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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. A receiver has been appointed to wind up the affairs of the Morgan Land & Live Stock company (limited), of New York. John Ellinwood, while driving a team near Nampa, Ida., had a runaway which resulted in his being thrown out and killed. He leaves a young wife. John Anderson, supposed to be a tramp telegraph operator from Memphis, shot himself at Laramie last night with suicidal intent. He will recover. A second search of the apartments of Gren-ier Gren-ier in Pans resulted in a fresh discovery. Many important documents were found, including in-cluding a complete plan of the new French war ship. Frank Smith, alias Gus Johnson, who was captain of the Home guards at Buffalo after the T. A. surrender, aud who has been riding rid-ing the Powder river country ever since, is in Cheyenne. A cablegram from London announces the death there of Hon. John Robson, premier of British Columbia. He had been in poor health for some time. The remains wiil be taken to Victoria for burial. The executive committee of the national mining congress which meets in Helena July 12, convened yesterday and announced that the convention would be strictly nonpartisan non-partisan and devoted entirely to the mining business. A scarlet fever epidemic prevails in London. Lon-don. Two thousand three hundred and sixty cases are reported. The asylum board is causing huts to be hastily erected on the grounds as hospitals for the reception of patients. The street railroad strike was settled yesterday yes-terday at Cleveland upon terms that brought the tie-up of the East Cleveland Railroad company s lines to an end. All the strikers returned to work at increased wages, but the desired recognition of the knights of labor in hiring and discharging employes was not granted. A grand reception was given yesterday afternoon and evening to Mrs. John A. Logan at the Villa Rosa home of Mr. and Mrs. D'Orillus Morrison in Minneapolis. The affair was the most brilliant social ever given in the northwest and over 1,500 invitations in-vitations were issued, including the president, presi-dent, cabinet, senators, congressmen and others in public life. An extended series of receptions have been arranged for Mrs. Logan's entertainment. It is not unlikely that the Utah commission commis-sion may be abolished. The house conferees will stand firmly for the complete eradication eradica-tion of the commission and will yield other senate amendments before they do that continuing con-tinuing the commission at a reduced salary. The feeling that the commission is useless and overpaid seems to pervade both brauches and the action of Senator Sherman in moving mov-ing to cut the commissioners' salary down to $2,000 a year will undoubtedly strengthen the house's desire for an entire abolition of the body. Another carload of "Japs" arrived at Nampa, Idaho, yesterday, direct from Japan. They took up lodgings with a brother Jap, who runs a hotel and employment bureau. He supplies this class of labor for the entire Pacific coast, and nearly all of this load, which numbered over a hundred, will be sent to Oregon. Five more carloads are expected in a day or two. They will take the place of white men on sections aud in mining and in lumbering camps. Serious trouble is expected if the coporations still insist on employing this class of labor. |