Show I CREAM OF THE NEWS II IIA A cyclist in Paris yesterday esterday knocked down the Minister of Panama wounding him in the eye The cyclist was arrested King Leopold of ot Belgium has arrived in Paris Incognito Another hitherto hitherto Alpine mountain has been surmounted by Signor Castelnuovo a Milanese who has ascended ascended ascended as as- the highest of the three peaks called the Dames In the Mont MontBlanc MontBlanc MontBlanc Blanc range It Is feet high the thelast thelast thelast last few hundred yards being a smooth and practically perpendicular rock 1 Nearly Near Near- early ear ear- ly all the most celebrated mountain climbers in Europe Including the Duke of Abruzzi have vainly attacked the peak which had come to be regarded as mountable Signor Castelnuovo was twelve hours in making the ascent The first annual report of ot the executors under the will of Marshall Field was approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved yesterday In Chicago by Judge Gutting in the Probate court The re report report report re- re port showed that 70 was collected collected collected col col- col- col and all of that sum except had been distributed The United States Government has let iet leta ieta a contract to the United States steel corporation corporation corporation cor cor- for tor transmission towers which are to be utilized for tor wireless telegraph service in Alaska The Government in intends intends intends in- in tends to have a chain of the towers erected along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and on the Gulf of ot Mexico The towers will be feet high G GOv v. v R. R B. B Gl Glenn nn of ot North Carolina Is Isto Isto isto to be one of ot the chief speakers at the annual dinner dinner- of the Brooklyn Democratic club at the Brighton Beach hotel August 26 Prominent officials of ot the various New NewYork NewYork NewYork York transportation lines will be subpoenaed subpoenaed subpoenaed sub sub- today to appear Thursday before the Public Service commission to testify respecting the merger of ot the ough Rapid Transit company and the Metropolitan Street Railway company which took In fn virtually all the transportation transportation tation lines on Manhattan Island The hearings will take place in the city hall The commissions commission's chairman William R R. Wilcox late postmaster Of New York will preside William H. H Ivins who ran for Mayor on the Republican ticket in the thelast thelast thelast last Mayoralty campaign and who is an expert on civic matters will conduct the examination having been appointed by bythe bythe bythe the commission special counsel for tor the In Inquiry Inquiry In In- Into the merger Henry Becker the youth who was charged by the police with having murdered mur mur- deed dered Amelia who was stabbed in New York while picking dandelions near her home In Corona on L. L LI I. I has been r formally a f committed g m to a State Slate te hh hospital s for tor the insane |