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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Kx-Prealdent Cleveland responded to the toast "Our Country," at the annual police captain's banquet in New York. A bill for n pension to Mary Ann Dogherty, a bill for whose relief was vetoed by Cleveland, has been reported favorably to the senate. Thp Washington Post says the general gen-eral belief at the capital' is that the force bill and the closure resolution have both received a death blow. A resolution was introduced iu the New York legislature declaring that the state will take no part in the world's fair if the force bill is passed. Miss Cecelia St. Clair 'F.lton, superiu-tendant superiu-tendant of the Episcopal church associa-ation associa-ation of Hoston, is a direct descendant of the Earl cf Caithness, but will uot make olaim to any part of the estate. A coroner's jury at Omaha held the firm of Klein, Sploge & Co., wholesale and retail liquors, for tiring their store to obtain insurance and preventing the escape of Nathan Harnstein, who had been hired to apply thu match. It appeared in the Kean trial at Chicago Chi-cago that tbe missionary funds "misplaced" "mis-placed" by the wily banker were to have boen used iu purchasing little African girls at $;)() each and transferring transfer-ring them to Christian homes. |