The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-23
SHORT NEWS STORIES,


ATLAN1lA--The Jennie y. 1nmnn Or
phars home has been closed for lack or
support.
SALT LAKE. lfIah.--Thc State supreme
court today. aiflvned the validity of the
Australian ballot law.
BALrlMORE-rh enilrc control OF the
Baltimore sugar refinery passed into tho
hands OF the sugar trues today.
ATLANTA Pleas Methvin, a young
man 20 years of age, wen known IN At
lanta. has mysteriously disappeared from
his homo and HIS people Suspect foul
play. lie il an insurance man.
BRISTOL Tenn. Southwest Virginia
Institute. one of the finest pieces of col.
lege property In the Sop.h Is advertised
for sale, In accordance with u decree or
The circuit court of Washington county.
Va.
DANvILI.E JUNCTION. Maine. Train
No. II on the GrAal Trunk railway was
derailed az a pont ahon, two miles below
partially wrecked me passengers were
hurt. but not seriously.
MlDDLESBoRouGH Ky.News from
Perry county staten that "kuklux" went
to ihc residence of l.. G. Combs. tied him
TO n tree and beat him INTO insenslbility.
Combs had soken prominent part In
prosecuting some members OF the gang.
1EXARkANA The republican central
committee of Miller county, Arkansas.
met here Yesterday aud by unanimous
for comm.sslc:.cr of the United States
lind ofiice MT Camden.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.It has been sug-
gcstod to prcelden.-clcct Mckinley that
A. 6. tiarrs OF this city, would make an
excellent attorney general for the United
States Through intimate Chicago friends
OF Mr. Nick mley II j. iearned mat he Will
| consider the suggestion
ROCHESTER,, N. VA call has been
iss, ed for a meeting of representatives OF
all wool growers ana sheep breeders as
eoc!a,ions in the United States at Wash
! ,ngton on January 4. Tive, days later a
hearing Will be granted by the house COM
m'tl'e on Nags and means.
| DIES MONIES, INSTRUMENTATION
made by experts show shortages in sever
NJ of the departments of the city adm.nis-
! tration. The city clerk TX reported short
some $1,000 and the unacrounied money in
tho potce court for a single year amounts
to $780,. The investigation will he pushed.
! GUTIERREZ, o. T.-Mtss Dchart. u
Kansas school teacher. who lately hogan
! toachingisehool IN the Usage Reservation.
| was married ian, night TO Stanislaus Deco
! has become an adopted inember of the
| tribe. ana VIII be entitled to 3lbOoO when
| the tribal funds are divided.
NEW YORK KID Lavigne and Charles
McKeevcr OF Philadelphia nave been
matched to hight twenty rounds at lao
/ pounds for pprse, 81 s211 today before
/ York. Mci<cuvcr has mover yet fought
/ Law gne and has loag claimed 20 DO
le1 inhs,'o, whom pn H'i@ nvu e' f navhs
| lwi,e and could not beat. getting draw
each time.
WADLEY, Ga.-Mrs. William Williams.
! of I4aurens county, ran away with Gr'ffiA
| Lannon's. a widower. yesterday morning
! who her husband vas away from home
at work The S oniirased husband got into
| and overlook thein this afternoon ccveral
| miles away. Wtthopt word lie shot the
| villain through the aeari. Mrs Williams
left an infant at nc no with her husband.
who has not been arrested.
NEW YoR<-A special commission of
the British gov .rnmept. which has bcen
| appointed 10 HGu.re into the sugar in.
dustres pf the Nest ladies', is not 10 con-
fine Itself to The British colonies. hut IN
to visit New York. Members will arrive
there tho middle Of April after leaving
Jamaica. Their particular inquiry IN New
| York will coucrrn the manner in which
| the trade of the United States affects
| West Indian cvlcni2s 1t viii also embrace
tire sugar trala IN The s'satcs generally.