Show SHORT STORIES Rot Father Mocler vlcochonccllor I of the diocese of Cincinnati ban formally for-mally accepted the appointment as bishop of ColumbUH In Philadelphia yesterday the twenty second International conference of the congress of St John began with several sev-eral thousand knights In attendance William Gill of Philadelphia who has arrived at Phoenix ArIa froma prospecting trip in Mexico Hays the Yaqul Indiana have nearly all abandoned aban-doned the warpath Colorado Wyoming and Utah dole gates to the Prohibition national corf ventlon reached Chicago I yesterday They aro quartered at the Lexington The American Association for the Advancement Ad-vancement of Science which IH composed com-posed of sixteen aillllated societies opened Us fortyninth annual meeting In Ilavemeyer hall Columbia university yesterday Near Tomachlo Mexico on Friday last a large party of Yaquls raided u ranch and killed two cowboys wounded wound-ed several others and one woman They were driven off after a hard light Herr Tlcfienbach of Hamburg Germany Ger-many has arrived In New Orleano ou his way to Guatemala where he goes under a contract lo teach German military mili-tary ladles to the Guatemalan army A movement 1ms been started In Indiana In-diana to combine the two enterprises of erecting a monument to Nancy Hanks the mother of Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln and of establishing a national school of domestic science Reports from over the State of Alabama Ala-bama show great damage lo fruit and crops by the heavy rains The damage lo bridges and farm buildings will be enormous The cotton crop Is considerably consid-erably Injured Gen Wheeler who assumed command of the Department of the Lakes ex pcclB 10 remain In Chicago until Sep tember lOlh his Clth birthday when ho will reach the age limit and retire from active service The flcrnlcentcnnlal of Eden college the only theological seminary of Evangelical Evan-gelical Lutheran church In the wtvat Lrn hemisphere which began Sunday In St Louis tvas continued yesterday with fair weather Despite the rain at least 10000 persons attended the exercises ex-ercises At Three Oaks Mich the programme for the ceremony connected with the unveiling of the Dewcy cannon July LSth Is substantially complete The address of welcome on behalf of the State of Michigan will be delivered by Gen R A Alger and the unveiling of the Dewey cannon will ho pcrfoclcd i bv Miss Helen M Gould |