Show SHORT STORIES Fifteen cases of OreS n products to represent the State at the Paris exposition expo-sition were started yesterday Four men were killed and several others injured by a boiler explosion one mile west of EHzabethtown Pa yesterday yes-terday St Thomas D W L reports the United States cruiser New York arrived ar-rived there last evening and leaves January 2nd John E Robson a wellknown Sioux City la contractor was shot and robbed of 100 In his office last night His assailants escaped and left no traces The transports Tartar and Valencia Valen-cia will probably be sent back to Manila Ma-nila with freight There are now about 4000 tons of freight waiting on the Government Gov-ernment dock The attempt to launch the Windsor steamship Grecian at the Harlan and Holllngsworth ship yards Wilmington Del was a failure the new ship sticking stick-ing on the ways Steps arp under way among life In ourance companies to form a new anti rebate agreement prohibiting the payment pay-ment of commlflslonato agent throughout through-out the country I The Amalgamated Copper company has lied a certificate with the Secrc ary of State of New Jersey setting out hat Its entire capital stock of 575000000 had been paid In In cash Three large scpdhoupes and one of the mealhouses of the Consumers Mill ompany at Little Rock Ark have burned Loss 80000 Five hundred men arc thrown out of work Gov Stone of Pennsylvania has granted a requisition for the return to ISreensburg of William Uannen of PlLtbburg who is charvrrd wltli murder Hannen is under arrest at San Francisco Fran-cisco A prlvalo banking firm of Gocrlllz Prussian Slllcla has sunpendcd The liabilities are nearly 2000000 mnrlaJ Some small banks In Berlin and London are said to be affected to a considerable extent Designs for the greatest battleships ever projprled for the American navy were iPccd upon by the naval hoard of construction yostorday after several monthH of dlHcuHBlon They will cout 7000000 each New York FIre Chief Crolcer csll mntcB the loss of Friday nights fire which destroyed the wall paper factory of William Campbell < Co at 250000 Between 350 and COO employees are thrown out of work The quarterly statement of the values of foreign coins Issued by the director of the mint shows that during the last three months the value of silver has decreased 118 cent per ounce and the value of foreign silver coins has de creased accordingly I In Grand Rnplds Mich yesterday Auditor Uriah B Rogers of the Chlcngo nift West Michigan and Detroit Grand I 1 Rapids and Western ralroads commit vii Kulckle by shooting himself through the head while sitting at hlu desk Ill health IH the cause |