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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
A rRorENslTY FoR THErr.

A young miscrcant by the name Of VIII
Wash, c0lored. was yesterday corralled
10y Officer Garrett, caught In the act of
stealing street incandescent globes, the
property Of the clty. For some time
past globes have been missed, but until
yesterday II was not known what became
Of them. Wash Is u vag as well. and this
charge in conjunction with theft, insuf'es
the prisoner good long service with the
rnnnIN.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

New York. May 10 The German
squadron departed from the iniernnuongl
fleet this afternoon. Tie ueringn az.
mlrhl nndn q farewell cal on dlnrnrdi
early ~ the day and when time 10 saii
The slnndron proceeded directly 10 sea.
No Faluifs were fred.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

stOfm hnuscN aud Wki1E Out VycIoHe P0T7
irlea.
AZ the executive committee meeting
yesterday, resolution was passed set
ting aside $1,000 Of the relief fund for
building a SCHOOL house.
Tho city hall viii be built at once.
A telegram Just received says six moro
cars Of lumber have been donated. The
total nm0nnt received to date, besides
provisions and clothing n, Including the
100000 donated. Khl .l2As2.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

Terrell. FOX. MAY i8. (special.l--
Terrell board Of trade directors held an
Interesting meeting al .. ~. They real
ize flat they have a mammoth Job on
hand and one that Will take much luonuy,
70 be u benefit 10 the city.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

Terrell, Tex. May -. Especial III
weather Is favorable the harvesting Of
The crop will BE- large oos, unloas sotie-
thing uripples the present proaprets-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
vARNErLs PRoBABLE RECAP

fIillsboro, Tex. May 13.-(Speclal)-
The, escape of Tom i. Narncll at Waxa-
hachie last night has been the topic of
conversation here today.
Nnrnell has q number of friends and
relatives at this place and his recap
turc, II is thought, win be hard to ac.
colnnlish.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

ON 'OG 6rIv 'SupsanL sulMoHoJ 9Vi no
IN which all members Of the q. A. H.
and MI old soldiers, and the members
of Robert u. Lee camp No. 1853. T.. q, v.
and The public generally are Invited to
pprticlpaie. program will be announc-
ed later
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

LIN, Tex, !, May l5.-lSlpe . i9i
. i u Sc ,i I, Of The \, Texas Press
'-' '-'us tue 'o''o"'ns aPpo'n''
'yncr,,v,,p co,o,,,,.,,,,,
4. -AhVuIiNE CoMMlITl'll'
A. Cnvens, Index, Willis.
.ta Wynne, Enterprise Bean
" Harris, Herald. Greenyillc.
9 l,II Slpgy l Gass. Ciar hs,l.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

'.s'i.. ,' Improvement ofsIsoan-
vi 10 h ie.ll-hlolled Clfoctnw in
! dai4. Nil NJ re Of the best speakers
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
q A r.. MEMORIAL AND DEcoRA-
rION DAY.

The memorial day services Of tho Grand
Amy ~ the Republic 81 This city VII
T., hcld IL the St pads Methodist Eg's-
copai church, corner - Ssss'iliA y, sn' ~
Trhs sernon will be delivered by the paH-
~ Rev. D. q, lsidg- way, at II a. a.
~ .sr'i1 . ioS lso.i 1ein.lrd 10 ftSquisrA
saa 70 ssalss6o klsSsoNd Y ll.A sep leslota
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14


Christian church-Corner Sixth and
Throckmorton streets. Preaching az II
q. m. and I:30 y. m, by Elder r. L.
Young of WhhcwHght, Tex.
iritualsts-Seryices In Knights Of
Honor hall, corner Houston and Second
streets. ut . O'Clock this afternoon and
/ 30 this evening. Mr.. Hugh Moore will
oliiciaie. and after both lectures give
slate-wrting.
There will he no preaching at the First
Baptist church today, Rcy. j, Morgan
Wells being absent, attending the South
orn Baptist convention Sunday school
at usual hour,
Usual services today at 81. Andrews
church. corner llusk and Fifth STREETS.
Services at II a. m. and 4 y. m.
The Sunday school at the Benevolent
home meets ~ D. m. today, as usual.
and invites its many friends In the city
to visit their school.
There will be services Mt the Tnbcrna-
Gle Cumberland Presbyterian church. cor
ner Nineteenth and Chambers street by
Pastor j. NJ. Martin, VI II o'clock II. N.
aud at 7:45 .. m. Sabbath school at 9:3O
a. m. Chldfen's prayer meeting at q pi
m. Take Arlington Heights streets car
line. Gust to Chambers street.
FIRST Presbyterian church-Corne Cal
hnun and East First streets. Rev. Robi.
II. Nall. u. D., pastor. Sunday school at
$50 a. m. y A. 4. Evans, snperiniend-
ent. Preaching by the pastor al II y.
M. and s D. m. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday at s ocloyk D. m. All are
cordially invited to these services.
Union Bethel Mission Gospel meeting
Sunday night In the tent on Eleventh and
Houston street G. W. Byron's farewell
address. commencing 1aiO p M All
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

div Secretary Burns hns F-rd 20 Sc,
rotary " State Smith for y c~tineu
el,st1er a. pnssed br the legislature.
aud which mas received the signature 81
~ Governor. The full text Of The b.ll
has been printed in The Gazeiie.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
CISCO.
The Recent aaiss Hard on he People BsIIsi
Fund 10 paie.

func 70 pais'
Cise1. Tex. May 10 tsTNGai) II ~
raiuiig again, end although e " q fine
thing Tor tue country. yei y y band on
O,if people II stops needed aud I'M
porqani WORK and household goods are
sst,l,y wet ~ every rain.
The few buaiuesi houses len have been
covered. A lurge nsnilrr are building
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

Joseph Burke. the night watchman at
the Rock Island railroad camp who acci-
IDENTITY shot and killed Thomas Mcclure
mention of which WIS made in The Ga
zette yesterday morning yesterday was
given hearing before Justice Kennedy
On weighing the testimony of witnesses,
tho judge ruled ;hat in mis- opinion the
evidence adduced was not sufficient to
hold the prisoner aud Burke WIS dis
charged, At the time Mcclure was
SHOT he was sleeping On 4 cot Ia the
tent and Just opposite was Waterman
Burke. onre.essly handling n revolver,
which was discharged, the ball entering
the breast, death being instantaneous
The men were quito intimate with each
other. aud no one feels more shocked
over the sad occurrence than Burke.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14

and fewer free fights, with more cash.
A place whore they can continue upon
friendly terms with the grocer and the
butcher.
As six policemen constitute about one
half Of the fOrca. L will he seen that
when there are constabulary duties to
be done. the city will be short handed.
The rule in other cities Is a patfplman to
every 500 or 1000 people and they work.
usually On eiglit-hOur watches aud never
over twelve hours. Here there Is a pa
trolmun for each 1900 people aud The
way thcy are compelled TO attend court
they say they average from sixteen to
eighteen hours n day But the unkiudest
cut Of all the men aver wns that made
in their salaries which they claim are
now hardly sufficient to buy uniforms
and arnica for BRUISES inflicted by Third
ward touIhs after board is paid IN a
fourdollar-a-wcck-and -your-0wn-soap
boarding house.
Chairman Montgomery Of the police
committee Is fully alive to the situation
and Is in sympathy with the men, lie
called upon the special meeting last night
for Two more pAtrolmen Ms extras to
serve until the regular meeting aud at
the regular meeting he will want FIVE or
six new men. He says that the whole
trouble is in the reduction Of salaries.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
ALTERNATIVES.


~ Tex, May 13.-(Speciall-
waving tie city last night presi-
laa ScIrlock Of the Texas Press
'aoa, iaade the following appoint-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-21

The supreme court has affirmed Judge
Newman's decision in the treasury cases
This will cause the return of about $724.
I'll to the state by the ex-treasurers. 0
An explosion which shook buildings
for block around, and was heard over
the entire city, occurred last week a.
Father July's residence at Rhinelandsr.
The escape without injury Of the people
in the house was miraculous. Father
July was entertaining Fathers Van
Hootegem, Of Merrill, and Richards, o.
Wausau, by exhibiting series Of views
on Christ's life by means Of calcium {
light. The gas bag exploded few mos
ments after being filed, and although il
completely wrecked that portion Of thas
house, and broke every particle of furni-1I
ture in the room, not one Of the occu
pants was injured. The report was tteI.1|
rife. a three pound weight Of d Swiil
clock was thrown through y window as,i
across the street. Heavy pieces off tlll;:s 81
niture il remote parts of the l,ae
thrown across the room.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-21

!. Continued On Eighth Page.
The herald., 1893-06-15

a402 Morgan Wilson, in N L wick's
subdivision OF the Garbolino,
Cooper, south Porter tract
In n / MISREPRESENTATION Of the %
Garboiino, Cooper, South &
Porter tract, lot 24i ........ 26
In NIL Wick's subdivision Of the
Keifer tract, lot 5S .... 3 80
GALS A G Rivera, in Alvarado tract,
In Aivarado tract, lot s and per- - -
sonaf property and .poll.tax . II rs
9417 Solomon Bell, lot Of IA feet on
the east side of Los Angeles
street. between Commercial
and Requena streets, bounded
south by Germain, west by
Schroeder and Johnson, north
by Henderson. .......... FL o5
9453 f Burnngame, IN G Kings
subdivision OF lots and3
block 80, Hsacock's survey,
In lSt5 3sigs s2fs aslsSi: as tract i, lrs s'9s e
947s Joseph B Dahney, in NJ LSwicks
subdivision OF the Garbolino
Cooper, South ana Porter
tract, lot 159. 59........... L 26
Lot 100 ............. ... 26
9479 Mrs Isabella Thornton, in
Smith & Swain's subdivision
Of the Harthorne tract, lot s,
o.ao Lot Q, block G, .......;.., 81
selrs subdivision OF lot 7,
block 80, Hancock's survey,
lot IL, block g.. ...,.. LES
goal Mlcndel aure III MOTION 8 addi-
tion to East Los Angeles east
% feet of lot 10, block 8 and
personal property - 10 40
s661 Alfred Moore, jr., in Alfred
Moore's subdivision of an adj
diti0n to Brooklyn tract lot
So . a IA
9763 Heirs of Nellie J Wade, in High
land tract, addition No. 1, lot
q block g. ..... 63
9765 NJ L Samson, in Mob Hill tract.
lot l, block c. . ca
Lotz, BLOCK y. ....... ga
In Eleventh street block, lot 81. 5 81
9773 s c Hubbell, NJ w Johnston and
Mrs NJ Bigelow, piece OF
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30

age are probably the young Ganadi. d
st. Cyr, and the German, kraft turner
( Power gymnast j, Ernest Rohlig. St.
Cyr, in his eighteentl year, lifted a
heavy load of brick out Of q rut by
crawling under the wagon and rising
slowly till all four wheels swung clear
above the ground, and Herr Bohlig
vindicates his title by the probably IN
precedented feat Of making his body
bridge the interspace of two chairs,
standing five feet apart, and IN thai
abnorma position (Which few human
being could maintain for ten seconds,
lifting two dumb bells Of an aggregate
weight of 200 pounds. Standind on his
feet he can toy with more enormous
weights, and on one occasion bent an
iron bar, an inch and a quarter IN di-
ameter, by placing it across his chest
and almost making the two ends meet
between his shoulders. a few years
ago Mr.. Bohlig kept an assembly Of
Vienna sportsmen spellbou1ld for three
following hours, and one of the attend
ing physicians noticed the curious fact
that the most superhrnan Of his tour
de force exploits do not affect the
#steadiness of his pulse to any appreci-
able degree. r.. T. OSWALD.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30

most any uncrippled child into an aero
battle adept, but no amount of practice
will turn a weakly youngster into a
Hercules, and; the apparent exceptions
refer to cases where desperate and per-
sistent physical self-culture has result
ed in remarkable but rather one
sided development of muscular
strength. Pepin Of Heristal, the an
cestor Of Charlemange, was tainted
with his shOrtness of stature till he
trained at the anvil OF a village black
smith, and one day amazed an as
semblage of long-legged cavaliers by
entering bullring, sword in hand and
]hutting off Il bulls head as clean as if
he had been beheading a poppy-stalk
DIR. Winshop Of Boston, too, resolved
to remedy the physical disability which
in his youth had obliged him to sub
nit to the insults Of a burly, fellow
student, and trained year after year
till his arms turned into portentous
masses of muscle, but he never be
came an ':all-round athlete" and died
early, the abnormal demands upon the
resources Of a naturally feeble body
having evidently overtaXed his vitality.
Hereditary strength, on the other
hand, occasionally asserts itself in spite
of INDECENT habits, and King Augustus
the Strong of Saxony and Poland, one
Of the greatest rakes that ever dis
graced a throne, and SO lazy that his
Wallets had to wash and undress him,
was nevertheless able to bend silver
dollar out Of all resemblance to a mod
ern coin, and to roll up three or four
heavy silver platters, in quick success.
sion, like so many sheets Of paper. His
natural son, Marshal Sake, a Don Juan
whose enterprises almost overstrained
the tolerance Of the icentious French
court, had withal inherited a share OF
his fathers herculean physique, and in
the battle of Fontenoy, when the
French household troops seemed unable
to resist the onset Of the British vol
| unteer, the marshal mastered his agi
tation by crushing the guard of his
| sword hilt in the convulsive grip of his
! fict p. rtt H..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30

running out to the end of a projecting
beam, balanced himself on one foot.
and threw an orange about as
far as his Moorish contemporaries
could shoot an arrow. When Frederick
Barbarossa was trying conclusions with
the rebellious cities of Northern Italy,
the leader Of the hostile confederation.
one day invited him to a conference,
STIMULATING that the delegates on both
sides be limited to half a dozen. The
rendezvous turned out to be an am
bush, and the brave companions Of the
imperiled Kaiser would have sue
cumbed to odds, if in the nick Of time
a stark-naled Ritter a giant in
stature and strength, had not rushed
into the midst of the assailants and
routed them by quick succession of
invariably deadly strokes. When the
emperor had regained his feet the
strange apparition had vanished. to-
gether with the ambassadors; but the
friend in need afterWard was ascer-
tanned to have been the Count Henry
of kempen, a young athlete, who had
witnessed the scrimmage from bath
tub in his tent on the outskirts of the
camp, and, recognizing the person Of
the emperor, had rushed out. in statu
| quo, and then, after scattering the
| WOuld-be assassins, had awaited him
self Of a good chance to regain his tent,
| under cover of the dust-whirls
| When George Frundsberg. with his
adventurous guerrillas, laid siege to the
city Of Ulm, the tedium of camp life
was relieved by the exploits of a
Sohild-Knappe, an unkempt hostler
who defied any junta Of young mobiles
as many as three Of them at time, tc
meet him in a sand-pit and defend
! themselves against the risk of being
chucked bodily into a big sack of tent
canvas, and won so many incredible
bets that after awhile the stoutest ca
diets We're afraid to accept challenge
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30

But masters of the Drawn were gen
orally products of the hardy North, and
England, too, evolved a Samson (ThOm-
as Topham of Surry), who carried a
sleeping Waterman, sentry-box and all,
to a remote spot of suburban Gem
etery Southern Europe, on the other
hand, can, on the whole, claim the
championship Of physical agility.
Leonardo de Vinci often surprised his
visitors by leaping to the ceiling of his
study and knocking his feet against
the bells of a glass chandelier, at q
height Of fourteen feet from the floor.
A terreador Gorilla repeatedly permit
ted a rampant bull to approach him
within half-arm's length, when he
would put one foot between the horns
Of the raging brute and save himself
by a graceful leap. LagarbijO, the Ara
gon acrobat, occasionally astonished
the foreign visitors Of the Madrid arena
by similar exploits, and when the
French army was wintering at frank
fort on the-Main, a trooper Of Marshal
Vandamme's corps reconciled at least
the youngsters to the presence Of hos
tile garrison by leaping, even footed,
over a brass goddess towering above
the fountain Of the market square
Acrobats transmitting their trade Sc
crets from father to son, travel from
town to town Of Northern Hindostan,
and often appear on the fair grounds
of the principal cities, as in Agra,
where Capt. Wallace saw white
bearded native leap over three ele-
plants standing side by side, and with
mid-air s0mersault snatch a red
handk erchief from the back Of the ami
NAL in the center. Why, that's moth
ing" laughed the old fellow, in reply
to the compliments of the stranger,
you ought to have seen me when I
was forty years younger
The stOutest of modern Europe come
from Steyermark, in Southern Austria,
and from the neighborhood of Con
stantinople, where merchants clerk
can hire dozens Of 'longshoremen, every
a weight Of 6OO pounds and march
away as jauntily as q Western miller
carrying a bushel-bag Of grist.
Shamyl, the Circassian hero chieftain,
consid Tered a man OF his native high
lands as, on an average, a match for
three Russian soldiers, but admitted
his error in st. Petersburg, where the
father of the present car introduced
him to a Courland wrestler who could
fling him headlong four out Of five
times.
Two strong men at present appear
ing in the vaudeville theaters are San
dow and Cyclops. The former will
break strong chains by chest expan-
sion and put up 500 pound dumb-belI
with either hand. Cyclops can break
a nickel in two between his thumb and
fingers.
The two strongest men of the present
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30
.SOME NJ D N OF MlJsCLE
5A#FEWs MODERN SAMsONs AND
THEIR FEATS.
The Secret Of Great Strength The
Rat Wonderful Results OF Long and
Patient Practice Russian
Hercules Strengt Some
times Hereditary.

The disapp earance Of classic painting
has led to the inference that the SUI
5perio1ity Of ancient to modern art was
limited to sculpture, and similar causes
may have encouraged the belief that
the ancient athletes excelled their mod
ern rivals in physical yigor more than
in ply sical ability. The historians Of
the strength -worshiping Greeks and
Romans rarely thought it worth while
to describe the feats Of nimble acrobats
though they allude to their existence;
and, for all we know, these feats may
have riyaIed the exploits Of such
specialists as the bruiser Milo, who car
ried !; full-grown steer around the
arena and then killed it with q single
blow Of his fist
Experience has, however, demon
strated the fact that the capacity for
feats of dead-lift strength depends
| much more than agility upon hered-
itary endowment. Gypsy rope dancers,
with their INSCRIPTIONS methods Of ed
ucation, would undertake to train al
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30
RIGHT AND LEFT HANDED.

Ambidexterity Discouraged by All
Modern observation-disclosures Con-
trary as Usual.
The despised left hand makes good
it's claim in many cases to be the DETER
Of the two. The fingers that touch and
the violin are surely AS cunning as
those that move the bow. The hand
that guides the reins and steers with
exactness the horse through the crowd
ed streets is quite as cunning as--one
might say much more than-the hand
that yields the whip. But great Is
fashion; unanswerable is theory 1t
would appear to Chambers Journal
that as life becomes more and more
complex we are becoming more and
more specialized, and the difference be-
tween our limbs is encouraged rather
than hindered by every pair Of scissors
turned off at Sheffield, by every screw
made in birmingham and by every slap
administered to the young offending
fingers that would dare to shake hands
incorrectly. Et~
1t is curious to note the vagarles or
humanity in cases where no hard and
fast line has been already drawn. Al
though most right-handed persons put
on their coats left arm first, a consid-
cradle percentage thrust in the right
| first Soldiers fire from the right
shoulder, but sportsmen are found who
prefer the left. In working with. the
spade {: proportion Of right-handed men
| grasp the spade with the left and push
/ with left foot and right hand; though.
when using an ak, the same individ-
/ uals would grasp furthest down with
I the right The Persians mount their
! horses from the right side, which is
! the opposite side from that mounted
by Europeans. The buttons on coats,
/ etc. are placed on the right side and
the shed of hair in boys to the left, evil
IDENTIFY to suit manipulation by the
right hand. The great philosopher,
Newton, records that at first he con-
fined his astronomical observations to
the right eye, but afterWard he man
aged to train his left. But there are
1 persons who could not do this, owing
to the unequal strength of their eyes.
I Strange to say, the Chinese assign the
place of honor to the left. At Kun
/ yenye, in Africa, Cameron relates be-
ing introduced to the heir presumptive
to the throne, the nails of whose left
hand had been allowed to grow to an
enormous length as sign of high rank,
proving that he was never required to
1 perform manual labor, and also pro-
viding him with the means of tearing
the meat which formed his usual diet
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30

Of Yendome, INDUCED in habits of sloth
that turned his quarters into a cattle
pen. He would stick to his bed for
days together, read in bed, gamble in
bed, keep covered jars of stew under
his pillow, and SO frequently overeat
himself that his own soldiers had nick
named him the old Boar. z But that
same pig was a Mars on the day of bat
tie, and after the defeat of Oudenarde
"a. D.e17O6) he kept in the saddle for
two days and two nights, and saved the
French army by a mastery retreat
Gar Alexander Ill, the Steer, as
his faithful subjects call him. has in
herited. rather than developed, a talent
for twisting a basketful Of horseshoes
into ring chains; but superlatiye ath-
letes are nearly always a product OF
careful training, superadded to the adj
vantage of hereditary strength. In the
! middle ages. when young cavaliers
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-30
II n SHOULD DIE TONIGHT.

II should die tonight
say, ~
Weary and heartsick DER my lifeless clay;
If I should die tonight !,
And you should come in deepest gr1e1 anu
woe. III III s, 4E & !,
And say Here's that ten dollars that
might arise in my large white crayat
And say, whats that?
s. IL I should die tonight
And you should come to my cold corpse and
kneel Il
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel;
say If I should die tonight,
And you should come to me there and tnen,
Just even hint bout paying me that ten,
might arise the while,
But I'd drop dead again.
Ben King in the Journalist.