Show SHORT STORIES Gen Greely has started for Alaska to superintend arrangements for cable and telegraphic communication with that Territory Ter-ritory Ohc Princess Toubotzkoy formerly Miss Airellc HIt will placQ herself under tho treatment of a distinguished Boston physician for sciatica President McKlnlcy will leave Canton at l7Xi this afternoon reaching Washing ton curly Thursday morning where he expects to remain two days The Boers arc preparing to retreat from Wnlervalbevcn Frank Pcttigrew son of Senator Pettlgrcw has arrived there and has Joined Commandant Gen Bathas stuff Miss Clarissa Blake daughter of Hoffman Hoff-man Blake a retired banker of Boston was killed at New Rochelle N Y yesterday yester-day afternoon In tdylng a horse over the hurdles She was thrown and her neck I was broken I In Milwaukee yesterday the sixth annual an-nual convention of the Commercial Law League of America began and will continue con-tinue throughout the week lion Charles R Miller of Canton O president of the league delivered tho annual address The records of tho ofllce of tho Comptroller Comp-troller of the Currency show that since March 1st last he has approved 12 lj applications ap-plications to organise national banks of which 257 have since been organized and begun business The amount of bonds deposited to secure circulation Is J22250 None of tho protests reported to have been made in Alaska against the definition defini-tion of tho provincial boundary line have reached Washington yet and the impression impres-sion prevails In tho State department that the auitatlon on that subject Is based on a lack of knowledge of the exact ex-act nature of the agreement |