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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Colonel Benjamin Gresham, brother of Judge W. Q. Gresham is dead. O. P. Brown, a Park county, Indiana, farmer, bought a $6000 gold brick Saturday. Mary Magee, Alexander McCloud and James Hawkins were drowned at Rockland, Me., Saturday. Margaret Mather, the actress, was granted a divorce Saturday from her husband, Emil Haberkern, on the ground of desertion and non-support. A statement prepared at the pension office shows during the fiscal year just closed there were issued 305,702 certificates, as against 250,565 in 1.891. The storehouse of B. B. and R. Knight at River point, together with 6,700 bales of cotton and a thousand pieces of cloth w?re destroyed by firse Saturday.. Loss half a million. The president has approved the act authorizing author-izing the secretary of the interior to carry into effect certain recommendations of the Mission Indian commission and issue patents for certain lands. The first half of the season of the Pacific Northwest Baseball league closed yesterday, with Portland in the lead, Tacoma second, Spokane third and Seattle last. The new season opens today. The new taxes imposed by the Spanish government on various branches of business are meeting with strong opposition. Bourse operators Saturday refused to transact business busi-ness owing to the tax on bourse opcrat rs. The twenty-five mile road race of the Canadian Cana-dian Wheelmen's associatiou Saturday resulted re-sulted in W. Carman of the Toronto Bicycle club winning in 1 hour, 10 minutes and 6 seconds. The American record, 1 hour, 15 minutes and 45 seconds. A fire broke out Saturday evening about 7 o'clock at the residence of John Snow of Provo, destroying about $6000 worth of property, covered with $3000 insurance. The fire department did good service and j saved a considerable amount. j Johnny Murphy of Boston has issued a I challenge to. fight George Dixon before any club offering the largest purse for the bantam ban-tam weight championship of the world. He has posted $100 for a forfeit and will keep the challenge open two weeks. Gladstone arrived in Glasgow .this afternoon. after-noon. Streets through which he passed were lined with cheering crowds. There was an immAise gathering at the meeting and the speaker was hailed with every manifestation man-ifestation of friendship and respect. Premier Abbott received a telegram Saturday Sat-urday from the British Columbia Sealers' association declaring that the recent seizures of Canadian sealers by a United States cruiser were illegal and asking him to bring the matter to the attention of imperial authorities. au-thorities. The commission appointed by the secretary secre-tary of the interior to ascertain whether or not valuable mineral exists on any part of the reservation land of the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, report the region re-gion barren of metallic wealth and worthless for mining purposes. Congressman William Springer while in Chicago, enroute to his home in Michigan, said he did not think the House will take up the Stewart silver bill this session. He said it was barely possible that the cloture rule would be passed and a vote taken, but he did not think so. M. Louewy, a diamond merchant of Paris, committed suicide yestererday. He was suspected sus-pected of having perpetrated frauds to the amount of 3,000,000 francs. Before killing himself he sent a telegram to a friend announcing an-nouncing his intention and stating: "My life has been nothing but lies." He swindled one jeweler out of a million francs and another an-other out of 1,075,000 francs. The town of Dundalk, Ireland, was the scene of great disorder yesterday. Timothy Healy was addressing the meeting. A num. her of serious fights occurred, many persons being badly injurred. Tho Pamelhtes attacked at-tacked the meeting and were repulsed after a tierce contest. The police kept the factions fac-tions apart, but fighting was resumer later in the evening. The rioting in Limerick last night continued until midnight. A Par-nellite Par-nellite meeting at Newry was attacked by McCarthy ites and a fierce fight ensued. The McCarthyltes were repulsed. |