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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Governor Newton Booth died suddenly at Sacramento, Cal., last night. The People's party of Iowa ratified Weaver's Wea-ver's nomination at Des Moines last night. Whisky is likely to become cheaper on account ac-count of a war between the trust and a private pri-vate distillery. Cyrus Wr. Field's funeral took place yesterday yes-terday with simple ceremonies. Bishop Potter officiated. One more body was removed from the wreck of the steamer Frankic Folsom late la?t evening, making a total of eleven There is thought to be only one more body in the wreck. The Columbus baseball team has been ordered or-dered home from Minneapolis. The president presi-dent of the team says that it means the dis-bandiuent dis-bandiuent of the Western league. No official announcement of the fact has been made. H. C, Tyler of the Springfield Athletic club established the world's record for a nuarter-mile flying start at Hampton yesterday yester-day afternoon, making the distance in 282-5 seconds, beating the record of 28 4-5 seconds made by Beerle of Boston. W. II. Wilson of Cynthiana, Ky., died yesterday at the Cincinnati hospital of obstruction ob-struction of the bowels. Wilson was the owner of Abdallah park and was one of the leading breeders of fine horses in Kentucky. t " |