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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A conference of well-known anti-imperialists of Boston will take place within a few days. The National Fox Hunters' Association inaugurated its meet at Bowling Green, Ky., yesterday. The Alabama Legislature convened at Montgomery yesterday. The Governor's message will be read to-day. The directors of the Revere National Bank, of Boston, have voted to place the institution in liquidation on Dec. 19. The Canadian minister of justice has decided for the present to discontinue prosecutions under the alien labor act passed in 1897. The Texas Consolidated Compress and Gin Association, with main offices in Corsicana, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. Canada's new governor general, Lord Minto, accompanied by his family and staff, arrived at Ottawa yesterday, and was given an enthusiastic reception. The executive board of the National Fraternal Conference, composed of the supreme officers of the Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees, is in session at Baltimore. H. B. Eckham, formerly of the firm of Nadeau & Co., of Nadeau, Kan., who is wanted for the alleged embezzlement of $40,000, is under arrest at Albuquerque, N. M. Hoadly & Co., of New York, composed of Russell H. Hoadly and Chester C. Munroe, shipping and commission merchants, have made an assignment. They did an export and import trade in rubber, coffees, skins, etc. Judge Showalter, of the United States Circuit Court, at Chicago, has handed down his decision in the suit of Mayor Bernhard against the National Linseed Oil Company for a receiver. The court denied the receiver. At a meeting of stockholders of the American Brake Company, in St. Louis, yesterday, the proposition to consolidate with the present lessee of the company, the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, was carried by a large majority. Leighton Lee, a Philadelphia engineering contractor, who was injured at Chicago Oct. 14, by falling from the South Side elevated structure, died at Mercy Hospital yesterday. The remains will be shipped to Philadelphia for interment. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the New York baseball team the old board of directors were re-elected. Andrew Freedman was re-elected president of the club without opposition. The salary of the president is to remain $10,000. The War Department is informed that the transport Michigan, with the Fifth Cavalry on board, has arrived at Ponce, Porto Rico, and that as soon as ready the vessel will transport the batteries now at Ponce destined for service in Cuba. At San Francisco yesterday Judge Troutt issued letters of guardianship to Mrs. Kluge-Sutro, the alleged contract wife of the late Adolph Sutro, over the persons and estates of the minor children, called Adolph and Adolphine Sutro, respectively. Rev. Charles Manley, D. D., late president of Furman University, at present OCcupying the chair of moral and mental philosophy and physiology of the Patrick Military Institute, at Anderson, S. C., has accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Lexington, Ky. Tom Gallagher increased his lead over Edward McLaughlin at New York last night in the eighteen-inch balk line billiard tournament. In the twenty-second inning he clipped off 61 points, the highest run thus far. His total for the two nights is 600, and McLaughlin has 413 to his credit. An important meeting has been called for the near future of the steel rail manufacturers of Pittsburg and surrounding sections. The purpose of the meeting is to attempt to revive the old steel rail pool which exlsted throughout the country for many years and which was disbanded about a year ago.
