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Show HOHMNft TELEGRAMS CONOEXSKD. Treasurer Peak, of Kansas City, has resigned. Walt Whitman, the poet, will be 71 years old on Saturday. The Christian scientists. John L. Linseolt of Denver presiding, aro iu session in New York. Tho Illinois prohibition convention lias declared in favor of the free aud unlimited coinage of silver. Senator Leland Stanford and Mrs. Stanford this morning sailed for Eng. land by the steamer Teutonic. The custom house officials at Portland last night siezed !2000 worth of smuggled smug-gled opium in a Chinese wash house. At Denver, Dan McDerraott hist night found his wife dead in bed. Shu had committed suicide because of ill health. The thirty-second general assembly of tho United Presbyterian church of North America is in session at Buffalo, N. Y. Madame DeVere the Toledo. Ohio clairvoyant, has been found guilty bf fogery and sentenced to ten years in tho penitentiary. A farm servant at Cordova yesterday murdered his master and four other persons, because ho was refused permission permis-sion to attend a bull right. A dispatch from Purto Corte reports the loss oj the steamship Mountain Girl In tow from New Orleans. Two of the crew, John Demoro and George Boher, were drowned. : 'i ; .It in now estimated that the shortago of E. M. Cattell, the absconding manager man-ager of the Walker & Co. stock commission com-mission office at St. Paul, will amount to at loast $1(5,000. Claasseu, tho wrecker of the Sixth National bank of New York, was last night found guilty on the live indictments indict-ments which formed tho principal chargo against him. The Knuber mystery at Montreal has been cleared up by the discovery of the body of tho young Englishman in a large reservoir. His throat was cut and a towel tied around h's neck. The congressional committee on ini-megation ini-megation is in session in Chicago. Jas. Burns, of the carpenter's council, in his testimony said that he knew of the importation of foreign carpenters. The Boise City, Idaho, council last night passed au ordinance granting a franchise for a street railway, to be commenced within four months, aud two and one-half miles to be completed within a year. Tho west bound posseuger train, No. 3 ou the Union Pacific was wrecked near Dallaco yesterday morning by running into a sand drift. The engineer, engi-neer, fireman. and to mail clerks were slightly injured. The Ohio grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, has amended its constitution to provide that any person engaged in buying, procuring, and selling or manufacturing man-ufacturing intoxicating liquors should not be initiated into a lodge. Three hundred studeuts of the Michigan Michi-gan State university at Ann Arbor had a light with showmen during the performance per-formance of a circus last night. Ion studeuts and as many of their opponents oppo-nents are in the hands of physicians. - William Duuphy, the millionaire cattleman cat-tleman of San Francisco, is lying seriously ser-iously ill at the Fifth avenue hotel m New York. While returning from Europe on the steamer Campagne, he fell and broke three ribs aud plurisy SUThonew board of directors of the Pacitlc Mail company has elected J. B. Houston president and Edward Latitc-bauch Latitc-bauch vice-president. The impression on Wall street is that tho C anadian Pacific has secured control of tho com- ''"Elizabeth Emmett has been awarded an absolute divorce from Joseph h. Emmett. He made no opposition to the nroceedings. It was tiuderstood at the C lining of tho suit that Emmett ;s to present her with the Albany Villa and $100,000. John F.Collins, said lo he a deputy United States marshal at Seattle, and Mra M i v Facer were locked up at Chi-clgo Chi-clgo lS nfghf charged with adultery. A year or socage Collins left his w.tc and Mis. Facev left her husband and the coiiple went to Seattle and lived together, he taking his child. The passenger agreement for the res-tora res-tora foS of rates in the . northwest has been signed by the pres. dents of all the lines concerned, inclnding theNorthe.il ;S tf take effect the 10th of June Ti c situation in the southwest continues U Tl,o.m.sClLyons, one of the most prom-ilteVundSedlv prom-ilteVundSedlv killed also. Scele-bS; rfTnfsnd other jewelry of all sorts. |