Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-19
A SUICIDE.
TOOK LAUDANUM TO END HIS
EARTHLY CAREER.
A Young Woman Mourns Her Lover
and Her Cash-The 1891 Expo
sItion-A Prussian Mysteriously
Disappears.
IAU DANUM.
Special TO the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, April 1S.-B. H. Burnes
was found this morning in a room at the
Union depot hotel insenSible from the eff
fectS of an overdose OF laudanum. The
patrol wagon was called and the man taken
to the city hospital. where he died shortly
afterward. Burncs was an itincrant aims
asker and Travelled from city to city. He
was a cripple and walked with the use OF
two crutches He had wen over the right
eye as large as a hen egg. He was about
forty years of age. Where his home was,
no one appears to know. About five days
ago he arrived in Dallas and was sick.
Last night Capt Strother of the Union de-
pot hotel put him in the room where he
was found this morning. II IS supposed
that the laudanum was taken for the pur-
pose of ending his life. The bottle bore the
label of 4 Dallas druggist Burnes was IN
Dallas about three years ago.
SKIPPED WITH THE CASH.
A young lady of Dallas was engaged to be
married to a railroad man well known here.
The Young lady while sick sent for her in
tended husband. She gave him Il check for
SlG0 on 4 local bank aud requested him to
get it cashed for her. This he did and
brought her the money. She took part OF
the money and asked that the man be her
banker for the balance The banker" has
flown, taking the entire deposit with him,
young lady mourns the loss of her lover
and her cash as well.
FAIR EXHIBITS.
Mr.. f. L. Huffman of the State fair
association has just returned from Ell
PasO where he went in the interest of the
coming fair and exposition. MIR. Huffman
says that much interest Is being mani
tested throughout the state and that al
the counties west of Fort Worth along the
Texas and Pacific road have arranged to
have exhibits here this fall. Hunt, Ellis,
Hopkins and Williamson have also
wheeled into line The secretary of the
association is also very busy and reports
that much space has been engaged by
parties from all parts OF the United States.
A vast amount of printed matter has
been gotten out and the general work is
well and satisfactorily under way. Pres
ent indications are that the state fair or
1891 Will be the best of any yet held in
Texas.
MISSING PRUssIAN.
A Prussian named George Miller has
been missing from his home in this city for
a week, and his Whereabouts are desired.
When last seen by his friends he started
across the river on visit. Miller is about
thirty years Of age, has a saber scar over
his lef. eye and the letters sc NJ stamped
on his right arm. He has ayoung daughter
residing at Macon, Ga.
NOTES.
Bank clearings for the week, 1884,
431.3S.
4 baggage wagon team belonging to the
Dallas cab company ran away to-day. de-
molishing buggy with which it collided.
The Butchers protective association OK
Dallas held meeting to-day at which Mr..
uakockate, secretary of the Butchers ma
I00{ial association, was present
Sadie Applebaum, an eight-year-old girl
residing az 100 st. Louis street, had her
hand badly crushed in q clothes Wringer.
Amputation may De the result