Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-06-02

Remember DIR. Ford's entertain
ment at the Gilman avenue NJ. E. |
church tonight.
"A noticeable feature of Memorial
Day exercises was the parade of the
Boys Brigade of the Harmar Congrega-
tional church. The Brigade was or
ganized by the late Rev. Silas Smith
and upon arriving at, the cemetery
with Buell. Post each Of the boys
placed a handsome floral tribute upon
Mr.. Smiths grave.
"A young man named Albright, who
lives in the Drake house above Devol's
Dam, was driving home from town
Saturday evening when the horse be-
came frightened and kicked Albright
out of the buggy. The young man was
badly bruised up, but no bones were
broken. ar..re ..... ...--.-.. ~. ~
-The committee Of gentleme who
have. interested themselves in the for
mation ofa base ball club for the COM
ing season met Monday night and for
mulated plans for the work. Subscrip;
ton papers to raise the necessary funds
will be started Immediately and if the
business men and citizens generally re-
spond with their usual generosity the
perfection of the project will be mat
ter of but few weeks.
The Marietta public are decent.
Saturday, when young Briant, of Park
ersburg, finished first in the novice
race, 1000 Marietta people cheered
him. The Parkersburg journal, how
ever, in it's write up of the event, gives
the impression that the Journal won
the race and shames the plucky rider
it tries to honor by dirty fling at Ma
rietta and the local riders. The Jour-
nails jealousy grows daily more paiu-
full to its friends. For the purpose of
setting straight the journal ignoramus,
who by his notice of Briant's winnings
proves himself novice in cycling af.
fairs, we may state that the only place
Briant secured in all the seven events
was in the novice. He violated in that
race a well known rule that but for the
leniepcy of the Marietta officials con-
Quoting the meet would have disquali-
ed him. He made a good showing,
but when he got out of the novice into
the bunch of racers he was lost sight
Of. Ogle. of this city, carried off sS5
worth of prizes and the championship
cup. .~r
"A serious accident occurred at the
new boiler works Monday afternoon
whereby S. T. Powell, of Butler, Pa,
one of the men engaged in putting up
the structural iron work, was painfully
injured He fell from a swinging scaf-
fold to the ground distance of about
twelve feet alighting on his right foot
SO heavily as to crush the bones in his
ankle, causing a compound and lacer-
. ated fracture. He was taken to the
home of William Crum, where his in.
juries received the attention of sur.
geon.
t Monday forenoon as Mr.. M. M
/ Rose was driving up Putnam street il
a livery rig belonging to Curry & Hol
dren, the horse was frightened by the
front wheel coming off the buggy an6
ran away up Third street. The vehi
chile was mashed against tree in from
of s. j. Hathaway's residence and the
!, horse, breaking loose, ran up to Scam
l mel street. Mr.. Rose escaped from thu
buggy without injury.
Harry Gottlieb, of Chicago, is il
the city, the guest of Probate Judge d
R. Rood.
David Schaffer was fined SO ant
= costs Monday morning for drunken
ness.
r AT St. Marys Catholic church las
:. Sunday were published the bans @
i Michael Hannen and Miss Kate Smith
g The wedding is to occur June nth.
The building committee of tn
!. Presbyterian church decided Monda
= to finally accept the bid of Thomas +
and D. o. Jones, OF Columbus, for tn
g erection of the magnificent edifice a
n the corner of Fourth and Wooste
v streets. The total cost Of the churc
s will be, about $4,000, and it is to b
|, completed before January 1st of mex
Q year. The plans were drawn by Arch
]. itect w. R. Brown, of Cincinnati
IS The case of the State agains
o Harry Lindsay, indicted for assault an
: battery, occupied the entire day i
Common Pleas Court Monday and wa
8 not given to the jury until late in tn
% evening. 1t will be remembered tha
Il Lindsay about a year ago struck ma
l. named O'Connor with brick.
IS Word was received here yesterda
!. Of the sinking of the towboat Ironside
e on Sandy Bar. near Belleville. eiphtee