The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-20
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

LOS ANGELES, CAl--Jack Stelsncr D.
feated Joe McAuiiff of San Francisco in
| the ffteeGNh round.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa--stepe win soon BE-
taken here looking to municipal control Of
| the locaa street railway lines.
CHICAGo--Hydc Park. the local option
suburb. has won its fisht; and no liunor q
| I1ONDoN--Aiost OF the morning papers
| published sympathetic articles on the
death Of George NJ. Pullman OF Chicago.
| DENVER. Co,o.--The flooded mines OF
Leatville will not be pumped out so long
| tinuea
NEW YoRK--Apparatio has been made
| fol receiver for the American Grocery
company, SUCCESSOR to Thurber. Whyland
CHICAGo-A local paper announces that
twc OF the big gas companies are to be
gobbled up by a third and practical trust
formed
C ,,.sI.iS.l!AI n. y..rhe annual
State win be held hero three days. be-
| ginning today.
| wIESBADEN--The car has caused to
DO conveyed to emperor. William an init
nation that he WIN DO pleased to visit his
German majesty here.
| MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.-Tbc American
| Missionary association began It's anpMal
session at the First CONGREGATIONAL church
| this afternoon, with large attendance,
L
annual session OF the Southern Homeo-
| pathic Medical association was called to
] order by President II. S. stern OF Wash
| ington.
clist, has arrived here and will at onre
| begin training for tho purpose OF riding
| for the unpaced records for quarter,
| half and q mile.
| NEW YoRK-General Frederick Puga,
former secretary OF state of Venezuela
| and later ON conaul general for that conn.,
| try at Philadelphia, is dead at his home
| In this city, aged S.
| CLEVELAND--Alderm Charles Wes-
| tel denounced newspaper men I'm the coun-
| ell and then cast tho vote which defeated
| the ordinance providing for cent street
car fares for this city.
ATTsANsOoGA. Tenn.--A special from
summerville. ,Gay says that the. two ne
groes accused Of arson taken from the
| officers there by a mob, established their
innocence and werc released
M1LwAtrKDE-Th convention OF tho
Episcopal missionary council opened here.
| This is one of the largest meetings ever
held by the council 1t is the centennial
jubilee of the milwaukee, zee.
SEATTLE, Wash.--Isaac Dietrich a
ka says the gold fields OF that country
| arc Very extensive. though he does not
think there Will be many big ands
| BOSTON, Mass. Wilson Brothers,
have made an assignment. No statement
| of the liabilities and assets has been
| given out, but the former are said to be In
the neighborhood OF $4,000
LoNDoN--A dispatch to the Times
| from Melbourne says: Owing to the drouth
a considerable shortage In the wool clip
will result. In Victoria. South Australia
and Queensland the crop Is short. Total
shortage is estimated at lT5,0D bales.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--1'he armor plate
board spent another very busy day here.
This morning a special train on the South,
ern Railway took the board and commit
tee. TO Brazil and Flossburg coal mines
and the North Birmingham furnaces.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.--By an cxplo-
sion in the electric room of the Coima
fuse works, Mary Beck was killed and
twelve other employees were injured, eight
seriously and four slightly. The remains
of the dead girl have not been recovered
CHIC'ACO-The Chicago ana Milwaukee,
| Brewers association has decided that tho
| so-callcd pool the existence of which
| was endangered, would be maintained for
the present and that the price OF beer
would not be allowed to go any lower than
"a barrel.
ST. PAUL Minn.-Judge Twohy of the
of stolen iasses In ST. Paul al S25 Harry
| Mcintyre was arrested at tho Instance OF
Miss Augusta Keomppei, pleaded guilty OF
stealing kiss a technical assault. and
was fined SIS.
WILLIAMS Ray, Wis.--At the confer
| ence OF scientists attending the dcdica-
tlon of the Yerkes observatory and Giant
| Telescope, Professor Barnard announced
| to his fellow savants that In using the
new telescope he has already discovered n
third companion star to Vega,
| WASHINGToN-Th supreme council of
the Scottish Rite Masons at their see-
SION heard the report of the finance com
mittee and made arrangements for future
sessions On Friday there VIII he con-
| ferred the 33d degree upon those selected
/ by the nominating committee.
| NEW YORK--The twenty-dfth annual
| convention of the Carriage Builders Ma
tioral Commercial association has begun
! ton with the convention there IL an ex-
hgbition of articles used in carriage build
ing which is open to the public
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-The National
Association Of Retail Liquor Dealers Is IN
session here, with l2s delegates. present.
! Each delegate was accompanied nv two
! or three persons making the total number
in attendance about 400. The executive
Of the league. which viii not be made
public.
LoNDoN-Cavendish. the nephew of tie
! Duke OF Devonshire. VINO with q conf
! ploring Somsliland. East Africa, at the
| head OF an expedition composed of ninety
| Ascarais and who with his party was
re ported TO have been massacred by the
I natives, has arrived safely in London
| from Zanzibar.
/ WAsHINCTON--Cons O'Ilara reports
| to the state department that the govern
! ment OF Nicaragua has granted thirty
| year ntonopoly--though the republics con-
et.tution prombBts such thing--t9 the
| Atlas Stemnshap company TO operate boats
| on the Silica lagoons and 10 construct
tramways and railways along the San
| Juan river.
MACON, Ga.-News has reached the
| city that application for receiyership for
the Southern building and Loan associa,
| ton Of Huntsville, Ala, by Milo Abel and
| oilers OF Macon Ga, has been denied and
| IN Ierdering the decision the Judge Of the
| Fedora court for the Northern district Of
Alabama ANNOUNCED that every charge
against the association had been fully
| answered.
/ NEW YORR--A queer question has come
| up. number of Cinnamon ordered spe-
ciai kinds Of tea sent them. Customs offi-
cials contend that, as they are not named
| in the tariff law. they should be seized
| and destroyed. The Chdnamen are willing
| 10 pay the duty assessed and are going TO
make a fight TO prevent the destruction Of
their property
| DANyILLE. Ky.;-At Junction City, for