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Show 1 Hashes Prom the Wire PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2G. Four firo-mcn firo-mcn wero Injured and property valued at $100,000 was destroyed by lire In tho plant of the Overbrook Carpet company. In West Philadelphia, this morning. "WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Wade If. Ellis, now attorney-general of Ohio, has beon tendered by tho President and has accepted tho position of assistant to tho nttornoy-gcneral, recently held by Milton D. Purdy. GRAX1TE CITY. 111.. Aug. 2S. The rolling mllla of the National Enameling and Stamping company, which havo been closed slnro Juno 30, will be reopened next Monday and within two weeks tho complement of 1600 men will bo employed. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. .Aug. 2G, F. B. Easley, superintendent of tho Rock Inland railroad, today Issued a bulletin notifying all omployos that cigarette smoking will not bo permitted and that violators of tho order will bo discharged. AMSTERDAM, N. Y., Aug. 2fi. Firo at Hurrlcana Farm, owned by Gen. Stephen Sanford, two miles cast of this city to-da5 to-da5 which threatened to destroy stables In which a largo number of horsos were quartered, was extinguished with small 10S3. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2i. Tho Stato department today received assurances from David E. Thompson, Embassador to Mexico, who was injured by being knocked down by a bicycle In the city of Mexico yesterday. Uiat he was doing woll and suffering only from a badly broken and dislocated arm. NEW YORK. Aug. 26. R. II. Thomas, president of tho New York stock exchange, ex-change, today appointed a committee of five members of the exchange to Investigate Investi-gate the heavy sales of stock on Saturday Satur-day last, when it Is alleged "matched" sales were made. The committee Is composed com-posed of Ernest Groesbcck. chairman; Albert Al-bert E. Goodhart, II. K. Pomcroy, C. W. Maury and E. P. Doremus. MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD, Cal., Aug. 20. A party of government wireless wire-less telegraph exports left the navy yard today for Alaska, whern they. will establish estab-lish a new wireless station near Val-dez. Val-dez. Sixty days will be required to complete com-plete tho work there, which will bo the last of a chain of stations established at Intervals of about 200 miles along tho coast from Point Iioma, near San Diego, to Alaska. ST. .TOSEPH, Mo.. Aug. 26. Four robbers rob-bers made an unsuccessful attempt to loot the Rushvlllo Stato Bank at Kush-vllle. Kush-vllle. this county, early today. When charges of nltro-glycerln sprung tho door so It would not open, the cracksmen transferred operations to tho po3tofflce. Ono of tho safe doors In the postoffloo was blown InO?1 the street and $500 In stamps and cash was secured. Officers arc In pursuit. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Secretary , Wright will leave Washington Saturday next for Fort Leavenworth, Kan., whore ho will attend tho opening of tho military school at that post on the following Tuos-day Tuos-day On Wednesday ho will review tho regular troops at their maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kan. Tho trip of the secretary Is simply a tour of Inspootlon, He expects lo return to Washington about Friday, September -1. PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 2C Ethol Hyno Morso, said to bo the son of a wealthy New York business man, who was arrested ar-rested here yesterday at tho request of the Cleveland, O., authorities, charged with the larceny of athletic medals from Brewster P. Konney, his roommate, will bo taken back to Cleveland tonight. "My troublo Is caused by drinking too much. ' said young Morse. "I never had troubjo with my father because I refused to marry mar-ry an heiress. I spent too much money." DENVER, Colo., Aug. 26. Tho convention conven-tion of American press humorists today elected J. Edmund Vance Cooko of Clove-land Clove-land secretary-treasurer and re-elected Frank ,1. Searlght of Los Angeles president. presi-dent. The matter of tho next meeting place was loft to the executive committee and Instructions given the secretary to Investigate tho possibilities of Panama. Cedar Point, O.. Atlantic City and Put-ln-Bay Island, Lako Erie, were most prominently prom-inently mentioned for the next meeting pin |