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Show I Short News Stories WASHINGTON. July 2C Clomcnt S. Ucker, chief clerk of the interior department, depart-ment, left "Washington today on a tour of Inspection of several national parks In tho west. HAMBURG. July 2i;. Tho shipbuilding companies have refused Ihe demands of their workmen, 35,0(10 of whom have demanded de-manded an increase of 10 per cent. In wages and a 53-hour week. The companies com-panies now propose that a conference bo held. WASHINGTON, .Inly 2C Edwarrl C. Kinney of Kansas, assistant to the secretary secre-tary of the Interior, today wus appointed chief law officer of tho interior for the reclamation service, succeeding A. C. Campbell, recently resigned. lr. Finney at present is in Iho west on a tour of inspection with Secretary Ballingcr. OMATIA. Nob.. July 2(5. Another scries of successful flights marked the fourth day of Ihe Omaha aviation meet. Glen H. Curtlss and J. C. Mars both made (lights and finished the programme with two aeroplanes in the air at the same lime. NEW YORK, July 26. Louis II. Dl Se-rega. Se-rega. a rotlred cotton broker and one of the founders of the Now York cotton exchange, ex-change, was found dead today In tho court yard in the rear of his apartments in Madison avunue. Ho had either Jumped or fallen to his death. The coroner cor-oner reported I hp case as aisuicide. SAN DIEGO. Cal,. July 20. It was learned today thai D. W. McKay, the wealthy American whose arrest in Lower California recently was the supject of diplomatic correspondence, returned from Ensenada to thh? city yesterday nnd after a. brief stay went back to his estate at Tla Juann, below tho Mexican boundary. McKay's release was on -bonds furnished by W. R. Rogers of this city. SPRINGFIELD 111., July 20. Mass meetings of minors were held today at Virden. Glrard and several othor places, at which the compromise agreement recommended rec-ommended by the representatives of tho operators and miners was vigorously condemned con-demned and the resignation of National President Lewis of the United Mlno Workers of America demanded. CHICAGO, July 20. Carver Remington, 00 years old, a son of Samuel Remington and a nephew of the late Levi Z. Loiter, attempted to end his life by shooting In a downtown tailor shop here today. Although Al-though wounded in lhe left side near tho heart. Remington probably will recover. re-cover. Remington slated In a letter that he was discouraged by lack of business success. NEW ORLEANS. July 26. That the revolution which was detected in an Incipient In-cipient stage on tho north coast of Honduras Hon-duras has been crushed and that peace now reigns throughout the country is stated In a cable from President Mlguelda Vila to the consul from Honduras at New Orleans tonight. ITHACA. N. Y.. July 26. Charles E. Courtney, tho Cornell rowing coach, is seriously ill with acute indigestion. W. J. Dugan, graduate manager of athletics, and Judge Frank Irvine of .the Cornell Athletic association hastened to his bedside bed-side tonight. |