Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-20
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Adispatch from St. Petersburg announces
the death of DR.. Wilhelm Junker, the we'll
known African traveller and naturalist.
It was announced last night at Denver
that the Bossick mine at Silver Cliff had
been sold to New York and San Francisco
parties for 100000.
The Salisbury government has decided to
ignore the advice Of its election agents and
viii postpone the dissolYing of parliament
until after harvest time.
The condition of NJ. De Lesseps, whose
critical illness was announced, has i'm
proved. His friends, however, are still
anxious concerning him.
The assay commission, recently in ses-
sion in Philadelphia, has reported to the
president that the coinage of 1891 was sat
isfactory in every respect.
In consequence of the financial crisis
Portugal will not take part in the Worlds
fair at Chicago. The chamber of deputies
has adopted the principle of the retrench-
ing Dill.
Three hundred of the employees of the
Lawrence s. Brown colliery, at Mahanoy
Plane, Penn, which resumed operations
on Thursday struck yesterday for back
wages.
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 and steel com
pany will make a general reduction of 10
per cent in wages at their. Fishback plant,
to take effect at once. The company en-
ploys 600 men. Another strike is expected.
Gen, Thomas L. Rosser, an ex-Confed-
crate cavalry officer, in an open letter TO
Col. 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 lawyer
to report on the legality of cemeteries sell
ing flowers.
Ths13o-yards handicap race for e1OO in
the pedestrian contest at Manchester, Eng,
was won by the American, Budd. He was
p great fayorite in the betting, and was
backed in the sum of upward Of $4,000.
The last betting was to on Budd. He
won by half yard
The friends of Senator Quay in Philadel-
Phia have recently received letters from St.
Luce, Fla, where the senator is staying, to
the effect that his health is notimproved by
the sojourn there. He is threatened with
pneumonia. Mrs. Quay started for St.
Luce, Fla, to be with her husband.
The steamship orinoco, at New York
yesterday from Bermuda, brought Capt.
Richardson, his wife, the cook and the
first and second mates of the Portland brig
Annie Stoir which was wrecked off
Bermuda two weeks ago while bound to
Havana from Baltimore with cargo of
coal.
Chief Justice Maxwell of the supreme
court Of Nebraska, has handed down an
opinion holding that Governor Thayer had
no right 10 hold the office of governor nor
had he the right to use its authority, and
Lieutenant Governor Majors should have
held the Office pending the test of Boyd's
citizenship.
The name of Russell B. Harrison" APP
pears on the door leading 20 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
Weedy,with which he has been associated
for several years past.
BY the explosion of the engine at the Cy-
clone manufacturing company's works at
Dewitt, Iowa, yesterday, Mrs. Dora Fuller,
Miss Han, Fred johnson, Frank Jones,
Homer Reed, Norman Hall, and Arthur
Crane were injured. The explosion was
caused by one Of the men putting gasoline |
In the hot water by mistake.
At New York yesterday SS7 enumerator1 |
went out into the city to take the new
census. BY the end of the month the count |
will have been completed, and il is expected |
that New York city viii gain several Dem |
ocratic legislators, and perhaps some con-
bASSSAAcA- ~ TIC od4llC LiIllC O1O ulSu were |
set to work in Brooklyn, which city expects
70 roll up population of about 100000
AS protest against the imposition of the |
fuel tax the inhabitants of Potensa, Italy, |
fortified town on the Eastern declivity of |
the Apennines, invaded the town hall in a |
body and proceeded to sack the building. |
They obtained possession of the archives |
slowed away in the hall, and after starting !
IRE threw the documents into the flames
and watched until they all had been re-
6uced to ashes.
Senator Hansbrough who introduced a
bill to compel street cars TO run all night |
says he was on morning newspaper for
eleven years and knew what it meant to be |
compelled to walk home in the morning |
after a nights hard work. 1t was the |
memory of his experience and his sympathy |
for newspaper men and other night
workers, he said, that had caused him to
introduce the bill.
A dispatch from Ottumwa, 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.
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