The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-20
SHORT NEWS STORIES.


NEW YORK.--VarioE amendments 10
the bylaws OF the cotton exchange recent
~ announced have been adopted Among
them was one providing for inspecting 90
cotton damaged as result OF ire in ware
houses.
NEW YoRK.--Great mystery has beep
thrown around n robbery which has JUST
occurred Ia a Fifth avenue mansion. II Is
generally admitted that the burglars mads
away with more than $4,000 worth OF
silyerware.
NATClIEZ Miss Louis Balm one %
the local man curriers' of Natche6 dropp 4
dead lie hnA finished his route for Tho
day aad was wording In his garden when
he suddenly fell TO the ground and died Ia
! "a Few minutes.
HUDSON n. Y--The jury IN the case oe
Burton, wins a Brodcrick Van NorUer,
charged with the murder Of their uue,c,
Peter A llailenbeck, returned verdict oe
murder In the first degree ngninst all three
/ Of the accused,
! NEW YORK Fifth avenuo will have stilI
another S3,Jt0,00O motel. The structure VIII
! face the elghtcen-stpry hotel st. Regis now
| being completed by Colonel John jacob
| Aston. The building VIII be eighteen stories
nigh and the cost Of construction hac been
estimated at S2,6o00o0.
! NEW YORK a party OF seventeen cuI
! womeu of this city VIII make the thirty
| day trip to and from the biennial conven,
/ ton OF the general Federation OF Womend
/ clubs M Los Angeles, Cal, on a special
! ear. The party viii start on April 20 and
days trip through the Yosemite valley.
NEW YORK Or. Nathaniel MarstoI
/ Freeman, wealthy retired physician OF thls
| city died suddenly la the Aschenorodel
club Of heart disease, He had been playing
chess when somebody told o funny story.
DR. Freeman was so CONFUSED with laugh
ter that he was unable TO resume the gulnes
suddenly he lurched forward and died.
NEW YORK Captain James Price OF he
English royal naval reserve, and for years
commodore 81 the old Guion line, Is deads
according TO private gdvtces from ldNer-
pool. Captain Price was president or the
Merchant Marine association n Liverpool
and WINS known throughout England be-
cause OF his charities to institutions sor
eeamen as the Grand Old Man Of he
Sea"
NEW YORK The death Of Don Fran
cisco de ASST, former king Of Spain. viii
not AFFECT the accession festivities says q
Madrid dispatch TO the Herald. council
Of ministers decided that the foreign
princes shall arrive on May IL aud thar
grand reception shall he given, Tne fofmer
kings body VIII he brought to Spain and
Inferred Ia the Escujal
NEW YORK Camille Flammerion has
announced. says Herald dispatch from
Paris. that one mlllard minutes elapsed at
ten minutes past ?. M p, on April IS since
! nry ~ the year Is taken start
ing point for this calculation. Abe average
year during the nineteen centuries Is com
posed OF 525.971 minutes and eighteen sec
onds
NEW YORK. Boston viii be light IN tha
clutches Of the old blue laws on sunday,
saws a dispatch from that eity q ne
Times. No meats. fruits, or ceuleclieps ~
any kind viii be allowed to b. soid. No
sunday shaving will be allowed ln neieis
and no baker, ana rsniniu opeu aite ~
! o'clock In the Marni3g. ~ ~ heil2Niri 10
lie an effort "a force the legislature q re-
peal the ancient laWS,
NEW YORK--The Guild hail aEt shows
which viii be opened Monday Is renafka.
Ia Fr..~ .4f
art OF the Eighteenth centur1, SAYS Lon
don dispatch 70 the 1ribune The nuinber
Of works IS less than 200Q but neariy every
great French ana English painter OF fhaN
century Is admirably represented. J. Pier-
iuont Morsan's Hlraeonard forms promb
nent feature