Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-24
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terday.
The directors Of the Northern Pacific
railway yesterday declared the regular
quarterly dividend Of per cent on pre-
ferred stock.
The schooner Annie E. Pierce Of Viii
nlngton, Del, went ashore of Cape Hat
teras yesterday and was driven upon the
rocks. The mate was instantly killed and
the captain seriously injured.
Fire yesterday destroyed a carpet beating
establishment in San Francisco and match
factory adjoining. Thirteen Chinese were
employed in the match factory. Two of
them were unable to escape and were
burned to death.
The Kansas livestock sanitary commits
sion has decided to formally oppose the
moving further south of the Texas fever
quarantine line, and the commission will go
TO Washington at once to present the matter
10 Secretary Rusk.
A dispatch from Montreal says that it has
been learned that Adolph Lawse, a spike
maker of St. Cunegonde, a suburb of Mon
treal, recently lost three children and
burned their bodies In q cooking stove to
save funeral expenses.
Drefreyclnet haying refused to form
new cabinet, President Carnot intrusted
the task to Ronvier, who is trying to in
clude most of the present members.
Defreycinet, Ribot, Constance and DeVeneye
have agreed TO remain.
A telegram from Boston states that E.
r. Reynolds, assistant to Superintendent
Corbin of the New York and New England
road, says the report that traffic arrange
ments have been made with Reading for
large coal tonnage is untrue.
The members OF the American institute
Of mining engineers yesterday made an ex-
cursion from Baltimore TO Annapolis, where
they visited the Naval academy and state
house, and were received and entertained
by Governor and Mrs. Brown.
The American newspaper publishers as
sociation was in convention in New York
City yesterday. One of the subjects under
discussion was that of the type-setting ma
chimes. James w. Scott of the Chicago
Herald was reelected president
a fall of about 200 tons of stone and tim
Der occurred on Wednesday in the Nelson
Bush ore mine, at Pittsburgh, n. Y
William Nolan, Cornelius Dewey and
Henry Patnole were buried, but Thomas
Russell and Patrick Dowd escaped with but
slight injuries.
At the annual meeting of the Grant mon
FINN ~,
yesterday, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Gen. Horace Porter; vice-presidents, Sid
ney Dillon and Albert Gallup; treasurer;
Horace T. Hotchkiss, and secretary, James
C. Reed.
The festivities attendant upon the open
ing of the carnival season began last night
at New Orleans, when the Argonauts, the
kings own royal guards, gave brilliant
tableau and ball at the Grand opera house
Miss Josie Maginnis, a beautiful and
stately blonde of New Orleans, was
crowned queen.
James G. Wyman, mayor of Allegheny
City, who was recently tried and convicted
on a charge of extorting witness fees,
rendered his resignation to the council last
night. The resignation was at once ac-
copied, to date from February 25. A charge
of enlightenment is still pending against
Wyman, but it is thought it viii not be
pushed.
The two reports of the royal commission
which has been investigating the charges
against the MERCER government of Quebec, |
in connection with the Bale Des Chaleurs
scandal, have been made public. That of |
Judge Jette practically exonerates the cab |
met while the report of Judges Baby and |
Davidson is a sweeping denunciation and |
condemnation of MERCER and Langevin,
Pacaud Robidux and the ministers.
The directors of the new organization of |
the Texas Worlds fair exhibit association
is completed, and is rs follows: Il. B An
drews, San Antonio; Carl F. Drake, Austin;
r. B. Parrott, Waco; W. C. Conner, DIAL
las; Joseph S. Rice, Hyatt; J. N. Brown
ing, Clarendon; 4. c. Hanlon, Houston;
William F. Ladd, julius Ruuge, George E.
Mann, John Reymershoffer, Irwin Mahan
and II. D. Perky, all of Galveston
Gen. Enrizquez of San Salvador was
killed yesterday by body of Guatemalan
soldiers, together with several companions
near the city of Zacapa, Guatemala, near
the Honduras coast. Gen. Enriquez had
been unanimously proclaimed dictator of
the constitutional party of Guatemala, and
m consequence incurred active hostility |
of President Barrillos.
Two children were burnedvo death by a
fire at McHeesport, Pa, last night, almost
within reach of their father, who, in his
brave efforts to rescue his little ones,
almost persisted amid the smoke and flames
himself, and it is not altogether certain now
that he will live. a third child was also
probably fatally burned. The fire occurred
late, in three-story frame house occupied
by Michael Lynch aud his family. Lynch
is fireman, and when the alarm was turned
in he was on duty at the engine house.
The west bound St Louis express, on the
railroad ran down pleasure
party who were returning from a dance
and walking the track at Hawkins station,
near Pittsburg, at . O'Clock this morning,
killing one instantly and fatally iujuring
two others. Alice Askiu, aged twenty of
Pa, was killed instantly.
William NJ beware, aged twenty-five years,
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