Show SPARKS FROM THE WIRES Capt Harry A Smith of the Fifteenth I Infantry < has been appointed military Governor of Laguna province Luzon With all the pomp befitting the occasion occa-sion the Kev John J OConnor former pasror of St Josephs church Newark N J was yesterday consecrated bishop of the diocese of Newark A letter has been received from T Es trada Palma to Horatio Reubens In which the former denies the utterances In favor of the annexation of Cuba to the United States attributed to him The committee on organization of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company has submitted a number of highly satisfactory satis-factory reports on the promotion work being done at the PanAmerican exposition exposi-tion among representatives from Central and South American States An audience of thousands awed by the solemnity and magic of Roman Catholic ceremonial In Chicago yesterday witnessed wit-nessed the consecration of Rev Father Peter J Muldoon us titular Bishop of Tamassensls and auxiliary to the Most Rev P A Feehan archbishop of Chicago Chi-cago For the thirteen days of tiling ended Wednesday the names of 1J9M5 applicants had been registered at El Reno and Lawton and It Is expected that the grand total registration tomorrow evening will exceed 175000 This will give each an equal chance of about one in four of winning a homestead Dr Felepo Caldas the Brazilian bacteriologist bac-teriologist who has a yellow fever serum has sailed fram New York to Cuba on the steamer Havana Ho Is accompanied accom-panied by Dr Angel Bcllnzaghij his assistant as-sistant Dr Caldas goes to Cuba to direct di-rect experiments with his serum with a view to stamping out the disease In the Circuit court of St Louis suit has been brought to restrain the Louisiana Louis-iana Purchase Exposition company from using Forest park as a site for the Worlds fair to bo held In 1903 The petition pe-tition which Is led by Henry IT Werdes and John P Bergman president and vice president of the Worklngmcns Protective association |