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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Hugh Waite Howe was buried in WashlDjrton yesterday. The locomotive engineers held their final session at Fl ttsburg yesterday. Since the accession of Alexander SiO.000 Jews have been expelled from Russia. The crusade against Cuban bandits is still waging. Three were executed yesterday. yester-day. , t The creditors of S. Pekten & Co. of Denver, promise to eiutr.bate a highly sensa-ture sensa-ture to It. John W. Yardlev, wanted in Montreal Mon-treal for embezzlement, was arrested in Omaha last night. Alire destroyed tho business portion of Chtiricc.t'ie last nlfcht. The loss Is r partod very heavy. Tony Hart, the well-known comedian, is reported dying In the aiylum for the Insane at Worcesle -, Mass. Hon. W. T. Hodgers, ex-speaker of the Arkansas legislature, was robbed by a lone highwayman yesterday. - Eleven German life boatmen were drowned yesterday while trying to relieve the crew of a British vessel. John Tunif. n Baltimore boiler maker was so overjoyed atreceiv.'ng t8JU0 bick pension, pen-sion, that he has gons crazy. The census bureau reports that 4,4M,9J tons of steel was prrduced In the United St ites during the flicsl year. Frank Mason yesterday shot and killed his two broth' rs-in-lnw Charles and Matthew Va-iu at Westport, California. Le Fevers adoplntion of Romeo and Juliet with mus'o by Francis Thorne was successfully suc-cessfully produced la Paris Thursday night. ' Mrs. Logan anil daughter, of Newark Ohio, were struck by an co fine while crossing a railroad track yesterday and instantly killed. . i George Lammerts a clerk in the Sus-peml Sus-peml in BrklR.i pot office was yesterday overpowered over-powered aad chloroformed, and the office robbed. A telegram states that the Colorado Midland passed into ths. hands of the S int i Fe as a form il ratlllcaMoa of t.ie sale at m.dui((ht last night. The Troup-Stanley controversy about the wretched condition of the rear crlumn goes bravely oa in Europe. Stanley seems to have tried to bluff it through on a nino-hUh. The Mountain Home, Idaho, highwaymen, high-waymen, who held up the proprietor of a road house, have made their escape into the mountains moun-tains with officers in hot pursuit. A reward of f 9U0 has been offered. ; The opera house at Payson, in which the Goodwin Pilgrims recently held their Jubilee, was slightly burned yest -rd ty morning. morn-ing. The bla:e orlgluatsl in a collision between be-tween a piece of falling scenery and a hanging lamp. The annual report of Director of the Mint Lee e says the e )lna'n for the past fiscal year was the larg st in tie luVt i of the mint, ag(rregat:ng l2i,OH,071 pleeos. Gold and silver bars wore niamifnctured as follows: Gold, fl,342.431; sliver, tt,m,SSl. Total, l,.18r,7Jl. Governor Hill has asked for a recount re-count of New York city which he says under the present figures makes a difference of a congressman con-gressman to them. Hs cln'm i that the alleged miscount was Intent onal on the part of enumerators. enum-erators. The treasury department has issued an order to the collector of customs at El Paso. Tcjai. Instructing him to levy a duty of 1 cents per point! on tbe entire we gat of ores srom Mexico, of which lead Is ths chief component part, instead of on actual weight of lead in ores as has been the practice heretofore. hereto-fore. . ' , ..- i Another mail edition of the Leavenworth Leaven-worth Times was thrown out by the postmaster post-master because it contained tbe advertisement of a Catholic church fair. Suit has been Instituted Insti-tuted against the department for 110,000 damages, dam-ages, the claim bslng that ao law can prevent an American newspaper from printing tb news. All bids for filling and piling Lake Front were rejected by the World's Fair board of dlrecto-s yesterday. New hids on modified specifications will be asked. The formers pee-Ideations pee-Ideations are said to have lnoiuded a number of uaeUvs requirement". As a result fie hids were from tl.W.OUO to m,O00 higher than ex-pectel. ex-pectel. Assistant Secretary Chandler of the Land office yesterday render! a decision. In which he holds that the entry of a man who submitted final pro if on a desert land entry before tbe official survey was filed, should not be require! when the land was officially survey! sur-vey! d ti ma'ee new proof, showing the proper reclamation thereof. This pverrides a former ruling. A telegram from the cily of Mexico says news has reachsd that place from Interior a-id seabiaTl cities, of severs damage don? by the storms that have be n raging U r three weeks or more. In Sonera heavy rains, accompanied ac-companied by high winds aud bail, haw down whole groves of trees In the public parks. The hi' j.ft the crops on the plantations to pieces uul causes limited damage. This will result re-sult In f nture hardship among the owners of small plantations and the laboring classes. A dispatch to the San Francisco Chronicle says: Every Indication points to the conclusion that the HgrpSers do not purpose to be tbwartbed by ihe determined opposition of the companies in their eflorts to organize. They d not mean to strike, and never Intended to- Toey are not In a position to inaugurate a swresefnl movement, and ar frank to admit It. Still, while their future acton ac-ton Is only conjectured, they declare their Intention toestablisa a onion, although tbey hav to swear falsely and dap their employer. employ-er. i . , . i-.... i-.... i |