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Coirespondeucw bolicited Collections made and promptly xtanttd bufet detiotit boxea for rent a Lovd President Besktt VicePresident IB ST A TI ON AJuxJAklfr TBWSICTS iii aoj GEsnaib iiimlivj jusitih rirfrtcrsMI A Harrold UJa Lord Hicbee Zane Cettl Bennett Qeorjs irtson Burnett Wtrnild and Harrold SANK OF TEXA3 LIMITED JTAL INCREASED TO S30 p033 Oppose Mansi Hots Fort Wirft Ta mmsm rriKAVE TO CLOSE OUT ill ESTATE RETAIL STOCK OF WATCHES DIAMONDS JEWELRY SILVWt AND SILVER PLATED WAUE OPTICAL AND FANCY GOODS CLOCKS ETC Pfaeffle 605MAIN STREET ICKWICK tiiTa tbx Qoo HU0I5I113 Miai ar 3JilXj i tWuiMii rflcRasbfrr noya and undtr ths ns vninarsTieat rails fubjitii I ie Ctumodious eamplc rooms recently secured Cojjnrcul trifil ej idiloluijL HOJ ES ifti3ffl hVfManager llOCKPORT TEX ratipf i tfl peflBSy sort clau In srer lar invilal bythe mosta in Cr VCT2I 51J 5iiO 0 Prouriotor Marked in plain figures on every gMrmentJto reduce an orer lotided stock All new goods manufactured for us this season by leading clothiers and wholesale merchant tailors lM aj 2am President Tiios A Tiddall VicePresident If IIabdino Cashier WE 1OHT WORTH NATIONAL JjLN CONNER CO E00EELLEH3 HiSTATEIER Ko Z07 Houston Street GENUINE OXFORD BIBLES Mart Twans new book Connsctlcut fi Pall lineQjaMfi gta tionery 8chool gM Tifcs and Gift Books 10L BOOKS Clieop UFAl ESllTR Evass Cns Vebkb REAL i AGEMTS gjjij5iwS crion Texas Cofresrondence solicited WALKER HEATON BURY The finest makes and the largest stock in Nbrth Texas llemember the best pianos bear the names of the manufacturers and not merely those of the dealers Yho sell them Beware af cheap imitations of firstclass pianos with similar names which are calculated to deceive For catalogues and prices call on or address 0 LTUI OflQ 733735 Maln SU Dallas Tex li Hi LIJWHrLJOi 409 Houston St Fort Worth When at the Dallas Fair call at the exhibit of II Edwards and get a piece of new music free yd odd OfflyMltfjMlff I Dahlman General 1anager SS In the market for Beeves Poultry and Game Correspondence solicited CASEY SV1 UIPOETEBS AM WHOLESALE DEALEE3 IN Wines llUiWl11 iln 11 1 1 Lemp and Sclilitz iieer FORT WORTH TEXAS 8 Quotations on all brands of Kentucky wliisldes from stock hero or warehouses in Kentucky furnished upon application TOUT WOllTH TEXAS TUESDAY OCTOBER 28 1S93 loalEttAMrffflS HT WORTH TEX Fefrr to the banVa and business men Tori LITSFY ashington coonty Ky nALl Fort ViontuJZ UTSBY HTjAtSM JSTOW Kea HtatfrSaSfejfW Office i roarth srrwaaitMSciionTlotel Fori Worth Tex Fort Worth Tet EuociEiDoa Bariu i Shortridge Co AX If CTTT PROPERTY THERE ESIG EY To be made in the Panhandle ConcttCtsSfftfjl to fc DEOKSB tl attWqafe WkA nt BiOFncESOjajul aiSfiitroatc cojiity rex LanaiiivrGujejGS rvTrrorl Worth corner bntk taiLfiWHttwrireets E0E0ED UP PRICES A Trio of Texans at the National Capital SightSeeing YiilVnt Sew York They Talk With Prominent Importers Coueern ins the ilcKinley Bill Indications Point to a nemocratlc Honae lis Census ani What Is Tbnnihl ol It oa Both Ides Vote xnns Interviewed Politically frf rial to the Gazette Wamiivotos Out 11 Messrs Chew Carson and Dr tv Knox of Houston hate returned from New Toik anil left tom rit for home They were at the capital todny slphtseelDR Mr Car on said to The Gazettk correspondent that while In New York he heard all the Importers say that the Mo Kmley bill had forced them to put up prices Every bujiuoss wan I rn paid Mr Careon was iomplaiainc about tho McKiuley bill In pvery hue of trade prices have been advanced Importers tell me that they could not afford to looe money and it would be tbej LABORING MIN AND rKMMt who would buvo to flinutdcr the mini eng of hish prites for the necessaries of life Iu political uir lej reports 1 heard were most etirouragns for the aueces of the Democrats Even Republicans say that the nest house will be Democratic Oh everv thins in the Lone Stnr state is lovely Gen FI02E will be elected Governor by ti handsome majority Yes I heard Demourats Xo York complain about the census and not a few charged that the census had been used to help the Republicans The fait that an increase nf population in the Southern Ptutea is considerably less than expected Is I think lather strauce CONGltkSSMVN JlMILUN of Tennessee is in tho olty having returned from bis district his fences being in tlrsttlnss condition He says the IJemne rata will cain one member in the I hi re ditrat aud tint notwithstanding the threecoruerert Ilcht for the governorship the Demot ratio candidate will be elected Hesaysall mdii ations tioiut to a Democratic victory iu the Fourth dis triit The postoffice department has written to sevpral Texas papers informing thoin that the publication of the notice shat this gpuce is contracted for by the Louisiana lottery but the advertisement is prohibited by tho United States law is LOTTEPV ADVEKTISHMINT in tho meaning of the law and the paper con tiling it is uumnilable The fourth uatioual bank of Xew York City b06 been approved 09 reserve aeent for the first national bank of Arausus Tex A postoffice has been established at San Agnaolo Ziipita county and Xerro Kuvuru appointed postmaster Fnit toKtnlillsli Idnntlty Washincjiox Oct IT Inquiry at tho department of state concerning the case of the Amoncan citizen reported in dis patt hes from Constantinople being arrested and iucarierated for alleged complicity in the Armenian revolutionary plots fails to establish absolutely his identity The department has in Its posesson the names of several American citizens residing in Turkey who aro said to have been associated win the Armenian movement The names of two of them are Novignn and Uurdenn and from hasty comparison ot newspaper dispatches with scant information on hie at the department it Is thought Gur diuu may be thu man referred to Third Auditors Report Washington Oct 27 Third Auditor Hart has reported to the secretary ot the treasury that during the past fiscal year his office has acted on 1318 eases involving the sum of SiC0j0l30 and that there are still oa hand 1820 cases rerjro senting 5394084 Of the claims on hand over half are In a semisuspended condition being held over on account of dellcient evidence questions of loyalty etciuud iu other cases like Mexican and Oregon wars the postoffloe addresses of claimants and attorneys are lost Cleveland Before the Snpremn Court Washington Oit 27 ExPresident Cleveland today made his argument before the supreme court as associate counsel for James Wallace Peak in what 1 known as the New Orleans drainage case Sometime before the opening of court at noon the room tilled with members of the bar end spectators belonging to the general public An impatient crowd meanwhile blocked the main entrance waiting Some opportunity to enter wns afforded by the egress ot persons who bad satisfied their curosity Cleveland arrived at the capitol promptly at noon Finding the muin entrance to the courtroom obstructed by a crowd Messrs DeGray and Semtnens counsel for whom he is associated were conducted through the marshals off Into the courtroom By a coincidence there were three persons present who bad been members of the expresidents cabinet Bayard was there aud gave a hearty greeting to bis former chiuf Garland had come with a motion to be filed and seized eng opportunity to shake hands with Cleveland while Justice Lamar bowed and saluted from bench to which he bad been appointed by th lawyer who now sot before him watting to plead a case DeGray made the opening argument in the case and it was 245 before Cleveland rose to speak After preliminary statement to effeot what had already been said enabled him to omit reference to the first twentyseven page Mr Cleveland began to read from bis printed brief bis voice sounded lowr but Clear at first and as be progressed he gradually showed more and more animation modulating bis voice skillfully aud emphasizing bis points by frequent nods of bis head Bis language vas simple and businessliue and although the iae was very technical he succeeded iu holding interested attention ot every memLer of the court Through ull ilr Cleveland stuck closely to the printed brief and be was not interrupted by a remark or question until 4 oolock was reached when the chief justice called attention to the tact that it was customary for the court to adjourn at that hour Upon Mr Clevelands statement that he had nearly concluded be was permitted to continue and iu a quarter of an hour reached the end The court then adjourned Carlton Hunt attorney for the city of New Orleans will reply in an argument tomorrow Given 1 Ilenrlnc AVsniNGTOv Oct 27 The special committee uppoiuied to consider tho recommendation of American delegates to the international marine conference gnve a bearing at the treasury department today to gentlemen interested in that subject An address was made eng dnring in get eral terms the proposition for the creation of a board of trade to have jurisdiction over the mercantile interests of tho country but differed slightly in their views ns to its composition A suggestion that the hydographer of the navy and posibly superintendent of the coast survey bo made members of board seemed to meet witn favorThis was advocated by Mr Houghton and Admiral Harmony because of the advantage to be derived in the matter of charts etc bv having experts on bonrd Representatives of sniling interests made a strong nrgument in favor of giving those interests equal rights nnd privileges with steam Interests It was announced tho hearing would be resumed tomorrow aud that tho attorneys would be given until November 15 to file their briefs ASSASSINATED Two Mm In tho Boom Country Cnllfil to Their Toor and Kllbd Tho AroucMe fountains Gold Eoomtiran Special to the Garetto OitLAUOMi City Oct 27 During Saturday night some time John Wobber and Ileury Sweitzer living in a double house alone south of this city about eighteen miles aero called to their doors shot and instantly killed The neighbors found them about 10 oclock yesterday morning but their bodies did not arrive in this city until today It is supposed that a claim contestant shot and killed them Webbers remains will be buried here while those of bweither will be shipped to Indiana I he excitement in regard to the gold li mimes iu the Arbucklo mouutalns is abating Your correspoudent arrived from there this morning but nothing was discovered or found to warrant the excitmnent manifested heretofore A vein of the mineral In small quantities exists there but nothing to nny great rr Irou asphnlt and lead ore are found but only iu mediocre quantities A company of twentvone persons has leased the mineral district from the Chickasaws for twenty years and it is to pay them onethird of the ore smeltered The sample of ore placed in the hands of on ussayer hero by your correspondent do not pan out ns the stock company In the mouutains would have people believe There is without doubt mineral there but it will take costly machinery and years of labor to develop it Three counterfeiters the Smith brothers and a fellow by the name of Larkin were jailed here tonight for passing spurious money in Normuu a town south of this place a few miles AltKESTKD 1 0K FKAUD 7be Manlrnlators of thit Plnlnflald Addition Schema Near D3nvrln Trouble Denver Col Oct 27 Deputy United States Marshal Long and Post office inspector Lawrence yesterday arrested James Pierce and William Stutt on acharge ot running a fraudlent real estate business at Plainfleld an addition to Denver thirty miles from hero on the Denver and Port Worth railroad They were arrested on a writ issued by Judge Brazee nua were brought to this city last night The Plainfleld addition company began business in September lo89 Thousands of circulars were printed and distributed throughout the country from Colorado to Maine They announced that the company was giving away lots for the price of recording them 250 and a two cent postage stamp was neccessary to return the deed just 4070 deeds were returned to the county with the necessary S250 aud postage stamp to be recorded Tho only bouse within six miles of the Plainfleld addition to Denver is Pierces own house which is located on the property The secret of the scheme lays In the recording of the deeds The regular fee for recording a deed in Douglas oounty is S250 but by an agreement with Henry Jones couuty recorder he received only nine ceuts for this service and the company pocketed the bnlanco SICO By this deal the company has oleared nearly SS000 or S5500 more than tbey pnid tor the whole property Pierce and btutt are charged with running a fraudulent scheme which is a government offense owing to the mails being used to carry ths plan After thoir appearance this morning before Commissioner Brazee they were held in bail la the sum of S1000 BUiLXESS FUIUPR AT HILLSEORO SpecUl to the Gazette Hiilsboko Tux Oct 27 Chambers grocery house was closed today by attachments levied by Cox for S2200 and Sanies Revier for SI00 It is not known at this time what bis assets are or bow much bis liabilities will amount to The above attachments were for borrowed money The quo warranto case acainst tho city of Hillsboro was on change of venue transferred to Waco Gons Up In Smoke fipecial to the Gazette TimpsOn Tex Oct 27 The residence of Todd and Us contents situated two miles from here was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon at 3 oclock Loss 1000 no insurance VOL XV NO 14 THE STATE CAPITA A Trajredy in AMiicIi a Woman is Fatally shot Disposition ot tho mrpliis nrnlngs of ths Convict Farm Three Mrxcnns Killed Greer ConntT Case Filed Special to the Gaiette Austin TexOct 27 A bloody tragedy was enacted this afternoon in a cheap lodging house on East street in this citv in which one life was ended and another may tollow William Dornwell well known as Buffalo Bill an expolice man and the keeper of a restaurant on Pecan street near to the Driskill hotel while under the inffuonce of liquor and jealousy quarroled with and shot his mistress Moggie Nulla the ball entering the left cheek and lodging in tho neck back of the ear from which place the surgeon extracted it She will prob Bbly die After shooting her Dornwell placed the revolver to his own head and sent a fortyUte calibre ball crashing through bis brain and died in an hour He lenves a wife and children A sudcial meeting of the board of mnn agerj of the pemtentiiry was held today In the private oiTice of Governor Ross to determine what should be done with the surplus funds the earnings of the cou victs on the ntato fnrm in the hands of Financial Agent Parish The etimuted net income from the farm for the past two years is SI0000 a splendid showing Thii will repay tha appropriation for penitentiary uses made two years ago and leave a balance on hand of 50000 It was decided to refund into the stuto treasury the nmouat of the appropriation S70000 nnd the remaining balnuce on hand The net income from tho farm is thus shown to be 500000 a year for the past two years Charters tiled with the seoretnry of state The Burleson oounty cotton oil mill and the Uvalde water supply and power company borne Mexicans fell to shooting each other over curds Saturday night at Hunters Bend on the Colorado river ten miles from Austin When the smoke cleared away it was fouud that three of the gang had been killed A dispatch received this evening by Governor Ross from AttorneyGeneral Hogg at Washiugton stated that the Grjer oounty case was filed today iu the United btntes supreme court nud would come up for hearing in uinety days Snlt to Dlisolvn Clenurnos Incorporation Special to tha Gazette CihliorVE Tex Oct 27 The county attorney has commenced suit In the district court of Johnson county against the mayor and aldermen of tho city of Cleburne alleging that tho legislature incorporated Cleburne as a town iu 1871 and that the mayor and aldermen In 1875 without any authority of law assumed that Cieburno was nu incorporated olty under the statutes authorizing a city to surrender its charter and to accept In lieu thereof the general provisions of the law relating to a olty containing 1000 inhabitants or over The couuty attorney contends that the town council baa no authority to so act and he prays the court to oust the present mayor and nldermen of their respective offices and to dissolve the so called incorporation known as the city ot Cieburno Slntllntrd by Passlnc Train Special to tho Gazette ranis Tex Oct 27 Justice Roun tree was called yesterday to hold an inquest over the badly mutilated remains of a man which haJ been found early lathe afternoon on the Frisco line about four miles from the city It was learned that his name was Henry Fuzzell and that he had been for some time employed as a section hand on the Frisco He came here from Avooa Ark and has no relatives hero He was in the city Saturday drlnkine and started out on the St Louis express but was put off a few miles away and probably met bis death trying to board a parsing freight Shot nu Wife nod Salclded Special to the Gazette Eagle Pass Tei Oct 27 At noon today a negro named Willis Moses who has filled the position of steward at the Eagle Pass club sinoe its formation shot his wife in the forehead Five minute later when a deputy marshal appeared on the scene he shot and killed himself The bullet being deflected by the thick frontal bone did not penetrate th9 brain but came out at the mouth Domestio trou le was the cause Willis was a faithful servant at tho club and tha trugedy Is regretted SI Fnrrner Fatally Injured Special to the Gazette MesQUITe Tex Oct 27 A series of accidents have happened near here since yesterday Mr A Davis a farmer living near here attended church at Long creek yesterday After preaching was over he got in his wncon to go home His team became frightened and ran away with him throwing him out of the wagon aud Injuring him internally Today bis physician says be cannot recover James Lumly another farmer while unloading cotton was thrown from tho wagon and had his arm broken just above the wrist Wanted tn Kentucky Special to the Gazette Sueuhax Tex Oct 27 Today Marshal Blaine arrested Martin who has been sojourning in Sherman for same weeks on information from the chief of police at Lexington Ky for liorae theft Officers left Kentucsv today with papers Martins wftearrUed a few days ago which wiis the means of tracing the fugitive from justice He could not give bond and awaits the arrival of requisition papers for his removal 3Iark Twains Mother Deal Keokuk Iowa Oct 27 Mrs Jane Clements mother of Samuel Clements butter known us Mark Twain died tills evening aged eightyseven years 1.

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1883-1896