Show W ASIIIXljlOX NOTES I No fUrnnnii 1IClltlolIIhc 111 to hut 1lllll Unlilicry llulliiii Siiiil itriliousp WABIIINOTOV Nov Jlho Prcsidont wan compelled I to omit his usual afternoon ro coption I today in order to devote toJ hIs J nlteii tion ontlroly to hiM mossaRo arid other mat hers to bo submitted to Congress The Secretary of tho Navy today accepted ac-cepted tIm following bids for the construe tion of tho now cruisers and uun boats Cruiser No j Charleston Union Iron Works of San Irancisco nt l017r 00 N l l1I oi Cruiser No 3 lialtimoro Cramp A Sons of Philadelphia 1 U5000 Gun boat ho 2 i1132jooo tho Columbia Iron Works nod Dry Dock Company of llallimoro at 21700 In tho oasoof Oun boat No1 no decision has jot been reached as between tho bid of Iteeder A Sons nnd thin bid of Cramp i Sons Although Al-though tho Union Iron Works of ban 1 ran cisco put In tho I lowest I bid on Cruiser No 1 the Newark yet ns the figures Jeo tho tunximtnn amount fixed in tho appropriation bill thin Secretary was unablo to accept rN Hi their bid J Ho will probably refer the matter mat-ter to Congress with n statement of tho facts and recommend that tho appropriation Llt1 t8 rifoli Ilf ation for thin construction of urifo 1 bo increased or that tho Government bo authorized to build tho vessel at ono of tho navy yards Nicholas M Boll Superintendent of For eign Hail has received tho list of American registered packages lost in tho recent liol Rium mail robbery Iho following nro among thin originating offices and the number num-ber Ol of packages JI lost which wore milled in the West bacrainouto California No 170 glI1 Jf78In III Oakland California I No 700710 San Iran Cisco California No r IT 11001 Refer ring to tho statement cabled from Brussels that the Holgmra Government under existing exist-ing f treaties is responsible to this Government Govern-ment for these lost packages Superintendent Superinten-dent Hell said that for tho want of Con grossiomil authority tho postal authorities have not subscribed to that provision of thin Lisbon Postal Union treaty which provides for thin indemnification of owners for the loss of registered matter and as tho provisions provis-ions of the treaty are reciprocal m their operations they bind only those Governments Govern-ments which havo bceomo parties to them Superintendent Hell also stated that tho statements itt tho dispatches purporting to give the aggregate value of the list of p ick agos were tho merest guess work as no ono eeiisIIsits43et C4hoiu4UtltfSihO7sstci the setidetut j IhlI J r thin twocent Ihu design for now postage stamp to bo put into circulation about January Jan-uary next has boon selected It is said to bo ono of tho handsomest specimens issued by tho Department Iho desieii represents an ombosaeil held of George Washington in promo upon blue tinted background A committee of representative businessmen business-men of St Louis appeared today before General Upshavv Assistant Commissioner of Indian Altai null submitted an argument in favor of the removal to St Louis of tho Indian supply warehouse now located al Now orkljity the Commisaiouoi has ro i celved applications from several other Western West-ern titles to bo heard on tho nuostiou of tho I I icnioval 1 |