Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-27
BOILED DOWN.


Fro destroyed the plant of the On ion oil
cloth company at Elizabethport, N. j.. yes
terday. Loss, 10000; no insurance.
Mrs. Bryan, seventy-five years of age,
was fatally burned at ST Clair, Pa, by
falling on redhot stove while in a fit.
The per cent Arizona Territory bonds
issued under the Windry refunding act
have been sold to j. Horton Of New York
city.
The president left Washington yesterday
for Virginia Beach, Va, where he expects
to enjoy weeks respite from the cares Of
Official duty.
Bourgeois has abandoned the attempt TO
form French cabinet and President Car
not has now summoned NJ. Loubet to IN
dertake the task
Most of the collieries in the Hazleton
region have notified their employees that
semi-monthly payments will be discon-
tinued after March l.
Mrs. John Roth died in Reading from a
dose Of laudanum taken with suicidal in
tent. She had lost some money which her
husband gave her to pay bills with.
Privates Kelly and Bennett, serving SEN
fences at Alcatras prison, Cal, for deser-
ton, escaped from there in boat yester-
day and have not been recaptured.
The trial of the three men at Coal Creek,
charged with desertion, began yesterday.
Private Larrabee of Memphis, it is sur
missed, viii be given prison sentence.
a strike of longshoremen is on at New.
Orleans and $500 men are out of work, de-
manding hours for fractional parts of an
hour. Trouble is anticipated and the mayor
has been asked for protection.
Gold bullion weighing fifty-four pounds
was shipped from Phoenix, Ariz., yester-
day from mine in the vicinity. 1t is
worth SIS 40. 1t is the product of six
weeks run of the Harquahala mine.
Albert Hoyer, a life prisoner at the In
diana penitentary killed William Bren-
ming, a fellow prisoner. Hoyer had been
sent from Peru, Ind, for murder and Bren-
ming had been the principal witness against
him.
Work was resumed yesterday in the
pudding department of the Central iron
works, at Harrisburg, the men accepting
the reduction to $50 per day. Other de-
partments are expected to resume next
week.
The lines that agreed to reduce rates on
sugar, coffee, canned goods and other COM
modities to Kansas points, were notified
yesterday by Chairman Midgely, of the
Western freight association, they must not
take such action.
a construction train on the Vicksburg
and Meridian road was wrecked near For
est, Miss, yesterday. Two negro section
hands were killed. Conductor Ramsey,
Section Foreman Rogers, Brakeman Boyd
and another brakeman were fatally injured.
There is a movement on foot among the
negroes of Nashville to start emigration to
Oklahoma next fall. \ negro who has
great influence among his people is agitat-
ing the question and has procured the
names of thousand negroes who want
10 go.
Rufus Crews has entered suit at Calves
ton in the United States district court
against Charles Dillingham;, receiver of the
Houston and Texas Central railway com
pany, to recover damages to person in the
sum of $4,000 and costs for having an arm
crushed.
The wool bill win be the first of the tariff
bills to be taken up in the house. Members
of the ways and means committee reached
this conclusion yesterday The second bill
will probably be Bryan's bill making bind
ing Irvine Free and the third the cotton 1
bagging bill.
A fatal accident occurred yesterday near
Molbrown, Germany, on the railway be-
tween Kielce and Sasnowitz. A passenger
train ran into train conveying number
of soldiers, and number of carriages were
smashed to pieces. Three bodies of SOL
diers have been taken from the wreck, and
ten others, more or less injured, have been
rescued.
Mr.. Cleveland reached New York yester-
day, accompanied by Richard Watson Gil
der. He said: Il don't know anything of
interest that can say for publication. 1
am tired out and am going right to Lake
wood to rest" When asked about the pro-
posed presentation of his name by Frank |
Rurd in the Chicago convention Mr.. Cleve-
land said he was not prepared to discuss
the subject.
A party of nine colored men from Arkan-
sas passed through Pittsburg for New |
York, where they expect to make arrange
ments for transportation to Liberia. They |
stated they had been working plantations in |
the southern part of the state, and have long |
been dissatisfied with their condition.
BishoplTurner had told them free trans
portation to Liberia would be furnished by |
the Liberian consul in New York and they |
were on their way to arrange for their de-
parture
News of a terrible disaster in the North
sea, by which q steamer went to the bot
tom, carrying every soul on board with one
exception, was received at London late last |
night The steamer Loughbrow (Britishl
and the Forest Queen came into collision
of Marlborough, a village Of York county,
East Riding, on North sea. So quickly did
the Forest Queen founder that her crew
had no chance to save their lives, and all
hands, with the single exception of Capt.
West, went down to a watery grave.
Coy-a-,,O,. rT'ill-,,, Of South C,orolino has