Show SPARKS FROM THE WIRE Gen R A Alger passed another excellent excel-lent night and is in most satisfactory condition A movement Is on foot to have a permanent per-manent horse show In San Antonio the Brat one to be hold In 1902 Rumors aro In circulation to the effect that Andrew Carnegie Is getting ready to give 100000 to Increase Yales building endowment funds The long struggle for official recognition recogni-tion In the conferences by women of the Methodist church Is probably ended at last and It is I claimed that tho women have won Alexander II Revolt chairman of the Illinois auxiliary of the McKinley Memorial Memo-rial association reports that the monument monu-ment fund for tho State Is fast approaching approach-ing the 525000 mark The receipts from stamps postal cards and envelopes at the New York potitof lIce have more than quadrupled In less than thirty years For 1901 they will aggregate about J130COOOO In 1873 they aggregated 53COOOOO in round numbers In the Department of thin Lakes thero are at present 133 prisoners at the various posts the majority of the them being charged with desertion During the year 20329 persons applied for enlistment and 5190 or 2555 per cent wore accepted At yesterdays session of the American Historical association papers on historical records and historical research wero read by Herbert Putnam tin librarian of Congress Con-gress Prof Lucy M Sulon of Vassar college col-lege and Prof George L Durr of Cornell university Gen John C Bates commanding the Department of the Missouri with headquarters head-quarters at Omaha has been mustered In as a member of Ransom post G A P of St Louis which Includes among its mombera some of tho most prominent army men In tho country Now that I have read the letter of President Proctor of the Civil Service commission says Edgar S Maclay I shall let tho wnolo matter drop Tho third volume of my history has been re vleed and so fur as 1 am concerned the SampsonSchley Incident Is closed Moore Cantwell lie attorneys of New York who secured Dr Kennedys acquittal ac-quittal on his trial for the murder of Dolly Reynolds are trying to break the will of u wealthy Plltsburg man In tho interest of Kennedys mother who claims the estate on thu ground l that she Is next of kinA kin-A C Harrison Jr and Dr H M Mil ler hoe arrived In San Francisco after extended explorations through the Island of Sumatra They are on their way to their homes In Philadelphia As n result re-sult of their work they have an extensive exten-sive and valuable collection of birds and other fauna and of anthropological and ethnological specimens |