Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-22
BOILED DOWN.

The Trenton, n. J., Phoenix iron com
pany has suspended business and was taker
charge of by receiver.
At Marshalltown, Iowa, a heavy snow
prevails, with wind and prospects of {
heavy and prolonged fall.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry, since her in.
generation in the asylum, has become very
violent and leads her attendants a life Of
- misery.
Molten, Herald and Gueyerand, directors
of the banque DIES Chemins de Fere Indus.
trie, which failed Saturday, have fled to
America.
Two cotton seed houses at Temple, one
one the property of the Brenham oil mill,
burned. Loss, $1,000.
Acting upon the report OF United States
District Attorney Milchrist of Chicago the
United States attorney-general has decided
10 prosecute the biscuit trust.
An enthusiastic meeting of the Waco bar
was held yesterday to prepare bill to
organize McLennan county into separate
judicial district and urge the passage of the
bill.
Figures made at st. Paul last night from
returns from thirty-seven counties indicate
Cleveland men have already bagged enough
delegates to send a solid delegation to Chi
cage in his favor.
At Plaintield, N. j., Bridget Donnough,
pretty Irish girl was criminally assaulted
hKr
were arrested in North Plainfeld on suspi-
cion Of being the woman's assailants.
Mary Walters, an aged woman, was
picked up on the streets of Waco last night
by two police officers, suffering from an
overdose of morphine. After working on
her for several hours she gained conscious
ness,
Six miles south Of Springfield, Mimi,
last night, house took fire and five chill
dren fell victims to the fiery fends The
Oldest was about twelve. The father was
severely scorched, probably fatally. The
name of the family is Leahy.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Standard oil trust, held at % Broadway,
n. Y, it was decided by 4 twc-thirds vote
to terminate the trust and that all property
held by the trust except stocks of corpora
lions be sold by trustees at private sale.
Miss Nora Doniz, young woman living
with the family of Mr.. Thomas Slegle at
Indianapolis, drank a half pint of whisky
yesterday, presumably to steady her nerve
and then fired bullet from a revolver into
her brain caus ing death in few minutes
In the house OF commons yesterday Bal
four, the government leader, moved the ex-
pulsion Of George Woody Hastings, con-
vic1ed of appropriating money and secu-
rites received in the capacity of trustee.
The motion was adopted in silence, and
H lstings ceased to be a member of parlia-
mont.
At a country church near Fuller Scott
county, Ark, Robert Doss and Jefferson
Jones were the principal figures in a riot
which occurred yesterday. One was armed
with 4 shotgun and the other had Win
chester rife. In the melee, the men shot
at each other, and both were mortauy
wounded
A4IS. 2AC1-dlu, HllC VI Gu lTOu NOrkeF d6
Pittsburg, came home drunk yesterday
afternoon, and when her little three-year-
old child began to cry, threw her upon
red-hot stove. The little one rolled off, but
the unnatural mother picked her up and
placed her on the stove The screams of
the child brought the father, who rescued
her, and knocked the mother down.
The boiler CT the East Jordan, Mich,
lumber company's mill No. 2 blew up yes
terdsy, instantly killing the following per-
sons: William Beach, aged twenty-three,
unmarried; Simon Carney, aged twenty
six, unmarried; Peter Sheldon, aged
twenty-five, unmarried; John Brown, aged |
twenty unmarried; Bert Cook, aged |
thirty, married; Emanuel Hunt, aged forty, |
who has a wife and child. Three others
were injured.
In accordance with the decision of the
Miners federation, nearly all the miners
who quit work on the 18th instant, with the |
exception of the Durham miners, who are
not members of the federation, resumed
work yesterday. in few districts where
miners are still IDLE, mine owners insist
that the men shall remove without payment
the falls of earth that have occurred dur
ing the week of their self-impOsed rest
This the men refused to do. /