Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-04
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The trial of the persons indicted for
lvuching murderer Siebolt last September
has commenced. The defense will be
emotional insanity.
Prime Minister Loubet of the French
cabinet yesterday read the declaration Of
ministerial policy to the chambers. 1t was
accepted but coolly.
A general reduction of about 10 per cent
in the wages of furnace employees has been
put in effect IN the Birmingham district.
No trouble is apprehended.
The New York Evening Post says: Prac-
tically the absolute control of the New
York and New England road has passed
into the hands of the vanderbilts.
The Central traffic association has author
ized half fare rate for the Democratic
national convention at Chicago, tickets to
be sold June 16 to 20, and good to return to
JulyS.
A fabulously rich strike of gold has been
made in the Humbug district, Arizona, and
miners are fiocking there by hundreds.
The ore is free milling and runs 5000 to
$500 per ton.
The ways and means committee has
heard the committee of the Lumbermen's
association in opposition to the bill intro
duced by Ryan Of Nebraska placing lumber
on the free list.
The appeals OF Sunday newspapers of
Pittsburg, Pa, against suits entered by the
Law and Order league for selling papers on
Sunday were dismissed by Judge Porter of
the county court.
Assistant Secretary Bussey of the inte-
rior department testified yesterday before
the special pension investigating committee
OF the house. His testimony added nothing
to that already known.
CCl Daniel Lamont of New York is at
the St. James hotel at Jacksonville. 1t is
whispered his mission in the state is to see
what the chances are for securing the De-
mocratic delegation for Cleveland.
Robert Smith or Evan R Smith was
found in the yards of the international and
Great Northern yesterday seriously in
iured. He died at Sealy hospital in Calves
Il IS reported the Kanawha Despatch has
made a cut of cents per 100 in the rate on
four from Kansas City to Liverpool The
other freight lines are preparing for rate
war, it is said. The Kanawha denies that
the cut was made
Reports from Breckenridge, Col, say
great gold strikes have been made there
and prospectors are coming from all direc-
tons Henry Booker, just from Brecken-
ridge, says he has seen ore out of the new
mines which ran over OGOO TO the ton.
Thomas Mason, a workman in the Penn
sylvania shops at Havonia, n. J., surprised
his wife Lizzie in disreputable house, and
mad with rage shot her three times and
then cut her throat with a razor. The
woman will die. Mason gave himself up.
The Coldwater, Mich, national bank was
robbed last night. The estimated loss is
$50, 900. The robbers drilled through the
outer door of the vault and with punch
broke the lock off. The middle door was
secured with paddock and this was proba-
bly, broken with sledge.
Harry Gray, the son Of a prominent veter-
mary surgeon and one of the best known |
citizens of Atlanta, Ga, lies dying at his |
home from a bullet wound inflicted by a |
policeman who caught him burglarizing a
house. Gray is but eighteen years old and
hadIalways been considered a good boy.
The recent gales that prevailed along tho
coast of Portugal have been productive of |
great loss of life. Among those who lost
their lives in the storm few days ago are
married men, in addition to a
large number not married. Eighty-three
widows are now thrown upon the care of
Oporto
Mary Calvin, wife Of an ironworker at
Pa, followed her husband into
the house of a Hungarian woman named
Bohar and in a fit of jealousy threw concen-
trated I've at him, dangerously burning his
face and breast. Some of the I've splashed
over two children of Mrs. Bohar, and they
are also badly burned.
a meeting of the representative business
men of Galveston was held at the cotton
exchange yesterday at which the PROPOSE
tion to donate Sl5OOOO to the Worlds fair
fund was unanimously ratified. A commit
toe was appointed to prosecute the canvass
upon the plans proposed for raising this
money upon the bases of the sale of lots in
South Galveston.
The condition of Congressman Springer
was so serious yesterday as to excite the
gravest apprehensions of his friends. His
family and most intimate friends are evil
lently prepared for the worst, as there is
fear egysipelas, heretofore confined to the
face, has gone to the brain. Physicians
,oncede this being the case the result would
almost inevitably be fatal.
NJ Gelhorn, who disappeared Saturday
It Birmingham, Ala, left numerous VIC
inns He ran an endowment benefit asso-
,iation in which subscribers paid SIS in
welve monthly instAllments and were to
ret pack 500. a great many bit at the
empting bait Gelhorn also raised a s.
heck drawn by the Gate City national
,ank Of Atlanta on the Park national bank
# New York TO $1,000 and got it cashed.
"This sapphire was found in the gizzard
4 turkey" said W H. Reed of Montana
o group of acquaintance at the Hoffman
louse, New York. He held up beautiful