Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-06-16
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
TUESDAY. JUNE 10. ,aee
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.


Miss Hattie Bennett, through G. c.
Hawkins, has purchased one of the
many fine building lots in Strecker's
addition to Fairview Heights.
The Mariettas will open the base
ball season here Wednesday with the
Nelsonville nine, one of the best teams
in southern Ohio. The game will be
called at 2:25 and ladies will be ad-
mitted free.
Intelligence has been received here
from Admission, Alabama, of the serious
illness of the infant son of Louis Muel
ler. At last report the little one was
lying at the point of death.
The funeral of Mr.. Ben. T. Nye
will take place from the residence at
4:SO, sun time, this afternoon. Friends
invited. Burial private
Miss Louise Reynolds, of Beverly, is
visiting Mrs. w. M. Dearth, West Side.
Glass Day Exercises will be held
this morning at 10 o'clock, on the Col
lege Campus Should the weather
prove unfavorable, the exercises will
be held in Andrews Hall at the hour
mentioned.
Mr.. Charlie Ward, of West Super
ior, Wis, is in the city, visiting his
mother, Mrs K. L. Dye. Charlie will
remain here about two weeks.
Attorney orrin MITCHELL of Colum-
bus, is in the city, Commencement
guest.
DIR. Charles S. Hart yesterday COM
pleted the arrangements whereby he
becomes the owner of the property oc-
cupied and owned by Mr.. D. B. Torpy,
on Putnam street between Third and
Fourth. The new owner will take
possession the first of next week. DR..
Hart will have his Office in his new
house. The.location, aside from being
a desirab BILE place to live, will be good
one for the doctor in the practice of his
profession.
Attorney R. A. Underwood was at
Dunham Monday to appear before the
Dunham Township School Board to
present the matter of nonresident
tpupils.
In Mayors court Monday Lot Mer-
GER and s. L. Sheperson were fined 50
and costs each for drunkenness Earl
Chaplin and Ross Toler pleaded guilty
to the charge of fighting and were
fined IS and costs EACH Cooney Coon
got S5 and costs also for disorderly
conduct.
man, Montana, arrived in the city yes
terday to spend Commencement and
visit relatives and friends.
In the window of Chas. N. Ped
dinghaus, the jewler, appear some fine
works in amateur photography, all ex
ecuted by Mr.. L. L. Peddinghaus
One of the subjects, view on the Mus
kingum riyer, opposite the Fair Ground
received second prize at a recent ex
hibit in the Washington Salon.
The revernd Mr. Acton has bought
two "Outing" wheels for the use o
himself and wife. They were pur
chased of the Big Four Cycle Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Barthalow, O
Columbus, are in the city, the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. McIlyar and Mr.. ane
Mrs. Blake.
The Alpha Tau Omega fraternit,
will give their annual banquet to resi-
dent and alumni members at their hal
in the Wells Block Thursday evening
5 The following item, which we hay
not heretofore printed by request o
the city editor of the Register, ap
< pears in the Ohio State Journal: 81
suit for S25, 900 damages for defamator.
libel was filed in the United States cir
cult court yesterday morning agains
the Marietta Register by the New
York Life Insurance company, of New
, York City. The basis of the suit is al
editorial which appeared in the Reg
lister on May IL, discussing the dealt
of Hamilton Disston, the millionair
saw manufacturer of Philadelphia
whose heirs secured life insurance O
1000, OO0 The article, which ar
peared in the editorial columns of tn
paper, compared the insurance comp
any and its methods, SO far as accept
ing the insurance estimated at 5000, 00(
carried in the company by Disston, t
the methods of Holmes, the murderer
The Register in it's editorial states tina
the methods of the company in accept
ing the risk were criminal, inasmuc
as they placed an unjust liability upo
the members of the company, which
mutual concern. The petition pr,
sented by Attorney Michael o. Neil, 'Jr
for the plaintiff, states 9hat it is tn
policy of the company to limit all risk
to 800, 900, and that Disston did nc
~ have a policy in theicompauy in exec,