The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-18
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

monia two days ago, Is dying.
KANSAS CITY william J. BRYAN. who
passed through Kansas city on "A lecture
Tour said that he had Intended Co visit
the alleged British renomt camp at Lat
throp Mo, but was unable Go make train
connections.
GUTHRIE. O. THE Fort smith and
Western aud tho ozark and Cherokee Cen
trail railway construction corps are racing
FOR the most available route into aud from
Oknugee, ]. T. where the TWO roads will
cross.
FRANKFORT. Ky The trial Of the
caSc Of Berry Howard, charged with being
a principal In The murder ot William Goe-
bel, moved along rapidly, he common.
wealth examining seventeen witnesses Al
hut six of them had been on the stand az
former trials Of the Goehel murder cases.
WASHlNGTON. The Presbyterian creed
revision committee has completed lahors
aud adjourned, The committee agreed
unanimously upon a report to hc made t.
the general assembly which meets IN New
York on May 10.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va General Tomas
ESTRADA Palma, prcsident-eicVt Of Cuba, has
sailed from old Point fer Havana.
TtSKEG EE Ala. Booker r. Washington
denies the report that he had bought
colonial mansion for "A summer residence
IN South Weymouth. Mass.
MANILA Captain Pitcher has tele.
gruphed to General Wheaton that the in.
Nurrection- in the island Of Miudoro is
over.
NlthSbthG, MlSS.-Ihe Illinois com
mission To locate the positions held by
Illinois troops In tile siege of NickSburg
headed bN General John c. Bluck OF Cal
cage, arrived here today and WIS taken
over the old battlenelds by local guides.
NEW YORK Because they declared
their belief that Adam and Eve were
mythical characters, iva young men WHO
asked to he admitted to preach have failed
To get the necessary licenses from the
Elizabeth, ~ j., prcsbytery,
NEW YORK. James Henry Smith of
this city heir to the S5uUuO.OOO estate Of
the late George Smith, who amaSsed his
fortune in Chicago and died not long ago
IN London, has purchased Rubens THE
to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
NEW YoRK.-A Brooklyn syndicate is
preparing TO offer Santos DumOnt an on
portunity to dlsport himself in American
atmosphere, The syndicate Will it IS
stated raise fund OF SI5.OOg FOR the pur.
pose of enabling Santos to navigate a new
dtrigible balloon ont to sea from Brighton
Beach Ia the uarrows. around the Statue
o. Liberty, up the East river. above the
brooklyn bridge and over the new East
river bridge and back again 10 Brighton
Reach
DENVER, Colo. Tho police Will permit
Dung Corhctt TO appear In spurrup CON.
test in this city May q. 'Roddy Gal-
lagher Will give smoker at the Coliseum
hall ON that evening and IL is said Dave
sullivan win be Corhetts opponent
NEW YORK Another palatia hotel is
planned for Fifth aYenue. rho price of
the plot was Il trihc under $1,000 OuU and
the cost of the new hostelry VIII Dee On the
neighborhood of S2,jOOuoO The new hutol
VIII be twenty stories high, and the plans
contemplate an underground hallway con
Meeting the structure with Delmoulcn's
NEW YORK Popular price restaurants
Of this city nave advanced prices of steaks
and r0asts of beef an average OF cents
owing TO the continued rise iu the price
OF beef
NEW YORK,-in practice polo match
on the Georglan court grounds at Lake
wood. n. J., Kingdom Could eldest son
OF George J. Gould was thrown from hl-
pony IN scrimmage lie sustained no
serious injury beyond sprained wrist
NEW YoRK.-It is stated on good an.
thority, says q Montreal dispatch ia tho
lines, that the Bank OF Montreal CON
| Templates opening a branch in ilayunn and
other cities In Cuba,
NEW YORK Annual telIowships Iu q.
| lumbla university have Just been awarded
Tor the Academic year 10y the university
| council, Thirty-eight were awarded each
! carrying an annual stipend Of 5000 or piurc.
NEW YORkThc seventy NTH anuiyrr-
sary OF the birth of Rev Gustav Guthcil
ON May - VII be commemorated boy tnc
congregation OF Temple Emanuel m found
ing fellowship OF $4,000 at Columbia uni
ycrsity.
NEW YORK. Aaron Lowell head ~ the
vel known publishing house Of that name
/ is dead at his home ia Brooklyn he was
born in 1896
NEW YORK.A meeting protected sew.
eral weeks ago Of natives and former r.-
dents OF Minnesota will ne held next VrI-
nesdaN evening at the Wadorf-Astoria for
the purpose of organizing Minnosota so-
| clety, which will start with a member.
ship Of 80
NEW YoRk, Demands by the plaster
in wages has been followed by dcmaud
from the Laborers' Protective society for
from 81 20 TO So day.
CHICAGO. The G.. II. Hammond com
pany has awarded the contract FOR con
structlng It's great plant NJ the Union stool.
yards. The contract provides for build
ngs aggregatlng a cost of about 81 1000. 600
| lracing every department of the packing
business and viii employ at least iWa
men,
NEW YORK. John r. McKeever treas.
urer Of Wallack's theater and wei known
among members Of the profession Is So
| riously III from crrhosis of the liver
Chances for his recovery are said to he
slight
NEW YORK.-At the dedication exercises
Of the new First Reformed church ~ Long
Branch, n. j.. n memorial window was I'M
yelled 10 the late President Mckinley and
Vice President Hobart
TERRE HAUTE. lnd-Pror. j. X Kim
mel physical instructor at the Indiana
state Normal school, has been fatally ln-
jured by being struck on tile head with
the siXteen-pound hammer with which
Captain Beecher Of the track was pructic-
ing.