The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-02
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S,rautet Elton Are Treated Most
Kindly.
THE nj OF JULY CELEBRATION
- Have Been Made for
n y Except the Place.
ocal Notes.

81 ,iexas, July 1.--Young Henry
n here with his mother look
VI -, removal OF his fathers body
:. rhys he expects the body of
~, ii be taken to Temple tonight.
~, no trains out last night and
~. B still at the undertaking es-
81 tabl
al at time OF sorrow like this"
On, Lovick, that you know how
,,,,hess and kindness there is In
4 :. No one could have been ten
:. lore attentive to my father than
Jeople at the Sealy hospital. And
II the undertaken, embalmed my
body and prepared II LOT pu'ia'
~ ians there was no charge.
n we received on every hand MARKS
n .jthy from the people OF GalVesloh
~ oob down in our hearts we .hanA
N a It," .,.,.
NJ Gallagher put in two hours this
81 i carrying around supscriptlon
a laid the family of George Lovic IN
NJ Whose two hours he collected Soo'oV'
u }ws: ,
NJ liter C. Jones, So; Ed Mccarthy, 30
81 inrs Sealy G Co., $40; ]. II. Hutch
u 5r.. 50; C. ]. Wolston, 81; cash, 90
81 cash. so cents; John d. Rogers &
VI 5; G. II. Hughes, 81; cash, 81; cash,
q heh, 30 cents; cash. 81, George II.
~ Jr.. ST. ]. J. Norton, So; j. q. H..
T. Mccarthy, SIS; Adoue & Lobit, SO;
% les Suderman, So: f. l.. Lee. 81.
#hnking that possibly the family might
Sin immediate need Mr.. Gallagher at
81 took the sum he had collected to the
Ming house at which Mrs, Lovick and
tschildren have been stopping.
|ETHE DETECTIVES CLEARED.
8ere was a meeting of the police COM
$loners at the city hall this morning
he purpose of hearing report from
M Ketchum that involved four special
uers of the force.
hera were present Mayor Jones, Chief
Ehum and Messrs. Weber, Levy, Stew
Sand Wilson. the four aldermanic mem
= of the commission.
he officers who we're before the COM
ssion we're Specials George T. Waters
al Dave Jordan and regular detail men
Eictiyes Henry Whittlesey and Harry
ans.
Then the meeting had been called to
IN Chief Ketchum made an oral state
AZ to the effect that subsequent to the
xedy between johnson and Boyd OF last
kday reports were numerous that the
Ice knew all about the trouble in adj
Zee. lnasmuch as the detectives are the
! and ears of the police force he deemed
Is duty to report such statements as he
heard to the commission and let that
b judge for itself whether or not the
kers were culpably negligent. Chief
Echum further stated that since the
u 1t was common talk that the public
M It was coming off, but the matter
Enot been reported to his department.
be officers were called one by one be-
the commission and told their side of
9story. Each man denied that he had
I'd that johnson and Boyd were gun
= for each other and that deadly con-
q was likely to occur most any time.
De the shooting they had heard many
pie say they knew it was coming off,
chad heard no such statements before.
me testimony being all in Commits
Der Weber offered the following reso-
On, which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the statement of the
81 OF police be received and spread
"a the minutes; that the facts con-
ned therein are substantiated and that
fofhcers be instructed in the future to
lort to the chief of police all such mat
q as may be OF benefit to the depart
~, and that failure to do SO will be
re for charges to be filed against
FOURTH OF JuLY CELEBRATION.
Fhe general committee ON the Fourth of
" fireworks held meeting this-morn-
at 10 o'clock at the office of w. w.
1son & Co.. on Strand. Everything was
|orted In shape except the exact loca-
b of the display. Two sites are under
federation, one on the beach just west
Olympia and the other the Beach hotel
J. Permission has been granted by tho
ners of the latter property to have the
display there. II the plat
st of Olympia is decided upon all save
set pieces will probably be-hred from
barge. Mr.. Spencer Will again Visii
two localities and look into the accom-
dation Of the thousands OF signtseers
q will stroll backward TuesdA night
ME hour has been set, O'Clock me
nlav will occupy from an hour anu
ee-ouarters to two hours.
~. Spencer has received information
taow morning the superintend-
n factory manufacturing the me-
hl be here with men especially
handle fireworks. The company
Is the finest display ever seen in
and Is sending out its best men
after things.
Festonians we're considerably wrought
day by some street advertising which
lunced with much noise that a grand
works display will be at Houston on
!, evening OF the 4th and inviting the
bic here to take a certain railroad and
up and enjoy the fun. The boys down
e don't think they have been tYatel
t right.
INSURANCE DIDN'T LAPSE.
t was by mere accident, it may be
d, that the Insurance on the John Sealy
'pital was not permitted to lapse this
lr. George MeCracken, the new city
rk, was going through some papers the
er day when he came across a policy
rying quite a. sum on the hospital that
'ired that day. His interest was
used. and he found that most OF the
lcies expired the same day.
ne John Sealy hospital Is kept insured
the city in the sum OF s25. 900. This