Show CAPITAL TOPICS Secretary Ateer was able to sit un I for a short time yesterday and is said to be otherwise improved in condition The Ontario legislature was prorogued pro-rogued yesterday by Lieutenant Governor I Gov-ernor Mowat with the usual ceremo1 flies j Statement of the condition of the i i I treasurer shows Available cash balance bal-ance 240847994 Gold reserve 162 528775 Chauncey M Depew was elected president I I pres-Ident of the Republican club of New York at a meeting of that organization j I I last night The establishment of the Washburn Halligan Coffee company burned last I evening at Davenport Ia Loss 30 000 Insurance JCOOOO The house elections committee No 2 has set the contested election case from the first First Oregon district W I S Vanderburir vs T H Tongue for today Commander Ballington Booth said I yesterday that he greatly rejoiced over his reconciliation with his father He thought he said that important results 1 would follow The navy department has at last opened communication with Civil Engineer En-gineer Menocal who has reached I Managua Sic anil will now be hurried hur-ried home for court martial The New York season of grand opera I under the management of Messrs Dam rosch and EHIs was begun tonight The Metropolitan op ra house was packed literally from the parquet to its uppermost I upper-most gallery even the standing room being all taken At San Francisco the barkentine City of Papeete arrived from Tahiti with IS of the crew of the wrecked British l bark Blairlogie on board The vessel went ashore on Hatahlra Island one of the Tahiti group and became to total wreck The crew escaped I The urgent deficiency bill was reported re-ported by the senate committee on II appropriations The most important amendments added were for the I Nicaraguan canal commission 100000 I and for the geological and topographical topographi-cal commissions in Alaska 20000 I It is currently rumored In Honolulu that J O Carter who left there on the 7th inst ostensibly for the purpose of assisting the antiannexationlsts In I Washington in their fight carried a substantial sub-stantial letter of credit which will be used In defraying the expenses of the native Hawaiian commissioners who are said to be in financial difficulties in the American capital I |