Show CAPITAL TOPICS I The navy department has finally accepted ac-cepted the gunboat Vicksburg built at the Bath Iron Works Maine I Senator Harris predicts that the Kansas Pacific will sell for enough to fully compensate the government after af-ter paying the first mortgage indebtedness indebted-ness Senor De Lome the Spanish minister minis-ter at Washington has cabled his government gov-ernment denying that the Dauntless has gone to Cuba Berkely Balch secretary of the Cuban league was granted an audience by President McKinley to whom he presented pre-sented an extended argument in behalf of Cuban insurgents I Major Handys efforts in Paris were cordially seconded by the French government gov-ernment and the exposition authorities will give congress and the president of I the United States all the information informaton attainable The navy department has received in I formation to the effect that Russia is about to become possessed of two neft torpedo boats that will be easily the I fastest war craft in the world being capable of the enormous speed of 38 knots per hour with every probability I everY ly of making 40 knots when pressed |