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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-01

Staple Section
Generous Offerings for
Monday Buyers
Pretty Dress Ginghams In new
and dainty patterns; good COL IN
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Very choice patterns and an ex-
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regular 1oc kind 81 ~
Dark Percales in quite a number
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New Shirtirg Percales, white
grounds and pretty figures, 60
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viceable quality, desirable patterns
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1Sc grade, at, a yard go. II o/S
36. Inch Soft Finished Cambria
Muslin; regular SIC kind at, R1
yard ........., .,.... oVS
English Long Cloth. II yards In
piece; regular AS grade, QO(
Monday at. 80. OIS
Pretty New Designs In SilkolineSi
quite a line of patterns, NM
at, yard ........ .... II W.
Fancy Denims, good serviceabIc
quality, double faced, pretty
Patterns P,5a rs. at a L2c
Pretty Chiffon Wells
Many new ones arrived last week, the,
are exceedingly pretty and not al all sI
pensiye They range 7sc, csc, I as AM
$50. special this week will be
pretty chiffon veil In white with blael
edge, black with white edge and roya
blue with fancy edge, at, Mn
each .-..'...........'.'' H.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
HORRORS IN JAPAN.
Launch Capsixed and Between 40 and
30 Persons Drowsed-Ld1s of
"a Lives In q Mine.

Victoria, d. c., Feb. 5.-News was
brought by tho steamer Empress Of
China of a disaster in Kobe harbor on
January 10, as a result of which be-
tween 40 and so lives were lost. The
steamers Yokohama Maru and Gonkai
Maru were being repaired and the
steam launch Hayabuia was sent to
take IS workmen from one steamer
to the other. When the launch was
near the stern of the Gonkai Maru
strong northwest squalls swept over
the harbor, capsizing the launch, which
foundered in a few minutes, and be-
tween 40 and so were drowned. TWEEN
ty-eight bodies were recovered.
a fire occurred on January II, in tho
Urishi colliery, Fukuoinka- Ken, Japan,
and Cd miners were burned to death.
Two hundred and twenty miners were
working in the mines when a miner
accidentally ignited dynamite fuse,
and an explosion followed. Many es-
capped, but gas formed rapidly and
cave-in at the pits mouth blocked up
the mine, imprisoning Ga men, all Of
whom lost their lives.
The plague is increasing in Toxic.
AS a. result of combat between
hundred fishing smacks off the Jap
anese coast, heavy loss of life has re-
suited.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
STRIKE COMMISSION
CONCLUDES HEARING
OF WITNESSES.

flying that they could load more cars
than the companies furnished them.
Chairman Gray's Remarks.
Upon announcement by counsel that
there were no more witnesses to be
heard, Chairman Gray, speaking on be-
half of the commission, said, among
other things: "Well, gentlemen, we.
have had very protracted hearing.
In some respects the hearing has been
an unexampled one, think, in the ex-
perience of the country. The commits
sion has endeavored to keep wide open
the doors by which testimony could
come to us that would throw any light
upon the various very serious questions
that we have to consider, and we wish
now to thank the counsel on both sides
for their cooperation and assistance in
calculating the complex questions that
we have presented to us. On the whole,
we congratulate the counsel on the
fairness and thoroughners with which
they presented their several sides of
the case"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14

Philadelphia, Feb. 6.-After a sit
ting of exactly 81 days, the anthra-
cite coal strike commission conclud-
ed the hearing of witnesses at S
o'clock Thursday afternoon and adj
journed until next Monday, when it
will begin to hear the arguments of
counsel representing the several
sides. The arguments will take up
5h days, the operators having been
assigned three days, and the miners
the remainder of the time. In all,
the commission heard 566 witnesses.
Nine of these were called by the
commission, PA by the union miners,
1855 by the nonunion miners and 15S
by the operators. The stenographers
took down approximately 5000 type
written pages of testimony, or 2,4OO,-
900 words. Thursdays sessions were
taken up in hearing the last wit
nesses presented by the miners in
rebuttal. Much of it related to the
alleged unequal distribution of mine
cars, nearly a dozen witnesses tcsti-
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
ELEVEN PERISH.
Women and Children Lose Their
Lives In Burning building on
nm Island In the Pacific.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 3.-A special 70
the Times from Vancouver, says:
Thursday evening witnessed grim
tragedy with dire results to the Fin.
nish settlers on Malcolm island, some
distance up the coast from VancoI.
YER. Fire broke out, while the men
were at a meeting, in the common
living house in which "a families
lived. Eleven women and children
were burned to death and II injured.
The dead are: Mrs. II. II. Herman
son and four children, Mrs. Lafbaca
and two children. F. Sortel and two
young daughters of August Oberg.
There was no water supply, and
the crowd which gathered around
the blazing building could do little
but watch the women and children
burn to death. Several children were
thrown from the house at their feet
and a number of women leaped from
the second story of the doomed ho.
tel, receiving severe injuries. There
were about 100 families on the island.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
LICENSE IN VERMONT.
Prohibition Is Abandoned mt Special
Election, the state Adopting
Local Option Law.

Montpelier, VT, Feb. 4.-Vermont
on Tuesday, at special election, went
out of the list of prohibition states,
the majority for the acceptance of
the recently enacted local option high
license law being about 1000. OF the
246 cities and towns in the state 237
give a vote of 30,204 to e9,2s3 in favor
of the change. The places heard from
include all the cities and large villages,
and the remaining nine are small rural
communities, mostly in Rutland
county, which will not materially alter
the figures given. The result, while
gratifying to the license workers, is
not np to their expectations. Some
had predicted an affirmative majority
of $4,000.
The prohibition law which has been
repealed was adopted in 1882 Since
that time It's retention has kept Yer
mont in the position of the foremost
prohibition state, and this fact, il IS
believed, will exert considerable in-
fuence upon Vermont's neighboring
states of Maine and New Hampshire.
which are now hesitating as to the
wisdom of dry laws.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
MONTREAL SCENE OF RIoTING.
street Cars Wrecked and Motormen
Assn nlted-StrIkers Are
French Canadians.

Montreal, Feb. 7.-Rioting by the
striking employees of the Montreal
street railway and their .sympa thizers
began early Friday. A car was
wrecked less than two hours after the
massmeeting held after midnight at
which the action of the union in order
ing general stike was Endorsed. More
than 1000 street railway employees at
tended the meeting and an equal num-
Der of their friends waited outside the
hall to hear the result of their DELHI
erations.
Later motorman who attempted &c
run car out Of the barn was assaulted
and so badly injured that in all prob
ability he will die.
A majority of the strikers are French
Canadians ard have the sympathy OF
tnat portion Of the community.
1t is said between 900 and 500 men
are out.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
ACID FUMES.
rhey Cause the Death OF chief Foley
and Three other MiiIwau-
kse Firemen.

Milwaukee, Feb. 5.-Four firemen are
dead and ten others are said to be
seriously i'll from the effects of in
haling the fumes of nitric acid while
quenching the flames at the plant of
the Schwab Stamp e. Steel company
Tuesday. The victims of the disaster
were not overcome for many hours
after the fire when, one by one, they
became Frustrated.
A complete list of the dead up to
this time is as follows: James Foley,
chief; Andrew White, captain truck
1; Edward Hogan, pipeman engine
1; Thomas Droney, pipeman, engine
1.
Chief Foley has been ut the head Of
the department. for 20 years and was
the oldest fireman on the force. He
is the inventor of fire fighting appar-
atus used in every city in the United
States. He has been president of the
National Fire Chiefs association.
Milwaukee, Feb. 6.-Mayor David s.
Rose has issued proclamation on the
death of Fire Chief James Foley and
the three other dead firemen. The
mayor directs that the city offices be
closed from to-day at noon until Mon
day noon and that flags be displayed at
half mast on all city buildings, and
that all fire engine houses be draped
in mourning for 80 days.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Decorating Cartridges from Arsenal
at FrankfOrd, Pa, Go on with
Disastrous Results.

Philadelphia, Feb. 7.-Peter Nc.
Callaghan, an employe of the United
States arsenal at Frankford, sub.
urb. was blown to atoms, and Joe
Hunter, another employe, was Sc.
verely injured by the explosion OF
decorating cartridges. Ida Hall, q
young woman, was cut by flying
glass while seated in her home. More
than 100 panes of glass were shat.
tered by the explosion. McCalla.
CHAN was conveying the cartridges
from the arsenal to the railroad sta.
ton in a wagon, and the man, horse
and wagon were torn to fragments.
The arsenal was not damaged.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
ROMANCE IS ENDED.
Ont of Longing to See Her Children,
Crown Princess OF SaxOny Parts
from Her French Lover.

Geneva. Feb. THE Grown Princess
of SaXony and NJ Giron have parted
forever, the princess giving up her
lover for her children's sake Herr
Zehme, the lawyer from Dresden, ar
rived at Geneva Thursday afternoon
and went Immediately to the Hotel
Suisse, where the crown princess of
Saxony, NJ. Giron and Maitre Lachenal
awaited him. A long interview took
place. After it was over Herr Zehme
said all relations between the princess
and NJ Giron had been completely
broken off.
The sudden end of the Saxon royal
romance is said to be due to the re-
fusal of the Saxon court, influenced by
Emperor Francis Joseph, to consent to
a divorce. 1t is reported that the prin-
cess sought her fathers pardon in
order TO get permission to see her chill
dren, but was refused everything un.
less she left NJ. Giron. Her LAWYER
visited Dresden, but failed to get any
concession beyond the offer of a small
allowance and the promise if the crown
princess gave up NJ. Giron and returned
home, that no legal proceedings would
be taken against her. On the return of
her lawyer from Dresden prolonged
interview between the parties took
place, in the course Of which the prin.
cess, in torrent of tears, cried: 81
must see my poor children again." Her
parting with NJ. Giron is said to have
been very affecting.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Comm rclal and Industrial COndi-
lions Are Exceptional In
Spite of Handlcaps.

New York, Feb. 7.-Bradstreet S
says: "Unfavorable weather condi-
tions may retard but they don't arrest
trade and industrial development,
which continue in exceptionally full
volume for this season of the year.
Spring trade is earlier and of larger
volume than in any previous year, and
the remarkable steadiness of prices is
evidence that stability in present con-
ditions is expected for some time to
come. Iron and steel is active for this
season, lumber production and demand
are brisk, and hardware is IN heavy de-
nand. This progress is being made in
spite of some drawbacks, but those
very shortcomings are evidence merely
of superabundant prosperity. The late
spell of mild weather has certainly
brought about an improvement in the
coal situation. Cold weather was re-
sponsible for lower prices for butter
and eggs in January, and some hog
products also declined; but cereals re-
manned steady, and textiles nearly all
advanced, as did several kinds of iron
and steel, copper, tin and naval stores,
.offsetting the lower movement in
quotations of country produce, coal
and coke, petroleum, hides and some
grades Of leather"
II. G. Dun g. Co.'S weekly review of
trade says: vigorous vitality is con-
spicuous in trade and industry, despite
the handicap of ovcrstrained and la
mentally inadequate facilities for
transportation. Concentrated efforts
to reduce the congestion at few ia
vored points apparently intensified the
blockades elsewhere. and inclement
weather added new disturbing factor
to an already complicated situation.
Every possible method is being adopt
ed to improve conditions; enormous
sums are appropriated for extensions;
yet accidents and losses are frequent
Transatlantic vessels failed to leave
on schedule time and many manufac.
turing plants are closed in part OF
wholly. Labor disputes are more nu.
merous, although not prevalent to any
extent in the leading industries.
Failures in the United States, 264
this week, against 263 last week, 26:
the preceding week and 261 the cor
responding week last year, and in Can
ada 80, against 30 last week, 81 the pre-
ccding week and 25 last year"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
ROYAL woMEN's HOBBIES.

The favorite recreation of the queen
Of Greece is yachting.
Caricature collecting Is a fayorite
fad Of the empress of Russia, who is
said to be an expert caricaturist.
The queen Of Roumania, Carmen
Silva. is poet and story writer. She
Is very skillful operator on the type
writer.
The queen OF S1xony's hobby Is
sweet charity" She has founded
numerous orphannges, sanitariums,
schools and homes.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.
Both Branches OF the General Assem-
bly, Meet I'm La nsing-summary
Of the Proceedings.

Lansing. Mich. Feb. 2-In the senate
the following bills have been introduced:
To provide appropriations for the Eastern
Michigan asylum at Pontiac for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1904. for building and
special purposes: to provide for the erec-
ton and construction Of an addition to the
state capitol building.
Lansing, Mich. Feb. Ain the senate bills
have been introduced to amend an act
regulating the practice In courts held by
Justices Of the peace In suits brought
agains. two or more defendants: to pro-
mote the public health by providing for
an annual public meeting In each town.
ship. city and village.
The House.
Lansing, Mich, Feb 2.-Among bills In
troduced In the house are the following:
Providing a graded scale of pay for pro-
bate judges: amending general tax law;
appropriatlng SITS. $50 for maintenance of
school for deaf for two years, 1880 for I'M
provements, and 81, $40 for deficiency: APP
propriating $4,000 for an addition to the
state capitol: creating state bureau for
inspection OF boilers; to make foreign
wholesale liquor dealers pay taxes in
Michigan where doing business within the
limits OF this state.
Lansing, Mich, Feb 3-Bills have been
introduced in the house making appropri-
ations for building and special purposes
for the state house Of correction and branch
prison. upper peninsula, for the fiscal year
ending June &c.. 1904. and to provide O. tax
therefor: to provide for the disposition
by the board of control of state swamp
lands; to revise and consolidate the laws
organizing asylums for the insane and to
regulate the care. management and the
use thereof, and to provide for the appre-
hension of persons believed to be insane
and for their care and custody. bill has
been passed authorizing the counties of
Alger, Baraga. Dickinson, Iron and Mar
quette to construct or purchase. own and
maintain one or more hospitals. pesthouses
or quarantine buildings, and to provide the
means for constructing or purchasing,
maintaining and managing the same.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14

/ without the consent of the other ne
gotiator, Minister Bowen, and this
the allies did not obtain or request
in their note of invitation to the
president.
A Victory for Bowen.
In administration and diplomatic
circles, the reference to The Hague
is regarded as victory for Minister
Bowen, as Venezuela hereby is ena-
bled to recover from the distressing
effect of the blockade before start
ing upon the payment of her debts.
The cumbersome machinery of The
Hague, it is expected, will delay mat
ters considerably, and the payment
of creditor nations cannot begin I'M
til the important question of priority
payment for the allies is decided.
The finding of The Hague tribunal
may not be handed down for some
months. The tribunal also will de-
eide the vital question to South
American states as to whether block
AIDES and bombardments entitle pow
ers to preferential treatment at the
hands of their debtor. Coming from
The Hague, it will establish prece-
dent, while a decision on the point
from President Roosevelt would have
carried no such weight as decisive of
n point of international law. The eff
feet of an adverse finding by the
president, therefore, could not have
prevented the allied powers from re-
peating their blockade next month
If they desired, whereas an adverse
verdict from The Hague would add a
new canon to the law of nations and
stop such course of practice COM
pletely. 1t was to gain this princi-
pie, which necessarily vitality affects
not only the future Of Venezuela
but of the other republics of this
continent, that Mr.. Bowen stood out
for arbitration by The Hague tribu-
nal instead of by the president.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
FOUND GUILTY.
Harry Brunke, Charged with
killing of Lee Shearer.

st. Joseph, Feb. 2.-Never in the his
tory of Berrien county was there
greater interest in a murder trial
than in that which resulted early Sat-
urday morning in a verdict of man.
slaughter against Harry Brunke, the
20-year-old boy who for the past week
had been on trial before Judge o. W.
Coolidge for the killing of a neighbor
boy, Lee Shearer. The jury recon-
mended the prisoner to the mercy of
the court. AS a result of the unusual
interest in the case day after day hun
dreds of people struggled into the
courthouse, only to be turned away,
owing to the fact that every inch of
the courtroom was occupied by spec
tators.
The story of the killing of Lee Shear
er as told by witnesses is in substance
as follows: Harry Brunke and Lee
Shearer were neighbor boys and had
lived during their entire lifetime in
the Royalton district, a few miles
south of this city. On Dece mber 4,
1902. the two boys CHANGED to go into
the saloon of Amos Brunke. brother
of the accused Harry Brunke. While
there a dispute arose and the testi-
mony of witne sses varies as to the
blows that were struck. However, in
the thick of the difficulty Brunke
struck his opponent in the neck and
the latter sank to the floor in a pros
trated condition and died an hour
later. The trachea upon post-mortem
examination was found to be broken
in three places. Brunke was arrested
an hour later by Deputy Sheriff John
De Tample, was lodged in the county
Jail in this city and was released on
$4,000 bond to await the action of the
circuit court on a charge of murder.
This charge was later changed to man.
slaughter by the state.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
Disnater nj Sen.

San Francisco, Feb. 5.--The steam
er Alameda, which arrived here
Wednesday from Honolulu, reports
having seen during storm on the
night of January 30 the distress sig
nal Of square rigger. In less than
ten minutes the square rigger had dis
appeared, and it is believed 1t must
have been swallowed up in the sea.
1t is thought here that the disabled
vessel may have been the Florence, an
American vessel now out 65 days from
Tacoma for II onolulu.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
A BLOODY BATTLE.
Sultan of Morocco Has Desperate
struggle with the strong Forces
of the Pretender.

London, Feb. 6.-According to dis
patch published in the Morning Lead
er, from Tangier, the Spanish embassy
has received news of still more
bloody battle than that which took
place January 90. The sultan's troops
numbering $4,000, attacked the pre-
tenders new encampment, treachery
and bribery again giving the Shereefian
army the advantage. A terrible fight
took place around Blu Hamara's person
and, according to the latest accounts
continued right up to the gates OF Fez'
where, after losing $500 slain, the reb-
els succeeded eventually in rescuing
Cu Hamara
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
few Railway for Michigan.

Lansing, Mich, Feb. 5.-Articles of
association Of the Michigan Shore g.
Eastern Railway company, incorpo-
rated under the general railroad laws
with $l,0OO.oOO capital, were filed here
Wednesday. The length of the line to
be operated is 1875 miles and in Michi-
gan it extends from Bertrans township,
in Berrien county, on the Indiana state
limo to Kalamazoo. 1t is proposed to
acquire the Benton Harbor, Coloma
& Paw Paw Lake tram railway and the
South Haven e. Western.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
Wonderful Gold strike.

FL Paso, Texas, Feb. Edward NJ.
Sturgess, a prospector from Mexico,
near Douglass, Ariz., reports ire
mendous gold strike in the Terres
mountains, about 40 miles from Cos,
terminus of the Nacozari railroad.
Sturgess claims to have taken $780,
900 gold in the last six weeks with n
very crude outfit. Samples of ore
are said to run as high as 5000
ounces of gold to the ton, with a
value of about $4,000
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
PRESIDENT DECLINES
TO ARBITRATE.
Allied Powers Dissatisfied With Bowen's Atti-
tude---Ask President to Arbitrate CUES.
ton of Preferential Payment
HE Refuses.

Washington, Feb. 6.-lrritated by
the note of Minister Bowen, Venczue.
las representative, addressed to the
British ambassador on Monday last,
refusing to accept the allies proposal
for a scheme of preferential payments,
by which Great Britain, Germany and
Italy were to receive 20 per cent. and
the remaining eight creditor nations
tenpercent. of the customs of La Quay
ia and Porto Cabello, the allied powers
have instructed their representatives
now to submit the question of prefer
entail treatment for settlement to
President Roosevelt, and in the event
that he declines to act as arbiter to
take this, and possibly the entire Ven
ezuela question, to The Hague for set
Element, thereby breaking off negoti-
ations with Mr.. Bowen.
vii mot Serve.
Washington, Feb. Z. - President
Roosevelt has declined the invita-
ton of the allied powers to arbi-
trate the question as to whether they
shall receive preferential treatment
in the settlement of their claims
against Venezuela over the other
creditor nations. He reached this de-
cision shortly before four o'clock
Friday afternoon, and instructed Sec
rotary Hay to dispatch note to the
British embassy at once, advising the
British ambassador to that effect.
The matter, therefore, now will be
referred to The Hague tribunal. This
will result in the immediate raising
of the blockade.
Would Not Embnrrnss bowen.
The administration, it is stated in
an official quarter, was unwilling to
approve the effort of the British
government to eliminate Minister
Bowen from the negotiations, and
moreover the president could not
have accepted the invitation Of the
allies even had he been so disposed,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-02-14
short In His Accounts.

Washington, Feb. 7.-William A.
Wilson, disbursing clerk connected
with the Philippine civil government,
charged with n shortage of $4,000 in
his accounts, is held under arrest at
the police station in this city. He
was found in Montreal and consent
ed to come to Washington without
extradition proceedings. AS soon as
the pending Philippine extradition
bill becomes law. Wilson will be
removed to Manila for trial