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Show TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Boise republican's ratified the nomination last night. Alfred Greenbaum & Co. of San Francisco have failed for $200,000. The National competitive drill association opened at Omaha yesterday. Judge George V. Marsey will probably succeed Justice Bradley on the supreme bench. Eighty houses were destroyed by fire yes-teidayin yes-teidayin the town of Dubez, near Barcelona, Spain. A dispatch from Matanzas, Cuba, says the loss occasioned bv the flood is estimated at $2."j0,000. Eouni Sharpe, an Omaha shipping clerk ha:5 been found guilty of making a false registration. reg-istration. Governor Flower of New York narrowly escaped being killed in a railway accident yesterday. Melbourne, the rain maker, is working at Holyoke, Colo. lis has promised a shower for tomorrow. The Western Farm Mortgage company and the Seattle National Bank Building company have settled their difficulties. At the ( impue Ports regatta yesterday the I yacht Iverna again defeated the Meteor, which is owned by the German emperor. The Danube river has risen four and a half I inches since last night. The town of Raab, sixty miles northwest of this city, on a tributary trib-utary of the Danube, is isolated from the surrounding country by the flood. At a largely attended meeting held at Simla yesterday it was unanimously decided to memorialize parliament for reform in the Indian currency by an international agreement agree-ment establishing bimetallism or the estab- lishment of the gold standard. The mortality from cholera at Meshed, Persia, has reached 400 daily. Business is completely suspended. The Persian Government Gov-ernment has ordered a military cordon to be placed around Teheran at a distance of forty miles from the city. The Russian Government Govern-ment is taking vigorous and extensive measures to prevent the entry of cholaw into Europe. A terrific thunder storm prevailed in man' parts of Spain yesterday, and churches in particular suffered from lightning strokes. At Bruges the famous old cathedral, founded iu 1221, was seriously injured; at Mucientes a church filled with worshipers was struck and five persons were killed. At Melias a similar occurrence took place, one person being killed and twenty-eight seriously hurt. The American legation at Berlin has received re-ceived a note from Poultney Biglow, whose expulsion from Russia was announced last night, stating that he and Frederisch Remington, Rem-ington, the American artist, were driven out of Russia. They are now at Tileit, from which place they will return to Berliu. The expulsion of the Americans is supposed to be due to the publication of the Geruiau-ophile Geruiau-ophile articles written by Bigelow. |