Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-08
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A dispatch from Valparaiso states it is
possible new cabinet will be formed and
Seniors Malta and Altamirano viii, hold
portfolios in the new ministry.
Smallpox was discovered on the Ham
burg line steamship Dana yesterday and
the vessel was detained at quarantine. The
disease broke out among steerage passen-
gers.
Etenne Arago, the French writer. dra-
matist and statesman, is dead. He was
born in 1909 and was the last surviving
brother of the iIlustrious astronomer, Fran
co.'s Arago.
Fayette Welch, an actor, was shot and
killed in Boston yesterday by William F.
Flannery, variety actor. The shooting
was the result of row between WEIGH and
Flannery's wife,
0An unknown Mexican committed snicide
in New Laredo last night by blowing out
his brains with 44caliber pistol
The first reports received at Berlin of the
disturbances in Leipsic yesterday were
somewhat exaggerated, and more impor-
lance was attached to the matter than the
occasion warranted.
The Ben Mccullough camp of ex-Confed-
crates held meeting in the courthouse at
Decatur yesterday for the purpose of max
ing arrangements to attend the state en-
campment at Dallas.
A call signed by fifty Corpus Christi citi-
zens has been issued, calling public meet
ing for March 10 to form George Clark
club. The call says the election Of Clark
would bring capital to Texas,
Vice-Chancellors Van Fleet and Green,
before whom the Union stock yards case
has been argued. discovered the proceeding
has reference TO a contract which no longer
exists, and the case will now probably be
dismissed.
1.-THE story published in the Paris Eclair
stating that 800 supporters of NJ. Delyannis
prime minister of Greece, have been placed
under arrest, is emphatically denied The
story of people arming for rebellion is
laughed at
Year Mount Vernon, KY, yesterday
evening Emmett Snodgrass, town marshal,
was shot and killed by his brother, Isaac
Suodgrass. 1t was the result of Emmett
having killed his brother, Squire" SnOd-
grass some two years ago.
The powerful machinery of the govern
ment which worked so well in securing in
dictments against the whisky trust officials
has now been set in motion at Chicago
against the cordage trust, which has been
boosting prices with a high hand lately.
A meeting of delegates from various
trades unions was held at Pittsburg, Pa,
yesterday for the purpose of forming a
national federation to be composed of pat
tern makers, moulders, blacksmiths, brass
workers, boiermakers and steam filters.
Tom O'Rourke, manager and hacker Of
George Dixon, cabled TED Pritchard, the
English champion pugilist, to come TO
America at once, and O'Rourke will back
him against Fitzsimmons. O'Rourke is
willing to invest $4,000 or $4,000 on the
result
Attorney General ,Hensel of Pennsyl-
vania will contest in the Dauph1n county
court, as soon as the necessary papers can
be prepared, the constitutionality of the
Philadelphia railroad company assuming
control of the Lehigh Valley and New Jer-
sey railroads.
Suit was entered at Galveston yesterday
against the Galveston and Western railroad
company by the state of Texas for debt and
nanaltIr in the etata d,errict cOrrt Tho
suit is based on a failure of the railroad
company 10 file their annual report with
the state comptroller.