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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Cincinnati city election Democratic, small majority on mayor. Toledo, Ohio, eity election Republican. Republi-can. Dctnooratio mayor elect od by small majority. Nixon tho oonviotcd iew York murderer has relapsed and is not now expeoted to live. Tho annual Stato convention of tho California woman suffragists mot on Tuesday at 10 a.m. - H. L. Otis, secretary of the Erie railway company, resigned. In view of tho strike in New York, Brooklyn is making inquiry into the f easibility of the oity furnishing its own gas. Tho San Francisco board of supervisors super-visors has passed an order making it a misdemeanor to play the strap loop gamo. Rains of the past week throughout Illinois are the heaviest known for years. Prairies covered with water and all tho streams ovei flowing. Tho German bark Max, which sailed from San Francisco on the 5th for Falmouth, sprung a leak in a heavy girle when fifty-five miles out of port, j and returned for repairs. A Peoria, Illinois, dispatch says I Mrs. Workman, the wife of the Eureka Methodist minister, has confessed to having killed Mrs. Hedges and says she did it in self-defence. The younger of tho Leon brothers, i well-known grymoaetfl now performing in Chicago, fell from a trapeze Monday evening and broke his right thigh probably disabling him for life. Tho Manhattan gas company men wero expeoted to strike Tuesday. Adam Kcesland and John Bronick, New York non-strikers were followed in a street oar Monday and brutally : beaten. In oonsequcnoe of new developments making daily in the affairs of the Bull's Head bank, the examination of William H. Meiritt, assistant cashier, charged with embezzling $200,000, has been postponed. Tho Now York city comptroller has been instructed by the board of aldermen alder-men to sue for the recovery of half a million dollars eourt house funds alleged al-leged traced to the private bank account ac-count of one of the commissioners. Tho United States senate special committee, appointed to investigate the difficulties between the post office departments and tho railroads, met in the Fifth Avenue hotel on Tuesday. Isaac Hinckley, of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road, appeared ap-peared for the companies. Alderman Peter Gilsoy, one of the largest real estate dealers of New York, died on Tuesday. He had been sick several months. He was a member mem-ber of the Apollo Hall Democracy, and received the highest number of votes of any candidate for alderman at tho last election. At the Erie legislative investigation on Tuesday testimony was given by Joseph Seligman and W. R. Slattuck, bankers, to provo that the commission allowed Birchoffckiem for the negotiation negotia-tion of bonds of the company were not excessive. William Reldeo testified that he hini sol 'received three thousand a mouth from Gould but could not recollect for what service. |