Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-02
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market, New Hampshire, suspended yester-
day. The deposits are about S191, 900.
Governor Brown Of Maryland yester-
day issued proclamation calling on the
people of the state to send aid to the starv-
ing Russians.
General Traffic Manager Mahoney of Il g
Sioux City and Northern railway has re-
signed to take charge of an association of
Western packers.
Muir, the shoemaker who some time ago
murdered a woman named Sullivan who
was living with him as his wife, was hanged
in Newgate prison.
Fifteen men who were driven on
Trinity, New York, by stiff breeze while
hunting on Saturday persisted from expos
ure on the north coast, which is barricaded
with ice.
At meeting of the sales agents of the
coal companies in New York yesterday, the
product for the month of March was re-
stricJed to 100000 tons. Prices remain
unchanged.
The Alliance men Of the Second congress
sional district OF Georgia have decided, de-
spite the action of the st. Louis conven-
ton, ito remain within the lines of the
Democratic party"
According to kilograms received at
Havana the minister of the colonies per-
sists in his scheme to lay 4 tax of from two
and 4 half to three million dollars upon the
sugar industry.
In order to stimulate the manufacture OF
cotton goods the Russian government has
issued decree that the import duty on
cotton goods shall be refunded to exporters
of the manufactured product
It is said by high authority to be the
intention Of the pope to appoint at the next
conclave more foreign cardinals than Ital-
ian in order TO establish q certain equilib-
rum in the college of cardinals.
The executive committee Of the national
committee of the Peoples party will meet
at Omaha on the 18th of May to perfect ar
rangements for the holding of the national
convention OF the party on July 4.
A Wilkesbarre dispatch says it is re-
ported that the Philadelphia and Reading
individual.coal operators in the Wyoming
district on the basis of 60 per cent.
Switchmen struck on the Illinois Central
at Cairo yesterday No trains of any kind
are moving. The switchmen demand the
removal of Agent ]. D. Ladd of Cairo or
that all orders pertaining to switching come
through the yardmaster.
bill was introduced yesterday in the
house of delegates of Maryland making
voting compulsory under penalty of a fine,
the fines to go to the public school fund.
The only acceptable excuses are to be sick
ness or absence from legal residence.
An English special CORES pondent, who is
travelling in the famine districts of Russia,
writes that violence in the valley of the
Volga is of frequent occurrence. Clergy
mems houses have been robbed and bodies
of murdered men found on the highroads.
The American Line steamship Indiana
with the Russian relief cargo on board, was
sighted 500 miles east of the Delaware
capes Additional contributions for the
relief fund amounting to s1057.5 were &C
kno Hledged yesterday by Drexel & Co.
]. NJ Billingsley, porter running on the
500 line out of St. Paul, is heir to for
tune in New Mexico. An old bachelor
uncle, F. ]. Jarvis of Albuquerque, died
last Friday and left an estate valued at
S16O,OOO of which Billingsley will get $50
600.
Orders have come from the East to the
United States express Office at Cincinnati
10 open a fight on the brotherhood by dis
charging several messengers. At the Chi
cage office of the company one of the Off
Gals said similar orders had been received |
there.
The IFS negro emigrants from the South |
west who are stranded in New York City, |
were yesterday found quarters in tene-
ment houses near the Eighth avenue mis- |
sion. They are determined to stick to-
gether until March 10, when vessel sails
for Liberia.
The Niiner's association, in annual session
at Mansfield, Ohio, has adopted a memo
rial to the secretary of state asking for the
extension of reciprocity to France and Ger
many. The memorial says that unless re-
lief is speedily granted the milling industry
must lapse into decay.
The London Chamber of Commerce re-
Gently sent circular to leading financial
and commercial houses with reference to
Goschen's currency scheme. Out of 800 re-
plies 200 are in favor of the issue of 81
notes with an increase Of the gold reserve
in the Bank of England. This result de-
Goschen to place the proposal be-
fore parliament
AT Portland, Ore, in January last Ed
ward HUntley, Chicago travelling man,
was relieved of diamonds and other iewelry
valued at $4,000 by stage robbers. He
offered a reward of $1,000 for the recovery of
the stolen property, and yesterday the
jewelry was delivered to the owner by
man who disappeared as soon as he re-
ceived the S200O
The reorganization OF the Texas Worlds
fair exhibit association has taken place at
Galveston. There were nine of the thir-
teen directors present. A new charter was
adopted, naming Galveston as the head
quarters of the new organization. Col. II.
B. Andrews of San Antonio and D. D.
BRYAN of Galveston were unanimously re-