Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTiES.

Only twelve of siXty-five passengers were
saved from the collision of the Taorminau
and Thessalia. An Englishman and French
man whose families were drowned became
insane.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, Judge Macy
yesterday dismissed the cases of the hun
dred liquor dealers, against whom injunc-
tons had been taken and which cases had
been pending for some time.
The passengers in the Pullman car were
robbed of all their clothing and contents on
Sunday night near Sacramento, while the
conductor and the party We're asleep. The
aggregate loss is estimated at $4,000.
The value of Mrs. Fairs estate is esti-
mated at S6,O00,00O Her two SONS were
left IA small share; her two daughters, Mrs.
Oherichs and Virginia Fair, received the
bulk of her estate. No requests to churches
or charitable institutions.
A report received from Asiatic Turkey
says that cholera is spreading with alarm
ing rapidity, and $50 deaths are reported in
the city of Aleppo from June to August
Total number of deaths in the province IS
3ll4. The people are leaving the villages
and towns.
The famine in the south of Russia i;
causing murder, robbery and outrage and
in many villages anarchy prevails. A
Elizabeth fifty brigands broke into two
houses and murdered twenty-five inmates.
At Carousan a week ago diligence was
attacked and the brigands murdered num-
Der of old women and then stripped and
outraged the young girls.
bottle of muriatic acid in the Anderson
printing company, Chicago, broke ami
caused small blaze. The fire was eXtiu
guished by the insurance patrol and the
tiremen returned to their engine house.
Soon after 4 NUM- Der of tIemen Were At
Capt Mullens died. Capts. Donahue aut
Williams are in critical conditions FROM
muriatic ether, Il deadly poisonous gas pro
duced by the burning acid.
The thirty-third degree Masons. row il
Boston, have elected the following Officers:
VI. p. sovereign, Henry l.. Palmer; past
grand lieutenant-commander Charles
Levy Woodbury.; grand minister of state.
Samuel Crocker Lawrence; grand treas
urer-general, Newton Daruold; grand sec
rotary general, Clinton F. Page; grand
master of archives, Louis Z. Paige; general
of charts. Robert +. Patterson; standard
bearer, William r. Highly; captain u
guards, Otis Taylor; grand assistant Sccre-
tary, Albert p. Noriarity.
Albert Won Ripper, boy for whose sup
posed murder tramp named John 1Ouga,s
was sentenced for life, at Celina, Ohio, re
turned to his home uninjured. He has,
never heard of Tougass' trial and convic.
ton.
At Chippewa Falls. Wis, by vote of =
to -. women will be accepted as lady dele
gates by the Methodist conference. The
younger ministers all voted i'll favor of the
motion. while the older men voted for the
women to stay at home.
Logan Murphy shot and killed his father
near Sanyersville, KY, Thursday morning
and stood guard over the house and pre-
vented his mother or any of the children
from going out. Just before sunrise he at
tempted to escape, but was captured by the
sheriff and posse. He said he had quarrcleC
with his father over trIfiing matter and n,
had threatened his life. No lawyer in San.
yersvill would take his case and he waived
examination and was taken to Prestonvills
Jail in default of bail.