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Show AIOKMNG TKI.KHKA.MS CONOEXSEI). W. L. Brice, a brother of Senator ("alvin S. Urice, diotl at Denver yesterday. yester-day. Senator Vest will offer a free coinage bill us a substitute for the peiidiiigsilver measure. The now cruiser Philadelphia, at her recent tost, developed a speed of '0.74 knots an hour. Edward Ibiclianan. a San Francisco merchant, died in a Now York jail yesterday yes-terday from alcoholism. The Chicago conference of railroad presidents was adjourned yesterday without coming to any understanding. A heav,? storm at the. City of Mex-itu Mex-itu blow in seven arches in the iique-tltict iique-tltict and the city is without drinking w alor..- ., , (Ieorge N. Slorrs, son of the late Emory Storrs, Chicago, w as committed lo the elate Insane asylum tit Pough-koepsie, Pough-koepsie, New York. Dion R-ouecicnnit whose w ife was divorced di-vorced from him last fall has refused lo pay her anv alimony and she is now suing him lieforo lini supreme court. A dispatch from Australia says the bishops of Melbourne and Rallaral hav e directed the homo clergy of their diocese dio-cese to refuse lo marry "divorces under the new Victoria act. The conference of 'the Methodist church, south, at St. Louis yesterday, adopted resolutions against card playing, play-ing, theater-going and other kindred amuselncnt.s. Ex-Speaker Carlisle has declared his caudidacy for the seat made vacant by the death" of Senator Beek. In company com-pany with friends ho went io Frankport yesterday to present his claims to the legislature now in session. A ruiuor is alloat at London that Lord Harrington will shortly marry the duehoss of Manchester, mother of the unsavory viscount Mandovillc, who, through the recent death of his father, became the duke of Manchester. George C. Pratt, who shot and seriously seri-ously wounded President Rromwell of the California Insurance company last January, because of the alleged seduction seduc-tion of Pratt's wife, was acquitted by a jury at San Francisco yesterday. Captain Joe Means, proprietor of tho daily HosperTan, was shot and killed last night, at Gainesville, Texas, by Charlie Ball, an employee of the Register. Regis-ter. A newspaper controversy caused the trouble. Ball was arrested. It is said that Ten nio Clatlin will be tried for manslaughter committed twenty-six years ago. She is alleged to have killed a woman by using dangerous danger-ous drugs in an attempt, to remove a tumor. Toiinie claims that it is a blackmailing black-mailing scheme. It was discovered yesterday that Burke, Coughl'm and Sullivan, the throe men confined in Jolict penitentiary peniten-tiary for tho murder of Dr. Crouin had an arrangement with a prison foreman bv which they wore communicating with the outside world. The foreman was discharged. . - The sheriff's officers last night notified noti-fied the proprietors of every gambling house in Denver to close meir noois and appear hefore Justice Morns tor trial. The proprietors made no resistance, resis-tance, but quietly told the men w ho were playing to cash in, then rolled up their cash, turned out the lights and locked the doors, and, for the hint time iu manv years, there will not bo a gambling house open or a card t uracil in the city. The Delaware stale prohibition convention con-vention was attended by onlv thirty-nine thirty-nine delegates at Dover yesterday, but they noiuiuated a state ticket ami adopted a long platform. Vv ill'"1"; Kelfum of Dover was nominated for governor. The platform cntlnraes tl i platform of the National Pro hint m partv, favors the Australian hallot system sys-tem and denounces high license. On., hundred dollars was subscribed foi campaipn pin poses. ,,.,. .. Hcnrv Kunolt, pre-sulciit of the Miig ig society "f'-,'l,, WV.aYRV cat church, and a director of ho . M -C A of St. Louis, was shot and kiiu u hU night, while he and a confedera e ere Hoeing from a carpenter sboi.tbev ad tried to t o'l. The proprietor of the shop, George Staltkamp. wasawakcm I by I circttbrtsto break ... ; ; ning down with a shotgun ' 1 ' them to halt. They ran ami ho Hr - with grief. ... . |