The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-31


OF the diocese OF Mobile of TT. Cev. Ed
ward p Allen, consecrated at baltimore a
few days ago.
NEW YoRK-A dispatch 10 the Herald
fiom st. Pierre. Miquelon. says; Jhe
British schooner Corsica OF Syiney VAS
wrecked this morning on Point Diairat,;
this island, during n dense fOg. The crow
arc safe.
NEW YORK-The burglars who nineteen
years ago stole 50 747 700 In securities from
the Manhattan Savings institution has Of
fered 10 return them IN good shape for
$50 900 in cash. This the officials of the
bank refuse TO give
CHlCAGo-The great Yerkcs observa.
tory will be closed for the summer. A
part of the flooring fell in and 1t is feared
the jar may have destroyed the accuracy
of some Of the delicate machinery of the
celebrated telescope itself
MONTPELIER. VIA folding bed at tho
Union house closed automatically While
Henry Kendall, aged 49, was asleep in it
He was dead when found having been
smothered or died of heart failure induced
by fright.
CANAL DOVER. ohio-The annual saen.
gerfest Is on at Zoar, Ohio, near here and
all day delegates have been coming in
on special trains from Ohio and Penrsyl-
vania cities There are not less than 5000
members OF vereins from different points
present
KANSAS CITY-Elaborate preparations
have been made by the local business men
for the reception of the 400 or more dele
gates expected to be present AT the Sec
ond annual convention of the National As
sociatlon of Credit Men tc ne held here
June o. 10 and IL.
PITTsBURG. PA.-The State convention
Of the socialist labor party nominated w.
r. Thomas for State treasurer, Resolu-
tons were adopted denouncing the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor unions as traitors
to the class and calling on all true social
lists to shun them as vipers.
DENVER. Colo.-The correspondence at
headquarters OF the International Gold
Mining convention, to be held in Denver
July :. S and ., shows that great interest
has been awakened throughout the entire
United States Georgia sends inquiry con
corning space for an exhibit from her gold
fields.
SAN FRANC1sCo-The advancement is
made in this city that on Junei next another
of the beautiful daughteN Of the wealthy
Chinese merchant of Honolulu All Fong.
is to marry an American. The prospective
I groom is William a, Henshall, formerly
Of this city and one OF the most prominent
lawyers OF the Hawaiian capital
NEW YORK-A dispatch to the Press
from Pittsburg. Pa. says: Or, G.. lam
llon Griffin, the Wall Street promoter Of
many companies, for whom many persons
have been looking everywhere recently mas
been discovered in this city, where he is
living with his wife and t mon,h-old son
>nder the name OF Jean Baptiste lie lIauc
DUBUQUE. Iowa-1he city is RAPIDLY
filling with delegates and visitors to the
convention OF the head camp of Modern
| WoodTren, which convenes here on Tues
day. There are twenty eight counts i'm tho
indictment directed against Head Consul
Northcott and Clerk Iiawes These on'i-
cials deny every allegation of wrong do
ing.
MONTPELIER. Wit now seems pos
sible that Mildred Brewster. who shot and
killed Anna Wheeler and attempted suicide.
may recover, though she has a 2-calihrc
bullet in her brain. Being asked by DR.
Chandler If she remembered what she
did Yesterday. she replied Yes" and in
CURED IL Anna Wheeler was alive. The
doctor asked her If she still wanted to
die and she said she did.
LoNDoN-Profosso Andrea. the Arctic
balloonst, has left Gothenberg for Spit1-
bergen, whence he VIII renew his attempt
to reach the north pole or rather to pass
over 1t by balloon. They hope TO reach
Spitzhergen on June /. and TO be ready 20
start on their aerial voyage by June 20
iNe weeks liler thln last year. 1hey take
Il number of carrier pigeons with them and
firmly believe that. this time they have
every chance Of success,
NASHVILLE. Tenn.-Mond1y the bank
clorks OF the state will visit the svposi-
tion. The South Carolina Press associa-
ton will attend in body one hundred
and fifty members of the Order of Rail-
road Conductors and ladies accompanying
them Will be entertained at tho eXposi-
ton. Next Tuesday is Tennessee day and
Governors day. Several governors. they
stats and companies OF State troops viii
attend.
plTTSBuRG, pam anarchist picnic
at a grove near Glenwood was raded by
the police and forty seven men Were taken
prisoners Tho charge preferred against
the prisoners is disnrderly conduct and
breaking the city ordinance which pro-
hihi,s the sale ~ beer on a picnic ground.
Several rifles and a large amount of 1ul-
let's We're captured, which the men said
were 10 be used In shooting gallery which
had not been erected at the time of the
raid.