Show TELEGRAPH SHORTSTOPS President Roosevelt and party arrived In WanhlDKlon at 1035 yesterday morning Hundreds of Indigent Americans now In Cuba arc petitioning the Minister for aid A drought of six weeks In Texas was broken yertonlay The rain extends rather rath-er Roinnilly as far south as the gulf It Ja too late to materially aid the corn croy huh will help cotton I S Hlrschficld former president of tho suspended Merchants National bank of Helena I lont has been adjudged bankrupt In the 1Vdoral court Ills I lIt bllltlcp arc SUXJUj and assets 2iln The Labor committee of lie House has perfected and ordered a favorable report on the bill empowering the President to appoint Federal I arbitration hoards lo In vosllKate and adjust strikes lockouts etc which are of such mncnlimta as to affect Interstate commerce William ICilHon Crowcll who represents tIme new Panama Canal company called ycstordayto see Secretary Hay I with regard re-gard to tIme next steps to be laken In connection con-nection wilh tho t Panama canal matter I The Secretary iKlug absent Mr Crowell deferred huts business to a later day Tho Xow Kucland AntllmperlnlliiL IcairuQ held a piibllt1 meeting In Fancull hall Boston Maps when Bnurko Cockran of New York vns speaker Its object wnn to formulaic a demand that rcnro ° enta llve KIHplnos like AKulnaldo and Mablnl be permitted to come to I this country and lay their case before tIme American people TIme percentage of sIck among soldiers In lire Philippine Is HI the lowest IlKiiro ycL reached in the division J01 per cunt as compared with iVi lie t prcvloua mouth A larirc Incroas js I rcnortud In the number num-ber of deaths both from Injuries and fiom diseases The Inureasei In the former form-er claws vat due larpoly to the battle at Bayarr Mindanao and In the latter clans to cholera |