The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-26
SHORT NEWS STORIS.

CHARLOTTE. N. ca physician states
that Edwin r.. Gresham, a well-known rest
dent, who lives In the house owned and oe
city, has smallpox.
NEW ORLEANS. Ono hundred and
TWENTY-FIVE employees Of the southern cotton
oil mill are on strike for 10 per cent in
crease In wages aud an hour instead OF half
an hour for dinnor.
NEW YORK. The long delayed statue Of
General William y. sherman has ut last
reached this country. II Is an equestrian
hpure ordered eleven years ago by n com
mttee Of the chamber of commerce.
NEW YORK Pressure upon thr govern
mont for thorough Investigation Of re
mounts and purchases and contracts Of al
kinds In the army is steadily increasing,
says a London dispatch to the Tribune.
NEW YORK.-Dtpressi in the British
shipping trade continues, says London
dispatch to the Tribune, and freights,
which commenced to fall more than year
ago are now so low as to be almost, Ii
not quite Improbable.
NEW YORK Henry Kress OF Union Hill
\. j., was beaten with syphon and Is now
Ia the hospital with fractured skull. 1t Is
alleged he maligned the Hohenzollerns and
Prince Henry In particular in the presence
Of German bartender.
DIES MONIES, Iowa. The committee On
Federal relations Of the Iowa house has
unanimously decided TO report for passage
a resolution memorislzng congress TO pass
niunctions against strikers.
NEW ORK,--Memorial services were
held I'm the Tombs prison for Mrs Rehecca
Foster. known as the "Tombs Angel, who
was burned TO death In the Park Avenue
hotel ere. For twelve years Mrs. Foster
seldom has missed II Sunday In the Tombs
NEW YORK. For the loss OF both feet
by being run over by q street car a jury
sitting in tho supreme court has ava gded
7-ycar.old Vincent Muessmnn $4,000 dam
ages. This Is said to be the largest award
for personal injuries ever made In this
State.
ATLANTA Characterization Is being
rapidIy pushed on a new l0OOO-spindle cot
ton mill on yellow river, near Conyers ca,
aud the three miles of railroad connecting
it with the Georgia railroad at that point
The company Is also developing big water
power on the liver for operating this plant.
NEW YORK.-The fitting mp and decora-
ton of the rooms on the German empe'
rors new yacht Will be done In England,
says n London dispatch 10 the Herald.
Inc yacht will not be lifted up as for Che
luxurious vessel of a monarch but like
the comfortable sailing craft OF private
gentleman.
NEW YORK AT the meeting of the
chambers Of shipping Of the United King,
doIn to be held next month a motion VIII
be made says a London dispatch to the
Herald. TO approach the British government
with the object Of asking their aid against
the proposed exclusion by the United States
Of other countries from the Philippine
Islands.
SEATTLE, wagh.--rhe Western Labor
union has received assurances from many
representatives and senator's thar they Will
support the re-cnactment Of the Chinese
exclusion law. The union Is making can
vass Of opinion on the matter In the sen
ate and house ana so far has received re-
plies from fifty, the majority Of whom ex'
press themselves in favor of the re-enact-
ment.
NEW oRK.--Found frozen in q snow
drift and apparently dead after Fridays
storm. William Ferry, a farmer, near An.
thony, ~ j., lay for ten hours on the
cooling board Of an undertaker's shop sur
rounded by collins and the paraphernaliaa
OF death He recovered consciousness and
returned to his home But for the absence
OF the undertaken. he might have been
buried alive.
DUBUQUE Iowa. - The postottce at
( Campton. Delaware county, Iowa, Is TO be
discontinued on September 1, 1857. A. ".
Brown was appointed postmaster and has
held the office ever since. His commits
sion has never been revoked; the men who
| first signed his bond are still alive and
on his bond HIS wife has been his deputy
! through all these years and the office Is
| still in the building where II was first
| located ia 1857.