Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlT!ES.

| Walker Windham, Kansas City banker,
! was robbed of 300 on the steamer Massa-
| achusetts. The money was recovered in the
| valise of Leon johnson, a steamb boat thief
| The valise had false bottom aud the money
was under this.
| Levi Coons. anegro of Springfield. III. who
was twice convicted of perjury i'll making
| application for pension. has been pardoned
| by President Harrison, it having TRANSFERRED
| that his claim was just.
! The cruiser Charleston has left San Fran
| cisco for Mare Island navy yard, where her
bottom will be cleaned if no urgent orders
| are received.
The Pensacola has brought news tc San
| Diego, Cal, that the steamer Malito, be-
lieved to have fOundered, arrived at Iaui-
que with cargo OF arms and ammunition.
The project of a deal between the Lake
Shore and the Michigan Central RAILWAYS
has been revived.
At Peoria, H., Hutchinson's cooperage
establishment was damaged to the extent of
100000 by fire last night. Insured.
Professor Hoffman of Washington Uni
versity had an audience with the pope. who
made inquiries about institute studies. and
also Archbishop Ireland and Bishops Proc
tor and heane, eccleSiaatics opposed to Ca
hensly's scheme.
SOuL4G ItC -hlOIltOCALO SGCtttuS VI. De
Laboulaye as French ambassador to Russia.
NJ. Cambone, ambassador to Spain, was
transferred TO Constantinople.
a movement is on foot TO make Discovery
day, October II, Fourth of Ju,y for the
world, and a meeting will be held at hide
pendence hall October Ii, u and IS.
At Auburn, \. Y, another of the ESCAPED
lunatics was captured yesterday morning.
He stole horse from farmer and after
an all-night chase was overhauled near
Cayuha village. Two of the most desper-
ate are still at large.
The letter carriers convention will peti-
ton the president to extend the civil SER
vice to all free delivery cities and regulate
salaries as follows: Six hundred dollars
the first, $500 the second, $1,000 the third,
and $500 the fourth year.
Second Lieut.. Phillip Hodges Of H. NJ s.
Ringdove, who was on his way TO England
on a years suspension for breach Of discip-
line, jumped overheard from the steamship
Alameda outside Sydney harbor.
Another body was recovered from the
wreck on the West Shore road near Monte
yuma, making fourteen in all.
At Comanche, Ia, the saTmills and
lumber yards of H. W. Early, containing
9,000,0 600 feet of lumber, were DESTROYED bv
fire last night Loss, $150,000; insurance,
$4,000.
At Mobile, Ala, Andrew Eichson,
bookkeeper, was stabbed in the abdoman
and twice in the back by another book
keeper named William wilkins An old
grudge between the Two was the cause.
Wilkins was arrested as principal and B.
+. Wiley as accessory.
At Chanplain, y. y, Henry Lamoun-
tain, one of the victims of the wrecked ex-
cursion train, died yesterday, and one Sid
ney Williams is dying.
At Sedalia. Mo, Samuel Williams. man.
aeer of the Union news company, was Bit
ten on the middle finger of the right hand
by tarantula which dropped out of box
OF pears from Southern Texas. The doctor
despairs of his life.
The police yesterday arrested a heavy
stock oinerator in Barcelona on a charge of
being concerned in conspiracy 10 attack
the barracks.
The strike Of 400 boiler makers in the
shops Of the Atchison. Topeka ard Santa