The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-16
SHORT NEWS STORIES,

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| BERl.IN--A soldier. until recently sta.
| toned at the great war depot at Metz, has
! been convicted Of having sold to Fiench
| sptes all sorts Of valuable material. such
! as rev types Of shells, fuses. bullets used
| with the new rifles, and lists of the plans
| for equipment and mobilization.
| HAvANA-Captain General weyler tolC
| the CORRESPONDENT OF La Lucha he was sat
tafed that the humiliation OF the insur-
! gents would be brought about In the near
| iuture
CHfcAGo.--The special grand jury which
! has been Investigating the Affairs OF the
| grain inspectors office. the Globe saving,
| sank and the private banking Grm of T..
| $. Dreyer & Co. which went down In
the crash with the National bank Of Ilh-
| noss several months ago. voted indictments
/ against f. S, Dryer. Robert Yerger. Carl
/ Mol and Adolphis Slssen.cn.
! wARDNER. ldaho,--Tho theft Of seven
I ty-nve rifles and 500 rounds of ammuni-
| lion from a State avmory has caused fears
that another fierce labor war may soon
break out In the Occur dAlene district.
FORT WAYNE. Iud--A. p. Edgerton,
civil service commissioner under Cleveland.
is dead.
CALIENTE. Cal.--The Piuto Indians are
at war among themselves In the Pluto
mountains.
LEADVlI.LE, enlargement having
been reached among mine owners. the
work OF pumping viii be resumed next
week. employing 1000 TO 1900 men.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-slegmund Kahn,
aged - years. an old resident and we'll 20
10 real setate man. was found dead In his
office today. having been asphyvlated.
NEWCASTLE. Ps.---An avalanche OF
sand and gravel ut a cut being made by
he Newcastle Traction company, buried
five men. Two were killed instantly and
three others seriously injured. one totally.
SEDsL1A, Mo--Eddie Brink, A-year-
old boy, was shot and killed on Muddy
creek west of town. The boys father. W.
" Brink. Wen known seventh Day Ad-
ventist OF Kansas. has been arrested,
charged with the murder.
pppLrN-The Right Hon. Robert Parry,
lord justice Of appeals Tor Ireland, who
conducted the Fenian prosecution OF 1868.
is de11
ST. PETERSBURG Seventy houses In
the best part AZ poroghush. in tho province
Of Smolentsk. two churches and the gov
eminent buildings have been destroyed by
tre.
GLASGOW. Ky.---A boiler at Wards saw
mill exploded killing George Brown. 81
mon Kirkpatrick, j u. Ward and his son.
Virgil Hundley was fatally hurt. and an
other OF Wards SOILS had his legs broken
and Will die.
PRINCETON. ". J-Prlncetou defeated
the Harvard to 3. In the first champion
ship baseball game of the collegiate sea-
son.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.--Yale beat Harvard
hanany IN their sixth annual dual track
games AZ the Yale n-ii. Harvard won iirsts
in only the quarter and half mile runs and
the shot.
ANNAPOLIS. Mcdonnell won By two
lengths in tho beat race with the naval
cadets
INTERNATIONALLY senate COMMITTEES
Investigating the condition of tho civil
serricc heard Public Printer Palmer, who
stated that he believed 1t would be ad
yautageoUs 10 abolish the civil service sys-
TEN MS applicable TO tho government print
| ing Office and go back to the former sys
TEN.
OWINGsVlLLE Ky.--The jury in the
case 81 John Young. Jr.. for the killins
OF Chimney Foss"u. returned verdict o
'nanslan4 hlrr and fixed his punishment at
I eighteen years IL the pentcutlary.
PRESCOTT. Ariz.- Sherlns RufIner aHs
Cameron have left Williams with 4 large
posse. accompanied b5 bloodhounds, on {
/ hot trnil OF Parker. The escaped train ROD
her The chances foT HIS capture are les
! sened as he Is now 10 country we'll know
| 10 h.m.
! MERIDIAN. Mlss.-A southbound mai
and Il mol Inbound excursion train on th'
| Alabama Great Southern railroad collide'
| on a curve near Hulls. Ala. Six persons
were more or less seriously injured.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.--T. J. Young.
! prominent business man and a leaalnl
member cf tho baptist church. committee
suicide by jumping Into The Arkansas river
Business trouble vas the probable cause
WASHINGTON-The dispute over tn
alleged Illegal occupancy OF lands In Low
| CT California within the Mexican domain
| by the Yuma Indians, has broken OH
afresh. and Minister Romero OF Mexico ha
! made a formal complaint ega Gales -
their transfer across the line TO this slde