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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
STILL RAGING.
THE GALES FURY is STILL UN-
AEATED.
The Body of a Steamers Fireman Washed
Ashore-Scores of Vessels Flying
Signals of Distress.
The Gales Work.

LONDON, Oct. 15-The gale is still raging
with unabated violence ia England, Wales
and Southern Scotland and Ireland. Bou-
logne packets are unable TO put 10 sea and
the coast Of the channel is strewn with
wreckage. AT Dover large quantity Of
material b longing to one or more wrecked
ships came ashore. The body of Il steam
ship fireman was washed ashore at Holy
head and he is believed TO belong to u
steamer which foundered in the gale. =
steamship loaf ed with coal from Cardiet'
sank near Holyhead yesterday and the en-
tire crew persisted.
Many vessels have been seen driven hope
lessly past Dungeness light flying signals of
distress.
Local lifeboats were unable to be of any
assistance 10 the distressed vessels owing
to the speed at which they were being
driven down the channel by the storm.
During the morning the immenae scat
folding erected about building near Hyde
park gate collapsed under the pressure of
the hurricane, burying in its ruins number
OF persons who had sought shelter beneath
it. One person was fatally injured in this
disaster and many ladies received severe
cuts, bruises or other injuries.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16

OUR Washington dispatches say that
the declaration OF Congressman Hemp
stead OF South Carolina for Crisp in
stead OF Mills is looked upon as boom
for Crisp. Mr.. Hampstead is q warm
personal friend OF Mr.. Mills. but he be-
lieves that Mills will do the party bet
ter service on the floor than in the
chair. 1.-THE speakcrship cannot be
considered as a reward for party serv-
ices says Mr.. Hampstead. The GA
ZETTE said the same thing six months
ago. No party service can be such az
10 exact reward at the risk OF party
success. But The GAZETTE holds that
the success OF the Democratic party
can better be assured by leaving out
both Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Crisp, aud Civ
ing the speakership to a Northern
Democrat, not as reward for what he
has done. but as an instrument for ad-
vancing Democratic success in 1892.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
SOME CURRENT COMMENT.

The laundering applause with which Mr..
Blaine's name is greeted at every Republi-
can rally reminds many of the bursts OF en-
thusiasm for Gen. Grant that set Republi-
can meetings Wild Just before the defeat of
the third term movement in 1850 Boston
Transcript.
If Governor Campbell triumphs in Ohio
he will be prominent among presidential
possibilities; but the Democratic nominal
ton viii remain matter Of more or less
doubt until the convention assemblies. The
complexion Of the New York delegation
will have great deal to do with it-[New
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The gods must be anxious to destroy
British royalty. Whenever any specially
democratic subject has been brought promi-
lowed by the exposure Of some disreputable
royal doings. The princes chose their
time for INDUCING in risky escapades with
. singular want Of Judgment, but it is just
as well for their glaring Incompetence to
be emphasized at the times when the popu-
lar mind is particularly prepared to receive
Its full Observation-Disclosures American.
On the subject Of woman suffrage the
Herald has always regarded all argument
as useless, for the ample reason that when
the women generally get ready to vote
they'll vote. Tho enly reason they haven't
done so already Is because not enough of
them have wanted TO. It was as result of
this theory that the Herald threw open its
school for voting to the women last Satur-
day. It was an Interesting and instructive
experiment. Perhaps the most interesting
features of the day were the facility with
which the women learned how to vote, the
smomt OF previous knowledge displayed by
all, and the amount Of scratching done. The
latter feature shows that women sre indie
pendeut and that they have reasons fer
what they do. One thing Is certain if there
is female outrage at tha election tA;s fall.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
TEXAkkANA FAIR.
Old Soldiers Day Draws Big Crowd.
Speeches by Arkansas and Texas
Veterans-The Races.
Special to the Gazette.

oe%NS'S'
TExARKANA. ARK, Oct. 15.-Thlrsday
was Old Soldiers day, 4 magnificent event
long to be remembered as red-letter day
in the history of the Texarkana fair asso-
citation. Nearly 10000 people We're
present The weather was fine
and the track was in excellent
inarily good. A number of fine horses
were on the track, all of VIII ON were in
tirst-class condition and performed hand
somely. Tho exposition is unusually
fine, and considering the limited
time in which it was got
up has not been surpassed by any other like
event in the two states. The stock is worth
seeing, there being number of fine blooded
and handsome animals in the various
exhibits. To-day, in honor of Sol
diers' day, able and eloquent addresses
We're delivered by Gen. Cabeil, "Old Tige,'
of Dallas and Gen. Il. NJ. Shaver, prom
inent eX-member of the Confederate forces
in Arkansas. The addresses were listened
TO with eager interest by the vast throng Of
p Ople who were present.
Following are to-day's races.
First race, green uotting, free for all,
purse, $500; entries. Oliver, Prospect and
Madge Hilton. Madge Hilton Won, Oliver
second, Prospect third. Time by heats,
2:261s, 2:2t1 = and 2:26.
Second race, green trotting, purse 500,
CHtiACS, 'oucilS, och SGI!o
Arbor. Prince Carlo won in three straight
heats, Shelly second, Ben B. third. Time,
2:5l, 2:49S%, 2:+S14.
Third race, running, all ages. best two in
three, half mile heats, purse 500, entries:
Ollie, Van L., Our Idea Barlow and Maud
Bishop. Ollie won the two first heats and
the race. Time, :A9iiG and 10. Our Idea
second, Van l.. third.
Fourth race, match race. one half mile
dash, 300 side, between Andrew q. and
Bull Dog. Won by Andrew c.
The days racing was followed by hippo
drome racing, which proved in
tensely exciting The greatest event Of
these races viii occur Friday, the
same being ten-mile race with lady riders,
changing horses at the end of each mile.
1t being Texarsana day and
city holiday will cause an immense
attendance, and with these races as a
drawing card it is expected TO be the great
day of the fair. The race between Andrew
c. and Bull Deg was declared off on account
of Andrew c. getting twenty yards the
start If Bull Dog.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
MEXICAN ON THE TRACK.
He was Either Insensib!e from Drink or
Tired of Life-Plowed In Two

Special TO the Gazette.
EAGLE Pass, MAVERICK COUNTY, Tex,
Oct. 15.-It has Just become known here
that at midnight on the 18th instant the
south-bound Mexican International train
killed a man named Lucas de la FtNnte
on the track near the bridge over
the Rio Escondido about five miles from
Eagle Pass. He had been at some wedding
festivities in Ciudad Porfrio Diaz, and
was bound for his small ranch near Fuente,
on the south side Of the river, when he
had lain down on the track either
drunk or with suicidal intent. An acute
curve at that point prevented the engineer,
Eugene Brown, seeing the man until
too late. He had lain lensthwise
on the track and was literally
cut in two from the abdomen to the brain
The train crew at once reported to
the local judge, who held the train till he
took. the material part of the testimony. The
train then proceeded, but the engineer and
fireman in accordance with agreement re-
turned to-day. They are OF present in Jail
in Ciudad Porfrio Diaz, pend
ing the signing and examination
of the lengthy written testimony,
after which they will no doubt be liberated
tomorrow. as they do not appear to be III
any way to blame for the death of the
Mexican, who was either insensibie or tired
of life
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16

ACCORDING to the report of the COM
missioner of agriculture OF Texas there
are nearly one hundred and fifty thou
sand tenant farmers and farm laborers
in Texas. And Texas has nearly 3d.
100000 acres of public school lands for
sale on long time at low rate Of inter
est. II individuals or corporations
owned these vacant lands what a howl
would be raised by the reform press"
oyer the ills OF ''landlordism." What
pathetic pictures OF broad, vacant acres
and toiling tenants would be painted TO
tenant voters and how the plutocratic
land owners would be lambasted.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
ABOUT SOME PEOPLE.

Col. Fred Grant is said to be looking with
longing eyes upon Secretary of War Proc
| tors position.
Ex-senator ingalls,, the Atchison Globe
says, Twill not take cigar to carry OF UNI
less he feels like smoking at the time he
will refuse treat Of cigars. His favorite
tipple is soda pop, which he drinks out of a
bottle"
King Alexander of Servia did not i'm
press the ParisienneS very favorably as far
as his personal beauty went. He has the
physique of his butcher ancEestor, to ether
with the rude, yellowish-oliye complexion
CT Natalie.
DR.. Mary Walker, dressed in full male
attire, is now on exhibition in q Boston
dime museum. Or, rather, she 'holds re-
ceptiOnS every day and evening and adj
dresses the audience on all the vital ques-
tons of the hour"
If prayers avail, the Prince Of Wales
ought to be a very upright and well-guarded
man. The erratic Mr.. Stead, the London
editor, estimates that more than 500, 600, 900
appeals to the divine throne are offered up
every year for this heir-apparent.
1t excited favorable comment in San
Francisco that ex-senator Fair attended
his wife'S funeral. Only a few intimate
friends were admitted to the house, and in
spite of the estrangement between him and
Mrs. Fair, he was among the first to a.
rive.
A. A. Parker of Fitzwilliam, n. H., who
has just reached hundred years, is said 10
be the Oldest living college graduate in
America. He graduated from the Univer-
sity Of Vermont in 1913. He practiced law
for years. was intimate with Daniel Web
ster, and has served in the legislature more
terms than any other member. As colonel
on the governors staff in 1920 he acted as
escort to Lafayette.
Count Tolstoi's colonies, organized on a
communistic and peace basis, do not thrive
as they might; and good deal of fun is
made of the colonist's nOn-resistance prac-
joined them stole suit of clothes from one
of the colonists, and when they tried TO
coax him into surrendering the booty, he
laughed and dared them to violate their
favorite dogma And before they could ex-
tricate themselves from this dilemma he
got away.
John l.. Sullivan's theatrical appearance
in Melbourne was even less remunerative
than his performance at Sydney. The Aus
stralians have q passion for athletes, but
they are not be taken by q prize-hghter in
the guise of an actor. At Melborne, the
guying of the audience exasperated the
slugger to such degree that ne advanced
as follows:
'sI'll put head on you fellows, see?"
This effort brought down the house. be-
ing the first land probably it will be the
LAST dramatic success obtained by MIR. Sui
liyan.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
A BIG BLUFF

The New York Sun prints an article,
which may have been inspired, con-
corning the reduction of rates on Texas
railroads by the state commission. As
the Sun tells it, the New York bond
holders OF the Texas railroads are pre-
pairing to contest in the courts the
rates fixed by the commission, Oh the
ground that they are ruinous to Texas
railroad property and will render their
bonds and securities worthless.
The market reports show how we'll
founded this claim is. II the bonds Of
Texas railroads are made worthless by
the action Of the commission, it can
very quickly be ascertained by finding
out how much those bonds are selling
for, and comparing these prices with
the selling prices before the commits
sion made the rates that are COM
planned OF.
The stock market quotations of THE
GAZETTE show that on the 10Th OF Oc-
tober Fort Worth and Denver bonds
sold on the New York stock exchan &c
for 1913. On the 1st OF July they were
quoted at SO. Instead Of being rem
dered worthless by the commissions
rates, they have advanced in value.
Texas and Pacific firsts were at 81 on
Wednesday, against S6s On the 1st OF
July, decline Of p, but Texas and
Pacific seconds had gone up from 30i
to 81 since the commission rate went
into effect. Missouri, Kansas and
Texas firsts have gone from 753 to 7S4
and seconds from 3Sa to 43s since the
commission established its ruinous
rates. These are the most active
stocks OF the Texas roads listed on the
New York stock exchange. With but
a single exception they show that the Sc
curities OF these Texas roads are worth
more now than they were before the
railroad commission made its rates.
It may be said that all stocks have
gone up since July l, and the Texas
securities are only sharing in the gen
eral boom. That is true; but it proves
that the establishing of rates by the
Texas commission has not had the
ruinous effect that the New York bond
holders assert it has had, for in that
case they would not have shared in the
general advance. Spectators and
capitalists would not buy securities
that had been made worthless, and
Texas railroad bonds would not have
participated in the rising market if
there was any thought that the COM
missions rates had lessened the ca
picity OF Texas roads to earn money.
The whole thing is bluff. If the
commission rates are resisted in the
courts this fact will pretty soon come
ont
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
" Gather Bulletin.
Special 20 the Gazette.

highest pressure is central tonight over
Illinois, and the pressure is above 80 inches
from the lakes TO the gulf between the Al
legheny mountains and the eastern border
of III Rocky mountain slope. The
area of low pressure over the New England
states last night. has moved out into the
Atlantic. The disturbance moving in fro'u
the Northwest has remained stationary
during the past twepty-four hours,
but has not change liz in
,ensity. Another Slight depression IS
apparently sou Invest of El Paso over Chi
huahua, Mexico. The temperature has
fallen decidedly over Tennessee, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania
ana Western New York. 1t has
ri2on from Texas northward to the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

Fashionable men in Paris and London are
now using electricity IS cure for excessive
tipping.
The trotting horse, Nancy Hanks, which
Is attracting so much attention, was nanled
after Abraham Lincoln's mother.
Twice as many crimes are committed in
Paris by persons between the ages of fifteen
and twenty as by those between twenty and
forty.
The civil authorities Of Leipsic, Germany,
have struck crushing blow at the sausage
industry in that country by deciding that
it Is illegal to use dog meat in sausage.
It was some mean, sarcastic New Yorker
who said that the quinine factory which it
is proposed to have running at the Worlds
fair in Chicago would be q paying one on
account of its location.
According to an Australian paper 800 Chi
namen make an excellent living in Sydney
as professional gamblers, their gains being
so considerable that they are able regularly
to remit large sums to China.
An ingot of nickel steel weighing more
than twenty-f tons has been cast in the
Homestead steel works, and it is to be
monitor Monterey. 1t is the largest Of the
nickel steel ingots yet cast in the mill, but
an effort is to be made to cast an ingot to
weigh more than fifty tons.
Frog hunting in the swamp districts of
Southeast Missouri is getting to be lucra-
tive and important industry. The frogs
come mostly from New Madrid county,
where the crop is now being harvested. At
the French market In ST. Louis Saturday
We're a pile Of frogs that would have
filed two barrels. A half dozen men with
pinchers were pulling the brooches of the
green, old, original greenbacks. They are
esteemed a great delicacy.
A handy little contrivance that will be of
great value to the postal service has been
invented by William A. Smith. private sec
rotary of Postmaster Field of Philadelphia,
and will soon be put into use. The machine
is called thumb stamp, because it Is so
small and easily worked that 4 clerk can
put it on his thumb or finger and handle
mail matter with as much deXterity as if
his hands are free. BY means of minia-
ture typewriter ribbon and type the stamp
will imprint its mark upon every letter or
parcel which passes through its wearer's
hands. As an aid in locating the mistake of
clerk who may missend a letter. the stamp
will be of great use in picking out inefficient
clerks. The first order of these stamps
will be 1900. which will equip the railway
clerks and distributing clerks in all the
large Offices Of the country.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16

west of the Mississippi river. and
over other portions changes have been
Slight. The isotherm of 20 deg. runs south
of Titusville, Vicksbure, Shreveport and
Oklahoma. and north Of FL Paso. The
isothern of 60 deg. runs south Of Norfolk,
through Charlotte, Atlanta and Mem
phis, north of Dodge City and
Denver, through Salt Lake City and south
erly to the east and south of Santa Fe.
The isotherm Of so runs through Buffalo
and Pittsburg, south of Cincinnati, Daven-
port, Sioux City and Fort Buford and
through Fort Assiniboine and Denver.
FoRECAST-AIDSIGHT.
Local forecast for Texas east OF the Tooth
meridian for the twenty four hours ending
midnight, October Is: Fair weather, sta
tionary temperature, southerly winds.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16

THE Methodists OF the world, repre-
scnted in convention in Washington
City, appeal to the officers of the Chica
go Worlds fair to close on Sunday.
They declare that to open on Sunday
would be violation of the laws Of the
,Sabbath-keeping American people and
OF their Anglo-Saxon ancestors. This
must be going too far, and our good
Methodist brethren probably spoke be-
fore they thought. The American peo-
pie. as such, have no Sunday laws that
can affect the keeping open OF places
in Illinois on Sunday, though the Hi
nois laws may prohibit it. In that case
the governor of Illinois and the mayor
OF Chicago should have been appealed
to to prohibit the contemplated sacri-
lege, and as to our Anglo-Sason ances-
tors, they had no more regard for Sun
day, being heather, than they had for
any other day in the week.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Tho Governor Goes to Dallas To-Day
Large Increase in the
Tax Rolls.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
AUSTIN, Tx, Oct. 15.--The governor.
accomp panied by his wife and several men
bers of his Official family, goes 10 Dallas IL
the morning.
The tax rolls audited to date show tota.
increase in valuation OF $50, $50. 162. Tyenty-
five counties, four of which are unorgaa-
lied. remain to be heard from. The to:.-
increase will reach $50. 900, 600.
The total deposits in the treasury for "
tober to date are $50, 400, a sum equal 10 tue
total deposits for last month.
Bonds redeemed during the month, sysJJ'
Lands leased for the week, 1900 acres
Sales for the month. 81, $50.
Chartered-The Texas car-coupler COZ
pany Of Sulphur Springs, capital $1,000
The American scientific and electric met
ical company, Offices in Waco and Temp
no capital.
The action of the penitentiary board il.
session to-day makes it quite probable tEa-
the purchase of the Rogers plantation II
Brazes county will be consummated in
few days.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
REVAMPING OLD YARNS.

! The tariff discussion between Camp
bell and Mckinley is very interesting
one, chiefly because OF the governors
| off-hand and direct method of speak
ing, which is in striking contrast with
| McKinley's somewhat heavy and acad-
emic style, not at all adapted to the
stump. Campbell has a happy talent
for catching the popular fancy, as well
as forcible and taking way OF putting
his arguments, that Mckinley can not
command On the stump.
Ii there is one thing that Campbell
has demonstrated more plainly to the
people of Ohio than another, it is that
the foreigner does not pay the duty on
goods sold in this country, but that the
consumer does. 1t was supposed that
that old lie had been sworn to a FRAGILE
long ago, but if it was, Mckinley has
revanlped it, and is trying once more to
work it off on the assumed agricultural
dupes OF his state. Mr.. Campbell asks
why 1t is that the government refunds
to the Standard oil company 90 per
cent of the duty on the tin plate i'm
ported by it, amounting in one year to
million and quarter dollars, when the
plate is subsequently exported in tin
cans and the like, if the Welsh manu-
facturers of it paid the duty on it. If
any part of the tax is to be refunded,
should it not go to those who it is
claimed paid it? What right has the
government to refund to the Standard
oil company a million and quarter
dollars paid by somebody else? How
can that be called refunding? Is not
the correct name for it robbing? rob-
bling Peter to pay Paul? What else in
the name of Heaven can you make of
it? If the Standard oil company did
not pay that duty, the government has
made the company present of it, to
be added to its other profits as re-
ward for its patriotism in seeking q
foreign market. What right has the
government to do that, to show such
favoritism to an already giant monop-
oily? Why should not-but what is the
use? The whole thing is a naked and
palpable fraud. There is not a word
of truth in the statement that the for
eigner pays the duty on tin-plate or on
anything else that is imported.
Mr.. McKinley's reply to knock
down arguments of this sort is this:
.'Tf the foreigner does not pay the
duty, what are the English making
such fuss about?" Now that il q
brilliant argument, isn't it? and from
a man too that, as Chauncey Depew
says, is more talked about than any
other American in Europe, from a
man that aspires to the national lead
ership Of his party, and even to the
presidency. Poor old G. o. p! Where
is thy old intellectual vigor and. alert
ness? Where are the Lincolns,
Chases, Everetts. Fessendens, Stewards
and Summers OF thy early days? AL
gone to give place to race Of INTEL
lcctual pigmies-little Ben, who be-
lieves in force bills: Reed. who hates
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
THE GAZETTE: FIT. WORTH TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER l6.

deliberative assemblies; Mckinley, a
revamper OF old frazzled tariff yarns;
and pious John Wanamaker, who COM
bines talent for conducting Sunday
school with another no less brilliant
for operating the blocks-of-fve system
Of corrupting votes.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
BRANCH OFFICES.

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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-16
The City of Ronle.

New York, Oct. 15.-At the Office of the
Anchor Line steamship company this morn
ing all traces of eXcitem ent stirred up by
yesterdays st. Johns dispatch touching the
steamer City of Rome mad disappeared.
I'VE ,are assured that the steamer passed
Cape Race all right at later date than she
was reported to have foundered and we are
satisfied that she is preceding in safety to
Glasgow" was the report of the agents.
Friends of passengers were still seeking
for information, however.