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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-07
LOCAL AMusEMENTs.
Nice,s "EyungcIinc."

Evangeline .......,..... Maud Courieua3
Catharlne ...............Geo K. Fortescue
Leblanc. the notary ...., .chas. selsraVe
Gabriel ...............Ma Mae Baker
Captain Dietrich Mason
Hans Wagner. Malcolm Russell
The heifer Messrs. Lee and Wa ie
The Lone Fisherman. JOS w. Harris
Choruscs. aides, maids sailors, etc
"Evangelne' is one Of the pretuest.
most amusing and spirited OF all he spec.
tacular burlesques and extrayaganzas, and
was seen and enjoyed by good sized
au Hence at the opera house last evening
and will doubtless draw large attendance
again today when II will be repeated at
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-07
Dunines. Lenwu~ McetIn..

All the members OF the Houston Business
league are expected to attend the general
meeting at II o'clock this morning a. the
meeting will BIO a very important ono and
one In which every member should feel an
interest 1t means practically = reorgAni-
cation of the league upon better work.
inp hasia .t1
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practlced law In Richmond and adjacent
counties Tor many years. Besides a fam
ny ana father. he leaves mother. two
prothers, young sister and q married
sister. Mrs. Glenn Bassett OF this city.
attend the funeral
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Notice TO Water Consu merr.

Water will be cut OF today betwssn ~
kours of a. m. and p. N. on ~ M
lowing streets: Ninth to washinnto1,
Washington to Second and Railroad. 0Ixt1s
from Washington to 0iraud. Open III foos
Gets. Houston Water WORKS 0AX
Per F. J. Smith, euperintenAent
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Bargains i'll

1000 yards Hamburg Embroid.
cry, worth Toe, at Sc yd.
1000 yards Hamburg Embroid-
cry, worth l5c, at SIC yd.
1000 yards Hamburg Embroid-
cry, worth zoe, at lOC yd.
1000 yards Hamburg Embroid.
cry, worth 25c, at 125C yd.
5000 yards short Ends Embroid.
cry at half value.
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One lot Ladies' Black Moreen
and Sateen Underskirts, the
regular 81. so and 81. IS kind.
Cleaning up sale price now
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-07
a FraternaI Tribute.

Walter Stevens. whose death was briefly
announced In The Post OF Wednesday. was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
KILLED FROM AMBUSH.
Arizona Mooushiners waylay n Pos
of United States Deputies.

Arizona MOoushiners waylay n Posse
of United States Deputies.
Six men were probably massacred in
the wilds of the mountains Of Pope Coun-
ty, Ark. Two were killed outright, two
were fatally wounded and left for dead
and two have mysteriously disappeared
and are either dead or being held captive
by the bloodthirsty bandits who commit
ted the awful crime.
The victims were all officers, United
States deputy marshals and deputy sher-
ifs, and the men who did the awful work
of carnage are moonshiners of the boldest
and most desperate class. The scene Of
the bloody crime was gulch or ravine in
the mountains of Pope County at an iso-
lated spot thirty-ive miles from Russell
vile, the nearest telegraph office, and ten
miles from Will Springs. The region has
for years been the favorite rendezvous for
counterfeiters and moonshiners and dis
trict in which no lawabiding citizen could
live.
Marshal Taylor, with his posse, located
large moonshine outfit Saturday night
and decided to make the raid Sunday In
daylight. Proceeding slightly in advance
of his men, Taylor was within thirty feet
of the distillery when he was suddenly
fired upon from ambush and instantly
killed. As Dodson ran up to Taylor he was
also shot dead in his tracks. Rifles began
to crack in all directions and terrific
voley was fred into the officers. Two
fell MORALLY wounded and lay by the road
side until later in the day, when traveller
named Pack CHANGED by. All traces Of the
bandits had disappeared, as well as two
of the deputy sheriffs.
The United States marshal will make a
determined effort to capture the murder
or
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09

Nau wanted 10 lows Brought bsek
from the Klondiks Country.
Frank Albert Novak, under charges OF
murder and arson, has arrived ut Wal
ford, Iowa, the scene OF his alleged crime
When interviewed Novak denied being
guilty OF the charges laid up against him.
He confesses, however, that he Is Frank
Albert Novak, and not J. A. Smith, as he
represented himself when entering the
Klondike mining country. At FIRST he In
sisted that @. @. Perrin Of the Thiel de-
tcctivc service OF st. Louis was mistaken
when he accused him Of having murdered
Edward Murray Mt Walford last Febru-
airy, setting fire to the store and taxing
fight. hoping thereby to make 1t appear
that il was Novak that had been burned
alive. Had he established that as fact
his wife and others whom the detectives
believe were confederates would have
cleaned up $4,000 of insurance which
Novak had taken out on his life in his
wife's favor. All that Novak really con-
fcsscs Is that he is Novak and that he Is
from Walford and had a wife and two
children there. The insurance companies
will not therefore have to pay the S3O,OOO
of life insurance which they have brought
suit to recover. II the State Of Iowa can
not convict him of the murder OF Murray
or Of having set fire to the building occu-
pied by him he will escape.
Detective Perrin travelled 10000 miles
to capture Novak, and in getting into the
Klondike country he made the quickest
trip OF. record, travelling from juneau to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
BIG HAUL OF GRAIN.
Railroads Bring Chicago Over 5000
Cars In One Day.

Railroads Bring Chicago Over 5000
Cars In One Day.
The roads running to Chicago from the
West and Northwest are doing the largest
business they have ever done before at
this season Of the year. Monday was a
record breaker. Over 5000 carloads of
grain were brought In by the Western
roads. This means over 100000 tons of
grain in one day, or more than three times
as much as the ten east-bound roads took
from the city during the whole of last
week. or the above mentioned 5000 car
loads CT grain, $500 carloads were corn.
The Burlington brought in 100 cars and
the Rock Island over 900 cars, and they
ran short Of rolling stock.
While the lake lines took out of Chicag 20
last week nearly 100000 tons of freight
the largest amount on record-the Chicago
east-bound roads are carrying no more
through freight than they did at this time
last year. The reason Is the rates charged
by the railroads are higher than the trafic
will bear.
Total shipments of -four, grain, and pro-
visions from Chicago through to seaboard
points and for export by the ten east
bound roads last week amounted to "A, $40
tons, against 40,153 tons for the week
precious and 41,117 tons for the CORE
spending week last year. Flour shipments
last week were 2,510 tons, against 5,32S
tons last year; grain, &c, 4SS tons, against
20,S51 tens; provisions, 1881 tons,
against ABS tons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
Die Like Rats.

The Empress of China has arrived at
Victoria with oriental adyices to Aug. ~.
BY floods in prefecture Of Japan over
one hundred houses were destroyed and
five O. six lives lost in the Nishima dis
trict. AL bridges on the Oshima Railway
line in Higashi- Kubihi district were brok-
en- down by floods, and the roads also
damaged in many places. Over forty
houses and twenty go-downs were swept
away by the water, and twenty-four lives
lost in the village of Matsugaski, Sado
district. BY the swelling of the Agane
River, 1,200 houses in Sanjo MACH and
700 houses in the village of Ichinikido
were submerged. At Izimukais one shrine,
two go-downs, four temples and half
score of dwellings were crushed by land
slides from the mountains, and five lives
lost and ten persons severely wounded. A
dispatch from Naoetsu says that the
houses flooded numbered LOGO, and the
killed and wounded 300, while 600 persons
were saved from drowning. g
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
PROFIT IN BAD DOLLARS.
Margin Of 90 Cents ON Every .siiv'
Dollar Privately Minted.

Margin of 90 Cents ON Every Silver
Dollar Privately Minted.
The United States secret service bureau
is struggling with an epidemic Of counter
feits. Hardly day passes without the
arrest OF from one to half dozen persons
detected in passing spurious notes or sill
yer coin. 1t Is evident that there Is =
large volume OF counterfeit silver certifi-
Gates OF last years issue afoat and that
the circulation Is continually being dilut-
ed with that sort of material. When these
certificates were first put out expert en-
would be tempted to resume activities,
and the result shows that they were not
wrong in their prophecy. AS works Of art
these certificates may be very fine, but for
purposes OF money they were shockingly
deficient in many of the safeguards which
the department had provided against
counterfeiting. Government detectives
have been instructed to be on the watch
for bogus silver dollars, the tip having
been given the treasury department that
a move was being made in some mysteri-
GUS and unknown quarter for the minting
of such dollars on a large scale, the coins
to have the same amount Of silver as the
genuine and to be in exact similitude OF
the coin bearing the stamp OF the United
States minis. Thus far the department
has not been able to locate any Of this IL
licit product and it is not believed any OF
the bogus dollars of that sort are yet In
circulation, but that is no guaranty that
the country may not at any time be Hood
ed with them. At the present price of sill
yer bullion there is margin Of 90 cents
on every dollar privately minted.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09

Plight ~ Elondike Miners-Yukon
Very Low Tor Navagations
News received In letters to the Alaska
Comnercial Company that famine ID al
most certnin ON the Kloadike next winter
receives confirmation from Mr.. Goodhue,
newspaper correspondent at St. Michael.
He states that the Yukon IL unusually low
a&d that the chances Of getting enough
food to Dawson to support those now
there and those fiocking In are slender. A
letter has been received in Vancouver
from Henry Behnson, who left for the
Yukon via Skaguay with weli-equipped
party In July. The party consisted OF
eight, but one grew faint-hearted under
the hsrdships and returned. They had
reached the summit Aug. % and expected
to arrive on Stewart river before winter
sets IN. Dead horses are reported along
the trail and at one spot, where their par
~ lost one horse through falling over
precipicc, six horses were killed the same
day. Two men were caught stealing and
We're shot. Large numbers of people are
turning back and outfits can be pur-
chased cheaply. Ex-Scrgt. Haywood OF
the Vancouver police force, who went up
to Dawson City in the spring, says in
letter that God only knows what will
become OF the crowds now heading this
way" At the time of his writing provis-
ions were scarce in Dawson, but steam
er was expected daily
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
TWO TONS OF GOLD.
Vast Quantity OF Yellow Metal Com
ing from the Yukon.

Vast Quantity Of Yellow Metal Conn
ing from the Yukon.
John b. Brady, Governor Of Alaska,
has sent Secretary Bliss a personal letter,
in which he gives some interesting facts
about the rush for the Klondike region.
Gov. Brady has been identified with Alas
kan interests most of his lifetime, and Is
known to be very conservative in his opin-
ions. Writing from Juneau, he says:
steamships are passing daily for Dyea
and Skaguay loaded to the utmost with
passengers and supplies. The news just
out of Klondike by reliable men is calcu-
lated to raise the excitement 10 Il higher
pitch. The shipment of dust by the mouth
Of the Yukon will be all of two and one
half tons.
Rich finds have been made well up on
the sides Of the mountains, and the old
saying that gold is where you find it and
silver runs in veins seems to be empha-
sized in that district. A conservative es-
innate is that there are 5000 men at
Skaguey and along the trail on the White
Pass.
But a few only have gone over this
pass with their supplies, and only n small
per cent. of the number can get across.
Some parties are dividing, and will try to
send one over with supplies, while the 9th
'ers 90 into camp until spring.
''The men who are coming here are fine
fellows, and l greatly admire them as
see them talk and walk. A country can
well be proud of such men. They are re-
markably orderly"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chica go--Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades.
$500 20 $4.75, sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. red, 93c to 94c;
corn, No. 2, SIC to 32c; oats, No. 2, 19c
to 20c; rye, No. 2, SOC to sic; butter
choice creamery, tic to 10c; eggs, fresh.
13c to lac; new potatoes, Doc to 65c per
bushel.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping. $500 to
$5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 to $4.10;
sheep. common to choice. $500 to $4.OO;
wheat, No. 2, 00c to 02c; corn, No.
white, SOC to &c; oats, No. 2 white, lSc
to 19c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to $4.T5; sheep, $500 to $4.O0;
wheat, No. 2, 07c to 90c; corn, No. 2
yellow, &c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c
to zoe; rye, No. 2, Acc to Sic.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $4.75; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 05c to 96c; corn, No. z
mixed. 3Oc to &c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 2Oc
to 21c; rye, No. 2, Acc to sic.
Detroit-CattIe. $3.50 10 $3.50: hogs,
$500 TO S4.25: sheep. $3.50 TO S3.75;
wheat, No. 2, Doc to 9Tc; corn, No. .
yellow, 32c TO 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c
10 nc; rye, Ole TO DC.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red, Doc to 97c;
corn, No. 2 mixed, zoe to 31c; oats, No.
? white, 1Sc to Zoe; rye, No. 2, Soc to &c;
closer seed, $4.20 to $3.50.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. spring, 02c
TO 94c; corn, No. 3, 29c to Bic; oats, No.
2 white, PIC to 23c; rye, No. 1, SOC to Gle;
barley. No. 2, 40c to 43c; pork, mess,
$S.75 80 1926.
BuffaIo-Cattle, $500 10 $3.50; hogs.
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 97c; corn, No.
= yellow, Doc to 36c; oats. No. 2 white,
23c TO 25c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$3.50 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.75;
wheat. No. 2 red, S1.02 to S1.04; corn,
No. 2, Bic to Csc; oats. No. white, 23c to
25c; butter. creamery. 12c to 20c; eggs,
Western, 10c to 17c.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
HARD BLOWS FOR LUEroERE

Mrs. Tosch Proves TO BE Very Eff
fective Witness for Prosccutiou.
Mrs. Agatha Tosch, to whom Adolph
Luetgert was wont to confide his business
and marital troubles, took the stand for
the prosecution when the famous murder
case was resumed In Chicago Tuesday,
and gave damaging testimony AGAINST the
prisoner. According to her evidence, the
day after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared Mrs.
Tosch had long conversation with the
sausagemaker, who, she asserts, was pale
and laboring under excitement he vainly
endeavered to suppress. In the course of
their talk she boldly told him she believed
him guilty Of making away with his wife
and that be thereupon manifested much
excitement and begged her to help him, as
he was in great trouble. Mrs. Tosch di-
lated on Luetgert's disturbed condition OF
mind as much as the rules of evidence
would permit and finally swore that the
man, in the extremity of his distress, de-
clared he was tempted to shoot himself
and escape the trouble that hung over his
head. Before she left the stand Mrs.
Tosch also testified to the hatred felt by
Lueteert for his wife and his significant
threats to crush her.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09

American Tories managed to raise SOL
500 for the Victoria jubilee fund.
The Paris Journal says the Gar will
visit Paris at the end of autumn.
Charles Darwin's statue in bronze has
been set mp in his native town, Shrews-
bury.
Walther's "Preislied," from 'sThe Meis.
tersinger," was the song which took first
prize at the recent Welsh Eisteddfod at
Pontypool.
Gift enterprises by Paris newspapers
have been stopped by the courts as in
Engagements of the governments lottery
monopoly.
French priests Mt Jerusalem have been
exploring the land Of Edom and have
found a number Of new inscriptions on
tomts Mt Petra.
The Sultan may have to recall his troops
from Thessaly TO use them in Persia
without waiting for Greece to pay trans
portation expenses.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
BITTEN BY SNAKES.
Two Little Kentucky Boys Are kiile'
by VenOmous RattIers.

Two Little Kentucky Boys Are Killed
by Venomous Rattlers.
Willie, aged z, and Eddie, aged o, sons
of Matthew Cox, farmer living near
Mannsville, Taylor County, KY, met ter
rible deaths from rattlesnake bites. They
were playing hide and seek with some 9TH
er children and Willie ran into the bushes
and failed to reappear at the proper time.
Presently Eddie heard cries from his lit
tie brother, and, Fastening to his aid,
found, as he at first thought, that he had
become fastened in the hollow Of an old
stump. In trying to pull the child from
the stump Eddie discovered that four big
rattlers were biting Willie time and
again. Badly frightened, but determined
to rescue his brother, Eddie reached in for
a better hold, and was himself bitten re
peatedly. The cries Of the two children
attracted some men and they were finally
rescued from their periious position, bat
not until they were past all aid. One died
in five minutes and the other in ten. The
four snakes were killed, and it was found
that the youngest child had Jumped into
their nest in the hollow of the old stump
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
YEARS ron m'k XXI liz


letter Of Warniug Received by the
Mayer OF Columbus.
One incident Of the Presidents visit to
Columbus and the Ohio State fair was
manufactured into q sensation. This was
the report OF = plot to assassinate the
Chief Executive in the capital OF his ma
tive State. A few days ago Mayor Black
received through the mails IN anonymous
letter. reading as follows:
BE on your guard. There ~ a plot
against Mckinley to make way with him
because he appointed Powderly. This
plot IL not In favor of anarchy. They are
for organized labor and against mon
opoly."
It was believed that the letter was
written either by some crank or by a
practical joker, but Mayor Black deemed
It wise to take every precaution looking
to the Presidents safety.
The result was that during his stay the
President was very closely guarded by
the police authorities Of the city. All the
detectives belonging to the local force
with the visiting sleuths from other cities
were detailed to act as a special body
guard, and upon the arrival Of the Presi-
dents train the officers in plain clothes
surrounded the President and escorted
him to his carriage, on either side of
which when the parade moved marched
four detectives and the chief Of police
himself. No one was allowed to approach
the vehicle during the parade and upon
the arrival of the party at the hotel the
police formed n Gordon clear to the eleva-
tor through which the President passed.
During the reception and during allthd
subsequent exercises of the day the Pres
ident found detectives constantly mt his
elbows. He observed the extraordinary
vigilance Of the police and finally asked
an explanation, which was given him by
Mayor Black, who also showed him the
letter. The President merely observed
that he did not believe anyone wanted TO
do him harm. However, he warmly
thanked the Mayor and Director Williams
for the precautions they had taken to con-
serve his safety.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
LEAPS TO DEATH.
w. Russell Ward Killed En- Route to
Chicago.

w. hussell Ward Killed I'm Route To
Chicago.
w. Russell Ward, the Englishman who
came first into the glare of publicity by
clipping from Los Angeles on the last day
of June with the wife of Millionaire John
III. Bradbury, drew attention to himself
Thursday morning for the last time by
casting himself through the window of a
Pullman sleeper on the Northwestern
overland flyer. He met instant death. His
suicide was undoubtedly due to insanity.
After locking the stateroom door at 3
o'clock to exclude the watchful porter, to
whom he had betrayed symptoms Of men
tai arrangement, Ward pulled himself
through the window of the toilet-rOom
connecting with his compartment, and in
his mad desire to escape from the assail-
ants he believed to be bounding him dash
ed to his death. His body, clad only in
scant night attire, was found at daylight
lying beside the tracks ut Wheatlands,
Iowa.
Discharged from Jail on Thursday, Aug.
26, he left San Francisco Monday night
with the avowed intention Of going ut
once to England to plead forgiveness Of
the wife he had wronged and deserted.
The evidences brought out by his actions
during the days Of his trip across the
country are all to the effect that in the
solitude of Imprisonment his mind gave
way under the strain of mingled passion
and remorse.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09

Dawson City in three weeks, during
when time he had to raft logs FIVE miles
and saw them up for material fer boat.
He then started down the lakes and Yu-
kOn river, shooting all the rapids, thing
he says he would not again do for all the
gold in the Klondike country. In his haste
he passed in the middle of Lake Bennett
the man he had already Travelled thous-
ands Of miles to capture. Novak, under
the name of j. A. Smith, was going leis-
urely down the lake with n party OF
miners as Perrin passed. Perrin talked
with members of the Novak party, but
did not recognize the fugitive behind his
heavy growth Of whskers.
At Dawson City Perrin could find no
trace of Novak, as he had not arrived.
For day or two he was afraid he had
Travelled all the way to Dawson on blind
trail. But inside of two days he had To-
Gated the wife of member of the party
Novak was known to be travelling with.
She relieved Perrin by informing him that
her husband was expected the next day.
On the third day after Perrin arrived
NOvak's party came in. The mounted po-
lice were summoned to make the arrest
through courtesy. Perrin pointed out No
wax and had him brought to headquarters.
NOvak stoutly declared he was not from
Iowa.
Perrin then sent for the mounted police
doctor and had him examine the filings
in Novaks teeth. In every respect the
marks of identification on his teeth tailed
with those given out by the Iowa authori-
ties, and it was deemed satisfactory proof
that the prisoner was Novak.
Up to that time Perrin had passed in
Dawson City as the representative Of
big Colorado syndicate that was going
to buy half of the new gold district When
his true errand became known, he was
given an ovation. Novak had no money, al
though he had earned $41 carrying other
peoples supplies on his back over the
ChilkOOt Dass
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09

TAKEN place, with unR ~ two killed here
ard there and three or four wounded. The
Mvages from disease In the isIRnd IN
crease weekly and TIE hospitals are over
crowded. The foreign consulstes in Ha-
vana are besicsed with people demanding
food. 1t II announced that Sonora Cis'
neros will probably be released from cur
tody In month or two. The Insurgents,
It IL stated, have about 30, 900 men under
arms and are possessed Of sufficient sup
plies to hast through the coming winter.
All business IL at q standstill and gold IL
quoted ut premium Of 100 In paper
money. Weyler has left his camp on the
sugar estate San Antonio, near Medruga,
and has gone in the direction Of Iona
Grill, mountain, where the insurgents In
the Havana province have again concen-
tratcd their forces.