Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-09
TELEGRAPHiC BREVITIES.

Gen. James Longstreet wires St. Louis
friends that he is in excellent health.
Fred Gaines. a well-known newspaper
man of Paris, broke his left leg at Arthur
City last night.
The international typographical union
began its Ihirty-ninth annual conference al
Boston yesterday.
Lieut.. Riders expedition for the explor-
alton OF the eastern part of Greenland left
Copenhagen yesterday.
James Dunn. colOred. of Hitchcock. Gal
weston county. was shot and badly wounded
while burg iarizing house.
Emma Smith, slightly demented Hous-
ton cyprian, jumped OFF the San Jacinto
bridge yesterday, but was rescued.
About eighty feet OF a Mississippi levee
caved in Monday between CdTolton and
Southport doing SO 00 worth of damage.
A special from Calico, Calf, says an i'm
mense cave-in has occurred inside the Wat
erloo mines severely lnjuring three men.
y. +. Mincher Individual bookkeeper at
the American National bank of Nashville,
Tenn. is defaulter 10 the extent OF about
$4,000.
The principal artists. singers and actors
of Berlin have promised TO take part i'll the
great summer fete for the benefit Of the
Russian Jews.
Frank Benton. ex-treasurer of the Mill
ward Cliff Cracker company of Pliiladel-
phia, is under indictment for conspiracy 10
defraud the company
Postmaster General Wanamaker ap-
peared yesterday before the subcommittee
of the Philadelphia councils that is inyesti-
Cutting the affairs OF eX-City Treasurer
Bardsley.
The indictments against ex-senator Sev-
Ayng .lr.,@ - So
Grande Southern. and eX-State Treasurer
Walsen, for bribery, We're quashed at Den
Yer yesterday.
The Vienna correspondent Of the London
Times says the car las rejected Il formal
proposal fOr i French alliance or the
ground that he could preserve peace only by
keeping 4 free hand.
Sir William Hart Dyck, vice-president of
the committee of the council on education,
introduced the Salisbury governments
long-talked-of education bill in the house of
commons yesterday
At Glasgow yesterday. fire did damage to
the extent OF $3.50, 600. AIaIlock's glass
warehouse and the establishment of
Messrs. Willis & Nelson, ribbon manufac-
tories, were destroyed.
The brother of ". c. Bowen. the editor
killed on the International and Great
Northern train, says ". c. Bowen never
fired his pistol at all. and that he received
nine, instead Of four, bullet wounds.
Two hundred thousand dollars worth of
the wardrobe of Emma ABBOTT which is left
after many sales and gifts IN Chicago. is 10
be offered for sale by Mrs. Lizzie Alb
bolt Clark, sister of the late actress.
The bill to enable her majesty to make
special provisions for the prohibition of the
catching of seals in Behring sea by her
,al
i'll the order, passed the house of lords yes
terday.
ID. F. Davis and Dan Parker. arrested at
Galveston upon the charge Of swindling
Moore, Mckinney & Co. out of $1,000 worth
of groceries, gave bail in $1,000 each late
Saturday evening and We're released from
custody.
The Emperor William has announced his
acceptance of the invitation extended to him
by Lord Mayor Savoy TO attend a luncheon
given in his honor at Guild hall on the occa-
sion of the emperor's coming visit TO Lon
don.
Col L. S. Polk, president of the National
Farmers alliance, and Representative Jerry
Simpson of Kansas have gone TO Lacrosse.
Wis, to attend the convention of industrial
organizations which viii meet there Tues
day to unite with the National Farmers
alliance.
Advices from Port Au Prince state there
is considerable excitement in that city.
Martial law has been declared. Some sixty
persons were shot on May %. Hypolite has
everything i'll his own hands and killing
goes on at the rate OF two or three prisoners
per day.
Advices from SHANGHAI are to the effect
that fresh outrages against foreigners are
reported. At Wasfeh, near Yangtse kiang,
an English missionary and customs
officers have been murdered, and European
residents are appealing for the protection of
a man-of-war
The rabbis of othe principal cities of
Russia have ordered day of fasting. prayer
and interceSSion against persecution. Re
newed rumorS are current that Jewish mer-
chants of St. Petersburg intend leaving.
Among those mentioned as about to leave
are Poljakoff. the railway king, and Buskit,
the sugar retiner.
Keokuk, Ia. society is greatly excited
over the approaching nuptials OF Miss
Georgia Kilburne and Gen. John NJ. Scho-
field, commauder-in-chief of the United
States army. While all the details of the
wedding have not been formulated it has
been determined that the wedding Will not
be the occasion for an elaborate display of
pomp and ceremony
AT Chicago yesterday Judge Blodgett
QQaSneQ the indictments against GEORGE d.
Gibson, secretary of the whisky trust,
charged with conspiracy to destroy the
Shufeldt distillery The decision was on
the ground that the case was one for the
state and not for the United States court, in
which there is no statute providing a PEN
atty for the crime wherewith Gibson is
charged.
The death is announced OF Hon. Samuel
Creclnan, aged eighty three. He was zone
of the pre- Confederation politicians in Nova
Scotia and one of the leaders of the Liberal
party who united with the Conservatives
10 carry the confederation of the province.
When the Conservatives were in power be-
tween 1873 and 1892 he was government
leader in the legislative council.
At q country church near Warrior, Ala,
Sunday large congregation were engaged
in worship when they were suddenly
startled by reports of two pistol shots on
the front steps. Hall Hambrich and James
Jitt had had dispute about "a shovel
handle and at church they renewed the
quarrel, winding il up after every one was
in the church. Hambrich was fatally
wounded. and in the uproar which followed
Jitt escaped.