Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS McKinleys boom is on the increase Cold weather during the last few davs with attending frosts ha killed a large part of the pat vegetable crop in the north ern portion of Florida and as far south as Winter Park In Pak some places thin ice formed I is reported at Buenos Ayres that Chi ha just bought one of the iron clads built by the Armstrongs of Newcastle New-castle for the Japanese government This ironclad has a displacement of 12000 tons The price paid is said to have been 1000000 The secretary of the treasury has decided de-cided to allow depository banks a larger margin than heretofore of United States depositories on the account of Upited Stales bonds Under this more liberal lberl policy the government deposits within the wihin last week have increased about 1500 0 Ii is said the government security is ample to warrant the extension The peace committee has arrived at Managua I is composed of VicePresi dent Don Prudenclo Alfaro and General Gneral Canas both of Salvador They will Cana bth Salvaor w1 consult con-sult President Zelaya and the government govern-ment leaders here and then confer with the insurgents at Leon I definite arrangements ar-rangements cannot be made satisfactory satsfactor to both sides fighting may continue for two months and perhaps longer No big battle however is expected during the peace negotiations The big battleship Massachusetts 1ha had her preliminary or builders trial ha he prlminary buiders and acquitted herself nobly making a speed I 01 nrieen ana sixtentns Knots an hour I the Massachusetts does as well as this on her official trial and Edwin S Cramp thinks she will do even better she will win a premium of 0000 for her builders Her contract calls for buiders cntract cals fifteen knots an hour The trial took place yesterday yes-terday morning fifteen miles off the New Jersey coast betwen Five Fathom bank and Fenwick Island shoals a distance dis-tance of eleven miles The huge fighter made a round trip between these points and her speed did not vary a knot in the run either way The engines averaged aver-aged 12 revolutions to the minute and the vessel drew about 21 feet of water |