Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-13
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the sale of intoxicating liquors was indefi-
nitely postponed.
The Pacific Mail steamer Colima Is ashore
near La Union, San Salvador, and may
prove total loss. No loss of life is re-
ported.
Hopkins Of Illinois, at the request of
Wanamalzer, has introduced bill to au-
thorize the establishment of postal tele-
graph service
Considerable interest is being manifested
among the Democratic congressman at
Washington over the coming senatorial con-
test in the Texas legislature.
It is said at the White House and state
department that there is no foundation for
the report that Minister Egan viii be trans
ferred from Chill to Brazil.
Senator Hill of New York will deliver an
anniversary address at the commemoration
Of the Mecklenburg declaration of indie
pendenee at Charlotte, N. c., May 20.
A fire at Bloomfield, Iowa, last night
laid waste the entire south side of the pub
lie square including the opera house and
many fine store buildings. Loss, $500, 600.
In the guise of a Valparaiso dispatch the
rumor is printed that Minister Egan will
soon be recalled to Washington. He will,
# is said, be appointed United States min
lister to Brazil.
Tom CATER, in jail at Fort Dodge, Iowa,
for numbering Edward Buggy, tried to
commit suicide by battering his head
against the iron of his cage. The doctors
say he will die.
Military transport trains are continually
passing Cracow en- route for the western
frontier. In the villages and towns of Pc
land 10000 troops have been billeted upon
the inhabitants.
Cardinal Gibbons has letter from
Bishop Beff of Carthagena, Colombia,
America, in which the bishop promises to
send a bell 7SS years old for exhibition at
the Worlds fair.
Three persons were drowned at Charles
ton, W. Va, crossing the Kanawha in a
skif, Annie Medley, J. A. Medley, her
uncle, and Felix Burdett. They lost their
oars and the boat capsized.
The report that the British East Africa
company's troops sustained severe defeat
in With at the hands of large force of
natives, losing many men and Maxim gun,
proves to have been incorrect.
William Amsler was killed yesterday at
Tacoma while digging 4 well by bucket
falling on his head. The news of his death
so shocked Mrs. Malvin, the wife of a
neighbor, that she died last night.
Yesterday Charles Lesh and H. S. Swelt-
ger, young men of Button, Ind, engaged
in friendly boxing contest when Sweltzer
struck Lesh powerful blow on the neck.
Lesh fell and expired in five minutes.
Fire broke out in the Axtel restaurant at
Red Key, Ind, and it was soon destroyed.
William S. Rowe of Pennville, sleeping
over the restaurant, endeavored to escape,
but was caught in the flames and persisted.
Elm reply to an inquiry at the Office of the
state board of agriculture of Kansas in re-
gard to the damage to winter wheat by
the recent blizzard it was stated the cold
snap could not possibly have injured wheat
IN Kansas.
The district attorney at Darlington, Wis,
finally decided not to act upon petition
signed by members of the county board
asking for discontinuance of the prosecu-
ton of the lynchers of Sieboldt The trial
is under way.
The latest thing in the way of combina-
tions to obtain better prices for articles is
an association of strawberry raisers of
Wisconsin, which has been formed at Ra-
cine. Growers of various other states will
be invited to join.
The extensive oil works Of John Eckles
at Blackburn, England, burned yesterday.
The fire burned with frightful violence,
and many fremen had narrow escapes from
losing their lives. The loss amounts to
many thousands of pounds.
Mrs. H. W. Fitch, the wife of the vice
president of the Washington national bank,
Spokane, died Friday a week ago and her
baby next day. Since then her husband
has invoked the aid of Christian scientists
to bring back his wife and child to life
During a practice game of base ball by
Capt. Anson's league club yesterday, Gum
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swift batted ball, which struck him in the
head. and for two hours his life was de-
SPARED of. He is improving, however.
Father Hebron of ST. Paul, Mimi, tele-
graphs Cardinal Gibbons he is not the
author Of the statement telegraphed from
St. Paul that Archbishop Ireland would be
made a cardinal. Father Hebron adds he
has no information whatever on the subject.
Chas. Gill, the notorious outlaw, went to
the hotel of Geo, W. Rollins at Catoosa,
In, and demanded admittance. The re-
quest not being complied with, he kicked
the door in and started 10 run things to
suit himself when the landlord appeared
and shot him dead.
All the indicted officials of the whisky
trust, with the exception of Nelson Morris
and Gibson, appeared before Judge Nelson
in the United States district court at Bos-
ton and pleaded not guilty. Bail was fixed in
the sum of $1,000 for each. which was fur
nished. The cases come up March 90
A great coal miners strike was Gin
augurated yesterday in accordance with the
plan of the Miners federation, which in
manifesto issued q few days ago declared
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