Show NEWS BOILED DOWN A very large portion of the business section of Convoy O was destroyed by fire The loss will be from 80000 to 100000 Gen Randall has given notice at Nome that passengers will not be returned re-turned to the States at the expense of the Government At Brocton Mass the twomile un paced professional bicycle recorb of A B Hughes made at Denver was lowered two seconds to 211 by John R Dubols The Boer have evacuated Machado dorp and It la reported are preparing to retreat to Lydenburg to which S place they have completed telegraphic communication Mysterious Billy Smith and Charley Cleevcr have been matched to flfcliL fifteen rounds before the Cadillac Athletic Ath-letic club In Detroit on August 10th for a purse of 1500 At Oklahoma City Okla the Democrats Demo-crats and Populists met In Joint convention con-vention aid nominated Robert A Neff of Newark for Delegate to Congress Mr NcfC ia a Populist and was nominated nomi-nated after thirty ballots had been taken The NIcaraguan Congress at the session ses-sion begun yesterday Is expected to take action with reference to the acquisition acqui-sition by tho Government the United I I States of a belt of territory ten or j fifteen miles across Nicaragua emI em-I bracing the approved route on which I to construct an Interoceanic ship t cana |