Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03

ment informing him that the other half of
the bill had got there ahead Of his, and that
John DAILY was before him in application
for new bill
Representative Springer is confined to
his house suffering from complication of
disorders. He is experiencing severe
attack of grip, which is aggravated by
erysipelas and arrangement of his nervous
system. It is not expected he will be able
to resume his legislative duties for two
weeks.
An association approaching as near OF a
lumber trust as possible without mourning
the law, viii be established in Denver
April l. Lumber dealers and manufact-
urers are preparing to place new sched-
ule of prices before the building public.
There will be no reductions, but advanced
figures.
John D. Rockefeller has given another
100000 to the University of Chicago.
This makes the donors total contribution
to what promises to be one of the greatest
educational institutions of the world
the great sum of 100000. None of
this last 81, 600, 900 is to be used for current
expenses, but is an endowment to so remain
forever
The plans for the station of the Chicago
elevated terminal railway company are
nearly completed. The estimated cost of
the structure is So. 500 OOO The main build
ing will be $50 feet on State street. 2S9 feet
on Twelfth street, ten stories high sur
mounted by corner tower sixty feet hig
South of this structure will be train shed
stretching a thousand feet along State
street.
The Berlin mobs yesterday were led by
several men carrying naked swords. While
the police were engaged in suppressing
these disturbances policeman had his
skull fractured, owing to his being struck
en- the head by a bottle thrown from a
house. OF the many persons arrested yes
terday on charges in connection with the
riots, only twenty-three have been detained
in custody
The supreme court of the United States
has extinguished the last hope of the two
imprisoned anarchists by affirming the de-
cision of the supreme court of Illinois and
the circuit court of the United States in the
cases of Samuel Fielden and Michael
Schwab VS.. the Warden of Joliet Peniten-
tlary. The application for writs of habeas
corpus was ON the ground I nat their SEN
tence was unconstitutional 1t was denied.
Three snow slides occurred in Colorado
yesterday. The first was started by train
jarring snow banks which came down with
great rapidity, tearing up the track and de-
stroying telegraph poles. The last avail
anche reported was serious, a large pack
train was caught in it on Marshall Basin
trail and sixteen burrows and one horse
were instantly killed. The driver of the
train was buried several feet under the
snow but managed to escape.
The final details in regard to the wigwam
to be built on the Lake Front, Chicago, to
accommodate the National Democratic con-
vention are settled. The building will be
oblong, 2O0xS5O sect, with seating capacity
of $4,000 The delegates will be in the
center of the building or pit. Alternates
will occupy seats outside, slightly above
the delegates. The latter will be arranged
in a circle, and from the outer edge of it,
second tier for the accommodation of the
audience, will lead in all directions. The
speakers platform will run from the cir
conference of the wigwam to the delegates
circle or pit The structure will be wood,
and cost about s24, 600
Ex-Governor Hubbard of Texas, who was
minister to japan, was interviewed at New
Orleans regarding Texas politics. He said
Hogg's administration had disappointed
the people, and the next convention would
either nominate George Clark OF Waco or
some dark horse. Texas was tired of the
views and policies Hogg had fast
ened upon the people. Texas had
ceased to be an uucivilized state.
She was the peer Of any state in the Union.
Clark would represent the people; the mar
row ideas now dominating the state capital
would be dissipated with Clark in the gu
bernatorial chair. 'How is Texas on the
presidential question:" David B. Hill is
one of the biggest men in American poll
tics. He is a Democrat. His enemies
are mugwumps and that is why we people
of Texas love him. He will get the vote of
Texas in the national convention, and pre-
dict will be nominated and elected"