The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-13
SHORT NEWS STOKES.


| ATLANTA, Ga.--rhe application for a
| receiver for the Southern Home Building
| and Lean association was refused by
Judge Pardee.
BlE1iL1N--Several persons persisted In a
| fire which broke cut among the wooden
work of the shaft of a mtilo near Antol-
| nenhpett S!lesla.
BCiSTON--A Herald special from Exeter,
N. H., saws that Hon. Carl Schurz has
! again opened fire or Senator Gallagher
on the latter's appointment.
ST. PETERSBURG-'rh Russian nsln-
ister 10 the United States. NJ. De Kotzbl.
has been relieved of his post at his own
request, owing to i'll health.
NEW YORK-A special to the Herald
from Buenos Ayres says: The financial
committee of the chamber of deputies has
fixed the bounty on sugar for export at Is
centaVos.
DoV Err, N. H.--Joseph Il. Kelley, one
OF the Great Falls bank robbers and the
selt.confessed murderer of Cashier Stick
ney, Was sentenced to thirty years i'm
pr!sonment.
CHICO, Gallon the southbound over
land train yesterday. Mrs. Rhoda Angus,
an aged passenger, became violently IN
sane and was handed over by the con
duclot TO the local officers.
cliICAGO-ln the fifteen mile match
Michael at the Coliseum, Michael won,
breaking the record His time was sl:N rs.
The previous record was 32:i9.
BALTIMORE, Md.-The United Dangh-
ANNUAL convention with the election of
officers. Mrs. Kate Cabell Curre of Dali
las Texas. was elected president.
NEW YoRk-The big wooden shap Roa-
noke has arrived IN port after voyage
OF 1902 days from Honolulu. During this
voyage, ON September 7, Captain Joseph
P. Hamilton died from blood poisoning,
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.--Dr. Alsberg. pres
dent eF the State bolrd OF health. has
Investigated the suspected cases reported
at Thebes. H., and found them not to be
yellow fever, but a form of maarial fever
l NlI-ADELPHIA--M Warwick has
sipned the bill recently passed by the
cSthe!l leasing the c'Ey gas works to the
united Gas Improvement company. Much
opposition TO the lease has been manifest
CT by the ciazens.
NASIilNGTON-Tn president has IS
sired Proclamation suspending the coll
ieVloA 81 discriminating dutea upon Mex
iSan si.pplng, upon satisfactory proof
that no Discrimination is prsct!Cod against
American ships n. Mexican ports.
MEMPHIS. nenn.John f. Betcher,
city tcket agent of the Illinois Central
railroad, died at st. Joseph hospital. Mr..
Bletcher had been suffering from appendi-
cltls, but the imemdlate cause OF death
was heart disease.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Ellis Rose, sem
fenced 10 hang AT JoneSboro for the mur-
| Der OF Henry sutton hast June, was not
executed. dis case was taken to the SUI
preine court and that tribunal granted
temporary resp.de.
GUTHRIE, Q. T.--Governor Barnes has
issued his first Thanksgiving proclapa-
Nion, calling upon the people OF the Terri
tory 70 observe the day as one of public
worship, family ana neighhorhood re-
unions and deeds Of CARLY and benen-
ccnce.
WASHlNGTON-It is not possible to
cortirm here the statement coming from
3erlsn TO the effect that the United States
nus offered TO mediate between Germany
ana Haytt In the difference arising from
the arrest OF the German subject, Herr
Lueders.
KANSAS CITY--The fraudulent issue of
over %N,oo IN Creek Indian warrants, re-
Gently discovered by the government. has
caused much stir In Kansas CITY banking
ana mercantile circles, nasnuch as quite
a large proportion Of the bogus issue IS
held here.
ST LoUIS--Marttn Ensley of Memphis
mas been put on trial for robbing and
,rNlng TO murder Charles u. Collins last
June. COLLINS has Disappeared Judge
Hifzel says the trial shall proceed WITH
out Nun, and when he is captured he wiz
be heavily fined.
kANISAKEE, nl.--The Riyerylew hotel
was burned. The fire originated in the
basement. Loss 5000; insurance SIS 600.
ROBERT Goodwin and c. w. Best saved
men selves by jumping from third story
window; Goodwin was badly bruised ana
received broken leg.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--,In a decision
haided down by the United States circuit
court IN case from the Western district
o. Norsh Carolina. Il has been Virtually
declared that members of the Eastern
paid OF Cherokee Indians. living in North
States s 1"''eu
WASHINGTON--It is learned at sbs
Mr.
NOT only resigned from the WASHINGTON
Mission, but that his resignation has bean
accented the Russian foregn office and
person OF Count Cass.ni the present Rns-
sian minister at Pekin.
ST. PAUL. Minn.--4Mtss Matilda An1ar-
syn, young woman who has been kent
awe at the CITY hospital for six weeks by
OF the lungs For forty-two DAYS tha
purses and house physicians of the honI-
Ia have been h.ling Miss Anderson's .unrs
with air by artificial means.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.-under an
opinson by Judge Crow that fraternal IN.
suNince associations could net write en-
uowment certificates, or limited payment
eert,neates,t nor provide for cash sur
Saa1e sol Oh values or paad up insurance.
mas refused TO license companies 10 da
BUSINESS In Missouri.
NEW YoRK--A dispatch To tha uera,a
from Ro De Janeiro says: severai per-
sons arrested on suspicion In connection
wtn the alleged plot 10 Kill presiden,,
Moiaes nave been released. as no eys.iefc.
Mas found against them. Many are held.
nowSVer, as serious evidence against them
| been arrested "a'e
| NEW aaoRk-John c. Balllt. Jr.. Of
| duluth, Msrin., was found dead In n r,o,,,
a. .ne Sen'ral Railroad hotel. which he
\ ssSsseu on the previous right. The man
had apparently Committed SUI, a. ~ ~,