several provin-
ces in Brazil and that the troops have mutt
MED This looks very much like that couu-
try no sooner becomes republic than she
follows in the footsteps of her republican
nelghbors IN constant agitation for a
change in the personnel of the government.
When Boston sets out to be kind she does
1t thoroughly. She has an asylum for eats,
and among its features is feline gym
nasium, full OF bright balls Of yarn, bound
ing rubber balls and miniature spiked
fences. Small kittens are given gutta
Dercha mice to cut their teeth on. Every
thing is done for ailing kittens and invalid
cats which enlightened philanthropy and
human impulse may suggest.
A French scientist has compiled some in
tereSting statistics to show that q large
percentage of the worlds most famous men
OF learning have been clergymen's sons.
This deals blow at the old saw about
g ministers sous" and as for the ''deacons
daughters" many of them, like Mrs. Stowe,
the Brontes and Mrs. Trollope, have been
famous. The misfortune of a minister's
son, like that of any son Of distinguished
parent lies in the fact that he is the
cynoSure OF many curious eyes always eager
to detect some lapse in him that in another
would pass unnoticed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
THE MEXICAN TARIFF.


American shippers are rushing hogs
by the trainload into Mexico in order
TO avoid the tariff imposed by the Mex
lean government on American livestock
in retaliation for the ruling by the
Harrison administration imposing a
prohibitory tariff on Mexican argenti-
ferrous ores. The tariff on hogs be-
comes effective November l, after
which, thanks to the lively interest
felt by Harrison s. Co. in handful of
mining barons in Colorado, the Amer
leah farmer and stock raiser is shut out
of another market. No one can blame
President Diaz or his government for
imposing the tariff. 1t was retalia-
tory measure pure and simple that
would never have been thought of had
not the spoils administration struck
heavy blow at Mexican industry in
utter defiance OF national comfy and OF
that glorious spirit of sham reciprocity
OF which we have heard so much from
Republicans big and little. Mexico
had perfect right to resent the I'M
friendly and hostile tariff by another
OF quality or more injurious.
The tariff on silver lead ore was an
outrage and disgrace such as might
be looked for nowhere outside of Tur-
key or Russia, or countries similarly
governed.
1t was laid deliberately and in reck-
less defiance of the rights of the people
and of the domestic industries to be
disastrously affected by it. Petitions
and circumstances from the entire
WEST protesting against it were
tr,. ed as contemptuously as George
the Third treated the petitions
OF the colonists. Minister Ryan, an APP
pointee OF the administration. left his
post of duty at the City of MEXICO, and
hurried TO Washington to enter his
protest and explain the inevitable effect
that the tariff would have on the Next
can government. He warned Harrison
that the Mexicans would retaliate, and
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
DEEPER WATER FOR SAVANNAH.

Having secured seventeen and one
half feet Of water at Velasco with the
promise OF soon having twenty feet,
Texas can sympathize with Savannah
in it's effort to secure deep water on
the Georgia coast. Savannah now has
twenty-five feet and aspires to twenty
six feet, which depth can be had at
Velasco by cutting through bend OF
the Brazos and thus streng thening the
current. 1t is stated that '!last season
it required nearly 2300 vessels to move
the commerce of Savannah, but with
the present outlook this excellent
showing most be eclipsed in the near
future.
For the season just closed Savannah
received nearly l, 100, 900 bales of cot
ton. and. as the first naval port OF the
world, sent from her harbors over
1000, 900 gallons OF spirits OF turpentine
and 1901 900 barrels OF rosin. To this
may be added 100000 bushels OF rice,
10000, 900 feet OF lumber, 100000 tons
of fertilizers. 81 900 tons OF Southern
pig iron, and other products of the in
terror in corresponding ratio, her ex-
ports for foreign countries direct
amounting to over S33. 600, 600"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
No agricultural Depression" Then.

No horticultural Depression" Then.
President D. s. Jordan IN the October Forum
In these days, the farmer has many
grievances of which he did not know gen
GRAFTON past. The newspapers and the
stump-speakers tell US OF the farmers
wrongs, and from time TO time huge allan
ceS are formed to set them right. l go back
to the Old farm in New York on which |
was born-the farm my father won from
the forest, and on which he lived in freedom
and Independence, knowing no master.
dreading no tyrant. With poorer tools than
are now used, poorer building, inferior
facilities for transportation, lower prices,
aud uncertain markets. still he knew moth
ing of agricultural depression" When
crops were small and prices low, he simply
worked the harder. I find on that farm TO-
day tenants who barely make living.
go over the farm. | see unpruneu fruit
trees, wasted forest-trces, farm implements
ruSting in the rain and sun, fallen gates,
broken wagons-eyidenceS OF wasted time
and unthrifty labor. / wonder whether the
oppression of the farmer is the FAULT OF the
times, or the fault OF the man.
hear the farmers complaining to-day OF
hieh tariffs. and it may be that they have a
right 10 complain: still no tax on IRON was
ever so great as the tax he pays who leaves
his moving machine unshelter1d iii the
storm. The tax on land is nigh. but he pays
a higher tax who leaves his meadows 10
grow up 10 white-weed and thisIles. The
tax for good roads is high, bur higher toll
is paid bv the farmer VINO goes each week
to town in mud knee-deep to his horses.
There is 4 high tax on personal property.
but it is not so high as the tax on time
which is paid by the man who spends his
Saturdays lettering about the village
streets. All the farmers income arises
from the wise use of his time. One-siXth
of his time means one-siXth of his income
II ne has learned to make use OF his time,
al other ills will cure themselves.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
Women and Bicycles.
Indianapolis News.


Custom is law. and someone has saeely
remarked that modesty is merely aquestion
of geography. what is modest in one coun-
try being exactly the reverse in another.
Several years ago, when Belya Lockwood
perambElated about the streets of Wash
ington on tricycle.. the whole coun-
try threw up its hands in horror,
and some advocates Of the various women's
reforms even declared that their cause
had been set back ten years. But the steel
horse was too valuable an invention to be
monopolized by one sex, especially in this
day OF the world when women are demand
ing their full share In the desirable things
of life. Now. in every city in the country
the girls go spinning about the streets on
their bicycles, and it is taken as a matter
of course. Indeed, short time ago when
Bishop Coke, addressing young ladies'
boarding school, warned them solemnly
never TO be guilty Of mounting safety"
half the newspapers in the country ridiculed
his prudery and advocated this means OF
exercise and convenience for woElasI Ii IS
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.

When Parnell played hari-kari with
his political fortunes, the National
league in this country was paralyzed and
practically dissolved. His Individual
ity and leadership had raised it to
high state Of efficiency as an auxiliary
agency, and when he went down. the
league became an inert and lifeless
mass. During the past year, and while
the Parnellites and anti-Parnellites
were struggling for supremacy beyond
the water, nothing was done by the
league, as matter of course. But as
each succeeding bye election in Ire
land went against the fallen chief. the
fortunes of the Mccarthy Dillon branch
of the Nationalist rose rapidly, until
now it appears that there is no hope
whatever for the "uncrowned king"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
LARGE.
The largest railway depot in the world is
at Birmingham, England. 1t covers eleven

The largest railway depot in the world is
at Birmingham. England. 1t covers eleven
acres.
An army Of locusts ten miles wide re-
Gently swept over the Punjab in India 1t
occupied five days in passing.
The highest trestle on the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad is that across the
Corsican detile, Missoulai, Mont, 300 feet
above the gorge below.
Gladwin county, Mich, boasts of having
the largest frame barn in the world. 1t is
156 feet long, fifty feet wide. and in its con-
structlon 100000 feet of lumber were used.
The biggest horse in the world is now the
pride and glory of Detroit. The noble brute
Is twenty-one hands high, weighs 2365
pounds, and Is possessed of remarkable in
telligence
The largest lighthouse lens in this coun-
try measures fifteen feet in height and
eleven and a half in width, the internal
diameter, or ''bull's eye,'' being eight feet
eight inches
Some land in Paris has been sold at the
rate OF s, 0OO,0 900 per acre; some in London
for what would net $1,000. 600 per acre, and
some in New York for L sum equal to
SS,O00,000 per acre.
The British debt is so large that if il
We're divided into Il notes they
would completely cover the state of Ohio
three times over. If paid III penny pieces
and each penny piled one above the other
Ii would make seven columns of copper
reaching TO the moon.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

As time advances, his remaining adhe-
rents, realizing the futility of the
struggle, will unite with the dominant
faction, and bring about the unity nee
essary to concert Of action. The reor-
ganization Of the league in this country
indicates the belief among the friends
of home rule here that the political sit
uation in Great Britain and ireland is
getting once more into hopeful state,
and that the time when effective aid
from this side may be OF service is fast
approaching.
A general election in England can
not be far away, and it behooves the
Irish to get their house in readiness
for the fray.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

y MISSOURI paper, published in a
town near the Kansas border, notes the
shipment on one train to q single town
in Kansas of the following lot OF goods:
Furty-five cases, or 1880 quarts, Of beer:
also four barrels. or 2SS quarts, and five
kegs. or 100 quarts, of the same bev-
erage. 4 total of 1j2S quarts or 1854
glasses of the Germans drink. With
this went three jugs OF whisky, or say
200 more glasses. 1t was an average
days shipment
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

How many workingmen are idle in
Fort Worth because of the alien land
law? THE GAZETTE knows of several
building enterprises that were killed
because OF this law, which prevented
the borrowing of foreign money to build
with. The building trades of all kinds
are affected by the cutting off of the
expected supply of cheap money, and
carpenters, masons, painters and all
laborers who are connected with the
building business are the sufferers. The
of Mr.. Gossett is as far
reaching as the Asiatic cholera.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

SENATOR ALLISON figures out for
Iowa farmers the munificent profit on
corn raising OF $40 an acre. One
man can, under the most favorable
circumstances, raise no more than fifty
acres. On this, his gross income is
$40. a big return for years work.
After he has contributed his share to
MckinIey's tariff pets, got suit of
shoddy for himself and the boys, a
calico dress for his wife, and laid in
months provisions. there wont be
enough left to buy respectable jag.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

A pretty fix those women's hat trimmings
have got us intoi The cases decided against
the government will demand from the
treasury nearly S20,00O,000. The present
cash balance in the treasury is about ST.
coo, 600, of which ST. 800. 900 is in unavail-
able fractional coin and SIS $50, 900 is on de-
post in national banks; $i0,O00,O00 of ma
tured AZ per cent bonds may and probably
will be presented for redemption by the
Both. If there had been no tariff, or no
women, we should have avoided this di-
lemma
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05

y WOMAN elopes after q few months
of married life with handsomer man.
The disconsolate husband hearing after
q long time that the erring wife was
dead. marries again. a couple of
years thereafter wife No. / appears,
and finding her husband married, flies
into q fit Of jealous rage, and has him
arrested for bigamy. That is what in
the vernacular is termed gall.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-05
Never! No, Never.


It's unbecoming in great big grown
girl like Galveston to be ''cutting"
Younger sister like she does Velasco There
is room on the coast for both of them.
NGBrenham Banner.
Did you ever know great big grown girl
who liked to see her younger sister step
upoE the carpet before the elder was ready
to step OFF,