Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-28
To the Public.
BOILED DOWN.

Sam Jones lectured at Elgin Saturday
night on Get There"
Dr. Mumford, well known as the editor
of the Kansas City Times, died last night.
-Four United States prisoners were taken
from Ardmore to Detroit penitentiary yes
terday.
EThe plant of H o. Wilbur 8, Sons, manu-
facturers of chocolate, No. IS Third street,
Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire yester-
day. Loss, 100000.
J. A Foley, Southern Pacific lineman,
was struck by a falling cable at the Pecos
high bridge, near San Antonio, yesterday,
AMI instantly killed.
S. L. Skinner, air brake inspector on
the Southern P .lific and one of the best
known railway men in the South, died at
San Antonio yesterday.
Last night in quarrel over butcher
bill at Somerset, KY, Jesse Davis was shot
by Robert Etheridge, the latter putting
four bullets into Davis PROSTATE body.
President Horace Steele of the Paines-
vile, Ohio, saving and loan association was
arrested about midnight at gainesville and
released on $4,000 bail. Ralph R. Paige
gave himself up.
Lizzie Stevens. a colored domestic at
Palestine, was shot by ,Ras Hardy, and she
says he said it was accidental The ball
entered the right hip coming out on the
left. Hardy cannot be found.
Dr. W. I. Walfre, an examining sur
geon in the pension office, died suddenly
yesterday of apoplexy. Deceased was a
cousin of Mrs. Governor Sherman and
Secretary Blaine, being related to the Gil
lespie family.
An enterprising gentleman has tele-
graphed Mr. Hallet Allsop Burrowe, at
New York, offering purse of at least $780,
goo for 4 finish fight before the Hazelton,
Pa, athletic club between Burrowe and j.
Coleman Drayton.
AS result of the recent decision of the
Wisconsin supreme court upon the consti-
tutionality of the legislative apportionment
act the "Gerrymander law of that state
viii be brought before the highesttribunal
for decision upon its validity.
The Chiclzasaw Chieftain's contest for
SIS daughter Of the Confederacy'' to rep
resent territory ex-Confederates, ended in
the triumph of Miss Cora Hardy, the
drummers' candidate. She received 25,726
votes. Miss Ida Scales received q, 527
votes
Fire broke out in the west end of a row
Of stables at the fair grounds at Corsicana
Al
about $50 stalls were burned. Mr.. Whit
sell had about twenty-five horses stabbed
there, but all were removed without injury.
Loss about $4,000 with no insurance
The heaviest snow of the season fell in
Nebraska Saturday, and within two hours
street car traffic was completely stopped.
Telegraph and telephone wires throughout
soon began to go down under the weight
Of the wet snow, and communication with
the outside world was slow and uncertain.
Dat Evansville, Ind, two girls, Lizzie
Dennis and Mary Kliner aged 16 and 10
respectively, were run down by a switch
engine at the street crossing yesterday
while attempting to cross the track. Both
were terribly crushed about the head and
each had both legs cut OF. They cannot
survive
A fve-story building occupied by the
Omaha hardware company on Jones street,
that city, was completely destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss, 100000. The intense heat
was almost unbearable, and the sound of
cartridges popping in quantities created
much excitement. 1t is thought the fire was
the work of burglars.
A morning paper in Paris, speaking q !
the Borrowe-Drayton affair, says the Duke /
OF Monty, having been consulted by Mr.. |
Mubans one Of NJ g, Borrowers seconds, as
TO whether the {, er ought to fight Dray- |
ton, % .5iied as fJ.ows; 81 think it impos-
sible that question o money and a ques-
ton of honor would be entertained at one
aud the same time and consider that
Drayton, having put money before honor,
theSe could be nohing said about further
r paration."