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DISPATCHES IN BRIEF. Ambassador Bayard will be tendered a banquet by the lord mayor of London March 2. While on the way from the Orient to San Francisco the British ship Sutley encountered no less than five different typhoons. Lady Selina Scott, the principal defendant in the criminal libel suit of her sonin-law. Earl Russell, is reported to be 111. critically Germany has refused to accept Hwang Tsum Hsien, as the Chinese minister to that country, as they were not notified of his appointment, and beside his position was not of an exalted rank. Cecella Robb a middle-aged San Francisco woman, who is affilited with a mild religious mania, jumped from the third story of the Hotel Richelieu early Wednesday morning. She will die. J. R. Luzo, of Boston, who represents the firm of Finlayson, Blousfield & Co., received a telegram Wednesday from his company stating that the Coates Thread Company had not bought them out. Many newspaper men, congressmen and prominent public men gathered at Philadelphia Vednesday to attend the banquet given to Col. Alex McClure, editor of the Times, in honor of his 50th birthday. John C. Newbill registrar of the Springfield, III., land office, has been requested by the secretary of the interior to send in his resignation or else be discharged. Neglect of duty is assigned as the cause. Abraham Eckert, who was to have been hanged Tuesday in Wilkesbarre, Pa. for murder, cheated the gallows by taking poison. from the effects of which the died at about the time set for his execution. A1 Wright, who is charged with having criminally assaulted Martin Sherry, at Yuma, Ariz., was captured Tuesday in the mountains of Arizona on the banks of the Colorado river by Detective Oliver. August Muenter, who is closing up the work of the Grangers bank of San Francisco, which went into liquidation over a year ago, announced Wednesday that the bank would settle up in full with all its depositors. For the eighth time in the past year Frank Cheesemon, of Berkeley, Cal., attempted suicide Tuesday while laboring under a fit of insanity He shot himself through the lungs. The wound is necessarily fatal. Col. W. R. Hill, a land boomer, widely known in Kansas as the founder of Hill City, has been arrested at Topeka under an indictment returned in the Federal court and is accused of defrauding the government. Arthur Kitson will bring an action against Sir James Kitson, M. P., and other members of the family to set aside his father's will, involving a million pounds, on the ground of insanity and undue influence. The French papers have strongly approved of the message of President Cleveland. The Figaro states that there is & reserve of wise men in America who are swayed solely by the dictates of conscience and reason. At a late hour Sunday night a mob broke into the jail of Lexington, Mo. and took out Nelson and Wenner, two murderers, and lynched them at the nearest tree. The mob was composed mainly of well-to-do farmers. Eddie Matthews, a little San Francisco boy, died Monday night from burns recelved by the overturning of a kerosene lamp. The child's mother is at death's door. having been completely prostrated by the fate of her child. The bubonic plague is spreading rapidly in India. Tuesday there were reported fifty-five fresh cases in Bombay and fifty-seven deaths. Since the plague first broke out there have been 1,126 cases, of which 804 resulted in death. Felix Crosby, a San Francisco laborer, had a piece of rock driven through his skull, within an inch of piercing his brain. Immediately after the accident he got up and took car to the receiving hospital, where his head was dressed. Wong Gin, an important witness for the government, who disappeared at the time of the trial of the notorious Dick Williams, at San Francisco, was captured recently and sentenced Wednesday to serve one year for contempt by Judge Morrow. Harry O'Conner, one of the important witnesses for the prosecution in the famous Cronin murder trial, committed suicide in Chicago Tuesday by shooting himself through the brain. Protracted IIIness and despondency are assigned as the causes. Grant Bramble, a Minnesota inventor. patentee of the rotary engine, which created quite a sensation, recently filed a caveat for a patent on a new device for an automatic air brake coupler for cars The invention is said to be a simple and excellent device. Dr. von Boetticher minister of the interior of Germany, has introduced a bill in the reichstag advising that the subsidies in Eastern Asia be raised to 1,500,000 marks in order to protect the German interests in that country against the competition of the natives. An enormous landslide entailing a loss of over 100,000 francs occurred in Dieppe France, Monday morning. A mass of cliffs, upon which stands the Chalet Bamberger collapsed, and much fear is expressed for the safety of the chalet if another slide is experienced. Dr. Powers of Columbia, Mo., claims that he has made a discovery in medicine whereby the whole science and practice of the profession will be revolutionized, and will be sent to Los Angeles, Cal., by scientists and capitalists, in order that his claims may be put to thorough test. The colored steward of the battleship Oregon, which is lying at San Francisco, deserted recently and with him disapneared $100 of the ship's money which had been given him to purchase provisions for the ship. Commander Drake has petitioned the police to help him find the fugitive. Sheriff Newman. of Lake county, Colo. has been removed from office and fined and sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the supreme court of Colorado on a charge of malfeasance Newman was convicted of receiving money from the gambling houses of Leadville for protecting them. Mrs. Mary Burkhardt. of Oakland, Cal., and her daughter Laura. after a separation of eleven years. were united Tuesday through the efforts of the San Francisco police. The daughter was stolen from the mother by the father from whom Mrs. Burkhardt was divorced eleven years ago. Rudolph Brockman, an Oswego, Kan., farmer was held to answer Tuesday for the murder of his 17-year-old daughter Mary Four weeks since, because the girl did not do her work to suit him. Brockman tortured her in such an outrageous manner that she has since succumbed to her injuries. Percival Lowell, of Boston. the renowned astronomer whose reference to the inhabitability of Mars has attracted wide attention, in company with a number of prominent scientists, has gone to Mexico where he has had a large observatory erected, for the purpose of continuing his observations there for the next two years. Smith & Burden Long Island City contractors filed an assignment Tuesday for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities are $100,000 with the assets at about that amount. The cause of the failure is due to complications caused by the death of the late William Steinway, by whom the firm had been backed in many of its contracts. Pearl Kustel, daughter of Capt. Kustel of the bark Sharpshooter, was married to William E. Salle, a prominent merchant
