Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-31
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The investigation of the Worlds fair
finances by committee of congress began
in the auditorium yesterday afternoon at
Chicago.
The president has nominated Frank L.
COMBS of California to be envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States to Japan.
The seven-story building occupied by the
Ohio spiral spring buggy company, north
west corner of Sycamore and North Court
street, Columbus, was burned, entailing a
loss of $4,000
Friday, May 20, Elisha Young, Ike
Young, Holman Noble, Alfred Crosby and
Martha Young, will be hanged at Chester,
S. c., for the murder of Alfred McAllely
year ago, beating him to death with stones.
The coroner's jury investigating the sup
posed murder and suicide of A. N. Gafford,
Manning, La, and Mabel Moody, at Omaha,
brought in verdict declaring the crime a
double murder. No arrests have been
made.
At the Stafford, England, assizes John
Goodell, the evangelist, was found guilty of
assaulting Mrs. Mary A Slddals in an
apartment of Midland railway train and
sentenced to two years Imprisonment at
hard labor.
The remains of Walt Whitman. the poet,
were Inferred yesterday in tomb at Har-
bergh cemetery, near Camden, N. J., after
impressive services, attended by large
throng of people, including many well
known in literary circles.
On Friday, May 20, four men and one
W man, Elisha Young, Ike Young, Holman
Noble, Alfred Crossley and Martha Young
will be hanged IN the jail yard at Chester,
S. C., for murder. They are all young
and fairly intelligent-looking negroes.
At the farm residence of Abraham Cooley
one and half mics west OF Richmond,
Mich, yesterday Cooley cut Ihis wife's
throat from ear to ear and then committed
suicide. No reason other than that Cooley
had become suddenly insane can be given
for the crime.
1t is affirmed in certain quarters that
there was another explosion of dynamite in
Paris late yesterday afternoon, this time in
the building Of the Credit Lyonnaise, one |
of the largest banking institutions of the |
city. Extent of damage not learned. 1t is !
said two persons were injured.
Arrangements are being made for the
largest reunion of Confederate veterans
ever held to take place April to at New
Orleans. The Texas delegation is expected
to be unusually large, not only because of
the great numerical strength of the order
Of that state, but because of the unusually
low rates given.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the great
French engineer of the Suez canal. is
charged by the courts of France with
swindling and breach of trust AS the
transaction upon which the accusation is
based, occurred in New York, the greater
portion OF the testimony to be used IN the
.rial, must be taken there
Reports are current that the government
las aEreed to pay Italy an indemnity of
"a, 600 for the killing in New Orleans, and
hat this proposition has been accepted,
nd Minister Porter will return to Rome at
nee. The state department, of course, is
ilent on the subject, but there is reason to
relieve there is some truth in the story.
Grand Chief Ramsay of the Order of
Railway Telegraphers, and the grievance
Of the operators on the Atchison,
'opeka and Santa Fe railroad, held several {
with General Manager Robin {
on yesterday. Differences heretofore ex- !
sting are almost adjusted, and it is ex- {
ected by both parties interested that !
win be reached today.
Last night Thomas Edwards, well-to- +
o farmer, living alone near Madison Gross w
Dads, Ala, was murdered, and then r. ii
ouse burned ..--e- him. Two citjzer u