Show TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES General Horace Porter the ambassador to France arrived at Paris Robert Hutchinson the professional bicycle rider died at London The movement to secure the adoption of a universal postal stamp by the postal congress has collapsed The preliminary contract for n loan of 550000000 was signed at Pekin in behalf I of a British syndicate i Natural gas has been struck in Sacramento Sacra-mento and the total supply from the well is estimated at 100000 feet daily o The Funderburs mills at New Carlisle 0 were destroyed by lire short after midnight Loss 130000 I was the work of an incendiary II President John W Thomas of the Tennessee Exposition company received a letter from President McKinley stating I that he would visit the centennial exposition expo-sition on Ohio day in Julr The Gauolis Paris announces that Comte Castellane has written a letter to I Baron Mackau informing him that the JNgm I comtesso has decided in memory of her ch mother to give a million francs toward the purchase of a site and erection of a I able building purposes to be used for all kinds of chant I The convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians elected the following offi I cers National delegate Rev A R I Phillips Whiteplains Pa national secretary I sec-retary E H Haynes New Brunswick N J national treasurer John M wallace wal-lace Brooklyn nvlonal organizer I Father Conway Brooklyn The next convention con-vention will b held in Brooklyn A corresondent in Rio Janlero telegraphs tele-graphs that failures of several bIg companies com-panies have been announced and that business Is paralyzed The sovernment of Brazil bas been forced by the crisis to increase her duties by onetenth and to levy a heavier tax on personal property prop-erty and a tax en the postal and telegraph tele-graph services The American Foundry Mens associa tion convention adjourned at Detroit after having elected the following officers President Francis Schuman Philadelphia Philadel-phia secretary John A Benton Detroit treasurer Howard Evans Philadelphia Among the vicepresidents elected were For the Pacific states Irvine Scott San Francisco Canada Joseph Best Montreal Mont-real realThe The third days session of the supreme council of the Catholic Knights of America at Mobile was devoted wholly I to the discussion of several plans of ins in-s nce M T Shine moved the reference I ot ail the plans to the council with instructions in-structions to appoint a special committee of five to codify them and report to the council at such time a the council might direct Adopted I |