Show john F stevens named by taft to succeed wallace washington june 30 secretary tatt today appointed john F stevens of chicago chief engineer of the panama canal commission with residence on the isthmus mr stevens succeeds john F wallace mr stevens also will bp made general manager of the panama railway he will not be a member of the isthmian canal commission his salary m be f a year air stevens is now in the service of the philippine commission as government railroad inspector in the construction st of 1000 miles of philippine railways about to be built under government aid ho waa to have accompanied compa nied secretary taft today to the philippines but has been transferred to the panama canal work ROYAL PARTY at which a number of americans were present kiel june 30 prince and princess henry of prussia gave a garden party and dance at castle gardens on thursday at which the emperor and empress princes altel frederick and adalbert the prince of monaco princess henrietta victoria of schleswig holstean Holst eln the grand duke of hesse the duke of saxe coburg and ambassador and mrs tower were present among others present were mrs goelet mrs cornelius sr mrs cornelius mrs miss gladys vanderbilt miss robinson and miss and cornelius vanderbilt marshall edmund randolph allison V ar mour robert ai goelet and lewis A the defeat of the meteor III in the race from Ecken forde to kiel confirms yachtsmen in the opinion that the reconstruction of the emperors yacht has rather lessened than in creased her speed VOTES KEPT SECRET french diplomats will not publish germanas germanys Germ anys reply paris june 30 some dissatisfaction is evident among members of the chamber of deputies and the general public because the full text of the notes exchanged between germany and france relative to morocco have not been published though the tenor of the notes is known inquiries made in official quarters show that the publication li of the notes will not be made until the question is finally decided as it is considered that they would give a mistaken idea of the present situation unless accompanied by the tenor of the diplomatic conversations in regard to the difficulty these oral communications which baye effected a betted un still continue and it is premier intention to await the final solution of the question before making an official declaration MISS MARRIED but catholic priests refused to per form ceremony boston june 30 miss agnes orcil ley third daughter of the irish poet and patriot john has been married to ernest hocking professor of philosophy at phillps andover academy the ceremony was performed by rev S M crothers unitarian clergyman of cambridge after the bride had tried in vain to procure a roman catholia Cath olio priest to officiate archbishop williams having refused his permission the marriage occurred at the brides home in brookline BANKS TO consolidate portland ore june 30 A special to the oregonians oregonian Ore gonian from boltax wash says that the colfax national and the first national banks of colfax will be consolidated under one management july 1 the boltax nathnial Na tonial assuming the commercial business of the first national U S senator ankeny will become president of the new bank the first national will bo continued under the name of the first savings trust co of whitman county it will take over tha savings business of both banks FIGHTING IN THE STREETS berlin june 30 A dispatch to the Tage blatt from odessa timed p m today says mobs estimated to number 1000 persons attacked the patrols of troops in the streets yesterday and fighting continued into tha night several hundred persons were killed or wounded the hospitals are crowded with wounded tho petroleum reservoirs weib set afire all traffic in the streets is slopped the volunteer cruiser Sara tott was burned |