Show SHORT STORIES I Herr Grobler Foreign Secretary of the Transvaal has arrived at Delagoa I bay I bayThe The proclamation by the President on I the German reciprocity agreement has been made public I The census office Issued Its rst bulletin bul-letin yesterday giving the population of the Dsltrlct of Columbia at 278718 This is an Increase since the last census of Jncrjase 48326 or 209S per cent CapL Demlnr the army officer who was sentenced some time ago to three years Imprisonment for forglngchecks is now on his way from Alcatraz to the Military I prison at Leavenworth Replying to a deputation of his constituents con-stituents MrT W P Schreiner former Premier of Cape Colony refused to support the ddmand for unimpaired Independence In-dependence of thc Boer republics Fire at Durant I T wiped out the greater portion of the business section Loss 100000 insurance 5WOOO TjVMl I liam WIttenburg was fatally Injured I while fighting tho fire Telegrams from Galveston state that because of the fierce storm conditions that city Is practically waterbound railroad trains cannot get out and passengers sengers for outside points are delayed A call for a mass meeting of trousers makers in New York has been issued by tho union to decide uppn a strike None I of the contractors has signed the new agreement offered by the union and 5000 men will quit work E J Stokes a colored prisoner formerly for-merly of the Twentyfourth Infantry Is en route to Fort Leavenworth to I servo ninetynine years for murder He shot and killed a soldier named Cope I in a saloon In Manila I Three more bodies were found on t board tho German Lloyd steamer Saale which burned In the dock fire at Hoboken June 3rd The total num ber of bodes recovered from the Saalo Is fiftysix The WindowGlass Cutters league and the officials of the American Win dow Glass company havo signed the scale of last year for the ensuing year with a few minor changes The final settlement affects about 2000 menThe men-The SL Louis police have not yet captured John Nelson the alleged I trainrobber who escaped from their clutches yesterday Requisition papers for Charles Barnes are expected Sun expectd day and he will be taken Monday to I WIckliffd Ky Secretary W Lowe of the Onwent Onwenl sia club has Issued tho programme of the third annual womans golf tournament tourna-ment given by the club which will begin be-gin next Wednesday The main event Is tho competition for the Governors cup Fifty entries are expected |