Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
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Judge Vanbrunt has decided that Edward
M. Field is insane.
The ex-Confederate veterans have organ
lied camp at Cooper with sixty or more
members. The name of camp, NJ. D. Ector.
Fire destroyed the Philadelphia drying
house of Spreckels' sugar refinery at 4
o'clock yesterday morning. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000.
A call has been issued by the executive
committee of the Southern wholesale
grocery association for a meeting to be held
at Memphis March 25 and 20.
Near Rayville, La, yesterday the lifeless
form of colored girl was found dangling to
a tree. She had put rough-on-rats in the
coffee Of nine people and was lynched.
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
Exchange telegraph company, states great
excitement has been caused there by what
the police claim is the discovery OF a plot to
assassinate Sultan Abdul Hamid IL
The court of chancery at London has ap-
pointed a receiver for the banking firm of
Murritta & Co. Qimited), whose troubles
have been before the public long time
Outstanding liabilities are stated to be
e. 800, 600.
Suits have been entered in the chancery
court at Chattanooga by attorneys of the
Catholic knights of America against til>e
bondsmen of NJ. j. O'Brien, the defaulting
treasurer of the order, whose stealings ag-
gregate $4,000.
a mass convention, under the auspices Of
the Cherokee Strip colonization society, was
held at Arkansas City last night, which
was attended by several hundred. It is
highly probable an invasion of the Strip
will occur this month. The exact date is
kept secret.
A fatal accident occurred six miles south
of Camden, Tenn, yesterday. A milestone
burst in fragments, one portion striking
man named Scott, killing him instantly.
Another portion struck Frank Leslie on
the head and he win die A third man is
painfully hurt
The GAZETTE received dispatches from
twenty-three points last night, giving the
state of the weather. These dispatches
cover territory from Eufaula, L T., Claren=
don ana Midland, to the coast. The sleet
and snow were general, and the mercury at
or below freezing.
The British brig Gudron, bound from
Fowey, has been wrecked on the shingles
on the Isle of Wight. She had crew Of
ten men and all of them were drowned.
-Four bodies, on which there were life belts,
and a quantity of wreclage haye been
washed ashore from the brig.
Robt Fitzsimmons yesterday authorized
Richard K. Fox to arrange an international
hstic encounter between Ted Pritchard
champion of England and himself for
5000 side and purse of S12OOO which
President Noel of the Olympic club, New
Orleans, agrees to put up for a Pritchard
and Fitzsimmons fight.
W. G. Trunky, a prominent attorney Of
Warren, Pa, and son of the late Judge
Trunky OF the Pennsylvania state supreme
court, committed suicide by hanging in the
Turkish bath parlors of the Todd house at
Youngstown, Ohio. He was suffering from
liquor and has been under the care of q
physician. He leaves wife and family.
While three masked men were robbing
freight cars about midnight at Tamaga,
Pa, policeman came upon them. As the
officer approached they opened fire, infict-
ing dangerous wound in his right side
The desperadoes escaped. The local militia |
company was called out and the hills
secured in seach of the men but they were
not found.
a steamer was sighted off Liban, Russia,
yesterday, the flag OF the United States OF |
America flying from the stern. The vessel |
was the Indiana under command of Capt. |
Sergeant, which sailed from Philadelphia |
on February %, with a cargo Of -four and
provisions for relief of the famine sufferers
in Russia The Indiana entered the harbor
shortly after.
The planters about Jackson, Miss, are
up in arms against gang of White Caps, |
who the other night, took negro named
Williams from hls house, tied him &c
stump and gave him 800 lashes and ordered |
him to leave town. The planters fear the
effect on the rest Of the colored population.
The case of Dr. Il. NJ Scudder charged I
with the murder of his mother-in-law, has
been brought to the attention of the grand
jury by the states attorney. A true bill
has been found