Show SHORT STORIES I King Albert of Saxony who Is now i In Silesia is ill and confined to his t bed I i King Humbrrt yesterday received the United States Embassador Gen I William Draper The sJgnlllcance of tho Interview Is not known The session of the I National Conference Confer-ence of Charities and Corrections In Topeka Kan yesterday was devoted to a discussion of Stale boards and State commissions In Berlin yesterday the trial began of three dealers who had purchased LOCOO pounds of Infectrd or l diseased I meat here and sold It to twentyfour retailers for general consumption Among the recipients of Knighthood I conferred upon the recommendation of Earl fadogan Lord Lieutenant of Ireland I Ire-land Is Dr John Moore president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Ire-land I Papers arc en route from Washington Washing-ton to New York which will result In the preferring of a charge against Charles F W Neeley now confined In the Ludlow street Jail of embezzling 100000 Secretary Hay entertained at luncheon lunch-eon yesterday the Boer delegates now in Washington Thu affair was a I purely personal compliment extended by the Secretary and had not even asocial a-social significance Beyond the statement that the department de-partment Is ytlll I I earnestly pressing th Indemnity against Turkey the Slate department oflicials refuse to Indicate I the character of the last instructions to Charge Grlsrrm The Chinese Minister In Washington has received numerous lelcgrnms from Chinese residents oC San Francisco asking him to have rcvukcd the order that they shall be Inoculated with ho I antiplague serum The President t today wont to the Son Ito a series of letters from the Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang setting forth I roaonu why In Hi opinion of his Government the I Chinese exclusion Inns should not br made applicable to I the I Philippine I I I Islands The Prussian Government owing to I the threatening duvelopmcnts arising from the recent tret cam strike In I Berlin has ordered a bill drafted for submission to he I Diet safeguadlng big Institutions for public traffic against wholesale breaches of contracts con-tracts At Astoria Or the storm which sud denly sprang from the southeast yesterday yes-terday morning was the worst gale that ever prevailed on that part of the coast at this time of year The wind rcachod a velocity of over sixty miles an hour Four fishermen were drowned The National Travelers Protective associations business i I convention opened at the Atln nlum New Orleans yesterday The committee on credentials creden-tials reported 171 delegates present from twcnUfour Stales Secretary Lebnum reported claims amount to 00987 paid The present membership I Is 1C2GL I |