The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-15
SHORT NEWS STORIES.


PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Ail Of tho details
OF the ceremony Of unvciling the Washing.
ton monument In Paramount park saturday
and the various events incidentally con-
uected Herewith are practically complete.
RENO, Ney.--A severe shock Of earth
quake. was felt here, lasting several min.
utcs. The vibration was from north TO
south.
ATLANTA. Ga.--Cantain Evan p. Howell
positively denies that he has In view the
starting OF another paper In Atlanta
ClNCINNATI--c. a. Youtzey, late cash.
Ter OF the Newpor, National bank WAS
arrested on a warrant charging him with
misrepresentation Of the banks funds, In
default of bond IN the sum of $4,000
he was placed in jail.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.--Thc game between
Kansas City and milwaukee, terminated In
small sized riot over doubtful de-
cision by Umpire Graves, which resulted
in giving Milwaukee tho game Fred Lake.
catcher for the Blues. assaulted Graves.
knocking him down. and Immediately sew
cral hundred men swarmed upon tho
grounds and Graves was roughly handled
until four policemen came to his assist
nnCe.
JACKSONVILLE Fla, Three thousand
people attended the opening meeting OF
tho National League OF American Wheel
men circuit at Panama park
RuSSEI.LVlLLE. Ark.-Prosley Oats,
negro living nenr Gala Rok. was taken
from his cabin by a mob, was strippcd and
beaten in a most cruel manner, A rope
was tied about his neck and he was swung
up repeatedly. each time being beaten by
the mob He was finally swung up and LETT
to die A generally bad reputation was tho
cause,
BOSTON Judge John Lowell. tho dis
,ingushed 1urist. Ia dead.
NEW YORk--No arrangements have az
vet been made for forwarding the 10000
tons of corn stored in the Brooklyn ware
houses to the plague stricken districts IN
India.
KANSAS CITY Harry II. Hazen, II
years old. committed suicide here In
room over a saloon. The young man took
his life with the same revolver with Which
his father. W. T. Hazen. killed himself
at Carson City. New. about three years
ago.
BURLINGTON. Iowa.~William Watt
and Charles Feirdach. brlckyard employees.
are near deaths door from drinking en-
balming fluid, which they thought was
whisky.
SAN FRANCISCo-W, B. Bradbury,
local millionaire has been sentenced 20
twenty-four hours Imprisonment In the
county iail for violating the civic ordi-
nance prohibiting expcctorating on the
floor OF street cars. This was Bradbury's
second oflenso.
Ol.ATHE. Kan.-Nancy Jane Maycs.
charged with tho murder OF Annie Belle
Williams. n 10 year-old girl. has been nc
quilted by n jury. Mrs. Mnycs has main
tanned all along that she gave the girl TO
some movers who were passing through
the country.
ORD Nch Gid Summers. a cattle hnycr,
was fatally shot by man named Mcbride.
who IL said to he cattle rustlor from
Royd county. The affray is said TO be the
result Of an old foud
BATH. Me. The new gunbont Nicks-
burg had a preliminary run off the Maine
coast from the mouth Of the Kcnnuhcc 10
Portland Headlight. encounterine a rough
sea, which gave the boat oh, To show
hur seawor,hiness, She made lsH knots
per hour. which WAS fully W TO tho 70
quiremonts.
PARIS Tho remains of the late Duo
d Aumalc have arrived here from Sicily
and have been taken 10 the Church Of the
Madeleine, whore requiem mass VIII be
celebrated on Monday next.
LONDONA dispatch TO the Times from
pekin says Chang TIA Jan. tho Chinese
director general Of railways. has obtained
a loan Of 1000 600 tacs from a Belgian
fNNnlfHlt On tfNulliJ ~ luf laiNhNh al
ready built in the empire with tho add
tional sole right TO huild the railway from
Pekin to Bnnkau guaranteed 20 Belgium.
England and Germany have protested.
PARIS-Tom Mann. the English labor
ae,ator. who arrived here Monday to ad-
dress labor meeting. has been given
twenty four hours by tho police to quit
France. He replied he would obey the or
dor. The meeting was 10 have been held
tonight.
PAXTON. Iil.-Frcd Hocllman alias
Hartman, was hanged In the jail here In
the presence Of about fifty witnesses.
LAKE PORT. Cal.-Emilie Charlotte
Langtry. better known throughout two
hemispheres an the Jersey Lily. has 81.
cured divorce from her English husband
NEW YORK The proceedings brought
by the heirs OF the late jay Gould to have
the amount OF the inheritance tax hked
was argued before the appellate division OF
the supreme court.
CINCINNATI. --Christinn Moerlein. one
Of the Iionner brewers OF Cincinnati, died
at his homo In Clifton Mt $3.50 n. IN. aged
81 years.
LONDON MIR. LeBaudy's bny gelding,
Chon Khan, won the royal 2-ycar-o odd plate
OF 5000 soveregDs.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.--The unitod States
gunboat Nashville on her official trip aver
aged 1917 knots. winning bonus OF about
$50 900 for her builders.
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