Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-26
BOILED DOWN.

The bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, is dead.
Reports of revolutions in Guatemala are
denied.
There are monster demonstrations in
Mexico almost daily favoring Diaz' re-
election.
President Diaz says If the United States
returns Mexican battle flags, they viii be
accepted in friendly spirit.
The Cooke county, Ill, grand jury inves-
tigating the boodlers got into row 'yester-
day and adjourned In disorder.
The experimental deep. well being sunk
by Galveston tapped a vein of water with
an immense now at depth of 1920 feet.
The grand national steeple chase at the
Liverpool meeting was won by Father
o'Flynn, Cloister second and Hex third.
The railroads have conceded the de-
mands of the Birmingham iron masters for
reduced rates on pig iron to points north Of
the Ohio river.
The Southwestern wholesale grocers' as
sociatisn is in convention at the Gayoso
hotel, Memphis. Delegates are there from
Galveston and Dallas.
Ex-Secretary OF State Bayard will visit
ez-President Cleveland in New York in a
few days. It is understood the conference
will be of political nature
The jury in the Melrose poisoning case at
Nashville returned q verdict that the death
of the two girls, Matte and Katie, resulted
from arsenic put in the coffee boiler.
Startling developments in the gainesville,
Ohio, bank failure show forged paper to
the amount of $50, GOO, and R. K Paige, the
head of the bank, is missing. Liabilities
will reach $780,, 900
The recommendation of the board of par
dons of Pennsylvania that Editors Porter
and Mellon of the Beaver Star, sentenced
to six months for libelling Senator Quay,
be pardoned, was yesterday approved by
Governor Pattison.
When Rem Gano vas wanted in court at
Mount Gilead, Ohio, yesterday to receive
sentence of death for the murder of his
wife, the sheriff found him in the agon;es
of death in his cell. He poisoned himself
and died in short time.
James B. Swayn was arrested at
indianapolis for being drunk Later the
police discovered a horrible wound in his
head. He died without making a state
ment. Wound was inflicted by friend of
Swayn's wife, with whom he had quarreled
R E. Bynum, until a few days ago money
oil ~Of% ba Go
has been arrested charged with the theft
of money pacl are valued at $1,000. There
is some doubt of the mans guilt. He will
not talk, but denies the charge. Bynum is
married and from the north
Lewis Williams, q negro, entered the
house of Rev. Mr.. Leonard at Milledge-
vile, Ca, yesterday Mrs. Leonard re-
turned while the burglar was ransacking
her room. He struck her with an ak, in
flicting injuries from which she died.
Williams was captured and will probably be
lynched.
That portion of Richmond, Va, known as
Africa is in a &hirl over the marriage of
Rev. John Jasper, author of ''The sun do
move'' theory, and Widow Cary of his
flock. She is his fourth wife Jasper is
eighty years of age and his bride nineteen.
The bride has one child and three step
grandchildren.
The strike Of the yard switchmen at the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, which
occurred Wednesday morning, is assuming
formidable proportions, The Switchmens'
Mutra1 Ala uccocio+ior boe +o1-o,, -, A.
fight, and the result is that no freight cars
of the Memphis and Charleston railroad
will be handled by other railroad companies.
An outbreak in the nature of a riot oc-
Cured at Kent, Ohio yesterday Some
Erie switchmen were discharged and new
men put in their places. The discharged
men and friends attacked the new men.
The police interfered. The men attacked
the police with revolvers, the fire was re-
turned and two of the mob badly wounded.
While Mrs. Henry Lards was cleaning a
carpet in one of her rooms with gasoline at
Adrian, Mich, stove in an adjoining room
exploded. In moment the room in which
the mother was at work was filed with |
flames Two children were burned, one |
dying soon after, and the other is not likely
to recover. Mrs. Lard was also fatally |
burned.
Twenty-three bodies, victims of Hill
Farm mine explosion, found Wednesday |
after a search of twenty months, were
buried yesterday at Dunbar, Pa. The re-
mains were placed in cofins or rough boxes |
down in the mine and relatives were not |
permitted to sec them. During the services
a brother of Richard Bigley insisted upon
seeing the face of his dead brother. On
beng refused he grew frantic, saying: 'sBy |
heaven I shall see him." and at the same
grabbed Ratchet He attacked the rough |
box and attempted to cut a hole in it but |
was overpowered and taken from the Gene
terry.