The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-09
SHORT NEWS STORIES.

LoNDoN.-Mr Chamberlain is progress
ing very we'll De passed good night.
LONDON. process q killing the
colonial guests with Kindness IS on with
cut interruption.
NEW YoRK-A daughter has been born
u Colonel and Mrs. JOAN Jacob Astor 81
their home, Sixty nth street and Fifth ave
Lue.
Of this city reports thar the volcanoes Of
Miradville and RiDconGVieis. IL Costa Rica-
are in active eruption.
ROCKPORT, Ky.-Judge Sanford, one OF
the best known Citizens Z RockpfoArt com ON,
mitted suicide. He had been in III health
for number Of years.
SAN FRANCISCO-A sand storm has
caused damage estimated AZ Slpn,V9O IN
The I1clo valley on the Southern Pacific
railroad III the Colorado desert.
MACON. Ga.-< ,e1gresssmsn Charles l.
Bsytlett was unanimously renomipated for
hfth term hy tbs democratic convention
Of the Sixth congressional district.
QUEBEC. Gaynor and CAPTAIN
Greene Eaye again taken up their quarters
h the Chateau Fr1ntenac with the permits
sion Of the sheriG who sin has them under
bis charge.
MINNEAPOLIS. Ninn.-The jury in the
case Of Superintendent Of Police Fred W.
Ames charged Nth accepting hriha. after
being out eighteen hours, returned yes-
dict ~ not guilty,
NEW YORK Rear Admiral Barker con-
manddut, snd the neads OF departments
at the New York navy ward are happy over
the navy departments decision 10 have a
Narship built there.
LONDON.--At a meeting Of the Hudson
Bay company Lord Strathcona expressed
the opinion that In another decade Canada
y ouid be able TO supply the whole Of the
foodstufs for the United Kingdom.
NEW YoRK.-John W Greeley, COUSIN
II Horace Greeley, Is dead, says a dispatch
10 the World from Manchester. y. II. he
was Sc years old aud lived 81 Amherst. near
the site of the house In which his illustri
Gus cousin vas born.
ELUoRADo. Kan.-Jessie Morrison. con.
v!cted j. ne 2S Of murder In the second de
gree for killing Mrs. Olin Castle, At the
iatrer's home here In June. 1890. by cut
ting her throat with razor, was sentenced
10 twenty-five years IN the penitontiary.
ENID. o. T.-Near Prudence, thirty miles
southwest OF here. the bodies ~ man. a
woman and two children, apparently mem
bers Of one family. mutilsted into almost
Understandable shapes, were found. The
bodies had been stripped of all clothing
PANANA.--General Salazar, the governor
If Panama. has received dispatch from
Bogoth. the capital. announcing that impor
taut liberal leaders have laid down their
arms on account Of guarantees offered by
the BoEota government
SALISBURY, y. C-Arch Conlcy. an In
dian. ard Dick Fleming were hanged on the
same galjows. Conley paid the death pen
atty fol the murder OF Young negro.
Fleming was hanged for committing a
criminal assault on a white woman.
BOSToN-At Dorchester Herbert iIlll. y
years old. shot and killed his sister Mrs
Alice Riley. and then struck his mother
On the back Of the head with the butt Of
the revolver. inhicting a wound which via
probably prove fatal He succeeded in es.
Gaping
NEWARK. n THE National Sugar
company has nled articles OF incorporation
al the county clerks Office. The authorized
capital Is $i.ooo,ooo. but of this only 5000
is paid IN.
mino. former secretary az state In Aguinal.
dos cabinet, has arrived in the city ana
presented an address expressing the sym.
pathy Of the Federal party In the Philip.
pines to the widow Of General Lawton.
ST. PETERSBURG contradiction of
the recent report that Russia had already
evacuated Mapchuria an official dispatch
just received here from kharbin says the
evacuation has not even begun.
ALDEN, Arahis.-The British punitive ex
petition under Colonel Swayne. sent 10
Somaiiand. East Africa. against the Mad
Mnilah; Is INDUCING In wholesale killing
NEW YORK Health oGIeer A. II. Doty.
who arrived op the Ward line MORO Cas-
tie said IN relation TO bis visit 70 Cuba: II
found Havana IN an exceedingly Healthy
condition President Palma is heartily IN
accord with the sanitary system as intr.
duccd ythe United States"
LONDoN,-The reference yesterday 1,
parliament to the Morgan shipping com
bine has set all the London Dapers again
WHITING editorials on the shipping problem
Satisfaction Is unanimously expressed thar
the government Is devciing itself 10 a con.
sideration OF the problem.
OYSTER BAY, y. Y,-Montaru white
who has been long In this country. prinrt,
pally IN New YORK and washipgton. as The
lspresaptal.vs Of the Beer csuss. and VII.
Ham Z. Curtis ~ Washington were "a
guests ftha president and 'Mrs. Roosevelt