Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-25
SANGER BROS.
BOILED DOWN.

| There IS said to be ten-year-old georgia
boy who is cutting his third set of teeth.
Continued heavy expenditures have re-
duced the United States treasury cash bal
ance to s27. "a, 500.
A citizen of Onion, Me-, claims that last
week he drank twenty-six gallons of cider
in three days. He is not believed.
Adispatch from ST. Petersburg announces
the death of DR.. Wilhelm Junker, the we'll
known African traveller and naturalist.
1t was announced last night at Denver
that the Bossick nine at Silver Cliff had
been sold to New York and San Francisco
parties for s., 100000
o. A. Arthur, until this week president
of the Carroll, Iowa, national bank has left
town suddenly taking with him his family
and household effects. He is said to leave
numerous creditors behind
The Pottsville, Penn, iron dsteel com
pany, Mill make general reduction of 10
peESeht in wages at their Fishback plant,
Ike effect at once. The company en-
/. sloys 600 men. Another strike is expected.
Gen, IY6omas L. Rosser, an ex-Confed-
eratsseavalry officer, in an open letter to
G6f. c. T. O'Ferrali, which will appear to-
morrow, announces himself as candidate
for congress, to succeed that gentleman
from the Seventh Virginia district
It has been discovered that good pro-
portion of the flowers sold this winter to
the Chicago elite for theater and house
events were grown In the local cemeteries.
The Florists club has employed a lawyer
to report on the legality of cemeteries sell
ing flowers.
Chief Justice Maxwell of the supreme
court of Nebraska, has handed down an
opinion holding that Governor Thayer had
no right to hold the Office OF governor nor
had he the right to use its authority, and
Lieutenant-Govern Majors should have
held the Office pending the test of Boyd's
citizenship.
The name of Russell B. Harrison ap-
pears on the door leading to an elegant
suite of offices in the Washington building,
No. l Broadway, New York 1t has been
noticed that his name has recently been
taken from the head Of Frank Leslie's
Weekly, with which he has been associated
for several years past.
At New York yesterday ss7 enumerators
went out into the city to take the new
census. BY the end of the month the count
will have been completed, and it is expected
that New York city viii gain several Dem
ocratic legislators, and perhaps some con.
gressmen. At the same time 645 men were
set to work in Brooklyn, which city expects
to roll up population of about 100000.
As protest against the imposition of the
fuel tax the inhabitants of Potensa, Italy,
a fortified town on the Eastern declivity of
the Apennines, invaded the town hall in
body and proceeded to sack the building.
They obtained possession of the archives
slowed away in the hall, and after starting
fire threw the documents into the flames
and watched until they all had been re-
duced to ashes.
A dispatch from Ottumws, Iowa, says
that the depopulation of the mining town
of Mystic is feared, the result of.the rate
ruling of the Iowa Central That road.
month ago. made rates TO St. Paul, Mime
apolis and other towns which shut out Mys-
tic, and gave the eeal trade to Centreville
and Forbush. As result eighteen mines
are closed, and GOO miners families are be-
ginning to feel the pangs of hunger"
Rev. Elijah W. Merrill died yesterday at
Minneapolis. When little more than an in
FAINT it was supposed that he had died and
he was laid out for burial Before the
funeral signs Of life were discovered and he
was revived. A few years ago he was
reported as drowned while crossing the
Mississippi on the way to his farm in
Wright county, and several memorial ser
mons were preached, including one at
Albion College, Michigan, where he had
been professor. MIR. Merrill survived to
read reportsaf these.