Show m new york SAILED FOE airmail william phelps to his postin post in memory of justice miller YORK dec G special the committee which has iu charge th meeting of a congress of delegates from all the republics in the world to bo held during the columbian exposition met irre today to day th comm lite of which william H abour ig chairman has now a membership ef two hundred and includes prominent men from all over the country and indeed the world professor boyco mr parnell air la boucherie bou chere aud herbert spencer are aanon the foreign members there were present today to day among others grover cleveland general herman william waldorf astor john russel youns chauncel Chaunc ev M denew and uen eral walter swayne the purpose lor which the committee is organized is to hold a congress of delegates from all the republics of alie world and of eminent friends of popular government from all countries with the object of drawing the republics of the world into closer bonds of sympathy and of discussing such legislation as shall be for their mutual benefit and the further progress and welfare of mankind the meeting to be held under the auspices of alie federal government secured by anch legislation as shall be deemed essential the plan and of the congress will be more fully and definitely formulated by a subcommittee which will be appointed before adjournment the society ot colonial dames which was organized last spring will have its first annual assembly tonight to night at na madison avenue the society is composed of descendants of colonial families and is limited to one hundred aud fifty members the guests will be received by mra archibald grace king surrounded by her council sirs king ig a of major general lord storing and of lady kitty duer mrs john lyon gardiner of gardinere gardiners Gar diners island a descendant of phiiip Living is the vice president the colonial dames propose to encourage social intercom se between the descendants the old families and will organize a dancing class for the children of mem to at rys on afternoons william walter phelps united states minister to germany sailed for europe today to day on his return to duty mr phelba declined to talk abbat th reports circulated from time to time that he contemplated his office so that he my return to congress ha does not apprehend at least at present any rc tali etory legislation by the german on account of the mckinley McKin lev bill foretold s bloody suicide conn dec 6 special there is an odd incident in connection with the sudden disappearance and suicide 0 an old gentleman john H tracy who quit his country home at canterbury one day last weak after a curious and rambling talk with bis wife he said something to her about money and addad im going away and you wont see me again his family think he was quite in carn but at he had not returned it was learned then that he biad taken his razor with him the neigh bora wera told about his act and all night scores of people searched the forests and swamps all about his house for many miles one neighbor said he mat the old man golab rapidly toward a swamp at 9 in the morning on the day he disappeared on the following day still bigger searching parties hunted for the fugitive several days later two men hunting coons penetrated the thick depths of a great swamp a few miles from mr tracers traceys Trace ys house and heard one f their dogs barking in a curious way far ahead of them on reaching the dog alio hunters found him standing over the corpse of the missing man he had unloosened loosened un all his clothes even his shirt carefully laid them back and then cut his throat irom ear to ear the head was almost severed from his body the strange feature about the case is now to be related on the day after mr tracy ran away from home a member of his family went to norwich and visited a popular clairvoyant and medium there sha went into a trance 1 I see an eld man said the medium speaking in a mechanical tone lying in a deep wooded ravine the place is not far from canterbury the mans throat is cut alie scene described by the clairvoyant exactly answered to the place in which mr tracys body was found |