Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-10
BOILED DOWN.
Irglars raided DentOn sunday night.


Congressman Springer was better last
night.
Denton Democrats win organize Clark
club Saturday.
Mr.. Springer is reported to be better and
improving slowly.
Congressman Robertson of Louisiana has
declared for Hill for president
Over six thousand bales of cotton burned
in Liverpool warehouse Sunday morning.
The Searles viii contest is over. Timothy
Hopkins gets ss,OOO,OOO to withdraw his
suit.
Two hundred negroes from Arkansas are
on their way to the Cherokee strip to stake
out claims.
Kansas kilograms report the crop pros
poets there the finest ever known. Snow
covers the wheat
The instruction for Mills at the Lancas-
ter, Dallas county, meeting was carried by
vote of IS to SO.
Congressman John W. Kendall of Ken
lucky was stricken with apoplexy yester-
day. He died at 9:25 last night
half block of stores in the business
part of Coldwater, Comanche county,
Kan, burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
Capt. Van W. Hale has been heartily en-
dorsed by the Paris bar for position on
one of the new civil courts of appeal 81
All the defendants in the whisky rust
aaSac hara baar ,aoorr,;z.a1 TO-. o,,,,s.l1e.o,oa
at Boston Saturday except Nelsoq Morris.
The British steamer Creole ,Grrived in
Tampico harbor yesterday. S@is the first
ship to enter since the workSb removing
the bar began.
Senator Chandler says BlAr is strictly in
it for president; that he represents the
labor, educational and temp france elements
of the country.
The hurricane which Assed over the
Portuguese coast yesterday did much dam
age to property and harbdS works. Six
persons were killed.
It was reported at Secretary Rlaine's res
idence and the state department yesterday
that the secretary's condition was 65asid-
eraoly improved.
Two deaths from yellow fever on the
steamship Euclid which has arrived from
Brazilian ports at New York caused her de-
tention at quarantine.
John johnson, a white convict at
Columbus, Ohio, stabbed Lafayette Gray
sou, negro convict in prison. there. Gray
son will probably die.
Brakeman Il. E. Lewis, stranger, was
run over and killed by switch engine at
Dallas last night near the brick depot. His
age was about thirty-hve.
Before the Raum investigation commit
tee yesterday Chandler, assistant secretary
of the interior, was the first witness. His
testimony was of little Importance.
The final returns of elections for mem-
bers of the London county council, which
were held Saturday last, show the return
of an overwhelming majority of Progress
sives, or Liberals.
Richard Scanlin went home in New York
last night and found his wife in COM
promising attitude with his brother. He |
picked up a lamp and threw it at her She |
was burned to death.
The London grand jury has found a true |
bill against Mrs. Florence Ethel Osborne, !
who is at present in the infirmary of Hol-
loway Jail, awaiting trial on charges of lar
ceny and perjury.
Judge Endicott, counsel for contestants
in the Searles will case, has fled formal |
waiver in behalf of Timothy Hopkins and |
wife of appeal from the decree allowing the |
viii of Mary F. Searles.
At tax sale of town property held yes
terday, the Illinois Central railroad freight
and passenger depot was bought by the
town of Summit, Miss, for SIPS, the
amount of unpaid taxes.
Jay Gould has given $4,000 to the Uni
versity of New York. The gift was made
a few days after he gave his check for
$40, 900 to the Presbyterian church extern
sion. 1t was Mr. Gould's desire that the
gifts be kept secret,
Hon. Charles Foster, secretary of the
United States treasury, left Waterloo sta
ton on the express train which left for
Southampton at 4 O'Clock yesterday. He
viii embark on the Spree, the same vessel
On which he went to England.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Distiners and cattle feeding company's
board of directors it was decided that in
view of existing circumstances to reduce
The quarterly dividend to per cent and to
tut the price of whisky cent per gallon.
The funeral services over the body of
Kendall will be held at
I2:15 O'Clock to-day at the late residence.
The deadman was Methodist, and services
viii be very simple. Kentucky delegation
viii accompany the remains to the station
There has been radical change in the
situation of the Richmond Terminal reor-
yanization and it is now likely the plan
adopted by the committee will be quickly
ssued. The syndicate to be formed win
have capital of s15,OOO,OOO or $50, OOO, OOO
John B. Sanders, assistant ticket agent of
he Santa F'e at Galveston, has disappeared,
eaving the safe open and empty and a note
o his wife saying the waves would finish
lis career. The suicide theory is not en-
ertained by his friends. He has been gam
bling of late.
The United States government has deter
mined upon the manufacture of smokeless