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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Sir Henry James has been elected to the upper house of parliament as a life peer. The marquis of Harrington is to marry the dowager duchess of Manchester Man-chester in the spring. A wealthy young Russian has been sentenced to twenty years penal servitude servi-tude in France for murdering his mistress. mis-tress. The British government is said to bo' plotting for English political and commercial com-mercial supremacy iu the Hawaiian islands. A volcanic disturbance iu the Mediterranean Medit-erranean sea between (lenda and Spiz-zie Spiz-zie culminated in a submarine volcanic eruption. Henry W. Lord, formerly a prominent promin-ent politician of Michigan, was instantly in-stantly killed in a train wreck on the Northern Pacific near Kutte. It is the intention of the czar to thoroughly thor-oughly russianize the grand duchy of Finland in much the same manner as Poland was subjugated. Four thousand unemployed workmen at Hamburg resolved to send a petition to the senate asking that landlords he prohibited on the next quarter day from evicting tenants unable to pay their rents; als'j asking that a loan of fifty marks be advanced lo destitute workmen work-men from the state funds, aud that poor children in the public schools be supplied sup-plied each a hot meal daily. |