Show SHORT STORIES Secretary Hitchcock state that he Information concerning the reported has no ported resignation of Gov Dole of Hawaii Ha-waii The reports of Hcnrlk Ibsens serious pronounced untrue lie la illness are still Improving and goes out driving dally dallThe situation at Panama is unchanged un-changed The Colombian gunboat General PInzon Is still liid up at Colon Rumors that the partisans In Venezuela Vene-zuela of Gen Jose Manuel Hernandez are acting Is i confirmed A niw outbreak out-break l Is expected at several points shortly I Orders were Issued yesterday convertIng 1 I convert-Ing l boards of army officers to examine and report upon the fortifications necessary ne-cessary In the Philippines and Hawaiian Hawaii-an islands The Acting Secretary of War has taken ta-ken i adverse action on proposition j to send the transport Egbert to Cape Nome Alaska for the relief of alleged destitute miners Everett St John late vicepresident and general manager of the Seaboard Air Line will It is understood succeed C M Hays as prerldent of the Southern Pacific on October 1st At the Crescent club Toronto Mattie Matthews of Brooklyn won from Ed Kennedy of PIttsburg the thirteenth round Kennedy being put out after standing fearful punishment The wedding of Miss Helen Morton I daughter of Hon Lovl P Morton former for-mer VJcePresident of the United States and Count de Perigord son of the Duke of Talleyrand vIIJ occur October Octo-ber 5th at SL Marys Catholic church Chebeau Correspondence regarding the Nicaraguan Nica-raguan canal treaty has ceased the I treaty being in form for signature The only authoritative information obtainable obtaina-ble about it in London Is that it la considerably con-siderably better for the United Slates than the preceding one The utmost reserve re-serve exists respecting tho neutrality clause IRe I-Re Herman Bones pioneer Jewish rabbi died In Portland Or yesterday I Mr Bones wan 81 years old In 1819 he came to America from Bohemia He was In Nevada and California In tho days of the early mining excitement In those two States and was the first rabbi to take up a residence the Oregon Ore-gon city I |