Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-16
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President Carnot has signed the CONNER
cial reciprocity convention with the United
States.
Word reached Hartford yesterday that a
great fire was raging in Danbury, Conn.
No particulars, as wires are all burned out
there
The Iowa state senate has passed a
bill compelling all railway companies to use
union depots in cities where two or more
railroads center.
The town of Mount Pleasant, Tenn, was
last night visited by the most destructive
fire in the history of the town. The prin-
cipal business part of the place burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance not known.
E9Azrael Grover died at Beaver Farm,
Wis, yesterday, ffty-seven years old. He
was the most noted dropsicaI patient in The
country He had been tapped 80 times,
and 1900 pounds of water drawn from him.
The Central traffic association has made
single fare Iound-trip rate to the Minneapo-
lis convention, good from June ? to June
25. For the Chicago convention the same
rate is announced good from June 16 to
JulyS s.
Fire broke out yesterday in the Duyal
hotel, corner of Forsythe and Hogan
streets, Jacksonville, Fla. The hotel ac-
commodities about a hundred guests. The
clerk says there were about seventy in the
house at the time of the fire. All escaped.
The Judiciary committee of the house
have agreed unanimously to report to the
house a recommendation to lay upon the
table the resolution looking to the impeach-
ment of Hon. A. P. Mccormick, judge Of
the district court for the Northern district
of Texas.
Yesterday in suburb of Ridgedale,
Tenn, ]. F. Conley, retired Methodist
preacher, shot himself in the mouth, the
ball passing through his brain. He cleaned
his pistol, told his wife he was going on a
trip, kissed his baby, went into the house
and fred the fatal shot
Yesterday morning Senator Morrilrs
condition was unchanged. DR.. Busey made
an examination of the patients lungs, and
found while one of them was completely
congested the other was unaffected. The
senator has not lost conscious ness, but his
condition is exceedingly precarious.
Acknowledgement Hensle of Pennsyl-
vania fled in the Dauphin county court
yesterday bill in equity asking the court
to declare null and void and perpetually en-
join the recent deal by which the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad company secured
practical monopoly Of the anthracite coal
business.
Detective Kinley reached Sedalia from
Houston, Texas, yesterday, and in refer
ence to the man held there for the Wilson
outrage said: The negro now in custody at
Houston answers the description of the |
rapist more infinitely than any capture |
made yet. am strongly inclined to be- |
Heve we now have the right man. His
name is Wash Mcclellan -
May Knowles, Z handsome and bright !
young actress, whose family is one of the |
Oldest and wealthiest in Newburg. n. Y,
died under mysterious circumstances on
Sunday. She was nineteen years old, and |
very beautiful. Official inquiry develops
an aute-mortem statement she made that
medicine for an Illicit purpose had been
given her by medical students and room
mate. Her death resulted.
Sunday, thirty miles from PineviIle, KY,
in Leslie county, Sheriff Lewis and deputy
had tragic fight with two moonshiners,
Henry and Frank Brown. When the
sheriff and deputy attempted to make the
arrest, the Browns opened fire with Win
chester rifles. Sheriff Lewis received a
scalp wound at first fire but the fire was
returned with telling effect, and both the
Browns brought down, Frank being fatally
wounded. Henry had his leg broken.
Walter Snider, confidential clerk in Nay
lor & Co.'S. hardware store, Tifin, Ohio
shot two employers, Edward J. Naylor and
Burton Crobaugh, and T. W. DowneY, a
fellow clerk, and then shot himself He
was undoubtedly insane Snider was worth
$50, Geo in real estate. Last week the firm
took two Of its clerks into partnership,
leaving Snider out which preyed on his
mind so that this morning he called Naylor
and CroOaugh TO look at al express package
he had received, and while examining it he
shot them Downey rushed to the rescue /
and received three bullets in his body. The !
streets are thronged in front of the store
where the bloody work was done. All the
men save snider are married aud hare fam
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