The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-19
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

MAYFtELD. Ky.-Bob Blanks, rolorcd was
hanged here for oriminaly assuming Ieuny
Bailey. aged II years, on January l2 1898
NEW YoRK.--rhe United states cruiser
Chicago has started for South Africa by way
Ct the Azores. Gibraltar and the suez canal
BlLBoA. spain. Fourteen men we're killed
by premature explosion In blasting opera
tions on tbs railway from Bilhoa to SAINT
ancer.
CHARLESTON. s. c.-All the testimony in
the Lsko City lynchnE case Is in and arRu
ments before the court on questions OF law
begun today.
DULUTH Mimi. .-Penniless, behind on her
reut and hopeless OF the future, Georgie nwor-
shack. widow, aged ~, shot and killed her
sell and two 'hilGren.
NANTUCKET. Mass Tho fshing schooner
klizs Of Beverly. Captain Hopkins struck on
Rose and Crown shoals and eleven OF the
crew of fourteen men were lost,
ST. PAUL. The legislature. by party vote
OF ~ TO 10, tabled Governor Linds message
u, cling the recall from the Philippines OF the
Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers.
WHEELING. w ya.-Befors tho biggest
crowd ever IN the Metropolitan club Oscar
Gardner of this city knocked out Joe
Hopkins of Buffalo. n. y. In nftecn rounds
IARIS. Official advices received here from
tho island of Guadalupe say 900 houses We're
burned during n FIRE which occurred last Mon
dey night at the town OF La Pointe-Ah- Pitre.
CTItcAGo--Msry Twohy, 4S years old
Carries Monaghan aged 40, aud w hamilton,
a small two-story frame building at 643 MIL
waukee avenue.
CHATTANOOGA Tenp.--Judge J. y. Cook,
| eA justice OF the State supreme court, cx-Coh-
Tolerate veteran, and for many years lend
ing lawyer OF East Tennessee, died here in the
slst year OF his age.
NEW YORK The report by way OF Phila-
eephia, that tie Kansas CITY t!tlsburg aud
Gulf reorganization committee had decided
upor plan. was today denled natly by A. w.
krcich. secretary of the committee.
GUTHRIE O. T.--Fiva thousand Indians
left in a body for Mexico to establish a uuion
reservation near Guadalajara., Thu. emisrants
belong to the Cherokee Greek and Delaware
tribes They are said to have capital OF
s4?5.00o
TOPEKA. Kan.-The Arkansas Valley and
Gulf Railway company have mace application
for charter. The company proposes to
build line from Arkansas City snutheastcrly
through Oklahoma and the indian TERRITORY
to reAsrhana
JACKSON. Miss.-At the request Of tho
Mississippi levee hoard, Governor McLsurln
has ordered 100 convicts from the state penl-
Tertiary sent to issaquona. county TO work on
the line OF levees in that county, which are
In bad condition.
BEDFORD Ind The forward epgino OF a
belt railway train broke down and was thrown
f,om the track Engineer McKinzer and n.
| j. Menaugh If Celtic were killed outright
ard August spiisbsrger fatally injured, Three
others we're badly bruised
| CHATTANOOGA, Tenn The arrangements
for the dedication Of the state monuments on
the chickamapga Chattanooga National park
field. Of Georgis and Kentucky have been se-
oofted and the dates both aAfd 20 Occur during
the Chattanooga spring festival. May 2 and q
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ---Gpyernor MeMillln ie
IL receipt Of a letter from Barlow s. Weeks
of New York. attorney for Molneux against
whom Nicholas Hickman Is the principal
witness Nj. Weeks states 70 tho governor
! that implicit confidence was put n the state
r1ents OF Arthur Colyar, the Nashville at
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