The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-04
SHORT NEWS STOKES.

WORCESTER. Mnss--Deeds transferring
the Waterford wooien mills at Blackstone to
Cherries Fletcher of Providence, from the Earl
4. Mason Land company, the heirs of Bailey
Weclands and the heirs of Colonel Cosgrove,
hive been received here for registry. The
property cost over $500, 000 and It Is under
stood that II haa changed hands for much less
that half that figure.
TOPEKA. Kan. -Dishop John Vincent OF the
Methodist Episcopal church. appearing before
the State Temperance union, appealed to his
hearers to take up tho chewing gum habit and
to persevere until IL Is crnsadcd out OF Kan
sti5
SAN FRANCTSCO--rhe Chronicle says: Don
Manuel Il. Barrllas, ex-prosident of Guate-
mhia and IA millionaire conee planter. has
turned over MI his vast plantation property
TO two prominent men of Qnezaitenango. who
viii liruidate the estate for him.
ClliCoTEE, l. T.Gentry Heck and Joseph
A. Heck sold TO Joseph Perkins of Wnggonor,
]. T., 5000 head of 2. and i-year-old steers,
q be delivered April /, 1898, The deal amounts
to Sa2b 900,
lsiipEM1NG. Mich 1.-The advance In wages
ON FEBRUARY at the Carnegie mines OF IRON
wood averaging 10 per cent. Will be made
general throughout the Gogebio iron range,
between 5000 and 1000 employees being directly
affected by the Increase
NEW YoIsk-Tho congregation of the Fifth
aFolue Presbyteriun church formally accepted
the rercrt OF the committee empowered to re-
quest pr, Iohn Hall, the pastor, to withdraw
his resignation. Dr. Hall nrounccd that he
nal Withdrawn his resignation made to the
board.
NEW YORK Harry Albury, an lS-year-old
boy Is dead In the Kingston avenue hospital
OF brooklyn. Of tubercular loprosy and IL Is
said that there are not more than six such
cases In the country.
CONSTANTINOpLE- Details received from
bniiks, Asia Minor, show that twenty persons
were Killed and nifty injured by the recent
earthquake at Tint place,
NEW ADMINISTRATION Diaz OF May
100 is not coming to the United States thia
month
NEW yoRK-presdcnt Cuestas of uru
quay Is about to publish decree dissolving
congress-, says the Herald's correspondent IN
Montovideo, All the troops In Uruguay arr
still uudcr arms.
ST l.OUlS-The Cherokee -Lanyon Snclter
company has received a telegram announcing
tne destruction by fire Of It's large plant al
kieh liiil, Mo- valued at between sig5 0O1
and $4,000 F'N'
COLUMBUS. Ohio Representative parkor
has introduced IN the legislature a bin ro-
curing all Persons applying for licenses to
marry 10 pass a medical examination. Per-
sons having dipsomania. any form OF insan-
, NY, hereditary tuberculosis or consumntion
bill. ''As ~ we
uALGuTTA-A telegram from Pasnj says
General Mayne sighted the enemy, nun,herlna
1900, at o'clock Monday morning. lilo at
tackled them and the enemy was 'completsiv
routed, losing about 100 killed.
hlDpEFORD Mc.-The general strike situ-
alton In the Pepperel and Iaconia mills Ia
a a.n French Canadian mill workers
IRE returning to Canada by every train.
MEXICO ClTY--Mr, Bryan's summary of
Mexican conditions has been translated lntn
spanish ana published In III Mundo AN even
ing papcr with large circulation
boMbAl--The number OF deaths from tho
nupohtc plague for the lest seven DAYS a.
e21 against S3l Tor the previous corresoons'
ing period.
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q. Louls--Bob Douglass OF st. Louis md
Tommy Tracy OF Chicago fought an eisht'
round draw at tho Oriental thcatcr here
ssuMERvll.LE, Mass.--A local passenger
OF me boston and Maine railroad. was struck
~ me rear and telescoped. at Winter hin
s sss, ny = train from Concord, aud sew
e'M persons were injured, some seriously.