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Show FLASHES FEOM THE WIRES. It is now said that (iar.a is In Cuba. John Lycnrgus Sullivan, slugger, received an ovation at Topeka yesterday. Grover Cleveland's name was among those placed In nomination for the presidency of the New York Life. The stallion Alcryon, and his owner, Frank I. Noble, have been finally expelled from membership In the National Trotting association. A secret meeting of the trunk manufacturer- of the country was held at Chicago yesterday. A combination to control prices, it is said, is being formed. W. Seatnam, whfo-testilied against moonshiners moon-shiners at BirminghanT;-Alav, v:m '.W-j-fJj in liis house last night and his 9-year-old son! killed and his wife fatally injured. James Couch, one of Chicago's pioneer settlers anil owner of the Tremont house property, was run over by a truck yesterday w hen alighting from a street car, and fatally injured. He is 112 years of age. The United Stales grand jury at IVad-J wood, S. I)., indicted eleven Chinamen fori using the mails for the transmission ot lot! tery tickets and literature. The evidence! against them is positive. I At the regular monthly banquet of thel daughters of Rebekah at Eldorado, Kan.,1 Last night, about forty people were poisoned 1 by some foreign substance in the coffee, All were taken siek, though none of the cases were fatal. The annual estimates of farm animals, consolidated from the local returns of January Jan-uary to the department of agriculture, indicate indi-cate an increase of each kind of 8 to 4 per rent of si p, swine and horses, about 3 per cent in eat lie, ami scarcely 1 per cent in mules. Tommy Kelly, the "Harlem 8pider?B Billy Hummer of Birmingham, Kng., Wrw" I been matched to a finish at 110 pounds for I $1000 a side and the bantam-weight championship cham-pionship of the world. |