The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-23
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

SIlURl NtWS SlURItS.
CHICAGo.-A new plan for the organization
OF laundry trust is under way and the laun-
diymtn will meet 10 settle the details
MONTGOMERY. Aia.--Joe Barron, grand
son OF ox-Secretary OF State J. D. Barren, |
was drowned while bathing In the Alabama |
river.
| San FRANCiSCO.--F companies OF the |
Twenty fourth United States infantry and i5l |
recruits sailed for Manila on the transport
Healandia
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.-Mrs, Thomas u.
Martin, wife Of Chancellor Martin of the
1 Pulaski chaneery court was KILLED IN run
away accident
| licitor OF the Standard OIL company, says he
can not yet announces tho plans OF the re-
organized ctmpany.
Observation-Disclosures reaches here o,
void, heretofore reported disabled and posi-
I bly, lost, All on board were we'll.
NEW YoRK.-peteotiYes here arrested the
Grand Central station. The stolen money
4 (Slo 0o0) was found on his person.
NEW YORK "A special from Springfield.
Mass saws; a receiver has been apponted
for the pranR-raber Art company. The as
sets foot up 100000; liabilities $4,000
WASHINGTON General Otis has begun
the organization of the skeleton regiments to
he made NJ OF volunteers now at Manila and
to be filled with recruits from the states.
N
mon missionaries from Utah have arrived IA
this city 10 80 to Georgia, Alabama, Missie-
sippi, South Carolina and Eastern Tennessee
CHICAGu.-"Dutch" Neal, the pugilist,
swooneu III tho ring during n contest with
Harry Peppers and is stlll unconscious, lie is
apparently suffering from hemorrhago of the
brain.
posToN A sneak thief entered the Metro
politau National bank here and stole $4,000
while the paving teller's attention was drawn
away for a moment He has not been appre-
hendod
HOT SPRINGS. Colonel j. j. sumpter one
OF the most prominent citizcns of the state,
and for forty years Il resident OF this city
is dead of nervous prostration, after a lnrer-
INK Illness
Wu4KESBARRE PA heavy explosion
Of gas occurred IN one of the lower llfts OF
the Maxwell colherv Of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company. Three hundred
men escaped uuinlured
LOUISVILLE "A New York Arm has been
J awarded the contract to furnish tobacco Tor
the Spanish government The contract IS Tor
about ll,Udo hcbsheads, which means an out
, lay Of between So,OOO00O and Sd,O0oooo'
MOBILE. Ala-rhe British atoamshp LON
bard arrived In this mort from shin Island
, with a case Of well deyeloped lepIoN on
board In the uerson Of Chnanan, member
OF the crew. The man has been ouarantined
MONTGOMERY Ala-A l9year-old negro
attempted TO assault lS-year old white CIR!
near Florence but failed. He was arrested
I aud placed in jail. The Jail Is strongly
i guarded
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. There is much excite
ms nj at Corona, In Walker county. over a
= brutal assault mrde on Mrs Monroe Jones'
: critical condition a big posse is after the
negro.
!, NEW oRLEANs.--It is now ascertalred be-
vcnd doubt that the launch Paul Jones was
rot DESTROYED nv the explosion OF naptha
r. tank. the mystery surrounding the matter Is
. greatly deepenod by the AnduG OF tbs tank
i intact
e AlexandcJwile has heeu lodged in jail here
q on the charge of numbering her husband. one
, man, who claimed to have been an eye wit
ness to tho shooting, testified before the coro-
ner.
TAHLEouAH. I. THE Cherokee execu-
tive council has liberated all the criminals
in the Cherokee penitcntiary. This action
r was taken on account Of the Curtis bin pro
o hibitinE any moro convictions under the
Q Cherokee laws.
8 NEW YORK "A special to the Commercial
n Advertiser from Holvoke, Mass. saws; TO
= the Rev. o, r. Millcr Methodist and temper.
> ancc reformer. President McKinlev said:
I Personally ! should be very glad to see
e prohibition OF the canteen."
> NEW YORK The directors Of the Tennes.
I see Coal, Iron and Railroad COMPANY met
I and ratified the contract under which the
1 company sells for silOo09o cash to the Loui..
Vile and Nashville and Southern Railway
}, companies its property iu Alabama.
= CHICAGO. The Western lines have adopted
! the new rules Of the Western Immigrant bu-
feau. The officials will now take M the re-
!, vlscd agreement for the Western Passenger
o association, and there t every reason TO be
Y lioye that this will soon be adopted
r CHICAGO.--The Record Will say: The Ca
madam government VIII open the Zoulange'
O canal IN August, and by its operation th'
: | cost OF transporting lake freight to tdewatel
. will be reduced beyond the possibility Of
profitable competition by any other existing
route
; NEW YCRK.--lt is announced that Pref
Arthur c. McGiffort VIII withdraw from tn'
ProsbyteliAa church without standing tria
upon the accusation of heresy which has beer
hrought against him because Of hts work
History Of Christianity in the Apostolic
Age"
JOPLIN. Mo. All ~ the zinc mines Of the
Missouri Kansas district are TO be smut doWn
Q for two weeks, IL the directions Of the zinc
= minors' association are complied WIN. I'M.
Is the trump card which the association mas
p, been holding back to force zinc smelters to
! nay schedule prices for ore.
n ST. LOUIS The POST Dispatch says at Tho
- next encampment OF tho Grand Army OF thf
d Republic a proposition Will be made to take
Z. IN veterans OF tho navy as well as Of the army
= and soldiers and sailors Of the war W I'll
N Suain. Il will be proposed 10 change tht
:. rame 70 the Grand Army and Navy Of the
=, Republic"
- PHILADELPHIA.-The 5000 seamstresse
! whose means Of earning livelihood has BEEF
the making Of soldiers clothing at the Unite
direc. appeal 10 President Mckinley agans
g, giving the work 10 contractors. The seam
y stresses are mostly the wives, widows an
p daughters OF soldiers.
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