The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-08
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

LONDON.-Several deaths have resulted
from the exceedingly hot weather now
prevailing.
CUMBERLAND, Md.--The railway men 3
convention adjourned after lengthy Sc
cret session.
NEW YoRK.--A semi-annua dividend
of $l25 per share has been declared on
preferred Atchison.
PHILADELPHIA, Payment Nc
Laughlin. publisher and editor OF the
Philadelphia Times, is dead.
ST. LOUIs.-About $4,000 900 has been
raised for the Worlds Fair; 1t Is expected
s. ,000O 00 more viii be raised in the next
two weeks.
VANCOUVER, B. Give thousand In
dams participated in the funeral OF Blshop
Durhe. who for twenty five years worked
among the natives OF British Columbia.
NEW YoRK.-Henry L. Clinton, for
mgny years a prominent lawyer OF thls
city. Is dead. He was one of the counsel
for the prosecution In the Tweed trial,
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--A special to the
News from Centerville. Ala, confirms the
lynching of VIII HILL accomplish OF MS
brother Alex Hill. in the murder OF Mrs
Rufus Hubbard.
SAN FRANCISCO Private James Frye,
company d. ngw lies in the general nos
pital at Preside, suffering from wound
that may prove fatal, He was shot while
at the target practice.
NEW YORK.-The Mazet commission
has asked the police board to order an
examination for defective memory in the
cases of two police witnesses who knew
nothing of vice in the Tenderloin district.
VANCOUVER, b C.-According to adj
vices brought by the Empress of Japan,
the rumor has been revived in Pekn that
the emperor of China is dead There nave
been so many false rumors that no cred
ence can be placed in this latest edition.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Th Call says; a
corporation IL being formed to erect a
Sc 0OO 600 hotel. eleven stories high, on
the site OF the old Baldwin hotel. 1t IS
understood that s1,000.000 has already been
subscribed,
OMAHA. Neb.--A Bee special from
cbeyenne SAYS: News from The pursuers
Of the Hole-in- the Wall robbers is looked
for anxiuusly, but up to a late hour no
courier or messenger has returned from
the pursuit
CINCINNATI, Oho.--Two men were ar
rested here suspected of being principals
or accessories in the Louisville bank rob
berry of Monday whereby the German In
gurance bank was feeced out of $4,000 by
a forged check and a false telephone mes
sage.
BERLIN.-The Madrid correspondent of
in. Local Anzeiger reports an lntcrVie"
with Senior Sllvela, the Spanish premier
Who assured him there was no doubt that
tba cortes will ratify the sale of the Caro-
Inc Ladrone and Pelew islands TO Ger
many.
NEW YORK.-General Joseph Eaton,
vim DIR. e. f. Clarke. returned from
| Porto Rico on the transport Mcpherson
and will proceed to Washington 10 make
his report. He is satisfied that the Amer
lean methods have taken well in Porto
Rico.
HARTVILLE, Mo.--Jake Flagley, who
has been on trial Eere for week past,
charged with completely IN the robbery
/ of a Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
rain M McComb on January last, was
sdirdeed guilty. The jury fixed his pun
/ ishment at twelve years in the peniten-
/ tlary
4 uho Is now serving a term in the county
\ tail for stealing 80 cents from poor box
~ 81 Joseph's Catholic church, will find
7 az, ooD 10 his credit In the National hol-
"a hank when he is released next week,
a. stole because ne was on. the verge OF
starvation.
ST. LOUISA special TO the Republic
1 from san Antonio, Texas, says: Hobart
i Virgins and a companion named Lattl-
mer who had come to Texas from Kansas
for their health, were drowned while at
4 tempting to cross the Guadalupe river near
i Kerrville.
NEW YORK.--The Tribune says: II Ii
j learned on good authority that the rumors
v,hich have been going around to the ef-
fsst that the so-called banana trust" Ii
4 soon 10 have a rival are founded on fact
4 NEGOTIATIONS looking to the formation OF
Inc new combination have been under way
j tor a few weeks only. but 1t Is likely tina;
4 In three weeks this combination will be
launched and ready to DO business