Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 160, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 6, 1887 Page: 1 of 8
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DIARIES FOR 1887
TRUELOVE KNOT
The Secretary of the Interior Lucius
Q Lamar is Married to Mrs
William S Holt
The Cermony Performed at the Resi-
dence of the Bride in Kncon 6a
A Prhnto Affair
Only the Daughtcre of the lirltle nnd a Few
Friend Present Mr nnd Mrs Lamar
Go to Oxford Ml g
SECRETARY LAMAR
Macon Gaj Jan 5 Secretary Lamar
was married this morning at 10 oclock at
the residence of his bride by Rev William
Park of Sandersvillc to Mrs William S
Holt of Macon Those present at the
marriage were Capt R E Park W H
Virgil Col J E Jones and their wives
daughters of the bride Dr R M Patter-
son and wife and Maj W II Ro = s and
wife At 10 oclock the secietary and his
bride entered the pallor with pined
hands The ceremony was brief and orig-
inal lasting only two minutes Congrat-
ulations followed The bride was dressed
in steel gray silk ornaments of diamonds
The secretary and his bride will leave
here at 520 this afternoon to spend the
tveniDg with Go Gordon ond tomor-
row morning they will leave for Oxford
Miss to visit relative of the secretary
They will then o to Washington
THK JKWS RKCKIVED AT WASHINGTON
tWashington Jan 5 A private tele
CTam has been received here stating that
Scretary Lamar was married at 10
oclock this morning to Mrs Holt at
Macon Ga
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HOUSTON LKJIIT GUARD
Their Annnal Klection of ORlcers Hold Last
Might
Special to the Gazette
IIoustox Tex Jan 5 The crack mil
itary company the Houston Light Guard
neld their annual election of officers to
jjfght and selected the following to serve
fortheensuing year F A Keichardt
captain T Iladley Frankln first lieuten-
ant Spencer HutchInssecond lieutenant
W A Childress quartermaster and busi-
ness manager with rank of first lieuten-
ant K A Scurry first sergeant George
Terry second sergeant J J McKtever
third sereeant H D Tayior fourth ser
seant Frank Lewis fifth tergeaat W E
Porter financial secretary J hn Sheain
Kir correjpondinc secretary E L Cas
tleton surgeon J J Clemens chaplain
Denounced 0Dononn Kossn
Jew York Jan 5 The council o
the Fenian Brotnerhood has issued
another circular denouncing ODonovan
Rossi
Bargains In
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Great BLANK
CLOSING J0TJT
ax Elser
BOOKS and STATIONERY Sec-
ondhand PJ0OSS5O 75
100 1g 150 Second-
hand 0RGfNS25 40 55
NEW INSTRUMENTS at greatly
reducedrates
Myentire stock storehouse
and ixtures for sale
HSDAY JANUARY 6 1887
V Coal Tlrd Up
Jew York Jan 5 The men employed
at me coal dumps at Port Johnson and
Eliz betbport who struck Monday to resist
a reduction of wages were joined yester-
day By the men at Hoboken and Wtehaw
kln This raises to seven the number of
coal parts or deposits at which the men
aTe o4a strike Altogether there are tied
up 10JOO000 tons of coal and 2300 men
are standing idle
A CONSPIRACY CHARGE
A Lubricating Company Charges the Stand-
ard Oil Company Mith < jerlou8 Crimes
Buitalo N Y Jan 5 The charge
of conspiracy brought by the Buffalo Lu-
bricating Oil Company limited against
Standard Oil Company magnates came up
in the court of oyer and terminer late
yesterday afternoon The defendants are
John D Archibald Henry n Rigers Am-
brose McGresor Charles M Everest and
Illram B Everest District Attorney
Quimby appeared for the people and
Theodore Bicon for the Standard peo-
ple The general charge Is that of
conspiracy including subornation lof
perjury The special charge is that the
Standard men employed Albert Miller
superintendent of the lubricating works
to so construct the building that they
could easily be destroyed by explosion
That Millerunder their directiondid plan
an explosion and by lntruse fires he blew
up one still and believing his work to
have been accomplished he took refuge in
the Atlas Standardworks that he was
taken by Hi ram B Everest to New York
Boston and San Francisco and was sup-
ported or a year and a half in idleness
on a salary of 1000 and expenses Miller
is alleged to have confessed these facts to
C B Mithews president of the Lubricat-
ing company Defendants claim was
that C B Mathews and not they was the
conspirator The court took the papers
and reserved its decision
PATTI IS MEXICO
The Ulva Wnllm on Hoses and Scores a
Great Tf iuluph
City or Mexico Jan 5 After two
postponements on account of indisposi-
tion on account of the rarity of the at
mosphere Patti finally appeared last
night at the National tneater before one
of the largest audience1 in her remarkable
career Tne great souKtrcs fairly walked
on flowers The enthusiasm was simply
tremendous Sh was recalled five times
in succession after one tong and was
showered with roses The audiem e
would scarcely permit her to leave the
staae and altdgether the evening was
one of the most memorable in the his-
tory of amusement at this capital
The great theattr was overflowing
while toe display of diamonds and Paris-
ian toilets recalled the hilcyon days of
Cailotta and the Empire Patti will give
the opera Barber of Seville Sunday
night and one other concert which closts
tbe season Her engagement has been
successful beyond the moit sanguine
hopes of Manager Abbey Madame Patti
has been banquctted by tbe wife of
President Diaz at the castle of Cnepulta
pec and will also receive an entertain-
ment from the Jockey Clnb sX the fair-
grounds Madam Scalchi and Signor
Guille also scored great success
TYITTKOCKS STIPULATION
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Not a Dollar Would He Give Up Until
that SInrtgnge was Lifted
St Louis Mo Jan 3 The express
robbers vreie not taken to the penitentiiry
today as it was expected they would be
but they will be stnt up tomorrow lu a
brief interview with Wntiuck this morn-
ing that worthy gave but little informa-
tion not betore made public wMch was
to the effect that he speeiUly stipulated
with the dtttctives that they must lift
the mortsage on his motherV Louse be-
fore he would turn up any
of the stolen money This he
said they promised to do and added
that it was done when they went to Lca
enworlh end thus his chief o jict in
jKT j 7 2i fobbing the express company was accorn
5 plished The mortgage was for 1700
The grand jury has fo und an indictment
agtinstDin MonartyJ < harging him with
being accessory to the robbery before
and after the fact He has not been ar-
rested yet and it is said he will not be
pro ecuted as it was tbrorgh information
derived from him that Wittrock and his
pals were arrejted
arsTEiuous poisomng
A Brookljn Famll Taken 111 After Hip
Sunday Dinner Twa Dead O litre
Dying
Nkw York Jan 5 The family of
Joseph Mmii a druggist residing in
Butler street Brooklyn have been mys
kfrioa ly poisoned Two deaths havo
flfjeady occurred The family c rUts ef
Mr Mauri his wife Carrie a son Lould
aged fourteen Joseph aged twelve
Martha ten Carrie eight John six
Alice four and Eugene two years old
With the exception of the RiUher the
whole family were taken sitk
Sunday after eating Joseph went last
niuht to visit an aunt and died there to-
day Eugene died at homo this morning
Jonn is djing The father and four
children are very sick and are being
attended by five physicians They are
unable to determine the csase of the
poisoning until a post mortem examina-
tion is held Singular to relate no report
of thecae was made at police head-
quarters until this afternoon
POISON BAKIKU POWDEIt
An Indiana Family at Deaths Door from
i theUfie of It
Wabasii Lsi > Jan 5 The family of
JohrL Wooster a prominent citizen of
Montpelier Blockford countv consisting
of five persons was poisoned Monday
night by eating biscuit in wnich bad been
ujed an inferior quality of baking powder
Tito hours after supper the entire family
was seized with terrible griping and the
intense pain could not be alleviated
ihe patients have grown steadily worse
A
tmd alarming ymptcins have appeared Lliquid
One of the children isMying and the those
Temainder of the family are in a pre
carious condition
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A Portion of Central Texas Ex-
periences All the Symptoms of a
Slight Earthquake Shock
The SickeniDg Wave Motion Percepti-
bly Felt at Bastrop Giddings
Elgin Paige and Austin
Plastering Falls Pictures Swing Clocks
Stop Bells KIdc and Iho Inhabi-
tants aro Frightened
TEXAS SHAKEN
Special to the Gazette
Austin Tex Jan 3 At 1157
oclock this morning a portion of Central
Texas was shaken by an earthquake
shock the first ever known or experienced
by Texas The shock was distinctly
felt at the towns of Bastrop Giddlngs
Elgin Paige and other small towns all
from twentyfive to forty miles east of
Austin The duration of the shock was
four to six seconds
At Bastrop thirty miles east of here it
lasted six seconds Plastering fell from
the ceilings but bejoodthis no damage
was done The accompanying rumbling
sound was scarcely audible
A special from Giddings sixty miles
east of here says pictures were shaken
on the nails In brick buildings Mrs
McCrie the operator was sitting m her
chair and she and her chair were dis-
tinctly shaken The clock also strnck
and glasses rattled Dr Merchant re-
ports that he got sick at the stomach
At the town of Paige forty miles cast
of Austin the shock lasted three seconds
There was no serious damage done
A wooden cistern was sunk in
the ground fohr inches A clock belong-
ing to Mr F Soder which had been run-
ning for years was suddenly stopped and
marked the exact time of the shock At
Wihons hotel the cook and waiters be-
came alarmed at the rattling of the dishes
and tinpans thinking the devil had sud-
denly appeared on earth At Z rj Es
gieston s store a dozen cowbells which
hung on the wall all in a row all suddenly
ciiimed frightening the inmates The
usualappalling rumbling sound was heard
seemingly coming from the earth beneath
and the air overhead
The quake has produced an unpleasant
impression We all hd opposed Texas
never would be visited A lady who re-
cently came from South Carolina and
now resides in Austin ssys she felt an
earthquake tremor in this city yesterday
and that she cannot be mistaken ha ing
experienced the great shock at Charles-
ton S C
yiSterdays usual snocK
Charleston S C Jan o A slight
earthquake shock occurred at Summer
ville at 8 oclock this morning All is
quiet at Charleston
DESPERADO JiCK CB01Y
lie If Knn to Coier anil Fire Brings Him
to Terms
Special to the Gazette
Port Siiitii Ark Jan 3 Jack Crow
a desperate Indian negro who two years
ago murdered Charles Wilson a promi-
nent Choctaw merchant was captured on
Sunday evening last sixty miles from here-
in the Indian country lie has been
scouing nnd defying the officers since
Wilsons murdr and ba kilted one man
during the time On Sunday the marshal
ond his party brought Jack to bay in a
house and for several hours he stood
them off with his Winchester Finally one
of the officers got up to the house and set
Are to if which soon brought him to terms
and he surrendered being prevailed upon
to do so by the women and children who
were with him In staudin < j around tbe
house keeping guard the officers were ex-
posed to the oittcr edd and Jli hal
Barnhill got one of his feet badly frozeu
Wilton who Crow is charged with mur-
dering was waylaid while on his way
home at night and riddled with bullets
his body being found the next mornieg
Others are supposed to be implicated as
well as Crowbut they are Indianand the
United States court has no jurisdiction in
their case
AUSTIN
3Ioney Paid In Comlnfr In
Senatorial Kace
any
ress
de ° ire ba
of the
Slowly fhe
Special to the Gazette
Austin Tex Jan 5 Comptroller
Swain today deposited 45000 in the
treasury to the credit of the general
revenue fund
But very few members of the legislature
have yet arrived but many are expected
within the next few days Those now-
here say the land and senatorial ques-
tions will be the great Issues before
the body soon to assemhle The senato-
rial ballot will come off on the third
Tuesday It is understood the head-
quarters of the various candidates have
been established in Austin Reagans
headquarters will be at the old Avenue
Hotel and Maxeys at the new Driskill
House Terrell and Hancock will have
headquarters in some building thought to
be most proper by their friends Strikers
for the different aspirants begin already
to appear
The Last Daysot John Koach
New York Jin 5 The fact of the
publication of nis condition in the papers
yesterday was not communicated to the
dyins John Roach He lies abed under
the influecdf of anodynes and takes all
noulshment rather to oblige
abont Him than througn
his part The
cancer in his
prog
case
VOL XII NO 160
it is expected wdl be veiy raDld and a
month a the outside It is thonsht will
see his end Dr Behlon is giving him the
closest attention but with the old ship
builders broken neart and spirit he looks
only for a sp edy llnih to the intense suf-
fering which Iioach endures
TOPtUREl AT SEA
Hon the Fireman of a Pnclilc Ocean
Meam T was Koastcd Alive
San Francisco Cal Jan 5 The
story of the brutal and fatal torturing of
John Schroder stoker on the Spreckles
Line steamer Alameda was told today by
his shipmafs who have just arrived on
steamer The Spreckles Brothers had
trouble iatclv witn1 the seamens union
here and in Sidney and tilled the places
of thirty Chinese firemen and coal passers
with twentyone white men Schroder was
hired here and was one of the firemen in
the engineroom On tbe last trip of the
Alameda from here to Honoluln be fell ill
one day and to get a breath of fresh air
he went on deck his messmate promising
to look after his work He wa detected
on deck by an officer who ordered him
below When Scnroder again entered
the engineroom ne fell down in a dead
faint Then by the oflicers orders
some sailors were brought in and
Schroder in a fainting condition was
held np against the open door of the
boiler for several minutes until pieces of
his blistering flesh filled the room with
odor Then ho was thrown like a sack
of wheat into a con er of the room
where after gasping for breith for a
moment he died On the ships log his
death was put down as accidental His
body was thrown in the sea
CONNECTICUT POLITICS
The Kopnbllcans Having a Majority In the
i EllHture will Siicc rd
HartfordConn Jan 3 Both houses
of the legislature met today and organ-
ized by electing the Republ can nominees
fur officers This afternoon the commit-
tee on tne canvass of the otes for the
state officers reported that there was not
a majority and that Phiceas Lounsbury
nnd L S Cleveland were the two highest
in the votes An adj mrnment was then
taken until Thursday when the two
houses will meet in joint convention to
ballot for governor aud state officers
There being a Kepublican majority of 31
on j > lnt ballot tell publican cindidates
for the state ffices will be elected
TAHKANlS COMMISSIONERS
Tho Syetem of Working Convlo s Suits
1 hem
Special to tlic fia7ctte
Dallas Tex Jan 5 The county
commissioners of Tarrant county visited
Dallas today and accompanied by Uep
resentativeseket Strong and Rugel and
members of the Dallas county commis-
sioners court iuvesfgited the system
of working county convicts on the poor
farm and on the public roads Tne sys-
tem has been adopted for upwards of a
year in this county nnd has proieu emi-
nently satisfactory The Tarrant county
commissioners are well pleased with
whac they have learned of the system
and its w rkings and results and will it
is understood adopt a similar one for
Tarrant county at least as far as to work
the county convicts on tho roads
CALIFORNIA MINES
Estimate VmtnKB or SOThe Largest
Vineyard In the Morid
Chicago III Jan 5 From the man-
agers of the Citrus fair of Northern Cali-
fornia it is learned that the Ojllfornia
wine vintage of 1SSC h estimated at 20
000000 gallons of which more than two
thirds was produced north of San Fran-
cisco in which section all the new vine-
yards are being put ont The cele
brated Stanford vineyard 100 miles north
of S icramentothe largest vineyard in the
world comprising rver 3500 aens of
bearing mes had vielded this year about
100000 gallons of wine besides quaati
ties cf raisins brandy aud shipping
arapes The yield is expected to be
doubled in three years Californias
wineintageof 1S88 is estimated at 33
000000 gallons
ALBDQUERQDE
Foar Armed ilon lob Railroad Stations
Will b Lynchrd if untight
Albuquerque N M Jan 5 Four
armed men robbed the stations of Elrito
and San Jose thirtyfive mies west of
here on the Atlantic and Pacific road
yesterday afternoon securing 400
They signaled the through pasBenger
tram at San Jose last evening apparentlv
vith the Intention of robbing it but the
officials had been warned by the
asent just in time to telegraph
the train not to stoo and it
thereby passed the station at full speed
Clas Ross who murdered Marshal
McGuire and Offl er IJenry escaped from
jiil last night and will probably be
lynched if caught
To KUct Uoctfrolla succfenor
Sr Louis Mo Jan 5 The Demo-
crats of the lower house of the Missouri
legislature In caucus to night nominated
J W Abxander of Davis county for
speaker and T C Hornbuckle ef Johnson
county for chief clerk There will be a
caucus of the Demucrats of both houses
tomorrow nigut to nominate a candidate
for United States senator to succeed Mr
Cockrell The probabilities are thatMr
Cockrell will be nominated
The Uicher Courts
Special to the Gazette
Galveston Tex Jan 5 The su-
preme and appellate courts convened this
morning for regular business Both
courts spent the day in hearing argu-
ments on motions Tomorrow several
cases will be assigned for hearing
The Klssonrl legislature
St Louis Mo Jan 5 Bjth houses
of tne Missouri legislature met at Jeffer-
son Ciiy today aud tLer electing tem-
porary officers and announcing caucuses
for this evening adjourned until tomor-
row
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