Show SHORT STORIES Roland Reed the actor who Is Ill at St Lukes hospital In this city is aid to be slightly Improved A general consolidation oC all time gas electric light and traction systems cf New York City under the supreme con trol of the Rockefellers Is said to b impending I The Berlin Chamber of Commerc has voted 50000 marks toward the a tabllshment of the proposed national commercial bureau whose future la tluij assured Archbishop Keane who la l engaged la increasing tIme endowment of the Catholic Cath-olic university at Washington says the Pope warmly praises the work cf the university In connection with the Amos Tecs legacy of 3300000 to Dartmouth college President Tucker announces thai thi endowment avaIlable Avlll be used for the Amos Tuck school of administrates and finance Baron von Hollebcn Gorman Embij sador lo the United States arrived In Chicago last night to be the guest or the University of Chicago and to duly for a day or two Its institutions and lu methods A record from the Seismogram at tim Toronto Ontario observatory issued yesterday shows that the earthquake which visIted Mexico on Saturday hit was felt in Toronto some five or tea t minutes after It occurred In Mexico John B McDonalds 53500000 contract con-tract for the construction of the en derground railway In New York It to stated may have been the cause tiC c F T F LoAeJoyg resignation Iron tii office of secretary of the Carnegie J company Gov Nash of Ohio has received UV ter from his stepson David TV Dai ler who has been In business In Here for a number of years announcing tU marriage to a Japanese lady belonglcs to one of the leading and Influential families I I I The French writer chosen as the third annual lecturer of the Cerch < Francals de LUnlversitc Harvard to speak before HarAard university this year is the Poet Henry de Rcgnler who will deliver eight lectures on French Modem Poetry beginning March 1st 1 The police force of Louisville Kf C through four of Its ofllcers defended Itself It-self vigorously last night before the contest committee at Frankfort against the charges of interference at the Ko Aombcr elections Avhlch have bC n brought against them by the Republicans Republi-cans |