Show I S SPARKS FROM THE WIRES President and Mrs McKinley drove to Massllon yesterday to be the guests at lunch of Mr and Mrs Charles Steese S The Southern general conference of the Epworth league began in the Auditorium Audi-torium at Atlanta yesterday and will continue until next Sunday contnue unt I Mme Jam uschelt the actress who was stricken with paralysis a week ago Is improving steadily and will bout b-out in two weeks it Is hoped She is In her 71st year In Montgomery Ala the national negro race confeienco was called to order or-der by the chairman Rev W H Mfxon of Montgomery He addressed the conference later on Conditions of the Negro and Remedies Eight hundred persons attended the celebration yesterday of the 100th anniversary an-niversary o the birth of Grandma I Wheeler who resides with her son near Villisca Ia Mrs Wheeler was born Watortown Conn July 21th The first session of the convention of the United States League of Building and Loan associations was held in Indianapolis In-dianapolis yesterday Many men prominent prom-inent In building and loun affairs indifferent in-different parts of the country are In attendance Col William Care Sanger who has been studying for months the British system of auxiliary forces under instructions in-structions from Gov Roosevelt and from Secretary Root has completed his Investigations In London and has starl cd for Switzerland The decree calling for a constitutional constitu-tional convention and providing for the election of delegates will be promulgated promul-gated In Havana tomorrow The niCe tlon will be held on the third Saturday In September and the convention will meet on the first Monday in November In Milwaukee yesterday the delegates to the National Photographers association asso-ciation convention listened to an able discussion by B J Falk on the copyright copy-right question of today and a lecture by Prof A H Grlfllths on Topics of Interest and Value to the Photographic Profession Generally |