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this city. Ex-Congressman Bynum of
Indiana was the speaker of the even
ing and delivered a strong argument
in favor of gold.
AT the conclusion oe his speech reso-
lutions were adopted condemning the
action of the Chicago Convention on the
money question; approving the action
OF the leading Democrats in calling an
other convention to place another tick
ct in the field, declaring the success of
the Chicago nominees would sound the
death knell of the Democratic party;
denouncing the refusal to commend the
Administration of President Cleveland
and the attack on civil service and the
Federal judiciary and declaring for
sound and stable currency. Delegates
were then chosen to attend the State
Convention at Chicago and the meet
ing adjourned. Several other speakers
booked to make addresses failed to
appear.
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A SERIOUS SHAPE.
BIoOdshed Feared Over a Kentucky
Congressional Fight.

LOUISVILLE (Ky), Aug. 21.-The
contest for the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Eleventh District
has assumed a serious shape. The
primary was held Saturday week and
both ex-Congressman John D. White
and Congressman D. Co1son claim the
victory.
Both sides are gathering their forces
at Williamsburg, where the commit
tee meets tomorrow. 1t is said that
White has papers ready to enjoin Chair
man Hill from issuing a certificate
should Colson be counted in, and some
fear that bloodshed may follow the
committees decision, as both sides are
thoroughly worked up.
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AN OLD HAND.
Postotfice Burglar Goes to the
Hospital and is Captured.

NEW YORK, July 21.-The man who
lies wounded in the Long Island Hos
pital in Brooklyn and who is believed to
be one of the men engaged in the POST
office burglary at Bedford Station, N.
Y, was identified this afternoon by De-
tective McCauley of this city as John
Gilmore, alias John Claire, alias George
Price. one of the most notorious Post
office burglars in the country. The man
came to the hospital yesterday and was
made a prisoner when he could not sat-
isfactorily explain how he received his
wound.
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THE CUDAHYs.
Said to be Building an Oil Pipe Line
Into Chicago.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-It is stated that
Michael and John c. Cudahy, the we'll
known millionaire packers of this city
have bought the entire plant of the
Northern Indiana Oil Company in Ad-
ans and Wells counties, Indiana, and
intend building a pipe line from the
wells into this city.
1t is said they have already ordered
10 miles of six inch pipe and that work
will be started on the line as soon as
possible 1t is understood that the in
vestment outside of the purchase price
of the wells involves about 81 800 600.
No details of the deal have yet been
given out.
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INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION.
EckeIs, Carlisle and Horton Expected
to Attend 1t.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 21-Comp-
troller Eckels to-day engaged quarters
at the Bates House and will attend the
National Democratic Convention. Sec
retary Carlisle is expected to attend as
is also Secretary Morton, but neither OF
the latter have yet given indication as
to whether he will be present
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AGAINST ALTGELD FUSION.
Illinois Populists Will Nominate an
Anti-Fusion State Ticket.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-The "middle-of-
the-road' Populists in Illinois, headed
by the Burns faction in Cook County.
which was ignored in the recent State
Topulist Convention, are organizing
and arranging for another State Con-
vention to nominate State ticket OPP
posed TO fusion and put up Presidential
Electors who will stick for Bryan and
Watson only.
1T is said that twenty-eight counties
have protested against the Altgeld fu-
sion scheme of the regular State Con-
vention, and only two of these counties
We're represented in the convention, one
of which bolted.
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Ask an Extension.

SAGINAW (Mich), Aug. 21.-Merrill
e Ring, one of the largest lumber firms
in the Saginaw Valley, has asked for an
extension of time from their creditors.
The firm has more than $500 900 worth
of assets, but owing to the recent failure
of other large lumber concerns and the
business depression they are unable to
care for short time paper. A meeting of
the creditors of the firm will be held in
Chicago next TUESDAY,
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CURIOUS LETTERS.
Bryan Has Stack Several Feet High
Awaiting Him.

LINCOLN (Neb.), Aug. 21.-When Mr..
Bryan returns home he will find stack
of letters several feet high awaiting
him. Private Secretary Schwind is dis
posing of these missives which come
from every part of the globe, as fast
as they arrive.
Many of them are from reputable
business men, bankers and lawyers, but
a good share are of the crank variety,
offering absurd suggestions as to the
management of the campaign. Not a
few of the letters naively suggest that
when the victory is won the writer
wishes the nominee to remember that
he is candidate for such and such an
office
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Destructive Prairie Fires.

DENISON (Texas), Aug. 21.-De-
structive prairie fires are raging in the
Chickasaw Nation. Dwellings. fences
and hay have been destroyed. The
creek bottoms are lined with hundreds
OF immigrant wagons that dare not
travel owing to the fire. There is no
water, and the fire has full sway on
Rock Creek. The fire has got into the
mountain timber, and it is sweeping
everything before IT,
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In Financial Difficulty.

NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-Leopold We'll
& Co, diamond and jewelry dealers. are
in financial difficulty. The trouble is
attributed to the banks shutting down
on discounts. The liabilities are $780,
600. 1t is said the assets are sufficient
to pay all the debts. but cannot be real
lied on at present. On January 1st last
the firm placed its assets at 100000.
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SLOW COLLECTIONS.
They Cause a Nebraska Bank to
Close Its Doors.

BEATRICE (Neb.). Aug 21 - The
Bank of Weymore closed its doors this
morning No statement of assets or
liabilities is obtainable. 1t was one of
the repositories for Gage County. Six
thousand dollars are on deposit, amply
protected by $4,000 in bonds No run
was made on the bank, the Directors
deeming 1t advisable to close on account
Of the slow collections and inability to
renew loans
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Treasury Reserve.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-The treas
ury gold reserve at the close of business
to-day stood at SOB, 22S,6 The days
Withdrawals at New York were SOL
700. During the past ten days the
treasury has lost more than $1,000, 900
in gold at San Francisco by redemption
of legal tenders
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itor of the Treasury. A public recep-
ton followed a dinner and a torchlight
procession was formed and marched
through the streets to Laurel Grove,
where great crowd had preceded the
marchers.
President Baldwin of the Laurel
Democratic Club called the meeting to
order and Mayor Phelphs introduced
Mr.. Bland.
He discussed unlimited coinage. eulo-
gized Messrs. Bryan and Sewall and the
Chicago platform, and admonished his
hearers to beware of gold-bug influ-
ence.
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the best exhibition cf singles ever seen
here, resulting in favor of the former,
6-4, PC, Ga
In the afternoon Carver and Waidner
net and defeated Bond and Hardy of
Chicago in a magnificent contest for
the doubles championship Ga, Cd,
GO.
Roy Austin of Omaha defeated Mr..
Hopkins of Omaha 7-2, 2!6. 60 in
the final round for the Nebraska sin
giles. Austin; will meet State cham
pion Cullingham to decide the State
championship.
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BLAND AT BALTIMORE.
He Is Given Big Reception and
Speaks at the Laurel Club.

BALTIMORE, Aug. q. Silver
Dick Bland was given a big reception
at the Laurel this evening and the meet
ing which he subsequently addressed
was the largest in numbers held here
in recent years Mr.. and Mrs. Bland ar
rived from Washington at O'Clock as
the guests of Ernest p. Baldwin, Aud
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INTERSTATE TENNIS.
Magnificent Contest of the Doubles
Championship.

OMAHA, Aug. 21.--The Interstate
Tennis Tournament here was slightly
marred by rain this morning, and only
couple of games were decided. w. S.
Bond of Chicago easily beat r. II.
Spencer of Council bluffs, 6-1, 6-3.
The match between Wynne Carver and
L. II. Waidner, both of Chicago. was
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Shot His Wire and Himself.

CINCINNATI (O), Aug. 21.-Fred
Graef, saloon-keeper at 1882 Central
avenue in a fit of insanity to-day shot
his wife and then fired bullet through
his own brain. The woman is in a crit
ical condition.
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Gone to Mackinac.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 21.-Upon the
advice of his physicians Governor
Matthews left to-day for Mackinac and
will be absent for some time. He has
not been in good health lately and needs
rest badly He will join Mrs Matthews
at Mackinac, where she has been
spending the season.
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PACKING PRODUCTS.
Iowa Railroads Reduce Rates to Pro-
tect Their Customers.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21-Iowa railroads
reduced the rate on packing house pro-
ducts to me Mississippi River, when in
tended for export, to cents from Cedar
RAPIDS and Ottumwa, 5 cents from
Mdrshalltown and Z cents from Des
Moines. This is done to protect their
packing house customers in view of the
recent reductions made by Chicago and
Gulf lines
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Only Personal Business.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2l-F. B. Gala
tin, Secretary of the Clearinghouse, de-
nies positively that any steps have been
taken looking to an issue of loan cer-
tificates, and sub-treasury officials were
equally positive in their assertions that
Mr.. Carlisle was here to attend to a
matter of a personal nature.
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To Increase nonthly Coinage.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Mr. Pres
ton, Director of the Mint, has gone to
Philadelphia. He is endeavoring to in
crease the monthly coinage of gold and
silver at all the rnints
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GOLD STANDARD DEMOCRATS.
Ex-Congressman Bynum Addresses
Them at Peoria.

PEORIA UlI), Aug. s21.-The gold
standard Democrats of Peoria met this
evening in one of the largest and most
! enthusiastic gatherings ever held in
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Announcements.

FUN SHERIFF.
EDITOR LEApER:-Please announce thename
OF George A. Shapley, OF Grandview. as can
didate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the
will Of Convention. HIS FRIENDS.
EDITOR LEADER:-Please state in the Leader
that Christopher j. Pfaff, Of Adams township,
will be candidate before the county conven-
tion for the office Of Sheriff. VOTERS.
EDITOR LEADER: Will you kindly an.
nounce that the undersigned will be a candi-
date for the office of Sheriff, subject to the will
OF the Republican convention to be held in
May. JOHN S. McCALLIsTER.
EDITOR LEADER: - Please announce in
your paper that the undersigned will be a
candidate for the Office OF Sheriff of Washing
ton County, subject to the will Of the Republi-
can County convention to be held May Goth.
CHARLES PAPE.
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce that the
undersigned will be a candidate for Sheriff,
subject to the will of the Republican county
convention, May Goth. ROSCOE WoLcTT.
EDITOR LEADER:-The county west Of the
Muskingun river not having had Sheriff for
twenty-five years, we think it in order to an.
nounce the name Of G. R. Goddard, for the
ONCE, subject to the vote Of the delegates 10
Republican county convention May Goth.
WESLEY TOWNSHIP.
EDITOR LEADER. Will you kindly announce
in your paper that the undersigned will be
candidate for the office OF Sheriff Of Washing.
ton County, subject to the will Of the delegates
in Republican County Convention, and oblige
BEN. BRAGG.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
Free Pills,

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& Co., Chicago, and get free sample
box of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. A
trial will convince you of their merits.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure of
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by their action, but by giving tone to
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the system. Regular size 25c. per box.
Sold by w. II. Styer, Druggist.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
The Criminal Docket.

In Common Pleas Court the follow.
ing criminal cases have been set for
trial on the dates specified:
Ohio VS.. Harry Lindsay, indictment
for assault and battery; June 1st.
Ohio VS.. Martha Hufford, indictment
for assault and battery; June 4th.
Ohio vs. Samuel Caskey, assault and
battery; May 27th.
Ohio VS.. Asa Male, indictment for
murder in the second degree; June Sd.
Ohio VS.. George Ammons, petit lar
ceny; May Goth.
Ohio VS.. Jerome Mccormick, indict-
ment for housebreaking; May 2sth.
Charles O'Neal assigned to defend.
Ohio VS.. Wallace Richie, indictment
for burglary and larceny; June I'd.
Ralph Startling assigned to defend.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15

The conviction of Ex-senator George
Iden, of Newark, on the charge of Of
fering brIbe to Clerk Malloy, was a
big surprise to the defense, as was the
verdict of guilty in the case of Ex-Sen-
ator Abbott. Iden says he will appeal
the case and fight it to the bitter end.
The acquittal of Senators Gear and
Geyer and the conviction of Senators
Abbott and Iden upon what appears to
have been the same kind of evidence is
remarkable. The public demands that
the crime of bribery be punished to
the full extent of the law when guilt
is certain, but that Franklin county
jury is dangerously near putting itself
nnder the ban of suspicion. Let ver-
diets be given according to the evidence
and penalties prescribed according to
the enormity of the offences committed.
The crime of bribery is far too serious
y matter for the innocent to be punish
ed or the guilty to be allowed to es-
cape.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
AN IRON AND STEEL PROBLEM.

PITTsBURe, PA, May 10-Everyone
who is interested in the industrial de-
yelopment of the region between the
Alleghenies and the Mississippi Valley
has noted the recent tendency of the
iron and steel making industries to
abandon their old home in the Pitts
burg district and to establish them
selves on the south shore of Lake Erie.
This movement has been the chief
cause of the remarkable growth of
Cleveland during the last ten years. 1t
was for the purpose of checking it and
thus retaining her old supremacy as
the great iron center of the country
that Pittsburg lately brought forward
her plans for ship canal from the
Ohio to Lake Erie, through which ore.
laden vessels from Lake Superior
might be brought to the furnaces
along the Shenango, the Beaver. the
Allegheny and the Monongahela, and
thus avoid the costly rail carriage from
the Erie ports. Pittsburg wasted two
or three years on that chimerical pro-
ject. Her leading business men threw
themselves into it with great ardor,
but they are now convinced that there
is nothing in it. Congress will never
appropriate the money for building
the canal and it could not possibly be
built as commercial enterprise. If it
were built all the way from the lake to
Pittsburg and the present mode of ore
shipment in large vessels from the iron
ports were changed so as to employ
barges that could navigate the canal
for it was meyer imagined that its ca
pacity could be made great enough for
deep-draught lake vessels carrying
5000 or 5000 tons-there would still be
insurmountable difficulties in the way
OF bringing the craft to the furnaces,
that are all located in relation to rail
transportation without more or less
rail haul.
In abandoning the canal scheme
Pittsburg has by no means given up
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by TeleRraph. .

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
An 1S-months-old child of Prof. L. j.
M. Cato, of Holbrook college, Fountain
City, Tenn, was drowned in a small
pool Of water Thursday.
Reports from most of the East Ten
nessee counties show damage to crops
this week amounting to $4,000, caused
by army worms and dry weather.
Buttons with miniature picture OF
Secretary Carlisle upon them and bear
ing the sentiment, For President,
John G. Carlisle" have appeared in
Washington and are being conspiou-
ously worn by Kentuckians.
Every indication points to an abso-
lutte reputation by the supreme coun-
Gil of, the A. p. A., in session at WASH
ington, of the action taken by the ex-
ecutive committee of the advisory board
against McKinley's candidacy. 75K !.
Frank Harding, well-known cigar
maker of Quincy, ILL.,, 81 years Of age,
Wednesday evening fatally shot his
mother, aged 65, then tried to kill him
self. Harding, who is now in Jail, has
brother in the insane asylum, He is
believed to be similarly afflicted.
The convention of the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians in session in Philadelphia
denounced the attempt to drag politics
into the order, and resolutions
were adopted declaring that every man
should exercise the right of suffrage
without interference from any one.
Wednesday Miss Ida M. Steers was
shot and fatally wounded on the farm
of John Masterson, seven miles north
west of Cropsey, Ill.,, by Chas. Burren.
Burrell then put bullet through his
own head and died instantly. Miss
Steers had refused to marry Burrell.
Roger Connor is now manager of the
st. Louis Browns. Mr.. Won Der Abe
turned his troubles over to the players
Wednesday and they unanimously chose
Roger as manager. The first baseman
will also captain the club. This de-
cision gives satisfaction to the public.
st. Dominic's Roman Catholic church
in Holmesburg, suburb of Philadel-
phia, was totally destroyed by fire early
Thursday morning. The loss is $50, 600
and the insurance SIS, 900. It is stated
that the fire was caused by watch
man dropping q lighted match ON .
carpet in the interior Of the church.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
Your Boy Won't Live a Month.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown, of "a Mill St,
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung trouble,
following Typhoid Malaria, and be
spent three hundred and seyenty-fi i've
dollars with doctors, who finally gave
him up, saying: "Your boy won't live a
month" He tried DR.. Kings New
Discovery and a few bottles restored
him to health and enabled him to 90
to work perfectly we'll man. He says
he owes his present good health to the
use of DIR. Kings New Discovery, and
knows it to be the best in the world
for Lung trouble. Trial Bottles Free
at w. II. Styer's Drug Store
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15

the battle. low-grade freight rail-
road is now being built with the back
ing of the great Carnegie interests to
connect Pittsburg with two Lake Erie
ports-Conneaut and Erie. Two mil
lion dollars has been raised for the
scheme, and the contracts call for the
completion of the line before Noy. l.
The new road will be about fourteen
miles longer than the Lake Shores
line from Ashtabula and of about the
same length as the Pennsylvania COM
pany's two routes from the lake to
Pittsburc. Its grades will be better
than those of either of its competitors.
The chief promoter of the enterprise is
formerly member of congress. had
talk with him lately. S He says that
the contracts already, made for ore
transportation over the new line will
give it business of 500 cars day,
and that the Carnegie interests around
Pittsburg will alone furnish it with
1000, 600 tons of freight year The
total annual tonnage of the Carnegie
industries is no greater than that of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, he says.
The contracts signed with the new
road are for 65 cents a ton for the haul
from Conneaut to Pittsburg, 152 miles.
The name of the new road is the Pitts
burg, Shenango and Lake Erie. Its
manager will be J. 7. Odell, formerly
of the Northern Pacific, later of the
Baltimore and Ohio, and still later of
the New York and New England. He
is master of the new science of oper-
ating railroads at the lowest possible
cost per ton per mile.
Here are some striking facts concern
ing the enormous freight business of
the Pittsburg district, under which
term iron men include the region for
radius of forty miles around the smoky
city. The tonnage of that district is
greater than that of New York City,
including all the ocean freight, all of
New Jersey and all of New York State
as far as Albany. The Carnegie indus
tries alone produce so per cent as much
tonnage annually as the entire New
York Central system, including the
West Shore, the Rome and Watertown
and all the branches. For these state
ments have the authority of the en-
terprising Colonel Dick. He tells me,
besides, that the sixty-eight miles of
railroad between Youngstown and
Pittsburg, owned by the Pittsburg and
Erie company, is the most profitable
piece of road of like length in the
United States, and that it is earning
s27, mile gross. Ninety per cent
of its business is freight 1t is part
of the Vanderbilt system.
Will Pittsburg succeed in checking
the movement of iron and steel making
to the Cleveland district by building
one more railroad and cutting down
the ore rate few cents on the ton?
No; but the new railroad means that
Carnegie is not going to abandon his
old field where his great works are es-
tablished. He will endeavor to OYER
come by closer economies in produc-
tion and transportation the undoubted
advantages which the south shore of
Lake Erie enjoys. The new railroad
is therefore of great significance.
E. V. SMALLEY.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
stonemasons Strike.

PITTSBURGH, May ID 4-Seven hundred
stonemasons in Pittsburgh went on
strike Thursday for an advance in
wages OF from 80 to Ss cents per hour.
The strike caused a suspension of work
on number Of buildings now in course
Of erection.
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ropt May Die.

YoUsesTowa. O., May 14-Andrew
Popp was found Wednesday morning in
Q desolate spot with three knife wounds
in hA back. He was cnt. It is said, by
Andrew and Joe Comotz Popp may
die.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
The Company VIII Contest.

MARION, O., May 14.-Auditor Guth-
cry has found that the Marion Steam
Shovel Co. was s26, ,o99 short on taxes,
and added that amount to the dupli-
cate. The company will contest the
matter
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
BioycIists Arin pislocatea.

CAREY, O., May IA lAwWednesday morn
ing, as G. Steinmetz was out for a spin
ON his new bike. the chain drew his
trousers into the srrocaset. throwing
him to the ground and dislocating his
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
AT EIGHT MILE.

The Root we'll of the Boston Oil Co.
is expected in this week, as is also the
same company's Stevens No. 10.
Messrs. Edward E. Allen, VIM. Kehw
and Fred Robbins are here from Bos-
ton and will put in the balance of the
week inspecting their property at
Eight Mile.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-15
FRIDAY, MAY Ia. 1896

We will consider It a great favor II
subscribers Will report any failure
70 get sheir Leader, or any careless
noss on the part of the carrier.
Subscribers will please not pay
the carriers unless the carrier
punches his credit tag in suosor'b-
er's presence.