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Show winnnnjvwjxnnsinnnnnrvi ! FLASHES FROM I THE WIRES. I owvruinruinuwxrirui In Honolulu it Js currently reported that Attorney-General E. P. Dole has resigned re-signed his office. In Pittsburg, Pa., yesterday, at the closing clos-ing of the eleventh national conference of the church clubs of the United States, John 8. Connor of Cincinnati was elected president. The passing of a $900,000 checSyester-day checSyester-day was the final act which severed the relations of the Baltimore street railway system and the electric light business in Baltimore. '' In Hertford. N. C. yesterday the Jury In the case of James Wilcox, charged with murdering Nellie Cropsey, was completed. com-pleted. Dr. J. E. Wood testified he was present at the autopsy. . A favorable report was authorised by the 8enate Committee on Military Affairs on the Hoise bill allowing officers of the army to serve as chief and assistant chief of the Philippine constabulary., . The National League of Commission Merchants yesterday devoted Its attention atten-tion to the advisability of taking action against the express companies which are said to be competing with members of their organization. A plan of 8. T. Harensld, a Hungarian student at Tiffin, O., to organize his countrymen In the United 8tatee Into Christian associations, under the direction direc-tion of the Reformed church, was adopted adopt-ed by the board of home missions. II. Fall teres has been re-elected President Presi-dent of the French Senate. The directors of the Amalgamated Copper Cop-per company declared a . quarterly dividend divi-dend of one-half of 1 per cent. This is unchanged from the dividends recently declared. . - The lease of the Manhattan Elevated railroad by the Interborough Rapid Transit Tran-sit company was approved by 80 per cent of the stock of the interborough company at a meeting- held yesterday. The American Consul in Algeria, Don-nell Don-nell Kidder, says the report circulated in London that his wife was assaulted and 1 robbed by footpads was exaggerated, and the Incident was without importance. -The French Foreign office has forwarded forward-ed to the State department at Washington Washing-ton a complete statement dt the French claims against Venezuela, so that French interests may bs considered when Minister Minis-ter Bowen take up the general solution Of the Venezuelan affair. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs Af-fairs authorised a favorable report on the general staff bill which passed the House a week ago. The committee amended the bill in several particulars. One of the amendments agreed on constitutes the chief of the artillery a member of the general staff and gives him the rank of Brigao ler-GeneraL The Senate has confirmed the nomination nomina-tion of F. W. Smith to be postmaster at Williams, Aria The agricultural bill has been prepares by the Mouse Committee on Agriculture. It carries approximately je,0u3,0u0, or about SSO.000 more than the current appropriation. appro-priation. ...... The Senate Committee on Commerce authorized a favorable report on the bill appropriating $150,000 for the Improvement Improve-ment of the harbor at San Luis D Apra, Guam. T. D. Kellogg, a . wealthy lumberman and well known throughout Wisconsin, died at Antlgo from .heart, disease, aged 70 years. Robert Poole, president of the Robert Poole & Sons company. Iron founders, died at his home in Woodbury, a Baltimore Balti-more suburb, aged 73. Among the Iargor engineering feats sceompllshed by the company of which Mr. Poole was president presi-dent was the erection of the dome of the Vaticnal Capitol at Washington. |