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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Jesse It. Grant, now lies dangerously ill at Covington, Ky. The soldiers home at Knightstown, Ind., was burned on Christmas day. Tho grand-duke and snilc attended a children's floral parly at Buffalo on Sunday in a Presbyterian church. Charles Tohnay fatally shot L. Dcaglc, a saloon keeper in Cincinnati, Sunday night in a drunken affray. ft is announced that the emperor W illiara of G ermany wil 1 probably visit the czar at St. Petersburg during the coming spring. The business portion of Salina, twelve buildings, was burnt on the 25th, including Wells, Fargo & Go's office; loss $50,000 to 75,000. The Gorman expedition to Venczula will be commissioned to enforce the national claims against the government of tho South American republics. The Legitimists in the French national na-tional assembly will generally act with the members of the right centre; but will retain their indepondenco of action. In Kane, Pa., Patrick Burns, has been arrested for the murder of his wife and child, who were found dead under the barn with marks of violence. By the explosion of the rectifying house of the New York Metropolitan gasworks, a loss of $00,000 worth of property was experienced; but no one was hurt. Tie-in force men ts will be sent at once from Madrid to Havana. The new minister of the colonies proposes making mak-ing reforms in the organization of the volunteers. The American minister at San Domingo Do-mingo has remonstrated with the Haytien government against its lack of good faith and non-observance of neutrality neu-trality in the affairs of San Domingo. Ilayti denies any intermeddling, but dues not believe in the good faith of San Domingo. |