Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-12
CONDENSED NEWS,

The Imperial Bank of Germany has
raised its rate of discount from four to
ive per cent
Henry William Parnell, third Baron
Cengleton, died at Folkestone Satur-
day. He was 81 years of age.
Ex-Gov. Silas Woodson, one of the
most prominent men in Missouri, died at
his home in St Joseph Friday night.
1t is reported in Rome that Rt, Rev.
John L. Spalding, bishop of Peoria,
will succeed Bishop Keane as rector of
the Catholic university of America in
Washington. ts
j. Sterling Morton, secretary of agri-
culture, address sed an audience of 5000
people in the Auditorium, Chicago,
Friday evening upon invitation of the
American Honest Money league.
Fifteen thousand people crowded the
Coliseum, Chicago, Friday night, and
heard Mr. Chauncey M. Depew deliver
an address on the issues of the day.
Two or three thousand people were
turned away.
The Jasper county jail at Paulding,
Miss, ten miles north of Vosburg, was
burned, and two prisoners incarcerated
therein were cremated. The prisoners
were E. A. Strickland, charged with
forgery, and Mollie Daniels, crazy
Negro woman.
The dead body of aged Henry Wolf,
a merchant, was found Friday morn
ing hanging by rope from transom
at his home, 1903 Franklin avenue, st.
Louis. Dependency over infirmities
that come with old age was the cause
that prompted the act
Edward Salzer and Bro, Chicago,
wholesale dealers in mems furnishing
goods, made an assignment in the
county court Saturday morning. The
assets are placed at $500 and the liza.
bilities at $4,000. The failure was
caused by inability to make collections
from customers.
Julius Mannow, the murderer of
Carey B. Burch, was granted re-
prieve of IA days by Gov Altgeld, and
unless the supreme court interferes he
will be hanged Friday, October so, in
stead of on October 16. The stay was
granted to give the Illinois supreme
court time 70 review the case.
The boiler explosion Thursday night
at the Montour iron works, Danville,
Pa, was more disastrous and fatal in
its results than was supposed at the
time the accident occurred, Five men
and au infant were killed and is men,
boy and woman were injured. OF
the injured several are likely to die.
]. D. Pryor, night telegraph opera.
tor at the Frisco depot, Pacific, Mo-,
shot and killed c. b. Hacker, hotel
proprietor, in the Office of the hotel
Pryor then secured all the money in
the depot cash drawer, ser, and es
capped. He is an ex.convict, having
served two years Imprisonment fol-
| manslaughter. The murder was un
provoked.
Five frame buildings and one large
brick building at the corner of Hal
sted and Fulton streets, Chicago, oc
cupied by the Paul c. Daemickc Co.,
were entirely destroyed by fire Friday
night. The company manufactured
butchers tools, refrigerators, etc.
Frank Daemicke. who was asleep il
the building was seriously burned and
barely escaped with his life.
HU Lincoln, Nep., j. Z: DanIman
chairman of the silver state democratic
committee, Friday fled a protest with
Secretary Of State Piper against allow
ing the nominations made by the ma
tional democrats at Omaha to go or
the official ballot. The grounds are
that the sound money wing failed t.
be recognized by the Chicago conven
tion, and did not nominate in accord
ance with democratic customs in this
state.