Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-10
CONDENSED NEWS
Sathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

sathered From All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.
The failure of L. johnson & Son,
,hoe manufacturers, Haverhill, Mass,
vas announced Tuesday. Liabilities
tbout $50, 900.
Albert Wilcox, aged 70 years, the in
ventor of the famous Wilcox organ,
lied of Bright's disease Tuesday morn
ng at Worcester, Mass.
The authorities of Hamburg have
announced that they do not intend to
make use of the troops in replacing
strikers or in the work of maintaining
order.
The Taggeblatt has dispatch from
Tien Tsin saying that Ii Hung Chang
has decided to abandon completely his
projected giving out of large CONNER
cial orders. s-.. .
Fires were put under tho Cohansey
Glass Co. glass tanks, Bridgeton, N. j.,
Tuesday and the blowers will begin
work Goth instant. Four hundred men
will be given employment in the
works.
The Michigan wooden pipe works,
the Salt block and small saw mill at
Bay City, Mich. were totally destroyed
by an incendiary fire late Tuesday
night Total loss $95,OoO, insurance
100000.
The Madrid newspapers are greatly
excited over the references to Cuba
and Spain contained in President
Clevelands message to the United
States congress, and declare the inter-
vention of the United States in Cuba
would be unbearably humiliating to
Spain.
| Steele and Sparks, the oldest bank
ing firm in Georgetown, Tex, trans
ferred all its deposits to the First ma
tional bank OF this place, and went
into liquidation. The affairs of the
bank are in excellent condition, and
the transfer was on a desire to change
business.
Charles j. Bell, the chairman of the
general inaugural committee, has ap-
pointed several of his assistants. No
effort will be spared to make the in
auguration ceremonies of President
Mckinley the most brilliant and inn
posing pageant that Washington has
ever seen.
Secretary Robert E. Burke, of the
Cook county democratic central COM
mittee, and Joseph Martin, member
of the executive committee, left Chi.
cago Tuesday night for Lincoln, Neb.,
for the purpose of inviting VIM. j.
Bryan to be the guest of honor at the
Jackson day banquet of silver demo.
Gratis to be held in Chicago January s.
;o+ 1n !
Fairfax, Ia, who shot and killed one
OF three men who attempted train
hold up Monday night and wounded
another, was exonerated from all
blame Tuesday by the grand jury. The
escape of the wounded man is believed
to be impossible. The identity OF the
dead man is unknown. He was about
nineteen years of age.
At New Orleans Judge King, of the
district court, handed down decision
in the case of the estate of Fanny
Sweet Mills, the well known courte-
san, deciding that Charles Client
Brown, of California, and Mrs. Mary
McVey, of West Virginia, were heI
brother and sister, and entitled to all
the property. The state of Louisiana
had laid claim to it on the ground that
Fanny Sweet had left no heirs.
Fifty boilers, riveters and platers,
employed by the Morans on two gov.
ernment vessels, torpedo boat No
and the revenue cutter Golden Gate, at
Seattle, Wash, struck. They have
been working ten hours day at so
cents an hour. The Morans gave no
&,
days work temporarily. The work
ingmen demanded 35 cents an hour un.
der the new time arrangement