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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Caplain George Henry McKenzio, tbo noted chess player, is dead. The Etoile Hclgo says Henry M. Stanley has liecn appointed governor of Kongo state. William Coe, a Denver architect, tried to .lump off a moving elevator In the Newbaak biiiidinir and was i-ruthed to death. All English syndicate that entered Into a contract to tiny all ths fertilizing works lu the country, claims to have been swindled. An order has just been received by the Tappan Sac company at I'lermont, N. V,, to make four gunb Kits for tim Nenezuela government. The Welch tin platers will close their works fon one month from July 1. being forced to restrict the output iu cinse,iieac of the new American tariff law. The first American whist congress opened at Milwaukee, yesteiday wttli dele-pates dele-pates from all parts of t ie country present. The t ames of the tournament beta today. Professor C. L A Totten of Yale says that mathematical cil-ulatlon, founded on biblical tr.itha, provM beyond p"radven-tare p"radven-tare that the Mu-siali wdl come aaiu before the year l, o. Northern Africa is threatened with a plague of locusts, which Is likely to cause much hai'.is'ilp and stifferln ;. Twelve yua: havo elapsed since the north of Africa was last vislled by a scourge of tais natuie. One hundred and sixteen Episcopal clergymen at New York address an open re-monstrau.-e to It'-tion l'otter against the action ac-tion of Dr. Heber New ton and others in allowing allow-ing outsider i to o-cupy turtr pulpits. For twenty-five years Silas G. Slaughter, now s x-ty years oi l. has been a noted horse thief In West Virginia, lie applied ap-plied for a pension last week m Calhoun county, coun-ty, and by this means was Identified and oap-tured. William T. Baker, president of the Chicago Hoard of Trade, was last, nluht eiot t-e.i t-e.i president of t'ae board of directors of t'ie World s Fair, vice Lyma-i J. (Jage resigned Baker s ep-ctloa w as unanimous. Baiter Is a an enthusiastic democrat. The South Carolina legislature pro. posed to divide the state's quota of the Federal appropriation for agricultural oolle,'es equally belAe'ti'he colored and whit! schools, an, I ssee-etarv Nobis proposes to withhold the fun is eutirrlv on this ground. Jnhn H. Parnoll. a brother of Charles Stewart Pa-neil. who owns an extensive fruit farm near Kist. l'oiut, Ca., has been summoned sum-moned to It eland. His said by those in his confidence that he Is among the number selected se-lected by his brother to stand for parliament In his intere ,t. The Indian who killed the Hulls near n.ackfoot Monday was found dead by tbe Indian In-dian police several miles south, he Laving seen tne pursuers and saot himsdi through the ho ly. T.ie sta -i from Ch illis, wh'ch arrives ar-rives there ws Bred upon by a party of Indians In-dians y.stcrla.' afternoon while passing through the lava beds six miles west of that place. Frank McGrath, president of the Kansas Alliance, has ad Irussed a letter to the southern ailainces. nrgib ; th"in t . attend tbe Cincinnati coiive iCon and be prepared to act with the third iu lepend :it party. In the letJ j t'-r he Intimates tnat uutess the southern branch of the order takes ti.'s step the northern north-ern states will go haeit to the republican party. A ranchman. James McDermott, of the Uig Horn b isiii thra-hed his wife and with the irlrl baby -be took refuse in the cabin of the Madden boys, a mile awav. McPermo't appeared with his foer-r-ar-old tny in his left arm to bu us,d as a shield an I a six shooter In his right hand Madden came out with h:s ride and t iok aim at MeDermott's head. The little boy will ImnigiK to h s I ither ' lire t an 1 ids -kuil w.is gra iel i-y the rifle bullet I Several more shots were find. Tho bay died j In a few hours and McDe'-mottis not expacted to recover. I ) |