Paymaster Corwine Decamps

New York, March 3.- Paymaster John Corwíne, U. S. N., stationed at Newport, R. I., has absconded. ïhis statement is made en the authority of a dispatch from the navy department at Washington. Tuesday afternoon Paymaster Corwine cashed a check for $5,000 and then left Newport. An investig-ation of his accounts shows that he is between $5,000 and $10,000 short, exclusive of the amcunt of Tuesday's check. The account of the paymaster came under suspicion recently, and Pay Director Gaspar Schenck, general inspector of the pay corps, sent to Newport to investígate. His tndutry shows a shortage between the amounts above named. Commodore R. R. Wallace, the commandant at the Newport naval station, telegraphed the navy department of uu's (üs;ippearance and the facts concerning his accounts. Secretary Herbert at once telegraphed instructions to the subtreasury at Boston and to the trcasury at Washington to stop payment on the checks signed by Corwine, and also wired to the pólice authorities to try to Intercept him. Corwine stands No. 33 on the list of paymasters, and has the relative rank of lieutenant. Must Beïtetarued to Michigan. San Francisco, Cal., Maren 3.- United States District Judge W. V. Morrow las decidid that Charles B. McCloy, :he embezzler, should be returned to Michigan for trial. McCloy is the young man who, after three years passed in vandering about various portions of the . iinallly was so goaded by the angs of oonöcjénce tliat hesurrenilm-i himself to United States Marshal Baldvin. MeCloy had stolen $8,000 from the Second National bank of Bay City, lich. Editor Wiísoñ Taken ti Prison. indiariapoiisl M.u.h ;.--.ia:os i;, avion, editor of The Penple. was Tuesdiiy ent to the northern prison íot :i t un f two years for seridipg copies of his japer, éèntalnlng ol.seene matter, hrough thf tnalls. Tli. p?tper has beeh "plague spot" on the city moráis for ears. Application was made to Presdent Cleveland for his pardon, but it was' refused, the president saying that he punishment was nona too severe. KiviT sirimiri' Sunk. Louisa, Ky., March 3.- The bipr Sandy teamer Favorite, bound for Pikeville, eavily laden wíth freight and'paf.soners, strut-k a logr near George creek nd sank in deep water. The boat and argo are a total loss. The pas.-engers nd crew were savud with diíiou:ty.