Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-29
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The senate yesterday confirmed the APP
po'ntmcnt Of Judge J. 3. Rector to be
United States district Judge for the north
ern district of Texas.
The house committee on agriculture took
up the anti-option bill yesterday, and after
discussion of a few sections postponed &C
ton to Wednesday.
Capt. Charlis Hunts schooner Sam
brings report that Thursday the iron tug
Teppic, passing out from Vancouver, sunk
with ali hands on board.
It has been arranged that the landing of
Deeming at Melbourne on arrival from
Albany shall be secret, in order to foil at
tempts that may be made to lynch him.
1.-THE ways and means committee has de-
cided to report favorably to the house
Bunting's bill reducing the hty on tin
plate and making it free after October 1.
A poll of the delegates to the Democratic
state convention of Minnesota, which
meets Thursday to select national dele
gates, show they favor sending delega-
ton for Cleveland.
Senator German has reintroduced his
bill Of fast congress, prohibiting Canadian
railroads from doing business in the United
States unless they comply with the inter-
state commerce law.
Detroit police last night arrested John
and William Bloom and Edward Daniels,
their brother-in-law, 1t is believed these
men have been setting the numerous fires
which caused so much damage.
The British steamer Missouri, which
sailed from New York March Is for Liban
with a cargo of -four and meat for the re-
lief of the Russian famine, sufferers, was
sighted off Scilly islands yesterday.
MIR. Merritt Barbour, assistant adjutant-
. general of the department OF Dakota, yes
terday received from Gen. Schofeld orders
to render the civil authorities on the Sisse-
Ion to keep settlers off the reservation.
News reached Augusta, Ga, last night of
the murder of Bishop Jones, a colored min
lister, at Anendale. While he was preach
ing he was shot through the breast. The
assassin who fired through the window ss-
capped.
1t is estimated that Marquis Days loss
of colts at Bitter Root stock farm this sea-
son will aggregate 100000. Five-sixths of
the colts foaled died Immediately after
birth. Best veterinary surgeons were IN
able to arrive at the cause, but consider it
can be remedied.
Arnold JAM was assassinated at Chicago
yesterday while leaving home on business.
Martin Techel, a dissipated laborer,
boarded at JANIS house and unsuccess-
fully aspired to marry JANIS daughter He
is under arrest, charged with shooting the
victim from ambush.
The Liverpool coroner's jury Continued
the investigation of the death of the woman
and four children whose bodies were found
at Rain Hill. A verdict of murder was re-
turned against Deeming. The jury severely
criticized Rain Hill police for not taking
action against suspicious characters.
Referring to the late Walt Whitman. the
London Standard says: 'If obliged to
judge Whitman by conventional standards
it might be necessary TO declare that he
failed as poet : If, instead, we look at the
residium of pureogoid his works contain,
it is impossible TO deny him great and
original genius"
Ex-Postmastcr General Dickinson I'M
der Cleveland returned yesterday to De-
troit from an absence of several weeks in
the East He said: II visited New York,
Washington and Boston during my alb
scuce. Met large number of promi-
nent politicians and think understand the
situation clearly. 1t is that Cleveland is
the man.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, a sister of |
the late Henry Ward Beecher, and wife of |
Connecticuts auditor general, John Hooker,
attended 9 meeting OF spiritualists in New |
York Sunday. Mrs. Hooker addressed the
gathering, announcing that the eminent
preacher was spirltualist. She said that /
IN spirit her brother had appeared before
her, and uttered these words: Belle, I |
was q coward; knew this truth, and be-
lieved it but had not the courage of my
convictions. I feared my friends would
desert me. Now I know that had 1 not
been coward would have carried the
whole congregation OF, my church with
ne" This created great stir in the audi
ence. Without stopping Mrs. Hooker went
en- to say she had frequent spirit, communi-
cations from her brother, and knew he was
. spiritnalist before his deaaa. /