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ITEMS OF INTEREST. Matters That Have Come to Pase the Past Few Days. Value of exports from Galveston last week was $5,537,171. Work on the pipe line has commen ed at Coalgate, I. T. L. R. Rouse, a Cincinnati policeman, shot himself to death. Mrs. Bernard Crawford was so badly burned that death ensued. There will be no more Sunds y the ater performances at Houston. The New York subtreasury trans ferred $200,000 to New Orleans, North Texas insane officials want Pasteur institute established there. Cotton States Baseball league will begin its season of 140 games April 1. The wages of Louisville, Ky., street car employes have been voluntarily raised. In an oil land-transaction adjacent to Tulsa, R. A. Josey made nearly $100,000. Near Bennington, I. T., W. Tidwell was shot to death. I. T. Morton surrendered. Newcastle (Pa.) Savings and Trust company, capitalized at $300,000, has been closed. A young negro named John Jefferson was ground to death by a train at Wortham, Tex. Resisting an effort of two highwaymen to hold him up, James Orr of Chicago was fatally shot. S. I. Munger, Jr., of Dallas was held up by two young men and relieved of his watch and about $5. Adolphus Busch, the brewer, who has been at Aiken, S. C., for his health, has gone to California. Johnny Linzy, a boy, fell out of a skiff in the Washita river near Lynn, I. T., and was drowned. Burglars got $350 worth of goods and some cash from two establishments at Oklahoma City. A lantern flaring up came near causing a panic in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Rev. S. C. Talley, an aged Baptist minister, died at Altus, Okla., from injuries sustained in a runaway. Crew of battleship Louisiana presented Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt with a large silver loving cup. F. J. Walker, a prominent farmer, fatally shot himself in the head four miles from Lindale, Tex. The wife of ex-Lleutenant Governor J. N. Browning died at Amarillo, Tex., on the 9th. She was a Panhandle pioneer. Assisted by T. H. Tibbles of Omahe, Hon. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia will establish a chain of southern newspapers. By a large majority Mangum, Okla., voted to issue $30,000 bonds to purchase electrict light plant and $15,000 sewer bonds. At Groesbeck, Tex., Jim and Aggie Bell, charged with the murder of Sam Ellis were acquitted. The Bells are husband and wife. Mexican Ambassador Creel on the 8th presented his credentials to President Roosevelt and formally received the diplomatic corps. En route to a funeral at Ravia, I. T., J. F. Pate was thrown out of his buggy by his horse running away and one leg was broken in two places. George Williams, a Beaumont negro, came home durnk and hit his wife. Ethel Mays, his step-granddaughter, killed him with a pistol. Lieutenant King of the Eighth cavalry, recently at Fort Sill, and Miss Carson, sister of Lieutenant Carson, were married on the 8th in the Philippines. By a measure of the Arkansas legislature, Confederate veterans of that state who lost an arm or leg will be enable to procure free an artificial limb. In the dining room of the European hotel at Bonham, Tex., W. L. Derrick, night watchman, was shot and killed. R. H. Burch, a policeman, gave himself up. Dr. Everett H. Merwin and Miss Maud Slater weer found dead in the doctor's office at Kansas City. The theory is the woman killed the physician and suicided.
