Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-23
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The supreme court of Wisconsin declares
the assembly, senatorial and congressional
appor6onment made by the lastlegislature
unconstitutional.
The jury in the Sieboldt lynching case at
Darlington, Wis, returned a verdict last
night finding at the time of the lynching
all the defendants were insane, and there
fore not guilty.
C. W. Williams has received letter
from Mr.. Stanford in whicllthe latter ex-
presses great doubts that he VIII be able to
match Palo Alto against Allerton this year
for purse of $4,000.
Worlds fair antiquarians note the dis
covery in GuayaquiI of an ancient chro-
nometer which, from the date and inscrip-
ton, is believed to have belonged to Pizar-
ros party Of conquest.
The New York senate has concurred in
the assembly amendments to the SEN
ate bill appropriating 100000 for the
Words fair including amendment for clos
ing the state exhibition on Sunday.
Billy Smith, the Boston lightweight, de-
feated Billy Armstrong of San Francisco in
fourteen rounds at the Occidental club last
night Smith knocked Armstrong down
five times in the fourteenth round.
In the house of lords Lord Knuttsford,
secretary of state for the colonies, admitted
the accuracy Of the report from Sierra
Leone that the British expedition to limbo,
Senegambia, had met with a very severe
reuulse at the hands of natives
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times telegraphs his paper that Count Won
Zedlitz Trutschler has refused to with
draw his resignation. Chancellor Won
Caprivi has not resigned but has placed
himself at the empcror's orders.
Information from Washington IS that
Salisbury's reply is a naked refusal to con-
tinue the modus vivendi, and is accom-
panied by no assurance, verbal or other
wise, that the British government will not
concentrate feet in Behring sea.
The proceeds OF the New York concert
for the benefit Of Russian famine sufferers
has been received and is being used for the
relief of distress in such manner as Min
lister Smith directs. The fund amounts TO
$4,000 roubles. Six roubles save a life, so
1000 lives are saved.
A fire in Henderson Bros carriage fac
tory in Cambridge, Mass, destroyed the
large four-story Marine building of brick,
two four-story buildings and four two
story buildings in the rear, and large
stable and ruined three dwelling houses.
Loss, $500, 900; insurance, 800, 900.
A Lemberg paper reports a serious up
rising in Eastern Siberia, resulting from
forced conversions Of Buddhists by Russian
orthodox missionaries. Many Mongols
armed themselves and routed the mission
aries and compelled the Russian authorities
TO take refuge in the fortress at Tiumen.
1t IS said at the navy department that no
orders have been issued looking to the dis
patch of naval feet to the Behriug sea
this season. Notwithstanding this semi
Official statement it is said the department
is preparing vessels for service in the
Northern Pacific ocean in the event they
be needed.
The large residence Of Jasper Pastelle,
Anderson, Ind, was blown 10 atoms by
q natural gas explosion late last night and
the debris burned. PasteIe was fatally in-
jured. Others of the family escaped without
serious injury. Pastene neglected to turn
out the lights while repairing sudden
leak.
The court at Amsterdam sentenced Cap
tain Baker, commander of the Neither
lands American steamship Obdain, TO one
years Imprisonment for shooting and kill
Ing mutinous fireman last summer, while
or a voyage from New York to Rotterdam
Captain Baker was convicted on charge
of manslaughter.
District Attorney Ridgeway, who ac-
companied Senator Hill on his Southern
tour, returned to Brooklyn yesterday. He
said Senator Fill viii have the delegates of
every Southern state The ex-governor, he /
said, was growing stronger in the minds of
the people not alone in the South, but
throughout the country.
Sentence upon county court Judges of
Cass aud st. Clair counties, Missouri. for
contempt of court, will be pronounced next
Monday, 1t is almost certain that the
judges will go 10 Jail, as the people of both
counties are still unwilling that the taxi
levied to pay outstanding railroad bonds.
For more than twenty years this matter
has been in litigation.