Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-23
BOILED DOWN.


FOR reelection.
I'M. Kizer, former treasurer of Texar-
kama, died at Boerne Saturday and was
buried at Texarkana yesterday
The American colony in the City of
Mexico celebrated Washington's birthday.
Minister Ryan held reception.
The comptroller of the currency has ar-
pointed Emerson Collins of Williamsport
receiver of the First national bank Of
Muncy, Pa
An investigation along the frontier
shows there is no danger of an uprising in
Mexico. The Cara banditti appear to
have disbanded.
a rousing Trinity river navigation meet
ing was held at Dallas Saturday night, and
considerable sum of money raised to test
the feasibility of navigation.
The amount of AZ per cent bonds re-
deemed yesterday was $4,000, making the
total redemption to date S2s, sOO65O, and
leaving outstanding g, 2O4,O5O.
Hanlan and o'Connor have accepted
Teemer and Hosmer's challenge for a race
At Point of Pines in June for $1,000 side
and the worlds championship.
George William Curtis delivered an adj
dress yesterday before the Brooklyn
institute on James Russell Lowell, the
seventy-third anniversary of his birth.
Congressman and diplomats spent yester-
day in Jackson Park Chicago, inspecting
Worlds fair preparations. At night
Chicago gave the visitors grand banquet,
Chief of Police Hackett shot and killed
james Harmon, well-known citizen Of
Tarrytown, N. Y, last night. The murder
was the result of quarrel at the Demo
cratic primaries.
There is considerable anxiety expressed
in regard to the health OF the queen regent,
Marie Christiana, mother of little King
Alfonso XIII of Spain, son of the late
King Alfonso XII
The great cake walk, of which the colored
population of New York and vicinity have
been talking for days past, occurred last
night at Madison Square garden, New
York, in the presence of L, 900 persons.
George Pellew, an editorial writer on the
New York Sun, was found dead In base
Inent area on West Thirty-ffth street by an
ashman. His neck was broken and he had
evidently fallen while on his way home,
two blocks away.
The Galveston Chamber of Commerce
appointed the following delegates TO the
trans-Mississippi commercial congress
which meets in New Orleans; Hon. Wal
ter Gresham, J. G. Goldthwaite, r. B.
Hawley. James Moore, P. J. Willis, John
Raymershoffer, Judge George E. Mann and
Frank Leach.
The family of NJ. Henry, living in the
nnrthern part of Sac county, Iowa, was
Buffocated yesterday by coal gas. Neigh
bors who went to the house found all the
family insensibie aud at once summoned a
physician. 1t was too late to save all the
family, and young child died, while the
rest are very feeble.
During the singing of a hymn at the
opening of the evening service in the
Evangelical church at Loganton, near Lock
Haven, Pa, Rev. John Heller, local
preacher, inclined his head as if in prayer
and breathed his last. Heart disease was
the cause of his death. He was eighty
seven years of age.
The neighbors of Henry Assenmayer, at
Joliet, Ill, yesterday found him and his
aged wife barely breathing and the room
filed with coal gas that was escaping from
the top of the stove. Doctors were sum
moned, but so far have not brought the suf-
ferers to consciousness and they are beyond
recovery. The couple are about eighty
years old.
The president has granted 4 pardon in
the case of Alexander Smith, convicted in
Georgia of violating internal revenue laws;
III the case of Isaac Rogers, convicted in
Pennsylvania of violating national banking
, law, and sentenced May n, 1885, to seven
years Imprisonment and to pay cos IS of
prosecution, the president has RENTED
that portion of the sentence requiring pay
ment Of costs.
Cadets have been appointed to the Mill
tary academy as follows: Lucian Stacey
of Porter, Second Maine, with Timothy
Murphy of Lewiston as alternate: Thos. j.
Powers, Jr., of Philadelphia, Fifth Penn
sylvania; Walter G. Amos of Detroit first
Michigan, with Horatio J. Lawrence of
Detroit as alternate; Chas. L. Russell of
Comanche Eleventh Texas, with Dennis H.
Currie of Glen Rose as alternate; Cyrus
B. E. Pinkerton OF Rantoul as alternate in
the Fifteenth Illinois: Geo. f Markham,
New York city, Fifteenth New York, and
Daniel A, Eillin of Philadelphia third Penn
sylvania.
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