Show SPARKS FROM THE WIRES maj gen wesley merritt left burg yesterday on a tour of inspection of the forts and defenses at burlington vt VL boston and portland me tho the presidential party will leave hotel champlain Platts plattsburg burg N daa I 1 Y for pittsburg iburg this evening one day earlier than they originally intended I 1 tho the populist state campal cani palyn hn in kentucky mill be opened on the first monday in september with speakers who mho will be headd lit in every county the hundred frat men ie presentIng forty chapters of at the delta tau delta fraternity held hc H the opening session of tha thirty fifth blen biennial nial convention in chicago yesterday tho the fifteenth annual convention of the daughters of st george one of the best known secret benevol benevolent crit societies e 1 of women in the world was begun ln in pittsburg pa yes yesterday maj gen nelson A it malca iles and adal gen corbin have notified the general committee of tho the G A it encampment U which I 1 11 ch begins in philadelphia september ith that they will attend the reunion in detroit yesterday tho the supreme court of foresters forestern of america ele elected acted officers for the year the court Is considering si ft a plain for creation of an en doami nt fund and issuing of that class of insurance tho the sessions of the american association for tho the advancement of science and the american forestry association and the geological society of america it in columbus 0 vere mere devoted to the reading of papers papera and an address on the explosives by prof monroe mor mayor william alken aiken capt J am V Wart main and others of Evans ind are on a 0 tour of the leith northern states to invitto the governors at and 11 other prominent men to meet president t mckinley there at the national reunion of the blue and gray october bilth I 1 ith and llie plan and scope committee of the deney celebration committee new york city yesterday took up tho the auk s 9 gearion that tho the naval and land U pa r des be held on friday and saint saturday day september 2 and 1 ath instead of saturday and monday september and october 2nd as had been intended senator jones chairman of tho the democratic national committee has closed t the 1 ie devun devlin incident that disturbed the iho peace and harmony of the nati national 0 nal committee at st louis last may and again nt at chicago in june by ordering the removal of thu tho press b bureau breau to washington and authorizing tin the selection of a new editor |