The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-13
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

| DUBOIS, Pa.--The strikes OF the coal min
ers OF this district have been finally settled.
| the workers getting an advance In wages.
| IOWA. La.--John Leblue was shot through
| the heart by his 7-year-old son. who was
playing with an 'unloaded" revolver
| MIDDLESBoRo. Ky.--The friends Of Miss
| Ida Carr who disappeared ten days ago. now
believe she has suicided; she was In III
health.
| CHICAGo--ft is believed the new scale of
wages will he signed Thursday and the mills
of the American Tinplate company reopened
Thursday.
| CHICAGO-There were two deaths and six
prostrations due to heat. The temperature
did not go above 80. but the humidity caused
great suffering.
LuBEC. Me.-During Yacht race a boat
containing ,three persons was capsized. ana
two of them, Hollis G. Nickerson aud Epeht
Small. were drowned.
ToLEDo.--At the morning session OF the
Ohio Bar association at Put In BAY the an
Inual address was delivered by William Writ
Howe of New Orleans.
PITTSBuRG.-Th p. Day. vice presi.
dent OF the Peoples National bank of this
city, who was injured at grade crossing near
Uniontown. Pa, is dead.
WEST POINT. n. 1.-TWO cases of scarlet
fever have developed in the cadet HOSPITAL.
Four cadets were taken from the camp to the
hospital with fever symptoms
SEATTLE Wash.-The steamer Humboldt
has arrived from Alaska with $50 PASSENGERS
from Dawson. who added over 100000 to the
gold receirts taken from Klondike.
DETROIT. Mich.-Eleven sailors on board
the revenue cutter Fessenden were presented
with the bronze medals which congress or
deIed given TO every participant In the battle
OF Manila bay.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah.-Ansus NJ. Can
non. the Mormon leader. who was recently
arrested on the charge of polygamy. az
Deared before a Justice of the peace and
waived examination
.u,r nv
projected combine of the seven great foundry
supply plants of the United States is fore
gone conclusion. and 1t will now be consum-
mated in very short time.
NEW ORLEANS.-Mrs. Sabin of Mem
phs. well known throughout the South as
yellow fever nurse. has been commissioned
by the war department to go TO Cuba: she
will sail FRIDAY for Havana.
LINCOLN. Neb.-Frank Tepley. a well to-
do farmer. killed his wife with carpenter,,s
hammer and committed suicide by taking poi
son He objected to his wife. visiting disin-
horted daughter and son-in-law.
NEW YORK.-Terry McGovern of Brook
Ign and Pedlar Palmer OF London have been
matched to meet in a twenty-five round bout,
l16 pounds, at the Westminster Athletic club.
September l, for purse OF $4,000.
RICHMOND Mo.--Thomas Graves and his
aged sissr-were burned in their homes near
here. Graves was supposed to have ccnsid-
erahlo gold hidden about his premises. and |
it is believed the couple were murdered.
MAGNOLIA. Mass.-Former Senator Cor
man OF Maryland is III at the Hesperus hotA |
ana his wife and two daughters are at his |
bedside. His condition is not considered Sc
rious. He suffers from exhaustion a relapse |
OF the grip.
CLEVELAND, MiIs.-Dr w N Allsop of
Shaw and H. P Williams of this place en-
gagged in a street duel with pistols. in which
the former was killed. The trouble which
eliminated in the tragedy originated several
months ago
Of EVTrI AMI phtn l. n ca.oh.i - 4,
iurance agent living here who was kidnaped
when an infant twenty-five years ago. and
lis mother. Mrs. Emma Smith, OF Blrming-
lam. Ala. have been reunited: Getchel was
AIKEN by his stepsister because Of her love
or the child.
NEW YoRK.-William Waldorf Astor Sc
urcd from the supreme court a wit Of GER
iorarl directing the commissioners of taxes
nd assessments TO review their decision in
sstsslng his personal propartv here at
2OoO,O0O. Mr.. Astor claims that he Is
nonresident and does not possess the per-
oral property upon which re has been as
essed