Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-18
BOILED DOWN.

A storm has been "a ging in Paris, France,
ever since last evening and traffic is almost
at a standstill.
Enough congressman will leave Washing
ton Friday for a brief vacation at Chicago
10 prevent quorum in the house
Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of
eruption. a stream of lava issues from
the base of the great cone and flows into
Atrio del Cavallo.
A strong shock of earthquake has been
felt at ZaafarabO, a town of Sicily, twelve
miles north of Catina. on the eastern de-
chvity of Mount Etaa.
The three-year-old son of X. Levy, a
prominent citizen of Little Rock, was run
over by an electric motor yesterday and
horribly crushed. The injuries will prove
fatal
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph yesterday re-
ceived replies from every county in Geor-
gia in regard TO the cotton acreage. The
replies show the reduction from 1891 is 20
per cent.
Near Nashvill, Tenn, yesterday William
Hassell called to his wife to bring him an
az. 1t was brought and Hassell beat her
brains out with , it. He then tried to
kill himself He is insane.
President Harrison has been informed
by the Worlds fair board of control that
the Chicago directors have decided not to
ask congress to lend them the S5,000,000
heretofore solicited. President Baker,
Notwithstanding, still wants the loan.
Terrible snow storms are raging in
Galicia, province of AuStro- Hungry Cis-
lelthania, comprising the greater part of
Austrian Poland. The snow is piled up in
immense drifts, and traffic on the various
rs,fil1 dc ie a1n hp11 1al
Last night at Bluff Springs, Fla, forty
miles north of Pensacola, the men in
Hughes & Grimear's turpentine camp were
fired upon by unknown parties. Three
negroes were wounded, one perhaps fatally.
There is no clGw to the ould-be-assassius
Mrs. Gregory, a widow, was making
soup at Wexford, S. c., yesterday. when
ner clothing caught fire Mrs Gregory's
sister went to her assistance and both
ladies were burned to death. Mrs. Gregory
leaves three children and her sister leaves
six
Anonymous letters, couched in language
SO vile as to make men blush while discuss
ing them, have made the life of Harry
HanlIinson Of Trenton, n. J., burden for
two years. The unknown writer has
sworn to blacken the young mans reputa-
ton and to keep 1t black until he dies. The
writer is said to be a woman.
Meredith Stanley, the bridge jumper,
made what in all probability will prove 4
fatal leap yesterday morning from the Gin
cinnati and COvine ton suspension bridge. a
distance of over 100 feet, into the Ohio
river. Only u few weeks ago Stanley and
his wife mate a successful double leap from
the Chesapeake and Ohio bridge,
The grand jury at Sacramento, Cal. sub
mitted report yesterday. The report
#l,saf I'd
corruption in the election of United States
senator to succeed Senator Hearst. Some
positive and damaging testimony was elic-
tied, but the jury was unable to find in
dictments in connection Herewith.
A Berlin sensation was caused in the
court chapel yesterday while the kaiser,
Prince Henry the grand duke of Baden
and other royal persOnages were present,
by L man in the audience rising and CRYING
out loudly and solemnly TO the preacher,
DR.. Vieregre:
Your words are useless. Behold, the
milleLium is at handF'
The Berlin Vose Gazette publishes a dis
patch from Simla announcing that its cor
respondent at Belgrave was compelled to
leave Servia to-day by an order of the Ser
Wan minister of the interior. The reason
given for his expulsion is that his kilograms
TO Berlin had caused fall in Servian Sc
mitted the news that the Servian govern
ment was about to contract j new loan.
Two brothers, Oliver and Paul Leblanc,
have been battling with ice in Lake Michl-
gan between CroSsville, Wis, and Beaver
island for forty eight hours, and their fate
is still unknown. though it is not believed
they have survived Four days ago they
left Crossville in 4 small sail boat TO secure
the mail for the islands. No information
has been received about them from tele-
graph stations on the islands, and it is be-
heved both have persisted.
About seven years ago John Cunningham
was killed in his yard at Montgomery, Ala,
one night, while in the act of detecting d |
chicken thief. No one ever knew who did |
the killing, but it was supposed that a |
negro named John Hubbard. who afterward
fed the city. committed the crime Yester- |
day the negro was arrested, but William |
Cunningham, 9 brother OF deceased, stepped |
forward and said he had killed his brother |
accidentally. The negro was discharged,
a San Augustine, Fla. dispatch says the |
Cowboy preacher IS q guest OF the city, |
occupying apartments in the city jail. He |
was arrested by Marshal Benet for repeat |
edly disobeying the rules governing the /!