The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-23
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

ST. LOUIS-Judge Cecil Scott, for man,
years enc of the most conspicuous MEM
Ders o., the ban, is dead of paresis.
cINClNNATI-solom Sharp. well
kruown turfman, died here suddenly. aged
40 years. He WAS the principal owner o.
the track at Newport. Ky.
NEW YORK--Martin Thorn has again
been placed on trial for the murder OF
William .Gtldens,ippe. The work of se-
curing jury w.n be taken up. ~
MEMPHIS, Tenn,--J. A. Thomas, want
ed here on enany charges Of forgery, and
who has twice escaped from prison, has
again been arrested at Guthrie, Ky?
SALTWATER. o. T.--Attorney Van
Mant,n, former prominent lawyer and
politician, committed suicide in fail here
while awaiting trial for embezzlement and
forgery. 10 81
CHELSEA. l. ia forest fire is raging
two miles north of this place. TIE fire
has burned over Il large area doing hun
dieds CT dollars worth OF damage to farms
and forests.
authoritative source that no negotiations
concernCng a new arbitration treaty are
now pending between the United States
and Great Britain.
ATLANTA, Ga.--John Ryan, Sr.. a pio-
neef citizen and one of the richest and
most widely known men in the South, died
at his home in this city after a protracled
illness caused by paralysis
MuSKOGEE, I. Tan extra session OF
the Creek council has convened to con-
esder the ACCESSIBILITY of consolidt Ing the
FIVE civilized tribes of the Indian Terri
as State - : 49,"
FlTTSBuRG-At the session of the Ma.
honal congress of the Methodist Frisco.
pal church a defense of evolution as not
being athslsuc and as confirming many
Biblical dogInas brought forth some yrry
spicy discussion.
KANSAS CITY. Kan.--George A Tov-
lor cashier of the defunct Argentine
bank, was sentenced to four years in INC
karaas penitoniiary for receiving d.
posits when he knew the bank was IN an
insclvent condition.
Observation-Disclosures w. Griffin. who.
as assistant cashier embezzlei 10000 from
the Northwestsrn National bank, and who
VS. selteNeei 10 i've years IN the Joliet
Ienitentiary, has been pardoned by Presi-
dent Mckinley.
NEW YORK-As a result of the an
tempted revoSulta-mary movement in
Montevdeo. unusuay.. says the Herald's
correspondent there. five prominent army
have been arrested.
SAN FRANCISCO--The belief that tho
British shop TaymoaInt has been lost AT
sea has been strongly ccnfirmsi hy the
. .s that she was not sighted by any of
the Axteen deep wsiter vSsscls which have
hours 'S 0sA'
ASPEN, .Colo.-The fire which started +,
week ego In the Smugg.er mine IS. 10 ali
appearances rnler control But little
smoke IS now issuing from the shaft ami
the management, thinks that with,
twenty -four hours the work Of clearing
the r''ne OF smoke and gas can Sa COM
menced. w 70 Noi"
ST. lOCtS-Several hundred daIegota.
We're present when the good roads con-
,wyentien was called TO order In the Mas1nic
Tempe. Distinguished Missour.ans frnn,
ever, part OF the State. as well as many
pronhEeN men from other States are
mere 10 paatictpate In the convention ana
iureher the good roads movement.
NAsHNlL1sE. Tenn.--uMted STATES CIR
cuit Judge Lur.on will hsar Tuesday /,
thas city AN important case inyoivsn@ the he
tcrec'osure OF the mortgages an tho w. NY
p ~ nnu Lnariesioa read and the rights
~ ~ ..r senior and Junior boriholders' Tire
tSo.vei1 I OF one mortgage has alre,sv
peel deched and the REMAINING two ara
'nsoveo IN me case now at the bar
RICHMOND. ya.-The commsttAa IN
po.nisu 70 investigate the charrcs that
ssrsain members OF the Sens Of C.s1fsi.ar.e4
az ~, Ns.erahs grar.' camp were in thr a.,
n,ov OF tae American Book c5mnsnv IA, v'I,
report. reccmmendng TIN enc ,s,e,,,hs.
ue expelled from the s.itoryi,n a. .,s,sr
anu from the history commtttee mr. I'M saarp
ss,,s, .ussremins y comrade. He viii he