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Show ! MORMXtt TFXEG RAMS CONDENSED. A rich Chinese groceryman has been found in JJew York suffering from leprosy. lep-rosy. Thus far the bodies of 101 victims of the Minnesota cyclone have been recovered. re-covered. Two steamers collided on the St. Lawrence river and five persons were drowned. . Three men who were working under a railroad train at Lexington, Ky., were killed by the engineer starting the cars. A find of silver at a depth of 119 feet is reported from the Michigan copper mine, in the Hartville district, Wyoming. Wyom-ing. A whole family, consisting of father, mother and six children, wero suffocated suffocat-ed by charcoal fumes in a room on the Hue Avon, France. The Hellertovvn Agricultural works at Hellertown, l'a., were totally destroyed by a wind storm. Seven men were hurt and a boy killed. By the capsizing of a yacht near Camden, N. J., five persons were precipitated pre-cipitated in the wate r. One of the number was drowned. It is estimated that 120,000 persons were iu attendance at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Salvation Sal-vation Army held in London. It is rumored in Washington that Mormon i nfluence and money will be used to defeat ex-Delegate Du Bois as United States senator from Idaho. Judge Howland has handed down a decision that Gorman must be taught in the public schools of Indianapolis, lnd. During the prevalence of a storm at Monreville, Ohio, lightning struck a house, killing Freddie, Willie and Otto Golduer, and badly injuring Kate Smith. The committee on organization ou the world's fair have expressed the opinion that the gates should be opened ou Sundays for the admittance of spectators. spec-tators. A crowd of 000 women attacked the cuards at Buda Pesth upon being refused re-fused permission to view the free exhibition exhi-bition of the trousseau of the Princess of Thun-Taxis. The owners of Sunol have challenged the owner of Belle Hamlin the Buffalo wonder that has just trotted a furlong in Hi seconds, which is betLer than a two minute gait, to race for a purse of $10,000 a side. The excursion steamer City of Detroit De-troit ran into and cut in two the barge Kesota, on lake Michigan. The, crew of the disabled boat were rescued and Judge Nicholas, an excursionist, was badly injured. Lord George Hamilton, first bud of the admiralty has announced that it is the purpose of tre government to tune the British navy by 14 equal to any of the navies in the world .and sajs that work is progressing rapidly in accordance ac-cordance with that programme. The delegates who have retnrned to England from the international prison congress at St. Petersburg state that the whole affair was utterly impracticable impractica-ble They declare that it is utterly impracticable im-practicable that a mere exchange of will do anything to ameliorate the lot of persons in Bussia. There has been a revival of interest among the moneyed men of lork in the scheme of ex-Governor ilban Gilpin of Colorado, to connect, e York and St. Petersburg. Russia, by i,H It conceded that the suggestion u nraciical, and it is thought that he ioPney or ihe cost of the construction of the line can be easrly raised. The Minnesota Farmers Alliance nominated the following ticket: (ov-rrnor (ov-rrnor K g! Hall; lieutenant-governor, O B irratt. Brown's valley ; secrc-Hr- of state. M . W. Esenlierg of Dn-b Dn-b ft a Scandinavian; Mate ambtor P. H Rap ill. Wabasha county: state tS0 itlu, I'Juelly. -ho ? H ? 'be nominated for governor "'wfhr over h s defeat and threatens ITuSSSd i-1 the interest of harmony. |