Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-18
NEWS CONDENSED

NLW0 uUNULN0lU
ATLANTA. Ga-Georgia's cotton crop
will probably BE- the largest in her his
tory.
WHITE CASTLE. La.--Jonn bainnger,
aged about u, was struck by train and
killed
PETERSBURG, ni.-stephens Hamilton
tried to wade the sangamon river and was
drowned.
OMAHA, Neb.-DIek Roche. the noted
gold brick swindler. IS In Jail here for his
usual tricks.
NEW YORK .-Grasshoppers raw
aging potato aud grain fields. are driving
to despair Niagara county farmers.
NEW YORK CITY.-Aiiss Helen Gould.
daughter Of The mulu-milionaire, will erect
4 hospital in New York for unfortunate
women.
COLUMBUS. o.-James p. Seward has
reconsldered his declinatlon Of the chair
manship OF the Ohio Democratic state ex-
ecutiye committee.
BRAZIL. Ind.-Grant olds, who several
months ago knocked man down at Ma
rion, Ind, and stamped him to death, was
arrested near Brazil.
MACoNTAH. Il.-Falling asleep on the
tracks OF the Louisville Air Line near here
Matthias Kumm, farm hand, was ground
TO pieces by train.
CHICAGO. 1l.--Olof Housekln. Web
ster City carpenter, fell from an Illinois
Central train at Duncomb, Ill.,. while steal
Ing a ride and was picked up In twenty
different pieces.
LAGRANGE, HYMNS. Charlotte Nor
ris. widow of the late DR.. Robert Norris.
the distinguished Mason, poet, traveller and
lecturer, died here. The deceased was born
near Athens, Ala, Aug. %, 1918.
wASHINGToN.-The accounts of Major
J. w. wharn, United States army pay
master Of the department OF Columbia. are
In bad shape, and will be investigated
1t is thought his mind is impaired.
DE SOTO. Miss. Wesley Mccall, negro
murderer. for whom there ia a reward Of
sToo In Georgia. was arrested here by
Detective Mart Reddoch. He will leave
with him as soon as requlsltion papers eau
be secured
CHICAGO. Ill Major Il. H. y. Lake
East Lancashire regiment, attached TO the
intelligence office Of the Canadian war de.
partment, has been made nuartermaster-
general Of the Canadian militia Canadian
officers are Indignant, as Lake IS an Eng
lish Importation.
w,ASHINGToN.L army officer In
charge OF the Ute reservation in Utah has
advised Secretary Smith that only a small
number of Utes had gone on hunting
expedition in Colorado, and these he had
ordered to return He says there Is no
danger of trouble or cause for uneasiness
on the part Of the settlers.
wASHINGToN.-A suit has been begun
by two Louisville dlstlllers TO restrain thu
collector Of internal revenue from re-
fusing to receive applications for the ex-
port Of whisky In bond. This is test
case by which the dlstillers hope 20 secure
the postpouement of "force day" on which
they must pay $4,000 In taxes to take
the whisky crop Of 1890 out of bond. or
forfeit the whisky
SEDALIA, Mo.-Two distinct pests are
proving very expensive to the farmers,
gardeners and dairymcn OF this section.
one is the horn fly, which has become SO
numerous and 80 annoying to cows that
the supply OF milk has been greatly d.
minished. and butter famine now pre-.
walls. The other is the appearance OF mil
lions OF potato bugs, which are not only
deyouring potato vines. but cabbage anu To-.
mato plants also.
ClRCLEvIII.E, o.--whue preaching at
campmeetlng Rev. Kclleman of Michigan
dlscoursed at all the meetings, and surprfs-
al hta haa 4.