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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-19
RATE CHANGES.
Several Commodities Are Affected By
the New Rates

tne new hates.
st. Louis, August 1S,--The Southwest traf-
&c committee announces the following rate
changes 10 the territory embraced In its
domains:
Establishment Of. iute bagging commodity
rate OIL brown cotton bagging. used for baling
round bale cotton, effective August 10.
Establishment of rates between Sherman
and Shreveport and southern extension ports
and New Orleans and Shreveport on scale
same as from Texas and Pacific stations.
Establishment OF advancing scale OF icing
charges OIL shipment to Texas points. 800 per
car from st. Louis 10 North Texas group,
SIS to Middle group and $50 to Southern group,
effective August a.
Cancellation of Ascent rate on wagon and
wagon material restoring TO normal rate Of
ca cents, St. Louis to Texas common points,
effective August g.
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Bastrop Personals.

Bastrop. Texas August is--Arihur UiIdy
OF New Orleans is the guest OF Mr. and Mrs.
Leo zieton this week
Hon j. S Jones returned from his trip
In northern and western counties Wednesday
Mrs II ~ Bell returned from an ex-
tended visit at Beaumont orange and CAL
gcsion and Houston
Nrs r. p Lynch and children who have
hefn visi.inr among relatives and friends 10
Ieea Michigan and Minnesota, returned SAT-
urnay.
Misses Lconcra and Nellie Johnson Of AUS
and family.
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rate ON wagon ,Iateriai.

Notice has been served by the Southwest
ern freight bureau that, effective August %.
the rate on wagon material from st. Louis
in Texas common points now prevailing viii
be cancelled The present rate is 46 cents
per 100 pounds in carloads. minimum weight
"a 900 pounds. The rate goes back to 81
cents to common points and GO cents to
Houston and Galveston.
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ROYAL ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP.

The Lone Star Temple of Friendship
was organized last night in the Temper
ance hall by the election of the following
officers: James P. clooney, royal counse-
lor; Viala Luton, royal vice counselor; l..
II. Carglll, royal secretary; Emma J..
Harder, royal treasurer; Gustayius La
cour, royal prelate; Minnie Alice Goode.
royal messenger; John p. Luton, royal
conductor; George W. Granger. royal
guard; NJ. McCracken, royal sentry; James
M. Spencer, past royal counselor.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-19
SOUTHERN PAcIFIc's EARNINGS.
Mr.. Huntington's Inst Official Act
Was TO Prepare n sta tement.

Mr.. Huntington's Inst Official Act
Was TO Prepare ~ Statement.
Sal Francisco, August 1s--Probably the last
s''''e,artant Official act Coils p, Huntington
llleu pelDs his death was to approve
anu issue Tor the infornanoa of the stock and
oonu noiders Of the Southern Pacific company
statement Of its earnings ana exnens.s
for tho fiscal year ending w.s,7 - -. .-st.
The gross earnings OF the company for the
fiscal year were the largest in the history
of the corporation being S6S,2JS,4oS This
is an Increase of 81, 295, 5l over the year be-
FORE Operating expenses aggregated S4O,s45,-
ga an Increase Of s4,49s, 2s0. Receipts in ex-
cess of operating expenses We're S22,Si5.lS4
or an increase of 1887. 25l over last year.
Local officials OF the company have been
advised that Mr.. Huntingtons death Will
not delay the work on the extension Of his
Mexican International railroad west through
Mexico from Durango to Mazatan, an i'm
portant port on the Atlantic ocean side OF
Mexico
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S. H. LEVY MAKES ASSIGNMENT.

Sidney H. Levy this morning Gled with
Clerk Dart OF the United States district
court, a petition in bankruptcy, assigning
his entire stock of dry goods for the bene-
fl Of his creditors. The petition was re-
ferfed to w. ]. Crawford, referee in bank
ruptcy, no adjudicated Mr.. Levy bank
rupt and appointed ]. ]. sollnsky temper
airy trustee, under $4,000 bond. and d.
rected him to take charge OF the estate Of
Sidney H. Levy and hold and protect it
pending the first meeting OF the creditors,
which will be held on September /.
The petition gives the total amount OF
the liabilities at S7737.40, with assets
amounting TO $780,
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coiored woman BADLY Injured.

Galveston, Texas. August is-Llzzie Easiey'
eolored. was struck on the head with brick
about 1880 O'Clock tonight on Market street.
between Twenty-seyepth and Twenty-eignth,
and very severely injured. She charges
negro man with making the assault
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-19

Sherman, Texas, August is. Burt Bond to-
day entered suit against the Missouri Kansas
and Texas Railroad Company OF Texas for
alleged damage caused by the tracks OF that
company and the operation of its trains
adjacent TO his homestead. He asks for
$500 actual aud exemplary damages.
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Cnnev valley Extennion.

Wharton Texas. August 1S.--work on the
Caney valley-southern Pacific extension goes
steadily on In spite OF the rainy weather
The road is now completed twenty-six miles
from Wharton. and within four miles OF Van
Vleck
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,ra",,l 'son' Texas. August 1s.-rhe ,,rs.
c,ess ' , orids9 across the Canadian river
IRE caused Hati0n. yss burned last nsht rae
s slq baggage. The flyer 'sssenrefs mail
IL s,,r rams were turhod hack tn. ~.
- supneSed to have caught from no p nn- lrs
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work SJls'S HIiI IN Angelina county. ana ,,s
~ Nacosdoebsp.u Sn +. without abatement ua s
iv lwo miles and the estimate q gare ~
gs,n : .lhner 90 The bridge over ~ ~ n1 hs
and N1 ihe sSs y about twohrds co sns AS
the time H. 1 re- south will be finished IN by
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-19
". ILL RATES At som r.un

b az sas to October /. $500. $3.50
d ,.Iss ss' Day according to rooms.
.as Il III a PEST board and all YOU can
a Nov asst mineral water in tba
md ,,v. me time for al TO ger
|H TN 1, misery and money next
: while cheap prices nrsvsii '
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kauf,nnn County Singers.

Ksufnan Teaas. August 1s.-The kaufman
county tingiug convention will meet A. Ksuf-
man tomorrow large crowd Ia expected
aud preparations are being made TO take care
OF them.
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wharton. Texas. August is--A club Of
colored farmers was organized 10 this coun-
~ this week, with W, s Jackson president
and ". ~ TorrB as secretary The club
win be known az the Farmers Seed club.
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r. AND o. EXTENSION
Track Laying 20 Be Rushed on the
NacogdocheS Extension,

Nacordoches. Texas, August l7.-Trsck lsy-
ing viii commence next MONDAY mosDins
the Goth instant, on the Texas and NsS
Orleans railroad extension. one mile above
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COILS p. HUNTINGTON.
His Probable Successor Adn,i,is
trntnr Turned Iin,,,

His Probable Successor Admiuts.
traitor Turned Down,
Tne following is from the New York Com
mercial of Thursday last:
Charles II. Tweed. second vice president
ana general counsel OF the Southern paeiac
railroad, said yesterday that IT might no
safely assumed thai Coils P. Huntington
the deceased president OF the road. efr a
will. All proper information on the s,,blec,
he said. would be made public at the proper
time.
MT. Tweed was asked II It was true that
ne was to succeed MIR, Huntington as rrcsi-
dent of the Southern Pacific. He renlled.
NO. MT. II. Il. Huntington, nenhew Of
a Ar, =, r, huntington, Is the first vice presl-
uent OF the company, ] am the second vice
president But all that is matter for iut,ire
arrangement
Mr.. Tweed was asked whether he could
say anything concerning Abe Al,aniinf ar NIr
Hunungton's fortune, in view OF the nu-
merous and widely divergent estimates.
~ He was very rich man" answered Mr..
Tweed: but 1t would not be proper for me
to take part in the appraising
A San Francisco dispatch dated last Wed
nesday says
1t is said that there is a mystery behind
the hasty application of Public Administrator
Boland for letters OF administration on the
estate OF Coils p. Huntington, IN tins elty
Many stories Of the sensational litgattons
that have followed the death Of every one
OF Calforna's great millonarles, are re-
counted, and the matter is being discussed
very generally.
Administrator Boland made his appi'ca-
ton almost as soon as the railroad mag
mates death was amounted. 1t Is not
thought he acted on his own Initiative.
Whatever the motive, it failed of accom-
pllshment as Judge Bahrs angrly dismissed
the applications, scoring the probate officer
for what he characterized as undue aud
unseemly haste"
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u. Z. & w. T. II. II.

Grand Central Depot
400 >. p..Esprsss Train Arrive Gas a. IN.
csryepott. Kansas City ami ClnelnnsdJ
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s,.,,,, Special leaves Houston 1850 p. N.
Ss,1,v. onlv All these trains leave the
s., I'm I. Congress Avenue Depot 10 minutes
nv htn the above
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rir tuln, IrIv. ana depart from the Grand
nl tepotsreep, me Missouri. Kansas and Texas
yachh,n depot In the Fifth ward, the In
ssNL and Great Northern and Columbia Tap,
We he International ANA Great Northern depot
lssresi lssnue. The Missouri. Kansas and
Sra Galveston. Houston and Henderson trains
u International ard Great Northern depot
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Presidential Party Attends Memoria
Services at Fredericksburg, Va.

Presidential Party Attends Memorial
Services at Fredericksburg, Va.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. May 26.-On
the very ground over which the old
Fifth corps charged at fredericksburg,
President Mckinley and his cabinet
and General Miles yesterday witnessed
the laying of the corner stone in a
shaft which will perpetuate in bronze
and granite the hereoism of the Army of
the Potomac. The monument was the
personal gift of General Daniel But
terfield to the National Memorial AS
ISOLATION. General Butterfeld him
self was present and assisted in the
ceremony, but owing to i'll health the
commital of the monument to the sec
rotary of war was made by Colonel
Hill, one of the Veterans of the Fifth
corps. The ceremony was with due
Masonic rites, and at its completion
the secretary of war accepted the gift
in the name of the American people.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
NEWS In GENERAL
THEIR MISSION A FAILURE.
America VIII Not Comply with Request
- no...

America VIII Not Comply With Request
Of Beers.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-The Boer
peace commissioners were received by
Secretary Hay yesterday. After the
interview the commissioners declined
to say anything as to what had hap
pened. The secretary of state, after
consulting with the president, was
more communicative and gave out a
statement in which he states that the
Boer delegates submitted at much
length and with great energy and ell
oquence the merits of the controversy
in South Africa and the desire of the
Boer republics that the United States
should intervene in the interest of
peace and use its influence to that end
with the British government. Secre-
tary Hay, in reply, reviewed at length
the presidents attempt at Intervention
at the request of the two South African
republics, made through the United
States consul at Pretoria, last March,
to which Lord Salisbury had replied
that his government could not accept
the Intervention of any power. He
further said the president desired that
the war be brought to speedy close,
but having done his full duty he feels
that no course is open to him except to
persist in his policy of impartial neu-
trality
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
BIsEVITIES.

A dispatch says the United States
senate has passed the house bill for
the redivision of the southern district
of Iowa, creating a new seat of the
federal court at Creston. The bill HAD
already passed the house and with the
approval of the president will become
a law.
George Lewis, aged IL years, and
George Denison, aged 10 years, were
drowned a few days ago in the
Floyd river, at Sioux City. The father
of Lewis was told that two boys were
drowned. He jumped into the water
and after diving several times brought
up the Denison lad. Then he got hold
of another boy and was Mortified to
find it was his own son.
Burlington dispatch: William Pen
rod, Jr., stabbed his father, William
Penrod, Sr., near the home of Sam
Harrington, a son-in-law of the elder
Penrod, just south of the Spring Creek
school house. The cut inflicted by
young Penrod on his father is in the
left breast and is about four inches
long. The blade of the knife struck
! rib. and this no doubt saved the mans
life.
James Davidson, of Mystic, was shot
and fatally wounded a few nights age
by VIM. Quinley, of Frankfort, KY,
at a dance near Twin Mines. The
two men became engaged in quarrel,
| or rather renewed an alteration
which they had had some time before
during which Quinley fred two shott
at Davidson, the last one resulting
fatally. The first shot passed over his
head. The gun which Quinley used
was of 3s-caliber, and the ball passed
through the left side, entering the
left lung Quinley, in company with
his brother, went to Centerville and
gave himself up to the authorities, and
in default of $1,000 bonds was COM
mitted to Jail.
1t is announced that another mem
Der of the notorious gang of Chicago
safe robbers who went through Brad
ley's bank at Eldon to the tune of ST.
600, has been captured in the person
of Sam Richie, the saloon keeper and
leader of the gang, who is under ar
rest in Baltimore. Sheriff Suites
left for that place, armed with requis-
ition papers to bring him back. On
the night of February list, 1897,
Bradley's bank, situated then in the
first floor OF the Eldon hotel, was
blown to pieces, and the vault looted
The scheme was Matched by Chas
Stevens, then city marshal of Eldon
and through Dick Dodd, an Ottumwa
gambler, he secured the services o.
Richie and his men to do his work
The men implicated, as noted by the
confessions of both Dodd and Stevens
all have now been caught, with the
exception OF "lndian Joe" Menard
who was in Limbo once in Chicago
but was released on SIS, 900 and skipped
Stevens was given three years and re
leased only month ago. Bob Dur
kin was caught in New York ant
is / ow serving three years. Buck
hurry, brains of the gang, the exper
safe cracker, was caught in Vermont
and is now serving a nine-year sen
tence at Fort Madison. Dodd was no
prosecuted, as he went on the stant
and told his story. The robbery wa
one of the most daring ever committe,
in Iowa. Richie will probably ge
, the limit, us there is no doubt of hi
guilt.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
The Givin Murder Case.

OsKALoosA, May 27.-Henry Fields,
q colored miner, employed at Hooking,
is charged with the murder of Waddie
Edgar, also colored, who was shot and
killed in the depot at Givin during
trouble between "a party Of white men
and another party of colored men,
who had come to Givin for the purpose
of playing base ball. AT the inquest
two witnesses said that they saw
Fields fire the fatal shot. Their testi-
mony was to the effect that the MUIR
derer hid behind the depot and ex-
tended his arm and hand that held the
gun around the corner. Fields has
been in the Hooking district but a
short time. and is said to be a much
travelled man, having been in every
mining camp of any consequence in
the south and west and has a bad rep
utation. Fields has disappeared. 1t
is possible that reward will be offered
for his capture.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
GOOD TACTICS OLE Beers.
They Continue to Retire, But Always
Take Guns With Them.

they Continue to Retire, But Always
Take Guns With Them.
LONDON, May 27.-Lord Roberts,
with two divisions of infantry, was
thirty-ive miles from the Vaal river,
on Thursday noon, with his right
wing under General Hamilton, even
uearer the river, and General French,
with two brigades of cavalry, well in
advance and securing the district west
Of the railway. The press correspon-
dents continue to describe the Dutch
retreat IN contemptuous terms as the
rush of disorderly, panic-stricken
;abbIe. Probably from an Aldershot
point of view it lacks the perfection of
drill which Sir Redvers Butler ad-
mired after the battle of Spion Kop,
but it is effective in one respect, that
the guns are always carried back out
Of danger and few stragglers are
left behind. The Dutch burghers
are discouraged, without doubt, but
they are not running like hares nor
have they been transformed into a
rabble, as the newspaper paragraph
ers are foolish enough to assert.
They succeeded in taking back all
the guns which were mounted at the
Rhenoster river, and this was good
work when both TANKS of their posi-
lion had been turned.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

Although the inhabitants of the
earth are not perceptibly affected by
the wandering motion of the North
Pole, yet it is phenomenon Of un-
ceasing interest to astronomers, and on
January LIST a new plan for investigat-
ing it went into effect. The motion,
which is suggestive Of the wabbling
of a top, is extremely slight when the
vast size of the earth is taken into
account. Since 1890 the North Pole
has never been more than 80 feet away
from the place it should occupy if the
earth's axis of revolution never varied
in direction. But the motion is err
ratio, and it's cause is obscure. The
new plan of observation provides four
observing stations, all close to the goth
degree of north latitude, and all within
500 feet of the same parallel. These
are at Midzusawa, Japan; Carloforte,
Sardinia, Gaithersburg, Maryland and
Ukiah, California. Precisely similar
observations with exactly the same
kind of zenith telescopes will be made
at each station on carefully selected
stars. Any change in the direction OF
the pole reveals itself by shift of the
stars.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

State University Wins the State Cup,
Grin nell Second.

State University Wins the State Cup,
Grin nell Second.
Dies MONIES. May 26.-At the state
field meet yesterday the State Univer-
sity won the state cup with 81 points
as against % for Grinnell, 2211 for
Ames, 2115 for Drake, Z for Penn and
Z for Cornell. But one record was
broken. the pole vault, the new record
being 10 feet, inches, against the old
record of 10 feet, 9 inches. Firsts were
won as follows: One hundred yard
dash, Snider, Grinnell; half mile
bicycle, Banschbaugh, s. U. J.; half
mile run, Brown, s. u. l.; 16-pound
shot-put, Warner, S. U. L.; running
broad jump, Palmer, Anes; 120-yard
hurdles, Crouch, Grinnell; two mile
bicycle, Choate, S. U. I.;440-yard dash,
Brown, S. U. l.; 16-pound hammer
throw, Lowe, Drake; 2ao-yard hurdles,
Crouch, Grinnell; mile run, Wilson,
Ames; hop, step and jump, Rayner,
Cornell; discus throw, Smith, Drake;
pole vault, Chapman, Drake; running
high jump, White, Penn; one-half mile
relay race, S. U. l.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
KRUGER RAS NOT SUED.
Report That He Has sued for Peace
Entirely Unfouhded.

Report That He Has Sued for Peace
Entirely Unfouhded.
LONDON, May 25.-The Associated
Press is able to say that no news from
Kruger, direct or indirect, has recently
been received by Salisbury or any de-
partment of the British government,
nor, it may be added, is there any
communication from him dealing with
the question of the cessation of hostil-
tiles expected by them in the imme-
diate future The proximity of peace,
according to the government point of
view, will remain matter of military
progress How soon the latter may
bring about the former is still too
suppositious for serious forecast on
the part of any government official.
The concensus of opinion, as CLEANED
by the Associated Press at the govern
ment office, is that the Boer delegates
will exhaust every effort in the United
States before Kruger sues directly,
though Salisbury himself does not be-
lieve the Beers win accomplish. much
in the United States.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
WARNING SENT TO CHINA.
Notified by United States That Boxers
Must BE Suppressed.

Notified by United States That Boxers"
Must BE Suppressed.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-The United
States government has taken a hand
in the suppression of the Boxers" in
China. Minister Conger has been in
structed by the state department to
inform the Chinese government that
this government expects it to stamp
out the society promptly and thorough
ly, and to provide proper guarantees
for the maintenance of peace and order
and the protection of the life and
property of Americans in China, all
now threatened by the operations of
the BOXERS" There is no indication
in the instructions as to the course
that will be pursued by the United
States in case the Chinese government
fails to observe the warning conveyed
in this communication. Mr.. Conger is
acting on parallel lines with the rep
resentatives of every European power
at the Chinese court, but has not
joined in any concert of action.
LONDON, May 27.-A special dispatch
from Shanghai says advices from
Szuchuan, province of Hu Peh, report
that the Boxers have destroyed two
villages and massacred many converts
of the French missionary stations.
The general commanding at Shi Nan
Flu, it is added, sent a regiment to the
scene of the disturbances. The SOL
diers were ambushed by the malcon-
tents and lost twenty-six men killed.
Reinforcements have been dispatched
from Ichang.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

The members of the International
Commercial Congress held in Phila-
delphia were told by Mr.. w. c. Barker,
as the result of his observations among
European manufactures, that time
seems to be regarded as of compare
lively little value abroad, while in Am
erica the maxim that time is money
IS practically applied. Mr.. Barker
found that in a large agricultural ma
chinery mandatory in Europe the
only trip hammer in use was worked
by hand, the weight being drawn up
with ropes and pulley, and allowed to
drop. The American power hammer
strikes 100 and more blows in a min
ute.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31
Mills County Fruit Prospects.

GLENwooD, May 27.-The indica-
tions now are that Mills county will
have II large apple crop. There is at
this time the most encouraging pros
pect since 1898. Should the season
continue favorable, Glenwood will no
doubt give the largest apple carnival
ever known. All horticulturists are
rejoicing that the period of scanty
rainfall has passed. and that now with
suffient moisture, their labors will be
rewarded with handsome returns.
All grain and grass crops are promis-
ing well. Queen Mills" will be able
from present indications, to give a
good account this fall.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-31

Recent observations tending to show
that ants possess a sense OF hearing
have been described in this column.
Professor Metcalf Of the Woman's Col
lege, Baltimore, adds some interesting
testimony on the subject in letter to
Science. One of his students discover
ed that a colony of black ants was
thrown into a state Of great excitement
by sounds of one particular pitch.
Other sounds did not affect them, but
when the peculiar note was struck,
either on violin or with whistle,
the ants would become excited, and If
the sounds were continued would grow
frantic, some Of them falling into a
water moat surrounding their nest.
Ants of other species paid no attention
ITO the sounds.