Show TELEGRAPH SHORTSTOPS At the session of the Texas Lumber mens association a fund of 1200 for the drought sufferers In Zapata county was collected Tho Republicans bt the Nineteenth Illi nois Congressional district In Decatur by unanimous vote rcnomlnatcd Col Vespasian Warner Coy Sayers of Texas has directed let tots to Zapata county In order lo find out the situation there and 1C the reported suffering Is confirmed ho will at once take slops lo relieve iL As the steamship Dcutschland neared Nantucket SantosDumont attempted Ip send tills message ashore I bow to the greatest country In the world but ho did not succeed In getting the message off The executive committee of the United Textile Workers of America at a meet log In Fall River Indorsed the strike of lie cotton mill operatives of Augusta Go for a 10 per cent Increase In wages A freight train on tim Boston Maine railroad ran Into an open switch at Way land Mans Jumped the track striking the freight house pushed It from Us posi Ion Two men wore killed ono Injured Tho Jury In tho Biissc murder caso at Wttvcrly la returned a verdict of glllty In the llrat degree and ordered a sonY lenco of death by hanging There has been no legal execution In Iowa for eight years A prairie lire swept over Terry county Texas Wcdenaday and Wednesday night destroying many thousand dollars worth L of property The fire swept area la from forty lo fifty miles long and probably hair as wide Sir Milton Conway professor of art In Cambridge university who la In Now York city has ono great rcgrqi over the provision oC Cecil Hhodcss will which founded American scholarships at Ox ford He regrets that Cambridge was not the fortunate university Seeking to prove himself ono of the hclw of a fortune alleged lo reach Into the millions loft by Martin Hoorwltz a bishop of the Greek Catholic church In California who died nearly twenty years ago Simon Hoorwltz of New York city has engaged attorneys who are now cityS seeking to establish his relationship |