Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-05
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The New Hampshire republican con-
vention Thursday nominated Hon.
George A. Ramsdell for governor.
The republicans of the Tenth Texas
district nominated r. B. Hawley, Of
Galveston, for congress Thursday.
Lewis Wilson. a wealthy farmer of
Kewanee, ILL.,, killed his wife and in
FAINT child Thursday afternoon and
then shot himself Insanity was the
cause.
The democrats of the Fifth Minne-
sofa district held their convention
Thursday, and endorsed the populist
nomination of S. M. Owen for con-
gress.
j. Sternglauz &c Co., shirt and over
all manufacturers, New York, made
an assignment Thursday. The liabili-
ties are placed at S150,00O, with nomi-
nal assets about the same.
The British steamer Ravepshugh,
from Alexandria for Hull, came into
collision off Finisterre with the steam
er Fusiyan, from Antwerp, for Leg
hOhh cihhldR tlC LdbtCI ulluOot illihCdi-
ately. No lives were lost.
The Figaro says that the Due d'Au-
male has invited the czar to visit the
Chateau of the Due at Chantily, but it
is expected that the czar will decline
the invitation upon the ground of the
shortness of his stay in France.
The 5000 persons who attended the
grand circuit meeting at Fleetwood
Park, New York, Thursday, saw c. J.
Hamlin's six-year-old bay mare, Fan
tasy, defeat all the crack trotters of
the free-for-all class now in training.
P. p. Olcott, Henry w. Poor and
Henry c. Rouse constitute committee
named by the holders of $4,000, 900
of the bonds of the Louisville, New
Albany g. Chicago railway to prepare
plan for the reorganization of the
company.
Official dispatches from Manila say
that the large force of rebels-2, 900 in
number, which have concentrated in
the vicinity of Canite, still remain in
that position. The Spanish reinforce
ments, under Mindinao, have not yet
arrived at Manila.
The president has denied pardon in
the cases of Samuel Kinser, Budd Dunn
and Roby Dunn, convicted in West Vir-
ginia of breaking into post Office and
sentenced to one years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Their sentences
expired in July last, and pardon
would serve to restore them to citizen
ship.
Willis Brewer, of Lowndes county,
Alabama, was nominated for congress
Thursday in the Fifth district on the
349th ballot, over ex-Congressman
Cobb, who was unseated. Brewer was
nominated by the democrats. The pop
ulists of the Seventh congressional dis
trict have renominated Congressman
M. w. Howard.
The triple political alliance in Wis
consin has been consummated in every
detail. Democrats, populists and sill
yer men have put up ticket with
which they claim they will make it in
teresting for the republicans this fall.
The ticket was completed late Thurs.
day afternoon by the nomination Of
district and electors at large.
In response to inquiries provoked by
the report that Capt. Albert Dreyfus,
who has been undergoing confinement
in fortress in French Guiana under
conviction of having sold government
secrets to foreign government, has
made his escape, the colonial Office has
received a cablegram from the govern
or of the French Guiana saying:
There is no change in the position Of
Dreyfus"
A fire which occurred in Norfolk,
Va, burned over an area of about two
acres and destroyed 81 buildings on
Nebraska and Water streets. The
buildings together with the stock of S.
r. White 81 Bro, were valued at about
$75, 900, on which there was consider
able insurance. With the exception of
Whites factory, which was large and
imposing one, most of the buildings
destroyed were of slight value.