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Show TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Judge Gresham refuses to be a third party candidate. Four Indians in South Dakota were killed by a cyclone. In a recent battle in Allahabad 1500 Afghans were killed by the Hazaras. Balfour was cheered anil hissed at Sheffield yesterday, the meeting breaking up in wild disorder. England has obtained from Spain the minimum tariff on British goods imported into Spain and colonies without granting any concession in return. A special says that three negroes were shot to death at Sturges, Texas, Friday. They had confessed to having assaulted two white women the night before. A mob at Shclbyville, Tenn., y;sterday took William Bates, a wife murderer of Bovversviile. from the jail and hanged him La the court house yard. Bates died protesting protest-ing his innocence. Mrs. Alice L. Taylor of Mt. Pleasant, la., one of the deal good creatures who go about I lecturing on the wickedness of this world. I has just been detected iu the act of swindling swindl-ing the government. Schwackcr Brothers' wholesale grocery aud hardware store at Seattle burned last evening aud the Northern hotel was slightly damaged. Tiie loss is $500,000 with insur-ance insur-ance of about $:Jd,000. The new bridge over the river Leven mar Lestle in Scotland collapsed yesterday on the removal of the scaffolding which was erected during its construction. A number of workmen were carried down with the falling fall-ing I ridge and five drowned. Lord Salisbury issued an address to the electors yesterday. The address implored them to pause before deciding to reverse the policy of the government. He concluded by praying that the electors will not shatter the peace and order now reigning in Ireland, Ire-land, resulting from a long period of steady government. On Saturday last Gilbert Palmer, aged 10, and Emma Couklin, aged 18, both of Xeuia, O., went away together. Search for them was unavailing until yesterday, when their bodies were discovered several miles from town. They had taken poison. In Palmer's pocket was a note asking that they be buried together, but giving no explanation of the suicide. The articles of incorporation of the leather trust were tiled yesterday at the secretary of state's office in Trenton, N. J. The company com-pany will be known as the Rice & Hutchin-9'n Hutchin-9'n Incorporated. Capital stock, 1,000,000. The business of the company will be manu factoring leather and selling boots, shoes and other leather articles. Headquarters at Boston. Ex-President Fitzgerald of the National League, of America, Treasurer Lyman of New York and other gentlemen will sail for Ireland the latter part of this week on an important im-portant mission. They are empowered to state to the contending factions in the Irish party that unless the existing dissensions arc healed and all differences adjusted no further contributions of funds will be forwarded for-warded from this country. The executive committee of the Bimetal-lists' Bimetal-lists' league is in session at Washington and resolved having failed at Minneapolis and at Chicago to secure an explicit declaration in favor of the restoration of free bimetallic coinage to recommend several men to go to Omaha and urge the adoption there of such a platform and the nomination of such a candidate can-didate as the silver men can support. |