al Mss THE NEWS. — William F. Biokel, vice president and cashier of the Minnesota Bavings Bank, which went down in the financial flurry of ONe YOAr ago, was found not gullty of the charge of making away with funds beloog- ing to the bank. On complaint of H, T. Sahwalin, presi. dent of the St. Louls, Mo,, Columbia Alumi- pum Company, a Warraut was sworn out charging William F. Weruz, president of the guarantees Loan and Mortgage Company, with embezzling $17,000 from the former conoern. City Marshal Harrop arrested two men at Braidwood, Ill, who are supposed to be QOhris. Merry, the Chicago wile murderer, and his partuer, Smith, The two men were of a party of a dozen tramps who had been begging. Ma). Benjamin Butterworth, sioner of Patents, who has been seriously 11 at the Hollenden House, Cleveland, O., for several weeks, left for Thomasville, Ga, where he will remain until his health is fully restored. Franklin Whiting, president of lHamsburg Savings Bank, Brooklyn, died on the street, opposite the bank building. He bad been connected with the bank sioce 1858. He was 83 years old and a native of Yermont. The 85 mines of the Consolidated and Madison Coal Companies, in the Belleville (Ill) district, have resumed operations, and 8,000 miners that have ben out of employ- ment for many months returned to work. The miniug companies accesded to the de- mands of their men, At Scholastique, Quabec, Sam Parslow and Mrs. Perrier have been committed to trial for the murder of the latter's husband. The prisoners pleaded not quiity. The story that an Indian uamed Auk had come out from Dawson City bringiog the news that a large number of people were fleeing from Dawson is generally discred- ited, G. W. Wood and other arrivals from Juneau say Auk's answers to questions indi- cate that he did not come from Dawson. Patrick Murphy, & pioneer resident of Te- meseal, Cal., was murdered by an unknown assassin, He was shot through the heart as he left his cottage to go to a neighboring store, Lieutenant La Favour, of the Wheeling, is to be court-martialsd Island on the 20:h inst. He is being fatoxicated while on duty. Joseph Foley, the carpet-layer who Commis- the Wil- at Mare ‘harged with was LIVES LONI. SIX A Schooner Driven on the Rocky Maine Coast, ONE SAILOR SURVIVES. | Clinging to a Bpar, He is Finally Tossed | High on the Shore—~The Thurlow Was | on Her VYoyage From Hillsboro, | N. B, to New York-Bodles Washed | Ashore, A despateh from Portland, Me., says: —B8iXx of the crew of seven of the schooner Busan P. Thurlow were lost by the vessel going to Cushing Island, near this elty, One sallor, E. Relmann, managed to reach land, and foformed the inhabitants of the wreck, The bodies of all but one of the vie tims have been washed ashore, Reimann, the survivor, who old, tells this story of the wreck: — The Thurlow on her voyage from Hills boro, N. B.. to Naw York, with a carge of rock plaster, encountered rough weather off the Maine As the storm increased the captain decided to make Portland Har- bor for shelter. He was only a few miles out from Portland when the rudder rope parted and the vessel became disabled and was left at the merey of a heavy sea. pieces on is 24 years ' coust, Plunged on tha Reef. The captain and crew tried to repair the steebing gear, but while they were engaged the schooner struck on the reef. :\il three masts were carried away by the force of the impact, one of the topmasis striking the cap- tain and crushing one leg. The captain and mate ordered the men to jump for their lives, Heilmann was caught by a huge wave hurled into the sea. He was washed up the beach of the island three times but was unable to obtaln a footing and was swept back by the undertow, He then managed to get hold of aspar and clung to 1% for a long time, finally belog oar- ried far up on the beach by the waves, He lay on the wd with ¢ and on be his beach for some time, 0 id and exbausted with th he dragged battle with the waves, At length he himself to the hut of a fAsherman Mclean working on oa Guerrero time Mrs. Clute is supposed to have murdered, has been arrested. He that he knows nothing of the murder, The advance guard of 10,000 have arrived in Denver, The locate in the Shenandoah weostern Colorado, where houses, churches and various industrial iz will be erected, the Rio Grande to construct a branch into the The St. Louls Grand Jury b an indictment charging Daly, the Mst, with murder in the first degree, shot and killed Lulu Clark, with lived in that city. Louis Altman was arrested street, San Francisco, at the will eolony prom sountry as whom Bosenhelm & Co. Lonlsville, Ky., fA yo fos He tial clerk. Altman made a partial es glan, afterward retracted, about 32 years old. which he thelr The Chicago alderman ralsed 3 #3 a week to £1,500 a year. nance which acer i I under a suspensio 56 to 8, ished was passe } t mr my i ot Commander and Mm. B lined their Arkansas Valley pian to a large meeting at Salvation quartars in Chicago, : amount of £10,000 were received before the { the meeting, close of ecolonizatio head- British King, which arflved In from Antwerp, thers were 70 dogs bound for the Klondike, They are to New York to Montreal and thence to their destination. They will be used in tandems of four to pull sleighs loaded with [relight for the miners, Io Newark, N. J., Andreas Malinak, who on July 22 killed Mrs, Annie Kmetz, was sentenced to be hanged on January 27, 1808, Malinak killed Mrs. Kmatz because she cast Lim off after they bad sustained Improper relations with each other for a long time, The woman was killed while she slept. Frank Hant, the 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, M. H. Hunt, of Akron, O., is dead. The cause of bis death is brain fever, the direct result of Injuries received while play- ing In a football game. Charles Birnbaum, aged 55 years, once a wealthy mine-owner, shot and killed him- self at his home, in Kansas Clty, Mo., de spondent over business reverses and iil health, The steamer W, K. Phillips, of the Cum- berland River trade, burned to the water's edge at Isiand Bear, Dover, Tenn, The loss will probably not be less than 240,000, The passengers and crew escaped, but lost thelr belongings. Friedlander, Gotlieb & Co., proprietors of the San Francisco Columbia Theatre, have signed papers giving them full control of the Baldwin and California Theatres, and the MacDonough Theatre in Oakland. They elaim to be independent of the Eastern syn- dicate, Mrs, Jennie June Croly was & ppointed an fnapector of New York public schools by Mayor Strong for the term of five years. Mrs, Croly, who succeeds Mrs. Harriet M, Kemp, Is known all over the United States as a writer and worker in women’s clubs, Christlan Donson, a Swede, en route from Chicago to Bweden, was found banging in the woods near Bernbard's Bay, N. ¥. E. Strasburg, manager of the Oil Produce. ers’ Trust, says he has just concluded two large sales of California petroleum, one of 30.000 barrels wo be delivered in San Fran- clsco, The sales were made at #1 a barrel, The executive committes of the Populist State Central Committees has issued a eoall for the Popuilst State Convention to meet in Portland, Ore, on March 23 next. Two masked men made a rald on the town of Angusville, N. D., held up the occupants of several stores aod secured several hun- dred dollars, Eugene 8, Cashman, the New York strest. cleaning foreman, who was arrested. charged with misappropriating 30,000 while co-treasurer of Greely county, Neb., was ar- raigned fo court snd turned over to Luke Finn, of Greely county, who will take him West, be CABLE SPARKS, © An explosion of sewer gas which tore up the street, shattered windows and damaged a house adjolulug that of the United States Ambassador, Col, John Hay, esused much excitement among the inhabitants of Carl. ton House Terrace, Londot. * The bodies of the captala, Mate and three sailors were washed Nothing was win the jeft ashore on | fsiand during the of the night, The Leach | spars and other wreckage. The vessel was owned principally t tain Joseph Weldon, of Brookiyn, w { heretofore salled the vessel, piaced the schooner in © {| Helgarson, The Thurlow was bulit at Harrington Me. in 1872. Bbe registered 440 tons net | 460 tons gross, was 1268 feet in length, 31 breadth of beam, vessel, is sire with y Cap- bo bad On this trip he f is mate, hiarge of hls and 16 st deep. She was TO BE A SOVEREIGN NATION, | Union of the Greater Republic of Central America, has | the effect that {al Information hington, t lepublie { ended as to give $ of a sovervign nation, resent the three countries | Nicaragua, Salvad wave a Diet, which ns r an onducts dipl the outer world, whil a with country maintains its arate ment. This bas created | the Greater Republie of tt "wo se] the im pressioz WAS merely AnD alliance republic In it ab ww, but not a i of trouble iree republl itn CRUSH i gall. It bas been the chief United { In sending ministers from the 1 | to Central Ameriea, In view of this feeling Senor Corea, the i represenative In Washington of the Greater { Republie, wrote to the secretary of the Diet asking for authority to state that the gov. ernment was to be more than an alliance, In reply, the secretary, Mr. Mendoza, writes to Mr. Corea that a complete union Is about to be formed. I will be no longer a union for dipiomatic Intercourse « a fusing of wail the lalerests of governments (ato one sovereign state, Ms. Corea has not been Informed as to the details of this complete union, but he he believes it will be accomplished by Feb ruary, If not earlier, nly, but will be the severs) BAYS ABOUT NOTED PROFLE, jssged Mr. Barrie's publishers have just the 50,000th copy of “The Little Minister.” Rev, Dr. John Watson has declined a call from a Presbyterian chureb in London, and will remain in Liverpool, Archbishop Williams (Roman Catholie), of Boston, has come out in favor of tote: ab stinence, a significant action, according t« the Boston Transcript, According to a London correspondent, the Government will ask Parllament to give the Duke of Teck £3,000 a year out of the £5 000 which was paid to his late wife, George Askwith, the English lawyer who accompanied Lord Dunraven to the United Btates, has been appointed junior counsel for Great Britain on the Venezula Arbitration Commission, Count Dimitri Miljatin, formerly War Min- ister of Czar Alexander 11, and one of the ehief promoters of the Emperor's liberal re. forms, has just celebrated the 90th anniver- sary of his admission to the Russian general stall, Richard Strauss, the German composer and conductor of the opera at Munich, has been conducting some of his own orchestral compositions at the Colonne concerts in Paris, His wife, Frau Strauss Ahna, | sang some of his songs at the same concert, i Richard Wahrmann, a German sportsman, has undertaken a hunting expedition to the | Somaliland, on the Abyssinian frontier, He already has successful bunting trips in Cey- | lon, India and Cashimer to bls eredit. He | will on this one gather selentifle and ethno. | logical objects for eollections in Germany, and will stay six months in East Africa, i The alumal of the University of Minneso- | ta, will erect a statue of John HB Pillsbury on the college campus, i The Whittier homestead has been pur | shased and given by James Carleton to trus. | tees, who will hold It forever as a place of | plous pligrimage. The trustees are engaged in raising a fund of #10000 to keep the grounds in order as nearly as possibly as | they were when Mr. Whittier occupied them. | The Prince of Naples one of the best | numismatists in Europe, has been made an : honorary member of tie French Numismatic Society. Septimus Winner, the composer of the popular song “Listening to the Mooking | Bird," written in 1853, celebrated bis golden weddigg on November 25, gc de i i CONGRESS. -— Senate, dr Dav.—A petition signed by 21,260 na tives of Hawall, protesting against the an- nexation of those islands to the United States, was presented in the Benate by Mr. An attempt was made to secure an appropriation for the relief of the Klondike ing on the Becretary of War for all Informa on the subject, Forty-five pri- were passed. A resolu- tion asking for Information regarding the sale of the Kansas Pacific Road was adopted. Stn Day, —In the Senate Mr. Lodge made an effort to secure an Immediate upon his Immigration bill, which substantially vote is Presi dent Cleveland, Mr. Allen objected and sug- gested that the floul the amend- ments and the bill be taken on Monday, Jan. uary 17, at 8 P, M, This suggestion was necepted by Mr. Lodge, and ag order for a vote at that time was made, Mr, Gorman, chairman of the Democratic mittee, presented an order, which was wdopt- ed, rearranging somes of the com mittes as signments, owing to the Incoming of new members, vote on Stearing Com- somes intro- Was Lrans- adjourn- to Presl- Grit Dav.~No business beyoud the duction of bills and resolutions acted In the United States Senate, ment being taken out of respect dent McKinley, Tran Day, hitition of pelagio seallog by was presented in the Beate by the ommittee, It that the bill was (no sid of negotiations DOW pending among the representatives of he of the United States, Great Britain, Russia and Japan, Mr, Pettigrew antagonized the measure and offered an amendment providing for the ng of all the seals an the Prilowoff Islands if by Tue bill providing for the pro- Americans Foreign explained Relations C wns Government Kilt the 1st of June next Great Britain also hs agreed to a pr The amendmen passed by a vote eudeavored to Lie dire ft War to supply rellel t Klondike regi rihat recommitted, 000 f vil service debates upon the mwmities provid of the « shoul by the us { ap} ot of a director thirty-two employes, who y f av “a i BES House dru Dax was taken up in the House for {, presented a probably peveral Allen, of suendm , designed, as he said, t pone « the most giariLg eviie the H« I days + rrect mitted o1 oth sides of th sid 2 140,000 wrried by the i yer the iit “x pet tive baer of the H pers lowa, and asi 4d made nform . 8. pled by int at i used 6 PAry irsue was 1 by Mr terwards disc as to whether Morton, but almed any intention should appear ia the record The H irs, adjourned out of nt McKinley, whe The time Tra Day about two he thy for Preside was buried at Canton, sion was devoted to the ¢ Legislative, Executive and Judicial pristion bill, It was decided to j§ the consideration of the tem pr the maintenance of Bervioe ( use, alter a session gympa ta of the ses Approe wipone viding for the { the arent, the Ciril mission until after the other features bill had been disposed of. It was apt from the remarks made thal the ent sub. ject will be exbaustively debated, Brit Dav.—The Legislative, Exoacutive, was ered In the House, An amendment adopted reducing the clerical Pension Office ninety-five, inv r duction In salaries of #115000. The service question was discussed at length, The proposition of Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Vanderiip to retire clerks for age was denouseed by Messrs, Moody and Johnson, both of whom are de fenders of the ( Berviee Law, was tha an ree. civil BOM roe siving ivii WASHINGTON NOTES, The President sent to the Senate a large list of nominations made during the recess, It included seven foreign ministers, eight counsuls-general, a large number of suls as well as army and navy promotions, All the offloers of the Lancaster, just re- turped from the South Atlantic Station have SOULi~ or leave, The ship will be put out of com- mission at Boston been ordered from the New York home on two months’ leave, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Davis bas accepted an invitation to address the uary L In the House Mr. Melntire introduced a lightship and fog signal at the Taii-of WHAT THEY eAT IN CHINA, Wheat a Ceneral Article of Food as Wall as Hite, Although rice is generally regarded by the Chinese as the “staff of life,” a large quantity of wheat has been used from the most ancient times, and in the earliest classifications wheat Is mentioned as one of the five grains, in the northern provinces, where rice {8 not grown and can only be pur- chased by the well to do, wheat is the it itis of 4 very are seen and ergo- of disease most common cereal, | poor quality, Bla in large numbers every year tism is heads a too frequent cause among the | ihe ive pro © 6 proce poor. wheat is ground in a ] two aid main generally “little by or engihnenedq 144 3 Hite Lhe aozen twenty each ne aking unknown, anu flufly, wells their as in grown to be For two » ostrich any- ops an nfant palate jeve stones of the te of a week or two the alfalfa or is spread around like that of to en, a 7s 3 alia ostrich’s span . and three score and | mankind King of Abyssinia’s New Throne. Menelik, King of Abyssinia and fhoa, having, to a great extent, shaken off the of Italy, is be- inning to realize that he is every inch | a king. A Cairo paper says that he is going to treat himself to a new throne. Orders have been given to & manufacturer in Paris to construct one which will be consistent with the ancient title and dignities of the King of Ethiopia. It will be of sculptured oak. with gold incrustations, and will be draped with silken embroideries and other objects of the decorative art. protectorate Made Cripples. A wealthy beggar has lately been ar- rested in South Russia. Re is chief of a beggars’ league in that country, and hag founded, in connection with his “work,” a factory for turning out cripples, whose dreadful appearance might move charitable passers-by to give them money. Of this he received 5 per cent. During the winter he was accustomed to reside at Stavischtscha, where he possessed a large house and lived in the most luxurious style. i 5.75 A Proof of Death. No one disputed the dictum of a Chinese physician, called to attend a Celestial, who had fainted in a store in Portland, Oregan, when the doctor said, after filling the prostrate man's mouth and nose with red paint: “Him blow paint, him all same not yet dead; him no catch ‘im wind, no blow paint, him heap dead.” The man did'nt blow out the paint and the coroner was called. A member of the Hartford (Conn) City Council wants the city to start & » hewspaper of its own. wa]