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Show NEWS SU3DIAEY. Arthu- StirUnTrtlTe well-known actor, is dead at London. The comptroller has made a call for the condition of national banks at the close of Dec. 1. David Stuart Erskine, thirteenth earl of Puchan, is dead at London m his Sith year. Showalter won the seventh game of the match against Janowski. Janow-ski Janow-ski 3 games, Showalter 3, drawn 2. A plot to assassinate Prince Fredi-nand Fredi-nand of Bulgaria has been discovered. It is said numerous arrests have been made. A mass meeting of undergraduate students was held at Wesleyan university univer-sity to protest against the system of co-education now in vogue at the college. col-lege. The French vintage of 1S9S is officially offi-cially estimated at 33,283,000 hectolitres, hectol-itres, which is 03,000 hectolitres below the vintage of last year. The death is announced of Sidi-Mohamed Sidi-Mohamed Thieb Ley, brother and heir presumptive of Sidi Ali Iiey of Tunis, lie was in his 7Sth year. Nearly the whole business portion of Eufaula, I. T., on the M., K. & T. railroad, rail-road, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 150,000. It is asserted in Madrid that a marriage mar-riage has been arranged between Don Jamie, son of the pretender, Don Carlos, Car-los, and a Bavarian princeess. Jewelry and diamonds valued at 54,500 were stolen from the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Max Blumenthal at the Great Northern, hotel, Chicago. James G. Lindsley, who represented the Seventy-seventh New York district in the Forty-ninth congress, died at his home in Kingston, N. Y., aged 79 years. Six men of the crew of the Mailory line steamship Alamo were killed by the bursting of a steam pipe while the vessel lay at her pier in East river, New York. Seven persons were burned to death in a fire wdiich broke out in the small hamlet of Exenthal, near Sonneburg, Saxe-Meinengen, about twelve miles northeast of Coburg. A great improvement in the health of the army has taken place within the last two months as shown by the last reports to the surgeon-general from the field and general hospitals. Lieutenant Colonel Frank C. Green, the signal officer of the department of California, has been ordered to forward for-ward several hundred miles of telegraph tele-graph apparatus to Manila. The government of Nicaragua, as a result of the collapse of the republic of Central America, has established a decree de-cree declaring Nicaragua to be an independent in-dependent sovereign state. Mrs. Elizabeth Howe is dead at Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Ariz. She was the widow of Brigadier General Howe of Illinois, and was one of the five women who founded the Woman's Relief Corps of America. Rev. A. J. LcLim, agent of the American Bible society, sailed for Puerto Rico with a thousand copies of the Bible and portions thereof for distribution dis-tribution among the inhabitants of that island. A dispatch from Stuttgart announces the death there of Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, nee Lady Augusta Lennox, Len-nox, daughter of the fifth duke of Richmond and Gordon and sister of the present duke. The Spanish Government has received re-ceived an important dispatch from the Philippines in which it is stated Agui-naldo, Agui-naldo, the insurgent leader, demands 1,500,000 for the release of the imprisoned im-prisoned friars. A man giving his name as Charles Walker and saying he resides at Quebec, Que-bec, has been arrested at Lyons, France, for attempting to snatch a wallet containing 111.600 francs, from a bank messenger. Brussels Soir says trouble has arrisen in Africa between Germany and the Congo Free State, relative to the respective re-spective boundary lines of German territory and Congo territory north of Lake Tanganika. Secretary Long has decided to assign as-sign the Chicago to duty as flagship of the European squadron, which is now in process of selection. The squadron probably will include about five ships of different classes. The Milwaukee chamber of commerce com-merce passed resolutions that the Spanish-American tariff schedule on importations into Cuba, should not be permitted to remain in force, but should be replaced at the earliest possible pos-sible moment by one more acceptable to exporters from this country. ThcmasBeckwith, of Boston, walked into the Harrison street station, Chi-caso, Chi-caso, and asked to be arrested, He cenfessed to the embezzlement of f 15 . 000 from Niles & Co., of Boston, ""ills request was promptly complied with. 1 The Hawaiian commission has completed com-pleted its bill for the government of the Hawaiian islands as a part of the United States and has also finished its report to accompany the bill and both matters have been placed in the hands of the president. - |