The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-29
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

NEW YoRK.-The congressional delegation
to visit the canal routes VIII sail saturday.
/ INDIANAPOLIS. Ind - Michael Shea died
In this city at the advanced age of lis years.
NEW YORK.=Mrs Henry Slocum, widow
OF General Henry Socum, is dead at her home
IN Brooklyn.
CHICAGO. Fifteen hundred employees OF the
Norton Bros tin can factory, in haywood,
have struck for the resumption OF the old
scale.
| EXETER. u. II.--The cut Of 10 per cent In
thr wages OF the 500 employees of the Exeter
cotton mills in January. 1925, has been re-
stored.
1 RICHMOND. va.-At the meeting of the
Southern Publishers association, Manager
stone explained the workings of the Associ-
aicd Press,
| NASHVILLE, Tcnn.--The senate adopted
tht house joint resolution commencing the
continents expressed by MIR Mckinley in his
| srcech at Atlanta.
NEW YORK.--At meeting Of aldermen n
I motion requiring the use OF eight-ounce gloves
al all sparrng exhibitions was referred to the
committee on sewers.
I SAN FRANCISCO. Tho transport zealan-
! dia, with several companies of the Ninth in
! fantry and large cargo OF supplies on board,
| has sailed Tor Manila.
| BALTIMORE Cardinal Gibbons states that
he has replied TO the American encyclical let
tr from the pope. but declined to give the
I text OF his reply to the public.
/ CHICAGo,-Tbe bodies of William Rick
seeker John b. George. James Flanagan,
recovered from the Armour fire ashes
/ TOPEKA, KAMA mob took Henry Sander
sou from the jail at IIoton and lynched him.
I - nderson on sunday afternoon attempted TO
shoot his sweetheart and shot the girls aunt.
/ COLL1ERsVILLE, Tenn.--John j. Gilbert.
a drug clerk, was shot and instantly killed.
/ I he name OF the sister OF the slayer, James
/ Neville, Is involved in the cause of the killing.
/ NEW YORK The announcement is made
that a combination Of safe manufacturers is
being organized. The proposed capital is
100000 preferred and SO,000O0O common
stock.
/ NEW YoRK.--Thc transport Cook has ar
rived. having on board the bodies OF soldiers
who died during the campaign in Porto Rico
and the bodies of GIL of the dead soldiers from
Santiago
J0HNSToWN, Pa.--Teu men were horribly
burned, two of them probably fatally. by the
blowing on of monster cylinder hsad on a
blowing engine 10 blast furnace Of the
Cambria Steel company.
/ LOUISVILLE. DIR. w. Godfrey Hunter,
! uitea States minister to Guatemala now in
this city, is taking steps to save the life OF
Churchill Guthrie. an American under SEN
tence of death in Honduras for 1lbustering.
| BiDDEFoRD, Maine.-The restoration o,
wages Ct the 100 employees in the York Cot
ton mills at Saco Will BEGIN next Monday.
when similar raise will effect over 900 hands
in the Lacona aud Pepperell cotton mills In
this city.
EAST LIVERPOOL Ohio 1t has developed
here that John Il. Dospassee of New York the
/ chief protector OF the American Potteries conf
I Ipuy whose option on the potterles OF the
| United States expires on April l. has asked
for an extension of thirty days on the options.
| CHICAGo--While several citizens were pur-
sum proving burglars with little success,
G.. Schnabc, whose house had been robbed,
seized mcgaphone, and. shouting through
| tbs instrument from his front window. sue
Coeded in summcning a policeman who was
| travelling beat seven blocks away.