Show I TELEGRAPH SHORT STOPS t I Vcryl l Preston president of tho American Ameri-can Steel Hoop company Is at Yonkors suffering from serious Injuries received In nn automobile accident laic Saturday a igh tIn t-In SL Louis Mo John J Han a we4l known political character was shot at a late hour last night while standing a prominent city corner Ryan was seriously serious-ly I Injured a bullet entering tho abdomen A dispatch to London Dally Nows from Volksrust declares that tho Boers are determined 1 de-termined to continue tho war and that their recent conferences have been with tho object of planning a summer cam I pnIJII I In Hamilton 0 tho Champion Coaled Paper company the largest of its kind In tho United States caught lire at 1120 I oclock last night nnd was completely destroyed de-stroyed Four hundred persons jvlll bo thrown out of work Joseph Chamberlain the Colonial Secretary Secre-tary has telegraphed to tho Right Hon T Barton Prime Minister of tho COmmonwealth Com-monwealth of Australia to tho effect that tho British Government would he glad of 1 < XK mon for service In South Africa Dr Sven Anders Hcadln tho Swedish traveler who recently reached Ladnkh Cashmere from exploring the Gobi desert and Thibet bait wired his greetings to King Oscar and at tho same LImo Informed In-formed him that his party was attacked bv 50D Thibetan soldiers during the qourso of his journey and that all his collections and almost tho whole of his caravan woro lost |