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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Edward Kelley who shot Charlie Ford at Creeds, has been convicted of murder in the second degree.' Jules Lumbard, a famous old-time singer; was struck by a cable car yesterday afternoon after-noon and run over, at Omaha. His injuries are serious, but hope is expressed that he will recover. Mrs-teierome Beecher, widow of a wealthy real estate dealer of Chicago, yesterday gave $50,000 toward the $1,000,000 fund for the Chicago university, all of which is now subscribed sub-scribed except $40,000. The dry goods house.of Xouehaese Brothers Broth-ers was burned last evening with a stock in the building amounting to $150,000. The building was owned by Alex White of New York, and was valued at $65,000. No insur-nee. insur-nee. Nine long-time convicts made their escape from tbe state prison at Boston yesterday through a sewer, and all but one are now at large. They are J. M. Bradley, Dennis O'fieam, Dan Coffey, John C. Lynch, Michael O'Connor, John Both. Stephen Mc-CalL. Mc-CalL. Felix Goldiag and Dan Muller. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, a reporter of the Boston Transcript, has just received the ap-jeint ap-jeint as private secretary to ex-President Cleveland and will at once enter upon his formal duties t Gray Gables, Buzzards Bay. He graduated from Harvard University in 1S91 with high honors. Louis Napoleon Azerat, formerly member cf the stock exchange of Paris, was arrested yesterday at Chicago, charged with forgery. The name is that of a Pans millionaire of several years ago. The amount of the for-gerv, for-gerv, is said to be $6000. The arrest was mad? at the Instance of the French consul. The people of eastern Colorado claim to have solved the rain problem. There is now being made a huge balloon with a curiously shaped basket. The plan is to inflate It and end it to a height of 3000 feet. The basket will contain burning coal tar and rosin, the gt6es from which, the inventor claims, will produce rain during the most stubborn drouth. Four witnesses who ay for the prosecu-" prosecu-" tioa that Cheyenne would not be a suitable place for the tidal of tho Johnson county invaders in-vaders were heard at Laramie yesterday. They said the cattlemen had powerful and. Influential friends in Cheyenne, as well as business associates. Besides this it was claimed that in the capital city there existed, the sentiment that the people of Johnson county were mostly cattle thieves. |