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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. A large number of Pullman sleeping cars are to be sent to Australia. President Harrison killed six redheaded red-headed ducks yesterday, and will prolong pro-long his hunt until Saturday. Guatemala has subsidized a line ot. steamers to make monthly trips each way between Hamburg and Guatemala ports. Some 300 Chinese pirates and robbers were beheaded in Kwantung province during the last few days of the old Chinese Chi-nese year. At Albany Peter Hecker. 63 years old. cut his wife to death with a razor, indicting twenty slashes. Ho then killed himself. Dr. Wiudthorst, tho famous leader of the. center or Catholic party in the Ueichstag, is iu a critical condition from congestion of the lungs. The retail lumber dealers of St. Loui have decided to boycott some wholesalers, whole-salers, because they had been doing a, retail business in the territory of tha middlemen, and at wholesale prices. F. A. Gale, a prominent banker and , politician of Yankton, S. I)., suicided by shooting in the Merchants' hotel. He left a letter saying he had "lost ail his money on the Chicago board of trade. At Iilackfoot, Idaho, the jury in the case of John Andrews, indicted along with Frye, Bruhn et al. for alleged " wholesale cattle stealing through southern south-ern Idaho, reudered a verdict of not guilty- ' The tirst result of the mail subsidy act will be tho construction by Austin Corbin of eight magnificent American steamers of 12.0C0 tons each, that will cross tho Atlantic in five days. The? 1 .-' lirst four will cost $12,000,000. ' A Washington special says: Tho movement mado by personal friends of . . Secretary Windooi to raise a fund of . $30,000 for Mrs. Witulom has been sue- ' cessful. Tho entire amount has been secured and will be handed to Mrs. Windom in a few days. A movement is on foot in eastern Idaho consisting of Bear Lake and a portion of Bingham counties, to detach them from Idaho and become part of Wyoming. Wyom-ing. The people of Wyoming favor the move, and the mormons claim thai us Idaho does not waut them, they should be attached to a state that does. |