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CONDENSED DISPATCHES. T. J. Walsh. counsel for Ruby J. Britt, of Helena, Mont., has received & message stating that his client has come into an estate of $30,000 or more from her father, who died in Iowa about a year ago. Andrew Carnegie's offer of $25,000 for a public library building at Tucson, Ariz. has been accepted, the city council voting at site on the military plaza and $2,000 per annum for the maintenance of the library. The banking and brokerage firm of Stahl & Straub, of Philadelphia, has been forced to suspend business. as a result. it is said, of demand for & large call demand. Rumors place their liabilities all the way from $100,000 to $1,000,000. The war department has requested that twelve more army secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. be sent with the troops to Manila. Miss Helen Gould, of New York, has contributed the larger portion of the money for the maintenance of this special work. W. S. Chamberlain, a broker, of New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $26,000 and assets consisting of forty acres of land near Duluth, put down as of no value, and ten shares of stock in the Uncle Sam Mining and Development Company. of the state of Washington, value $3. The will of the late Charles Murphy has been presented for probate by his widow. The value of the real estate and personal property is small, but a claim of $100,000 against the United States government for work done in excarating for the Mare Island stone dock is included, and the widow is asked to press the matter to a final settlement. The Methodist church congress will open its sessions at the Lindell Avenue church, St. Louis, next Sunday, November 25, and will continue until December 1. An unusual array of talent has been secured to address the congress during the day, and beginning with Monday evening there will be a special lecture each evening. The opening evening lecture will be given by Bishop Vincent. John Tates, a waiter in a restaurant at Chicago, was stabbed fatally with an umbrella. A customer got into a dispute with Tates over the price of a meal. and they came to blows. The customer raised his umbrella to protect himself. Tates rushed forward, and the customer jabbed it into his breast. The sharp-pointed steel penetrated the waiter's lung. The man was arrested. Tates is at the county hospital, where it is said he will die. Haffis Azar, a Syrian by birth, but a naturalized citizen of the United States, arrived in this country a few days ago to look after a suit for $100,000 damages to health and property which he says he suffered at the hands of the Spanish in Porto Rico. He had A jowelry store in the town of Mayaguez, On April 4, he says, he was arrested by Lieut. Morales as a spy. All his property, consisting of a jewelry store and gems valued at many thousands of dollars, was carried away. Secretary Long. in an interview, says that the orders given Admiral Schley in connection with the sailing of the South Atlantic squadron were not unusual, and that the department had no intention of ignoring the wishes of the admiral, but he had been led to add the final paragraph directing Schley to remain away from South Africa because be had decided, after consulting with the state department, that it would be unwise to order any ships to South Africa on account of the probability that their presence might be misconstrued. It is not at all certain, according to the secretary, that the admiral may not be ordered to South Africa, this being dependent on the situation.
