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NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic Alfredo de M. Gomex Ferreira, the retiring Brazilian minister to the United States, sailed for Europe from New York on the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm. W. L. Davis, vice president of the closed Canton State Bank, and Corwin D. Bachtel, cashier of the bank, were arrested on charges of embezzlement. The program has been arranged by which President Roosevelt, in Washington, will start the Lewes and Clark Centennial in Portland. Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor, delivered the Memorial Day oration at the grave of Rev. Myron Reed in Denver. The Socialists of Ohio met in Columbus and named a complete state ticket, headed by Isaac C. Owen, of Cleveland, for governor. The Austrian steamer Lucia and the four-masted schooner Eagle Wing collided near Sandy Hook. Neither sustained serious damage. The French steamer Pro Patria went ashore off Forshu, C. B. All the passengers were saved. The vessel will be a total wreck. President Roosevelt delivered a Memorial Day address at the unveiling of the statue of General Slocum in Brooklyn. Frank Neighbors, of Chattanooga, Tenn., killed his sister and her husband and fatally wounded another sister. Gen. Joe Wheeler was the guest of honor at the Memorial Day exercises in Bangor, Me. A daylight raid upon Chinese gambling houses in New York netted about 70 prisoners. Superintendent Agnew, of the New Orleans Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, appealed to the judge of the Juvenile Court to assist in putting down the traffic in young girls, which has become quite a trade there. Mayor Weaver won his big fight in Philadelphia, the United Gas Improvement Company's president sending a letter to the City Councils withdrawing its offer, which caused the municipal convulsion. Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease was held up in her home, in New York, by two burglars, who held a revolver to her head and robbed her of $110 in cash and $300 worth of jewelry and silverware. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador to the United States, arrived in New York on the steamer Campania on his return from a short visit to England. The City Council of St. Thomas, Ont., has petitioned the Canadian government to revoke the order to deport the American officials of the Pere Marquette Railroad. Frank Barker, convicted of the murder of his brother and his brother's wife in Lincoln, Neb., has agreed to spring the trap and be his own executioner. Ignazio Trentanelli, an Italian banker, was arrested in Cleveland, O., on the charge of embezzling money deposited by his fellow-countrymen. The Supreme Court of Vermont has denied the petition for a new trial for Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, convicted of murdering her husband. There was another slump in May corn in the Chicago pit, the attempt to corner the market proving a disastrous failure. The receiver was ordered to take charge of all the offices of the brokerage firm of Haight and Freese in Connecticut. Nat Crump, the outlaw, who shot Clay Grubb at Salisbury, N. C., on Monday, was captured after being badly shot. The Monument National Bank of Charlestown, Mass., decided to go into liquidation. The Norfolk and Southern Railroad has been sold. Louis Levin, formerly in business at 119 Bleecker street, who was arrested in Baltimore and convicted in New York of grand larceny in the first degree on the complaint of William Meyer & Co., who were one of the many firms that accused the defendant of swindling, was sentenced by Judge Fister to not less than three, nor more than three years and one month, in state prison. The motion of Frank B. Lord, which sought to restrain the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society from mutualizing the company, was granted by Justice Maddox in the Supreme