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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08

Rome. April lit IS semi- officially de-
MED that Admiral Canevaro has resigned
or that be has been recalled from com
mand of the international squadron IN
CREAM waters
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08
Movements of sugnr.

havana April General Weyler is ex-
peeied at Matanzas Friday.
f,op 10 April there had been exported
a., Vni mat port 6S,12i bags. Up to the same
~ last year the exports were 5S5S bags.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08
To Prcvent Exnort ar Arn,,.

,. uoh April THE Engllsh news
NM says that the authorities are taking
p,a. precautions at British ports to
'he clandestine exports OF war ma
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08
story of Inc,yiI,,y Denied.

Havana, April 7.--Consul General Lee ;
attention having been called by the repre-
sentative of the Associated Press to pub
hshed statement that he had been treated
with incivllity when visiting the captain
generals palace, said this was an error as
without exception. he had been received
.nere Whenever he had called with all
.ourtesy General Lee particularly desires
nave any misapprchension on this re
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08
conroe, Texas, April s.--Ten dollars

Conroe, Texas, April 3.--Ten dollars re-
ward-Ail officers look out for and arrest
Tom Smith. six feet high. 20 years old,
smooth face, dark hair and eyes. slender
build with very long neck. wore black suit
CT clothes. vest badly worn; riding light
sorrel horse, bald face, riding an old sad
die with one glrth. | hold warrant for him
for robbery. WIN pay reward for him In
eny iall In Texas. l. G. Griffith. sheriff.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08

TO CURE \ COLD ~ ONE DAr
luke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund tho money " II fails
to cure. y5c. ~.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08
DISCOVERED \ BURGLAR.


Colorcd StoreLceper Fired Twice m,
Him and WINS Erred on IL, Him.
| This morning about o'clock l.. w,
| Wood colored, who runs The old BELL store
at tho corner Of German street and tho In.
tornational and Great Northern track. was
| awakened by nelghbor. who told him !
man had climbed into the second story OF
his store Wood armed himself with shot.
gun and went 10 the store where he sta
toned himself at the foot of the ladder BIZ
means Of which the burglar had gained
access to the store. The thief became aware
of Woods presence and attempted to es-
cape by a side door, Wood fired at him
twice MS he emerged, but the man kept
going Wood secured pistol from some one
standing near and ran after the fleeing
man. As he turned the corner the burglar
fred at him. but missed; Woods own pistol
was discharged accidentally. however. the
bullet cutting through the skin of tho
lower jaw.
The police station was notifiod Deputy
Chief O'Leary and Driver johnson went To
tho Jail and got MIR. Anderson and his dogs,
and then flying trip was .lade over to the
locality, where the dogs were put on tho
trail of tee burglar.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08

Later-The dogs failed to take the trail.
as crowd had swarmed about the locality.
attracted by the shots, and at o'clock
this morning Jailer Anderson and Deputy
Chief oLeary returned to the city. Officers
Smith and Baker were detailed to watch
the outgoing trains for the burglar 1t IL
believed tho intruder was shot. but as the
charge was small birdshot he Is not badly
wounded.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08

Ethel-Do you enjoy a VIDE aequalili'
arCe?
Arabeila-Exce1t when ! have 70 ~
next 10 him in the theater.--pesroH
Journal.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-08

savannah, Ga. April 7.--captain Harry
strobhar Of the steamer Alpha. returned
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
AGuRAI IN MAROCCO.
3Ao Whole Population Of the Town Is
Descended From Renegades.


Agura is small town surrounded
with walls Of from 40 to 60 feet in
height and built of tabia, or con-
solidated rubble. II owes its existence
TO Mulai Ismail, who held the throne
Of Marocco from I722-I757. One gate
alone gives entrance to the place, and
in this respect, as well as Ill its archi.
lecture within and without, it much
resembles tho "ksor" of the Sahara de-
scribed in the writer's "Tafilet." But
1t owns one feature Of curiosity which
was lacking in the desert, for almost
without exception the entire population
are descendants Of the renegades and
Christian slaves of the time Of Mulai
Ismail, with the addition Of stray rene
gades who have been sent there since.
Probably no such cosmopolitan place
exists in the world. for its 800 or 400
inhabitants are representative of no less
than IL nationalities. Each family re.
members and is proud of its origin, the
Arab equivalent being applied as sur
names.
The family in whose home the writer
spent the few days Of his visit were
Flemish, while the next door neighbor
ON one side was an elderly female.
whose father. an Englisbman, had be-
come renegade some so years since,
and who quickly tired OF it, leaving a
wife and daughter, the neighbor in
question. The other neighbors were the
descendants Of Spanish Ryrsies, the
head of the family being "Absalam ben
Mohammed ell Gitano ell Espanoli. I"
They were particularly proud Of the
"Gitano" GYPSY Part Of the surname
and begged me not TO confound them
with the ordinary Spaniards, of whom
there were many descendants in Agurai
The ancestor OF. this gypsy family was
two generations back. He had left his
country, they naively told the writer,
because he was not on good terms with
his sultan, who wanted to imprison
him, being afraid of his influence. Prob
ably it was more Of an affair of the po-
lice courts than political intrigue.
The "Ulad el Aluj" C"sons Of the
convorts"), as the inhabitants of Agurai
are called, have entirely, except in one
or two cases, lost the type Of their Eu-
ropean ancestry, and through marriage,
no doubt, are as largely Berber in ap-
pearance as the wild tribes that sur.
round them. They speak among them
selves both Arabic and Berber, and
both, curiously enough. with strong
foreign accent, easily distinguish.ble.
They are exempt from all taxation, but
have to serve in the sultan's army. where
they perform the duties of cooks and
butchers. -Geographical Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMs.

Consul General Lee at Havana teie-
graphs the state department that the
case Of Evangelira Cisnoros has been
greatly misrepresented and exaggerated.
A. q. Burnley. head and founder Of the
well-known china ard crockery house
OF Buriey & Co. Chicago. is lying in a
precarious condition at his residence In
that city.
Wheat eclipsed the top-notch prices OF
the year at Chicago when IL reached
sioSiH. After exceedingly wild fiuctu-
atoms September closed at 9Sss. Decem-
Der at 9S5s and September corn at s0s.
Fire losses in Chicago for the six
months ended June 30 last were $l.7s2.-
e9i. about so per cent. OF the entire
premium receipts of the companies do
Ing business in Chicago during that
period.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
RUSSIA AND FRANCE ARE ALLIES.
Word the French Wanted 60 Hear Spoken
by the Cknr Nicholas.

st. Petersburg. Aug. 27.-At n lunch
con given yesterday I'm honor of the
ear on board the French cruiser Po-
thuau the car in proposing n toast TO
the French president said: Your stay
among US creates a fresh bond between
our two friendly and allied nations.
which are equally resolved 10 contribute
with all their power 10 the maintenance
Of peace in the world in the spirit Of
right and equity"
Paris. Aug. 21.-Ali Of the daily papers
have editorials commenting GA the i'm
portance OF the announced Franco Rus
sian alliance. The news arrived In
Paris too late 60 cause much comment
In the evening papers. Special editions
were eagerly bought up. however. and
the greatest enthusiasm prevailed ON
the boulevards.
Later President Faure visited the
Russian fleet. and then returning 10 the
Pothuaou, put to sea on his return 10
France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
Sections Of . Kentucky Pedigree.

Bob jolly Of Cave City has a hand
saw purchased in 1896 in Virginia. II
was bought in that year by the grand.
father of the Otter brothers. the well
known Louisville merchants. who are
no spring chickens at this writing
themselves. Mr.. Otter, the grandfather.
shortly after moved TO Kentucky and
brought the saw with him. Mr.. Jolly
has owned the saw for 43 years The
rear wheels OF the wagon in which Mr..
Otter made his trip TO Kentucky from
Virginia are still TO be seen ON the place
Of Mrs. Caleb Freeman in the Cave
City country. These are about 100 years
old.-Glasgow Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28

other places vt 10y C-cs have
occurred. Nc ,race of their c5-tc-:.::- I'll
be had, but tine theory is that they are filled
with some chemical mixture which Can be
30 proportional as to burst the glass and
break out into flame at any given time.
Smith locked his store at XeHia on Satur-
day night and went to Columbus. While
he was away u fire broke out. and under
ordinary circumstances he would have had
a complete alibi from a charge of arson.
Claim for the insurance money was. not
pressed, however, when it became known
that the authorities had evidence OF ex-
periInents with mysterious glass bulbs, Of
midnight niixings of chemicals ard of
heat tests in stove. The fires in Wheel
ing and Huntington were set in the same
way.
Loewenmeyer, who was to have man.
aged the fire in the Eclipse store at Leavitt
and Harrison streets. Chicago, says his in
structiOns were to watch for the breaking
out of the blaze and then throw plenty of
water on tho surrounding goods before he
gave an alarm With this as q clew the
chemists are working on the idea that the
bulbs are filed with some material the
ignition of hich is heightened by coming
in contact with water. 1t Was at first
thought the bulbs Were operated by cleo
tricity, as the witness Grandson in the
Wheeling trial said he noticed wires at one
end of them In none of the stores where
fires have taken place could any sign of an
electrical outfit or even of wires. he discov-
cred, and the theory now accepted is that
the explosion and flames are generated
within the bulb itself, tho latter being
blown into impalpable powder. thus de-
stroying all trace of the device
Fred Smith is named by Inspector Con-
way and other fire and police officials as
being the head and brnins of the gang, the
others being merely his tools. 1t is Smith
who is credited with responsibility for she
bulb device. All kinds of offers of Glenn
ency and even money reward have been
made to him if he will tell the secret Of its
ingredients ard method of operation. but
he declines to make the facts known. By
the side Of this contrivance the arson sp-
paratus Of all other firebugs is clumsy and
easy of detection. The New Workers who
defraudcd eastern insurance companies out
of $3.50, 900 last fall by means of kerosene
! cans and burning candles LET'S incriminat-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
Problem Of Living.

The strong yearning for the life Of
Washington or of New York is the mark
of a centsipetal tendency which is rea-
sonable and easily understood. The
same thing appears in all rich countries
The well 10 do English try to spend part
of the year in London, the French in
Paris. They do il and keep their coun-
try homes besides. Our westerners have
more difficult problem. They are much
farther away from their social and polit-
ical centers than most of the French or
the English, and the idiosyncrasies Of
the American climate complicate their
home comiDgs. Consider the case Of tbs
rich people of the great Ohio cities
The Cleveland man who has struck
Standard oil, or politics, or something.
and has become solvent beyond the
dreams of avarice, develops lawful de.
sire to live at the center Of things and
builds house in New York or Wash
ington. which is his headquarters from
November to May.
He still has house in Cleveland, but
when is he going to live in il? Not in
summer, for his neighbors who stay nj
home in the winter come east to the
seashore In the summer. He may find
Cleveland attractive in the late spring
and the early fall. but the chances are
that his family will tell him that II
doesn't pay to travel SO far and open
and close house for such short periods.
The upshot Of it must tend to be that
the shutters stay up on the Cleveland
mans house in Cleveland. and that he
lives elsewhere. and merely goes home
to vote or ON errands of business. And
why doesn't he give it up altogether
Because considerations of trade or senti.
ment or of politics forbid. 1t pays to be
representative man and hail from
somewhere. and Ohio is a good state &c
hail from.-Harper's Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
It. cn the trial n negro named Gran

arrest Cn the trial negro named Gran
Olson, who had worked for Eaton, told of
seeing some suspicious glass bulbs about
the store, which his employer had eau
toned him against handling.
Inspector Conway heard of all these
things and made up his mind that the
firebug gang which had been operating in
Chicago had transferred themselves to
other parts of the country, still using that
city as base 1t was in 1898 that incen-
diary fires were at their worst here. The
band was then composed of Fred Smith,
William Eaton, william Alexander, Henry
Schueck, and, SO Conway asserts, of Fred
G. Cowie. The method Of operation, as
shown in sworn confessions now in posses
sion of the authorities, was this:
One of the band would rent a store,
which would be fitted up under Smiths
directions, the shelving in every instance
| beirg painted with black asphaltGm, to
| make it more infiammable. A dummy
would next be found to pose as proprietor,
and a stock Of unsuitable goods brought in
from Schueck's factory. Bogus billheads,
bearing the names of reputable business
| firms, we-c printed and filled in to show
the purchase of large quantities of valu-
able goods. insurance to the amount of
$40, 900. S25, 900, and in some instances
10000, was taken out and the premiums
promptly paid. Suddenly there would be
q fire. Proof of value Of stock was made
by striking a balance between the amount
| shown by bogus invoices and the sales
| book, and in nearly every case the insur
| ance companies had to settle. Paul Loe-
wenmeyer. in q confession under oath,
says the band ran a regular school Of in
struction and had every danger point well
| covered.
Finally, after numerous disastrous fires
In Chicago. the band was cornered and
convicted. Smith turned ont to be the
| same man who was sent to Joliet for brib-
ing Cronin jurors, and afterward posed az
an evangelist at West Madison street
mission. Alexander made a confession.
Schueck got his prison sentence commuted
to $1,000 fine Eaton had to face the
music What worried Inspector Conway
was that he could not detect the means Of
starting the fires. In one case Alexander
said he ignited the blaze by throwing a
burning match into barrel Of dry excel
sior. but subsequent developments make it
possible that this was merely a blind to
draw attention from the glass bulb which
IL now known to have been used in many
Of their Jobs.
This bulb looks something like IN cleo
trio light globe. but Is a little larger than
those used On the ordinary incandescent
lights 1t has a screw cap at one end and
10 pea- shaped Tiny fragments Of these
bulbs have been found ct Xenia, O.,
Wheeling and Huntington. ". Va, and In
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
Do Negroes Sneexe?

at was Professor Schroeder of Louis
Vile, volunteered a surgeon to a re-
porter, "who first ventured the opinion
that the negro never sneezes. The state
Inent was made in reply to u question by
Professor Gross, the famous Philadel-
phia surgeon. A smile passed around
the listeners, and Professor Schroeder,
observing that there was some doubt
about his statement, reiterated it with
some force.
He then explained that while there
were no structural arrangements about
the breathing apparatus Of the colored
race that has been discovered which pre-
vented it from sneezing it was a fact
that the colored man did not sneeze,
though he could be made to sneeze by the
use OF snufs, pepper and other irritants.
He had, he said, never made any expert
ments in that come csion. IL also said
his observation had been conf led to
colored people in the southern states.
Atmospheric or other conditions might
exist elsewhere which might cause him
to sneeze. hut none existed naturally in
the south.
The debate ON the subject occupied
nearly an hour ut meeting Of the In
ternational Surgical association, which
held q convention in the old Lincoln
hall some years ago. Since then have
often spoken Of it and asked my friends
to notice, and, though have directed
the attention Of hundreds to the subject,
have yet II hear the first one to say
that he ever heard negro man or WON.
nn sneeze. BY negro I mean o black
man or woman. believe that mulat.
toes sneeze occasionally, and the nearer
they are to white the more frequently
they sneeze, but even they are less sen
sitive to influences which produce sneez
ing than the people Of the white race
II has been observed also that Indian!
sueeze very seldom, while Chimes
sneeze ten times as much even a. tn,
white race. "-Washington Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28

DR.. Norman Moore, whose enormous
experience i'll the pest mortem room
gives weight to his words, expressed in
q recent address the general desire of
Psychologists to find some law Of correla-
ton between defects Of different parts
of the body, but he had abandoned the
hope. for it was only exceptionally that
abnormalities of one organ were associ-
ated with those Of others. Movements
OF an unusual character. odd gestures
or antics may certainly be accompanied
by mental qualities of very high order
AN example of which may be noted in
Dr.. johnson. So. again, large ears are
net necessary signs Of mental defect, for
they may be observed in individuals of
great mental capacity. and the repeated
series Of movements ON which such
stress has been laid should be regarded
merely as habits Letter in
New York Medical Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28

and were readily caught.
Armed with his glass bulb, or three OF
four of them, the Chicago firebug proper
donates the explosive material to do its
work in, say, ten hours. He fills the bulbs,
places them in infiammable stock, and
then. openly and with ostentatious leave
takings, boards a train for town 200
miles away. Ten hours later fire destroys
his heavily insured stock and there is no
trace of criminal mechanism. That man
has pretty strong alibi, and he knows it,
as do also the insurance people. These
hitter may have their suspicious, but they
need proofs. and this Is why they want to
know how those mysterious bulbs are
worked
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
"Blot Out the Suu.s

At Princeton q young theologue per.
suaded fellow student TO go into the
auditorium and listen 10 him while be
rehearsed q sermon. The preacher In
embryo began. His subject was Light. -
With violent gesture with the right
arm. he said. blot out the sum- With
Q similarly frantic movement Of the left
arm. he roared, blot out the moonr'
Then with q combined gesture made or
Of both arms. he beloved. blot Out
the starsr' But il was enough. The
auditor arose 20 leave with . bosrse,
cruel whisper. "Turn or the easr'-
New York Mail and Express.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
She Was Shot Thirty Times.

Belle Flanagan. who reioiced in the
title Of 1.-THE wickedest woman in st.
Louis" died n natural death recently, al
though she had been shot 80 times during
her troubled career. Belle was n negress
her particular grievance against fate being
that she was not q white woman After
Belle had drunk pint Of whisky she did
not care a snap about her color and went
around saying SO. In this way she man.
aged to collect the leaden handicap that
she carried to her grave. The illness that
caused her death was the comparatively
simple matter Of a conQested artery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
Why the Duel Died Out.

Speaking of the recent French duel re-
calls the fact that Gueling is practically a
dead letter in Georgia. says the Atlanta
Constitution. The farmers of the state
suffered 60 from it at ere time that they
banded together against it and stamped il
out Their barn doors and window shut
tiers were seriously wounded by the duel
lists, who never would pay for repairs, and
many fine Georgia cows were slain by the
stray shots of desperate combatants. The
real sufferers could stand it no longer, and
they kicked.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
ARSON IN GLASS BULBS
Scientific Methods Of a Gang OF
Chicago Firebugs.
THEY USE A MYSTERIOUS BOMB

Made to Explode ut . Certain Time-Its
Ingredients . Conundrrm For Chemists.
Strange Discoveries Of . Chicago Fire
Inspector.
With simple looking glass bulb, con-
taining an unknown chemical mixture. a
bold band Of Chicago firebugs have been
conducting operations on q big scale for
over four years. In this time they have
defrauded insurance companies out OF a
large amount of money in risks and re-
wards Three Of the men implicated are
now under penitentiary sentences, and a
fourth is trying to evade capture by the
police. Inspector 81 W. Conway of the
gang has been effectually broken up, but
he will not DO entirely satisfied with his
work until he masters the mystery of the
glass bulb and its contents. This is a task
in which insurance companies have en-
gagged the services of expert chemists. but
thus far no progress has been made.
Last spring a man giving his name as
William Eaton opened an agency in
Wheeling, W Va, for the distribution Of
toys, willowware and similar goods. Later
he took ont S25, 600 insurance on his stock,
and following this there was tire In
the meantime the suspicious Of the insur-
ance men had been aroused, and there
was an investigation, which resulted in
the arrest of Eaton and his subsequent
conviction. When he was arraigned for
trial, q Chicago attorney appeared to de-
fend him. 1t developed that Eaton him
self was from Chicago, and that another
Chicago man had been there and had O
conference with him about the time Of his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
ftie4i ftlvsi PLEA

DR.. Williams Indian Pie Oinsnarai
viii cure onnd, bleeding. liberated
and itching piles. II absorbs the
sumors. n)!ays the itching 81 once.
acts AS a poultice, giving in-tsut re.
lief. DIR. WilliHms' Iediae Pile Oint.
ment is prepared only for piles
and itching Of she private parts, and
noshirg else. Every boz Is guaran-
teed. Sold by druggists or sen, BY
nail :or 50 cents ard 81 per box.
WILLIAMS M'y'a Co., Props Cleve.
lsnd. Ohio For sale BY al drug.
Sists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-28
A Mou..hoih Necessity.

Cascsrets Candy Csthartle, the
most wonderful medical discovery Of
the age. Pleasant and refreshing to
the taste, Scs guntiy and positively
on the bowels. cleansing the entire
system; dispel colds. -cure headache.
fever. habitusl constipation and bill
iousness. Please buy and try . box
Of c. c. c. today; 10. IS. so cents.
Sold and guaranteed &C cure BY al
druggists