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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-16

HALE INTEREST in thu largest planning mill
In Southwest TeSns. rnni,ins u machines;
mig contractsi county scat town. for sale
rhcAn. Address gi11, this office. See
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FINE lot OF new bugFics, plIuetone, surfrs'
aud harness for sale. Buienaons Stables
Franklin and Galclino street
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FOR SALE Two well bren standard and reg,
jsie4ci stations, three lacks mud thirteen
nrtpe Iennots. from registered Tennessee
sire and dams. Address Exocnlris Aueiin
Robinson 8 estate Reagan, ToAAt 81
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FOR SAl.E--N a haTHnn cotton Gin AMI
Erist min IN good ocliion, has eprr track
fioni railroad on land; easy terms. Wrlta
No. 2TsS this office ~
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FOR SALEM u ascrihco the new STERN
Wool STEAMBOAT, Naomi, length 20 fent,
beam i6 feet drnTt Is inches; engine ond
better complete, adapted for river and bayou
trade; passed T. s Inspection ana licensed.
IuNuire OF j., Mpskowts, real cstRte and In
Nestnsents 3l95s Mait sttoet. "
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ONION SETS White, 81 per husheli yellow,
81 I'd per bushol fWll line New YORK snel
pDtatoes and garden seeds AZ prices that
Nil interest you nchlmds Seed CO., 10Th
and Strand, GalNr ston, ~
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FOR RENTI-sx-room modern cottage, on
EannIn street, also store on Travis street,
Apply to Houston Land and Trust company.
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ernvtl road, near Fort Worth; best Of fruit
and truck farm land. J. Il. letter, J0siz
Main street, Houston. 10
FOR s1LE-opportun OF few days only;
100 acres ON Oyster creek, 300 per acre:
200 acres on Oyster creek 5000. one.hhlf
70 Il nile from station; regular terms ".
Kiber. Anglcton, Braz0rin poMnly. -
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RAN OFF WITH S1o,582
TRUSTED EMPLOYE OF THE AMER
ICAN EXPRESS COMPANY MISSING.
Clark Braden, of New York, Alleged
to Have Stolen bonds and Cash
and HurriedIy Fled.

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The American Ex-
press Company was robbed to-day of $lO.5S2
and Clark Braden, jr., a trusted employe,
is missing Central officers and private de-
tectives are hunting for him. Three days
ago the night manager in charge of the
office at Forty-seventh street and Madison
avenue was taken i'll and Braden, clerk
OF the company for more than ten years,
was temporary substituted This Office the
company uses as a clearing house for all
its matter sent or received from the Grand
Central station. Among the parcels to be
sent on the $3.50 o'clock train on the Hudson
River road this morning, were several con-
tanning cash to the amount of $5,5S2 and one
containing five 81, 900 Chicago Gas bonds. 1t
was Braden's place to take these packages
to the train return to the office and re-
main on duty until clock. When the day
employees arrived Braden was not in the
office. The safe was locked. There were no
receipts for valuable packages ty the morn
ing train, although the books showed that
several such parcels had been received at
the Office Al first the absence of Braden
and the receipts was set down to careless
ness But q few minutes later the leather
bags which had contained the packages
were found under some other freight. They
had been cut open and the money and
bonds taken.
That the robbery was hastily carried out
is shown by the fact that $4,000, mostly
in cash, was left in the safe and that the
bonds were taken. Notices were sent to
every bank and financial institution in the
country warning them against purchasing
the stolen gas bonds. These bonds have a
face value of $780, but are worth in other
markets $3.50. They are for $1,000 each, is
sued in 1896 and bearing per cent. interest
They are numbered 1903, 1927 1853, 400 and
4191 Braden, about three years ago left
the companys employ to go West, and for
a time was a fish dealer in Oregon. Last
summer he returned to New York.
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-The Chicago police
were requested this evening by the Pinker-
ton Detective Agency to apprehend Clark
Braden, jr., the absconding night clerk of
the American Express Company in New
York office. Instead of a $1,0O0O00 robbery
rumored at first, the loss suffered by the
express company through the clerks dis
appearance is, the Pinkertons allege, $50, O00
According to the statement made by the
detective agency of the amount taken by
Braden $4,000 was in currency, consisting
of fifty $500 bills and five ST. ,00O gold bonds
of the Consumers Gas Company, of Chi
cagO
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for spoils state and national, and said that
the surest way to put Bryan and his black
banner in the White House in 1900 would
be for the Republican party to be recreant
to it's trust and to slap in the face those
who believed in an honestly conducted serv-
ice Without desiring in any way to reflect
upon the present occupant of the White
House, Mr.. Johnson said he was convinced
that there would be no genuine civil-service
reform until, by constitutional amendment,
the President was made ineligible for re-
election AS long as he was eligible for re-
election he must necessarily be more or less
under the domination of machine politics.
After expressing his confidence in Presi-
dent Mckinley, Mr.. johnson concluded with
an eloquent appeal to him TO stand by the
principle upon the perpetuity of which the
permanence of our institutions depend. At
the expiration of the hour and a half of
Johnsonian oratory three exhausted stenog-
raphers tottered TO their quarters. Mr..
Johnson was fresh and apparently in shape
to go through the performance again with
out rest.
Mr.. Johnsons reply to General Grosyenor
was one Of the cornerstones of his speech.
1t was a. "scorcher." Unfortunately the
general was not there to hear it. He had
taken a train for Canton a few minutes aft
er the finish of his own speech. If he could
have remained to see his own hide laid over
the fence there would have been fun, for
the doughty old warrior is restive under
tongue lashng.
The galleries were crowded throughout the
four hours of civil-service discussion and
apparently the sympathios of the great au-
dience of outsiders was about evenly di-
vided. Applause became so frequent and
so uproarious that the speaker was obliged
to serve notice that the galleries would be
cleared if the demonstrations did not cease.
That had quieting effect. The civil-serv-
ice debate viii not last much longer, al
though a large number of members have
signihed a desire to be heard on the sub
ject
Among the statesmen who congratulated
Representative Lands to-day on his anti
civil-service speech was Senator Mason of
Illinois. The senator is something of
spokesman himself.
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WAR ON HYPN0TISM.
Milwaukee viii Try to Put a stop TO
the Black Art.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Jan. 6.-Hypnotists
cannot practice and hypnotism will not be
allowed to flourish in this city if the Health
Department can prevent it. and ii appears
that it has ample power There is nothing
in the state law nor in the city charter
which specifically proscribes hypnotism,
but this does not deter Dr. Kempster, the
health commissioner, from suppressing the
so-called science He acts under a provision
of the city charter which empowers him to
stop any business or profession which in
any way interferes with the public health.
Prof. N. c. Ferguson, who, after achieving
a little fame and inexpensive advertising by
practicing hypnotism on the children in the
public schools of Sheboygan, came here and
advertised that he would open a hypnotic
school where all could be taught the mys-
terleS OF the science of auto-SuggeStion. He
had hardly begun practice when he was
summoned to show cause why he should
not be prohibited on the ground that his
practices were detrimental to health.
The department took this action on the
aff1davtts of several physicians. Those affi-
II. Friend. whc made a special study of tina
subject, says: THE public exhibition OF
hyppotism and suggestion is harmful to the
community and to the individual being hyp--
Noticed, because the impressions produced
tend TO spread the idea that some men are
possessed OF a special force, when, in fact,
the nypncuc state may De produced on any
one by simply fixing the eyes upon an in
animate object. This, then, determines that
no man has such special power, and, as a
consequence, any man who claims to have
II, or even suggests it through advertising
is practicing fraud and doing harm by vir-
tue OF impresssing fear and superstition in
the minds of a large part of the commun-
lty. Now. as TO suggestion. This is but a,
handle for the hypnotizer, whose every
word makes an impression and an action
en- the part of the subject. 1t stands TO
reason that any one claiming such special
force is practicing fraud or Il nontruth and
Is stimulated by the worst possible mo-
tives, and as a result is not fitted to act
upon subject whose Volition Is lost,
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DENIED BY JUSTICE BREWER.
Two Applications for Delay Consid-
cred. but Firmly RefuHed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Counsel for w.
II. r. Durrant received a setback to-day in
their efforts to further delay the execution
OF their client. Attorney Boardman came
here in haste from California with the hope
of securing from Justice Brewer of the
Sur RENE Court, and in charge of the Ninth
circuit a writ Of error or supersedeas
which would act as a stay of proceedings.
He saw Justice Brewer for few minutes
on his arrival, but without presenting the
question made an engagement for a later
hour. Immediately after the adjournment
of the Supreme Court at o'clock Justice
Brewer retired TO the attorney generals
room, where he received Mr.. Boardman and
went over the case in detail with him. lie
first considered an application TO sign q
citation on the appeal which was sought to
be taken from the judgment of the Federal
Circuit Court of California demanding the
issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. the OBJ
ject being to perfect the appeal. This APP
plicatIon was refused, and then Mr.. Board
man presented an application for a writ OF
error from the Judgment OF the Supreme
Court OF California on the appeal from the
last error of Judge Bahr fixing the date for
Durrant's execution, the object being to se-
ours a writ of supersedeas which would
act as a stay of proceedings. In this mattsNs
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RAILWAYS ROBBED.
Discovery of IL Conspiracy nt the Kan
sas City stock Yards.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 6.-The detec-
tive department of the Missouri Pacific
Railway has unearthed a conspiracy at the
Kansas city stock yards by which it has,
it is alleged, been robbed of thousands OF
dollars on live stock shipments. False af-
fdavits of shortage in the number of live
stock received have been made TO the claim
department of the Missouri Pacific, and
shippers have it is said, been paid for the
number of head of stock reported to be
missing The robbery has been going on sys-
tematically for years, and nearly every road
entering Kansas City is said to have been
victimized. W. w. Kay, chief of the secret
service of the Missouri Pacific, who has
been working on the case, refused to talk
further than to say that his road has been
victimized out of many thousand dollars and
that he expects 10 make several arrests
within twenty-four hours. The robbery Is
laid at the door of the local yard employees
and the shippers themselves.
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NOTED GAMBLER SHOT.
"kid" Murphy Killed and Two CHI
csgoans Fatally wounded.

CHICAGO, Jan. G.--"Kid'' Murphy, a
noted Chicago gambler of the shell-worker
variety. was to-day shot dead. and Frank
alias Dckey" Dean. and Martin Donahue,
were shot, probably fatally, during q quar-
rel last night in a saloon at No. III North
Clark street. The affair is said to be the
result of feud of months standing. Dean
and Donahue are at Alexian Brothers Hos
ptaL Neither is expected to live twenty
four hours. Donahue was shot in the
breast, Just over the heart. while Dean has
a bullet in his head. According to one of
the men arrested in the salooE at the time
OF the shooting. Donahue killed Murphy in
self-defense, and Dean was shot while act-
ing as a peacemaker. The police informa-
ton is that at a. m. Murphy entered the
saloon, evidently in search of trouble. and,
Immediately on seeing Martin Donahue
opened fire on him. Dean stepped between
the men and received the second shot which
Muhphy fired, the first going wide In the
exchange of shots all the men were wound
ed. At the saloon the police found two re-
Volvers under the cigar case, wrapped in
caliber and it's chambers were all full This
was identified as Deans weapon, making IL
almost certain that he had not fired shot.
The other was of a large caliber and its
handle was covered with blood II Is the
weapon with which Donahue killed Murphy
Donahue and Murphy fired three shots each.
a revolver found close 10 Deans side, and
which was at first thought TO have belonged
TO him; has not been identified
Donahne IS a saloon keeper and Dean
constable. Thirteen men were arrested In
the saloon at the time OF the shooting,
among them being Major Sampson. who
was suspected Of completely in the murder
OF Gus Coliiander during an election riot
three years ago. and for which Alderman
Thomas o. Maley was tried and acquitted.
Ihe general theory as TO the cause Of the
quarrel II that the trouble originated in
= stabbing ARRAY which took place in Dona-
hues saloon about three months ago be-
tween Murphy and a man named Joe Ke-
noe. Murphy WAS stabbed over the eye, and
on MS Tetoverey blamed Martin Donahue
Tor Causing the trouble. Murphy swore gen-
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BISHOP HARTZELL'S TOUR.
The Methodist PreIate Cordially Re-
ceIved in south Africa.

NEW YORK. Jan. "a correspondent of
the Associated Press at Delagoa Bay
writes that Bishop Hartzell, of the Metno-
dist Episcopal Church, is being received with
the greatest cordiaiity on his tour of South
Africa. He has been offered concessions in
land and other valuable properties for mis-
sionary purposes. One donation includes
six thousand acres under the British Iag
in mountainous and healthy region. The
bishop is on his way TO Beira, five hundred
miles north on the east coast. from which
point h. win go inland several hundred
miles ta locate this concession His plan is
to make this point base of operations
from which TO extend missions northWard
70 the equatorial lake regions and north
westward 10 Angola on the west coast, from
which chain OF Methodist missions are al
ready belng pushed eastward. The bishops
wife acsfmpnries llille
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rinnecnnoc CIub Acts.

CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. 6.-The Tippe-
canoe Club, the central Republican organi-
zation of this city. of which Senator Burke
and Representatives Mason and Bramley
are members. tonight adopted strong reso-
iutions demanding that those members of
the Legislature keep the pledge of the party
and the pledges they gave both in public
and private by voting for Mr.. Hanna for
senator About 600 members were present.
and the resolutions were adopted by a prac-
tically unanimous vote
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BIG 4 ROUTE
GRAFTON.S
2lSt Personally Conducted Tour
THROUGH MEXICO,

Leaving on Tuesday. Jan. 25 1895, A mag
nificent Pullman train, composed of dining
car, compartment and standard sleeping
cars. with barber shop, bathrooms and all
up-to-date conveniences, with competent at
tendants, including ladies' maid.
Time occupied, thirty-one Gays: rate, $3.50
from ST. Louis, which includes one full
berth in sleeper, meals I'm dining car, hotel
bills and meals at cafe in the City of Mex
leo, all carriage and tramway rides mem
toned in itinerary, all transfers, services
OF conductors, porters. guides and interpre-
ters, fees for sight seeing, etc. Correspond
ing rates from Indianapolis and principal
points on the Big -Four. Call at Bsg Four
Offices and get itinerary or write the under
signed.
r.. M. BRONSC. assistant General Pas
senger Agent; B. &. KELSEY. City Ticket
Agent, No. l East Washington street, In
dianapols. Ind.
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The MOnOn Route
TO
CHICAGO

Trains leave Indianapolis
I:00 a. m. 1850 a. m 1886 p. m. 1885 night
Trains arrive Indianapolis
$3.50 a. 1855 a $2.40 D. z:37 D. m.
$Daily except Sunday.
Local sleeper in indianapolis ready at $3.50 D. m.
Leaves Chicago, returning, at 2:45 a. Can be
taken any time after $3.50 p.
Ticket offices. 2 w. Wash. St. Union Station,
Massachusetts-ave Depot and Twenty-second st.
GEO. w. HAYLER. D. p. A.
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DEFORNITY APPARATUS. Trusses. Elastic
Hosiery. Largest stock of ARTIFICIAL EYES
in the state.
WSI. II. ARMSTRONG & co.
New No. 19O q S. Illinois ST.. IndIanapolis. Ind
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JACKSON. Miss. Jan. GA joint Demo-
cratic caucus TO nominate United States
senator to succeed Senator George was held
in Representative Hall this afternoon Hon.
tion. The caucus sat exactly fifteen min
utes.
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BOSTON, Jan. 6.r-Roger Wolcott took the
oath OF office as Governor of this common
wealth at noon to-day for the second term.
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geance, and the shooting this morning is
said to be the last chapter in the quarrel.
Murphy and Dean were the leaders of the
gang of foughs who three years ago beat
Lieutenant Luke Collerain, now Captain
Collerasn. chief of detectives. and threw him
over the Randoph-street viaduct.
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and influence of his vote for Mark Hanna.
The Democrat whose vote would elect Han
mas opponent will be friend of Hanna if
he refuses to cast it..
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TOOK 4 BATH, CLOTHES AND ALI.
Peculiar Conduct OF . Shabby stranger Who
Invaded schneider's Barber Shop.

Peculiar Conduct OF . Shabby Stranger who
Invaded schneider's BARBER Shop.
August,Schneider, a barber, Of 136Eas Hous.
ton street, was busy shaving.a customer yester-
day when a shabby stranger entered the shop
and said he wanted to take q bath. Schnei-
der showed him the tub in the rear o; tho
room and went on shaving the man in the chair.
When 1t seemed to the barber that the hot
water had been running long enough he raped
on the partition and yelled:
Hey! You are using. too much hot water.
It costs money"
The bathcr apparently paid no attention to
Schneidcr's remarks. Finally tho water stopped
running. There was a heavy splash in the
bathroom, followed by q silence which lasted
nearly two hours: Schneider began to get
door and looked in.
He saw the shabby stranger lying at full
length in the hot water with all his clothes on,
putting calmly at a cigarette.
Get Quit" the barber yelled. The stranger
muttered a reply which Schneider did not I'M
At the sight Of the bluecoat the bather set I'D
a mighty splashing. before which the officer
fed. When let alone the shabby stranger went
eyed the barber and the policeman expeetantiy.
The latter didn't know just what 10 do. Finally
an idea struck him. Ho took off his coat and
rolling up. his sleeves reached down under the
bather and pulled out the plug in the bottom OF
the tub. In a short time tho disappearing
water left the bather high, but NOT dry, on the
the policeman and the barber that the shabby
stranger was crazy.
An ambulance was summoned. and the bath
or was dragged into the street. The ambulance
surgeon said that hc was in the last stages Of
consumption. His pockets were filled with
emp cigarette boxes; On the way to the
Joseph Hirsch, and that he had recently been
an inmate OF the Monteiore Homo.
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Commissioner scnunell Revives the Aucieu'
ana Valued Custom.

Commissioner scauneil Revfves the Ancient
ana Valued Custom.
The efforts Of Harlemites to revive tho Gus
rock in Mount Morris Park, which was stopped
three months ago, have met with success. and
tho old bell has again taken up tho duty Of
sounding the hours three times q day, which 1t
performed for q quarter of q century. The bell
was used originally during the existence Of the
Volunteer Fire Department to sound alarms.
When the present system Of alarms was estab-
lished tho bell, which has a sweet tone, was al
lowed to remain in the tower and a fireman
from q nearby engine company was detailed to
ring 1t at 8 in the morning, at noon. and at .
o'clock at night, the strokes corresponding to
the hour.
1t became ono of the institutions of Harlem,
and when. three months ago, the Board of Fire
Commissioners stopped 1t on the ground that
the tower was decrepiJ and In danger Of fall
ing. there was a storm Of protests from persons
living within sound Of the bell.
They had become so accustomed to the regu.
lar ringing of the bell that they regulated their
clocks and watches by 1t, and when its voice
was hushed they felt that they had lost an old
friend.
Petitions were sent to tho Fire Commission
ers TO put the tower in good condition SO that
tho old bell could continue to perform the SER
vice which had become q necessity Of O Har-
lemite's life.
The Commissioners refused to do so on the
ground that the necessary repairs would cost
several hundred dollars. When Commissioner
Scannell took chage of the department resi-
dents about Mount Morris Park again sought
to have the ringing of tho bell resumed, with the
day and at . o'clock that night many Harlem
people wero agreeably surprised to hear the IA
miltar voice OF the old bell sounding the hour.