Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-05
CONDENSED NEWS,
Gathered From All Parts of the Countr,
by Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Mrs. Sarah G. Mink, late national
president of the Woman's Relief Corps,
lied at Watertown, n. Y, Thursday
morning.
The dock laborers at Antwerp are
refusing to unload vessels coming
from Hamburg, and a general strike
Of dock men is imminent.
A mass meeting of the Farmers
union was held in Lyons, France,
Thursday, at which the dealers in salt
meats resolved in favor Of the exclu-
sion of American pork products in view
Of the fall in the price of swine.
Fire Friday morning burned the
hardware supply store of NJ. Robertson,
On Nickel avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
The loss on stock was 1000, and on
building $4,000. Fully insured.
The bubonic plague, which has been
prevalent among the natives at Bonn
bay with fatal effect in a majority Of
cases, has now spread to the Europeans,
several of whom have died from THO
disease.
known theatrical managers of that
name, was found unconscious in the
street in New York early Friday morn
ing. He was removed to hospital,
where he died soon afterward.
The London Globe publishes news
agency dispatch from Bombay, saying
that the mortality from famine in the
Belapur and Belagha districts is stead
lily increasing. Hundreds of persons
have died from starvation in the Gonda
districts.
The battleship Texas which recently
went into the Brooklyn navy yard dry
dock, came out of the dock Thursday
and her officers say she is as good as
new. She will now be coaled and will
join the rest OF the fleet off Tompkins.
vile, s. I.
The ice gorge in the Menominee
river has reached Fisher, Mich, and
the Rapid farm is nearly inundated,
the water being as high as four feet in
places. The ice is piled as feet high
and extends for many miles up the
river No serious damage has yet been
done, but the water is rising rapidly.
-. lNCS anu mduTlCC bdly
have issued challenge to any other
two billiard players in the world to
play Il series of matched games, balls
line, cushion caroms and champion
games for q stake of from $500 to 50, 500
q side, the contests to take place in the
five cities offering the best induce
mcnts.
1t was learned Thursday at the o.
flee of Arbuckle Bros, the extensive
coffe dealers, New York, that the firm
would embark in the sugar refining
but mess A contract, it was stated,
had been placed for the erection of q
sugar refinery to be located in Brook
lyn, having q capacity of about 1000
barrels.
Carl Vrooman, acting secretary of
the st. Louis Civic Federation, will be
married December 30 at the Hotel Nor
mandie, Washington, to Miss Julia G.
Scott, of Bloomington, ILL.,, a niece of
Vice-President Stevenson. Miss Scott
is the daughter of the late Matthew
Scott, of Bloomington, and has quite
q fortune. Mr.. Vrooman came to ST.
Louis from his home in Baltimore a
few months ago
Vice President Stevenson was in his
room at the capitol Thursday, having
arrived Wednesday night in Washing
ton. Mr.. Stephenson declined to talk
politics or predict what the proba BILE
course of legislation this session would
be further than to remark that he be-
lieved that the short session would
compel congress to give considerable
of its time to the appropriation bill.
Ths Weather.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-For Ohio-Local
rains or light SHOWS, followed by generally
fair weather Saturday.
For West VirgiRia-Probably fair Saturday:
warmer: southwest winds.
For Kentucky--Fair Saturday, preceded in
extreme northern portion by threatening
weather.
For Illinois and Indiana-Saturday partly
cloudy with rain or snow and warmer in north
I )rtion; brisk westerly shifting to southerly
winds.
THE MARKETS.