The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-28
SHORT NEWS STORIES.


VIM CONNIE, Wls-Matthcw KllNlea.
the we'll known has bah -nate. is delI
here after an Illness ~ several months.
BRUSSELS The Petit Bieu announces
taat King Leopold has obtained from China
a concession II l25 hectars about 300
acres Ot lsud north ot Ticu sien.
LONDON The standard referring TO the
health Or King Edward, says that his
majesty N!ll only be able 20 attend the
coronation IN q bath chair as an invalid.
CAIRO, Egypt.-Fifty-;wo fresh cases OF
CHOLERA and -hlrty eight deaths from tue
disease were reported Ia fuis city today.
one English woman has been attacked by
the sc0Urgl.
TRIESTE. The walters m she cafes and
restaurants here have gone on strike
because Of the refusal Of their employers
To grant their demand for regular wages
ana the abolition ~ tips.
BIRMINHAM Miss Annie Hcrnou. aged
ld and William Blair, a little hoy, We're
struck hv lightning during \ thunder storm
near the Thomas furnace and the latters
death Is expected momentarily
COWES. Isle nj Wight king Edward is
much better, but IS not yet able 70 walk
or stand Yesterday for the hrst time his
majesty used his new invalid chair. which
enables him to move himself about
VIENNA. The sixth tricnnial festival Of
the German rlpglng societies has an attend.
auce eAc., ding six thousand J. p, French
of Indianapolis addressed the gathering,
bringing greeting from German societies IN
the United States.
LuNpON.-(icneral Lord Methuen VINO
was Woundcd and captured by the Beers
bur subsequently released and VINO arrived
IN England early this month. has undergone
q serious opergtl Ion Tor the extraction OF
bullets from his Lea.
PLATTSVTI.LE. Colo.--The badly man
rlcd body of an unknown man was found
on the Union Pacific track two and half
miles south Of here today. in his pockets
were cards bearing tho names of George
Mclean, Il. Jones and C. A. Canpinn 1905
Marion street. Little Rock. Arkansas
LONDON. St Petersburg CORE
spondeut Of the Daily Mall reports mat
cholera has broken ont iu the government
of Astrakahan. Russia, and four dcatni
were reported last Friday. The govern
ment. the correspondent says, - keeping
the fact secret.
NEW lORh.-C. $. Titus. the American
caTsman who was defeated at the iIenle,
for the championship IN the single soul
races has arrived from London Mr. THU.
said he had learned considerable from To,
Henley faces aud that he intends 10 maxi
another effort to capture the championship
next year.
SAN JOSE, Costa a.-subterrsueal
roanngs resembling thunder are frequently
heard In this city and In Alakalun,
town eleven miles distant. They are he
lieved To he caused by the Paos volcano
nineteen miles northwest of here. QUAINT
WIS u d0utH nave lulftn ut san IGNfh
village near the volcano.
PARIs,--A dispatch from Cape Haytier
announces lhat troops from Artibonlte VIII
supper NJ, Firmln for The presidency o
the republic have entered lAmho aud AR
marching To Cape Haytien. St Raphael /
surrounded and Grapde Rivereri is threal
| ened. The troops from Port An Prince
the dispatch says, have been beaten a
| Archahaie.
| PORTLAND, Orcgon.--Frank Carlson an
| George baldwin, eech IL years OF age
| qunrrcled over two girls 70 whom both wCr
| paving attention. Carlson challenged Bald
| win TO fight The fCis was apparently o
| two rounds, lasting altogether about twent
minutes. 81 the end of that time Carlso
| received blow in the stomach, gasped an
was dead. baldwin is In Jail
| SAN FRANCISCo..-Aupi Nam Mari, M
tive of india who has resided In this cit
as far back AS the memory OF the white ma
runs, is dead az the age OF 1870 years. AuI
| mad most romantic career He was n
| son or an Indian princess and was klt
| napod while he was n child and taken {
the Hawaiian Islands There he Nvcd fc
some years MS n slave 10 q Chinese plante
and finally came ia California MS a fug
tive.
| NlENNA.--A crown council, presided owe
by Emperor Francis Joseph. was held q
lsehl, upper Austria, saturday. Or. Vn
koerher, the Austrian premier, Prime Nil
lister De Sell Of Hungary and Count Gulu
chowSky. Austro Hungarian minister OF FOL
eign affalrs. we're present. The counc
arranged compromise ON the Ausgleic
question which viii he submitted for M
prevail 10 the legislative bodies OF the NV
sections OF the empire.