Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

1t is announced from Japan that the lib
eral party has issued a manifesto declaring
the necessity of the Japanese army march
ing to Pekin in order to promote the pres
tige of the island kingdom
No bodies have yet been found in the
ruins of the Delevan House, Albany, N. Y,
which was burned last Sunday night. Six
teen employees of the hotel are missing.
In southern France the cold is intense,
several natives having been frozen to
death in the streets.
have been washed ashore on the North Sea
coasts.
An avalanche overwhelmed French vii
lage in the Pyrenees mountains and killed
vailed in Europe.
According to London cablegram China
has obtained a loan OF S2OOO,OOO from q
London banking house.
reception Saturday night in honor of
Gen. Daniel H. Hastings. governor-elect.
Gov. Pattison and Mr.. VIM. NJ. Singerly
were among those present.
The Belgian government will soon submit
& bill to parliament settling the country's
position in regard to the Congo Free State,
which 1t Is proposed to annex.
The indications are that Horace Chiffon
Senator from Texas to succeed Mr.. Coke
who has declined a reelection.
Governor Foster CT Louisiana has issued
an appeal to the people of Louisiana for
other products for the people of Nebraska.
Daniel H. Craig, a pioneer news gath
erer and first manager Of the New York
Associated Press, died Saturday at As
bury Park, at the age of eighty years.
1t is reported from London that Japan
will not grant armistice to China nor
make known her terms of peace until
Pekin is occupied.
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land built for the lake traffic, was launch
ed at Cleveland, Saturday. The vessel is
1888 feet long.
Wagner's family have decided that there
Beyruth this year.
Col. w. c. P. Breckenridge lectured in
Charleston, S. c., Saturday night on the
philosophy of our government. He had an
audience of forty persons, including three
ladies.
Nj. Barker died in Denver, Col. Satur-
day, aged seventy-two years. He built the
first cabin in Denver in 1855 and organ
lied the first Masonic lodge in Colorado.
The ship Industrial has stranded on the
Island of Borken and. 1t is feared her crew
were drowned. % @ u
One fireman was killed and five injured
yesterday at a disastrous fire in Toronto
which destroyed the Globe office.
Four men were drowned yesterday by the
sinking of the pilot boat d. J. Lawler, in
The National Live stock Exchange at
Chicago has decided, to send a committee
to Washington and use all means to raise
the European embargo ON American beef
A trolley car became Gunmanageable on
a steep incline at Kingston. N. Y, yester-
day, dashed to the bottom and crushed
through a house. Three persons were in
jured.
A movement IS on fbotto hold a patriotic
convention to relieve sufferers by the New
foundland hard times. 4
A 100000 church for the use of Chris
tan scientists was dedicated in Boston
yesterday.
Six persons are under arrest in Topeka,
Kan, charged with completely in the muir
der of Mrs A. D. Matson, formerly
member of the board of education, whose
decomposed body as found in her home
in Topeka two weeks ago.
Six young men were injured Saturday
night, one probably fatally, by shedding
accident at Oyster Bay, L. I.