Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-01
TELsGRAPHlC BREvlTIES.

The sulan of Turkey has ratified the
Brussels aati-slavery act.
a censu. bureau bulletin says the United
States are Fhe leading producers of alum
mum.
The drouh in British India continues.
The poorerclasses are suffering for food
and water.
Five pris, ners escaped from the Charles
ton, Mass, ipenitentiary yesterday. Two
We're recapiIred.
Fire destroyed Warren & Evans dry
goods store at Bowling Green, KY, yester-
day. Loss 10000, insurance $4,000.
AT Lawrelice, Mass, John Raitch, aged
twenty-four, shot and killed his sweetheart,
Maria BurRett, eighteen, aud committed
suicide.
| The province of Verona. Italy, was
| visited by an earthquake yesterday. Walls
and chlmneys collapsed. There was no loss
| OF life
The compt Of currency has author
| Ised the First os.al bank of Big Timber,
Montana, to Commence business with q capt
| tai of $50 900.
In Baldwin county, Ala, Jesse Cart
| wright killed his brother-in-law, John Will
lamS, with buckShOt and then cut his wife's
throat Cause, jealousy.
The Indians will be reduced to destitute
circumstances by the closing of the Behring
sea seal fisheries. The Dominion govern
mept will be asked for relief
The Emperor William left HeEgoland
yesterday morning on the steamship, Prince
Bismarck, escorted by two German iron
clads, which fired imperial salutes.
E. L. Mann, manager of the Shelly
plantation, il Bolivar county, Miss. was
shot while eating supper Saturday. A
negro named Mann, suspected, escaped.
In the British house of commons yester-
day the factories bill passed It's second
reading. Lord Salisbury said he consid
cred twelve years the proper minimum age
limit.
One hundred and thirty some prominent
Philadelphia Republicans have issued an
edict that Senator Quay must be dethroned
from his position us boss in Pennsylvania
politics.
: That part of the Mckinley bill affecting
tin plate goes into effect July1. The result
S that immense quantities have recently
arrived on ocean steamers and more was
expected last night
At Florence, Ala. yesterday, the Tripoli
works, the only VOL ks of the kind in the
United States, conn nenced operations. Law
'ence county, Tenn. has the only deposit
his side of the Alta ntic.
Lieut.. Commando, George 4 Norris of
he United States steamer Omaha died at
San Francisco yesterday Of pneumonia. He
was born in Maine, and was graduated at
he naval academy in, 1866
At Atlanta, Ga, Judge Clark has deter
D lined to appoint areceiver for the stock of
) Ohm Ryan's Sons. Such appoin tment has
b cen fought by the pr referred creditors. and
u2e hearing has consu med two days
A disastrous explosion on the Central
, )ad of New Jersey occurred last night A
lrd engine exploded, killing Engineer
aomas Trips, Fireman j. Pop, and
'akemen Gallagher and Smith. The en-
ne was total wreck
: Another company of militia has been or
de red to the Franklin coal mines. Wash
iiAigton. Horter Robins on, one of the mine
% ,Sses, has been taken to Seattle, charged
With killing Tom Morriss and Ed Williams,
III : leaders in Sundays riot.
Orders have been SENT to the Pensacola
Ut Callao to return and rtpair at Mare island
ma Wy yards. Admiral Mccain will come to
I, United States by the) steamer. Admiral
h own is left in command of the San Fran
co and Baltimore at IGuiQue
NEGRO boy, Hugh Preswitt, was assassi-
I'd in front of a churc h at Germantown,
q, with knife foot long. The blade
grated his breast bone, passed through
tody and the point wstS buried an inch
3 yetebrae. Two II en were required
u the knife out A Negro, Nose john
2spected.