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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES.<br><br SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 18.-L. J. Gannon, agitator and leader of the unemployed in their recent demonstrations, who was arrested a short time ago on a charge of using incendiary language on the sandlot, had a jury trial in the police court, to-day, and was promptly convicted, the jury being out a few minutes. The sentence will be pronounced to-morrow.<br><br PARIS, Mar. 19.-Felix Ryat, French communist in exile at Naples, has written a letter to Gen. Garibaldi saying; "All kings and presidents must be done away with. Unite your voice with that of the French socialists to oppose the extradition of Hartmann." Gen. Garibaldi replied, "Hartmann deserves the esteem and gratitude of all honorable man. Political assassination is a secret means for preparing a revolution."<br><br SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 20.-In the police court, this morning, the agitator Gannon was sentenced to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of $1,000. A motion for a new trial was made.<br><br> The police Judge denied Gannon's motion for a new trial, and in default of $3,000 bail, pending the appeal, he was, at noon, sent to the house of correction. There are runners that other arrests are to be made.<br><br WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.-Mrs. Christiancy is talking very freely to newspaper interviewers and is filling columns with stories of her alleged wrongs. From her statement, the ex-senator must be a very naughty man. She represents him as an opiate eater, drunkard, a man of intolerant prejudices, a wife beater and jealous beyond description. Those who have known Judge Christiancy through his long and honorable life will be surprised at these statements. His friends here are very indignant at these slanders, and insist that Mrs. Christiancy is resorting to this method to gain public sympathy.<br><br LOUISVILLE, Mar. 20.- Last night a hundred men went to James Binion's house on Big Sinking Creek, near Grayson, Ky., to notify John Boggs, a notorious character, to leave the county. Binion refused them admittance, and fired fifty shots at them, killing one man. Then the Regulators broke down the doors, shot Binion dead, seized Boggs, tried him, fired shots at him and left, after whipping a nineteen year old son of Binion's, for joining the fusilade.<br><br DENVER, Mar. 22.- At Alma, Col., W. J. Porter, a hard character, shot and killed Thomas Carmody, to-day. The murder was unprovoked and in less than an hour, about ?? unmasked citizens gathered at the jail and hung Porter to a ridge pole of the jail. He swore until they put the rope around his neck. He then spoke a few words and said, "pull up the rope, boys." <br><br NEW YORK, Mar. 22. - Last Saturday a passenger train left the track at Loft House, near Wakefield, Eng. [England], whereby two persons were killed and twenty injured.<br><br The pointsman whose carlessness [carelessness] caused the railroad accident at Halle, Germany, last week, by which several lives were lost, has committed suicide. |