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Show FLASHES FE0M THE WIBES. Three masked men robbed the express flic at Purant, Misc., yesterday of about gaOOO. Three masked bandits entered the barn of the Metropolitan Cable road at Kansas City last night aud robbed the cashier of $400. They escaped es-caped if'ly. In a shorthand contest at the fair at Portland, Port-land, Ore., last ni;;lit, F. E. ilcGurrm wrote 311 words iu fifty-nine seconds from dictation. On the tvpewriter he wrote 101 words per minute Windfoldt d. Counsel for Searles says the postponement postpone-ment of the Searles will case was made on request of the contestants' counsel, and there is no foundation foun-dation fer the rumor that Searles has offered to eowpromi-e. Secretary Mohler of Kansas has issued a final crop report of wheat and oats. It shows the yield of wheat for Kansas, 58,3'JO,fil9 bushels; oats. sn.(i(iS,01.j bushels ; probable product of corn, 145,585,U1S bushels. In the United States district court at -Ab-injiton, Va., Jack Mnllins was convicted of in-timiilaUn? in-timiilaUn? voters at the last presidential election and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a line of This is the tirst conviction in Vir ginia under the Federal laws for the protection of the elective franchise. |