Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-19
BOILED DOWN.

amounting TO SS0OO,OO0, an increase over
last year.
The city council of Dayton, Ohio, has
banished natural gas and coal has been
substituted.
An immense crop of ice has been har-
vested in New York. There viii be no ex-
cuse for extravagant prices.
Albany county, New York, the last
Cleveland stronghold, will surrender this
week and elect Hill delegates.
Governor.Flowerlhas declared in favor of
the February % convention in New York.
He says it is the proper time to hold it.
indianapolis Republicans are startled by
the demand OF Blocks-of-Five Dudley to be
made delegate at large from Indiana
Henry P Ray, who died near Marble
Plains, Franklin, Tenn, last week, only
lacked fifteen days of being 1O2 years old.
A s.wolf drive" took place at Girard Kan
sas, yesterday. About one thousand men
participated and twenty-five wolves were
killed.
Vice-President Morton has suggested
Secretary Tracy as the Republican nominee
for vice-president 1t meets Harrison's
favor.
Ex-Postmaster General Dickinson is
working up a Cleveland reception in Detroit
TO Offset the falling away of prominent
Democrats who have declared for Hill
Ex-senator James G. Fair has made
win giving $500, 900 to Catholic orphan
asylum, 100000 to 4 protestant orphan
i I -.
ton.
Small pox, which has prevailed at Bonn
bay for some little time, has broken out
epidemic During the past week there
were twenty-three deaths from this disease
reported.
The both anniversary of the birth of
Richard Allen first bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, was observed
il the churches of that denomination in
Baltimore yesterday.
Rev. Dr. Horstman, bishop-elect of Cleve
land, viii enter on an eight day retreat to-
day in preparation for his conservation
which viii take place at the cathedral in
Philadelphia on February %.
It has been decided that the four dele
gates at large from New York will be
Richard Croker, Hugh Mclaughlin, Ed
ward Murphy, Jr., of Troy, and Lieutenant
Governor Sheehan of Buffalo.
The fire marshal in New York reports
that the Hotel Royal fire originated in the
elevator shaft from the candle of the night
engineer. He probably ignited a leak in the
rubber gas pipe while making an examina-
ton.
The Philadelphia and Reading company's
Locust Gap coliery, at Mt. Carmel, Pa,
mine with 4 capacity of 1000 tons aday, was
partially destroyed by fire yesterday. Six
hundred hands will be thrown out of en-
ployment.
The cotton planters of Georgia are now
getting their advances from the cotton
factors. As 4 usual thing the factors begin
advancing money in January, but this year
they deferred it for several weeks owing to
the condition of business.
A committee of American flint glass
workers met yesterday at Philadelphia to
consider plans for monument at Corning,
n. Y, over the nineteen glass workers who
were killed in a railroad collision near
Revenna, Ohio, last July.
a brilliant display of the aurora boreaIis
was visible on Saturday evening over a
large portion of the United States, being
observed throughout the Middle and New
England States, and as far west and |
north as Iowa and Michigan.
Webb James and Maria Austin, lovers,
near Birmingham, Ala, quarreled. James |
hid himself in the kitchen and when Miss !
Austin came in from 4 neighbours broke her |
skull with coupling pin and stabbed her
in the temple. She died instantly.
It is announced in ST. Louis that Mr.
Bass Henderson, chief clerk of the Linden
hotel in that city, is to marry after the
close Of her present engagement Miss Ad-
die Cora Reed, I well known and pretty |
singer, now member of Pauline Halls
opera company.
Chicago's council has adopted the report
of its special committee on high buildings,
the report providing that hereafter all
buildings to be erected shall be Hmitedato
height Of $50 feet, and that they shall only
be constructed to that height when front
ing on streets of eighty feet or more in
width.
James Morton of Salem, Illinois, is dead,
and six other persons were made critically
i'll by poison supposed to have been placed
in the family -four barrel A young man
named Parkinson is suspected of having
committed the crime because one of Nor
toms daughters refused to receive calls
from him.
It is reported from Chicago that the vari-
Gus railways entering that city rather than
elevate their tracks will transfer their
base of operations. It is proposed to build
new belt line with which each road will
make connections, all tracks, depots and
other property within the city limits to be
a5olutely abandoned"
Gen. Schofeld received a telegram from
the commanding general of the department
of Arizona yesterday, saying a fight oc-
CURED at Fort Stanton y. NJ, yesterday
between AIescalero and Lipan Indians.
during which four men were killed and ten
wounded. It says affairs have quieted
down and no further trouble is anticipated.