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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. A general rainfall bas quenched most rf the forest fires In Minnesota. It is officially stated that 800 build-lnes build-lnes rerr.a'n standine at ConsueRri. There v ere lino I efore the Hood. Tho steamer City of Rome caught fire at the docks at Liverpool yesterday and was damaged to the extent of ne,0u0. Edge, the English bicyclist, has broken the record by rlilinc from London o Kdinhur?, an mdes in hours aud minutes. min-utes. The Ctilofjn Oa-, ttr says that the Emptor Em-ptor and the principal military advisors approve ap-prove tbe proposition to r-d'n o the term of military servb to two years. After consulting with British agents the Sultan of Zanzibar has decided to reconstruct recon-struct the .nlminis'.ra'lon of his goyernmetit aud aripoint res-ponsthie ministers in the different dif-ferent branc os, he himself receiving a fixed civil list. |