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Show (By W. TJ. Telegraph.) RAILWAY C0XTE5H05. New Yorjc, 6. W. C. Flagg, chair-m chair-m in of tho committee appointed by th-j convention of farmers and others, held in Bloomington, Ills., in January lost, to frame a charter for the groat national double track steel rail freight railway, being detained by an accident to the train on which ho is coming com-ing to this ci'y. thu convention oaii ed to m ee t h ero 1 1: is morniDg, ha deferred its onranizirion till i p.ui A preliminary meeting was held this njorniDir, to oo tinder the questions to be fiiacusst-d hy the convention. A number of delegates woro present, mainly from Illinois, Inw, Wifconio, Michigan, Missouri and Kansas. On-iog On-iog to t tic death, hy tho terrible bride accident at Dixuo, of a daughter of LuDcan McKay, treasurer of the was- 1 tern Mvociaiiwn, that gentleman is not i expected to panioipato in tho deliber-1 turns of the oonvuution. ' |