Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-11-26
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts OF the Country
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The employees OF the Virginia s.
North Carolina Wheel Co., Richmond,
Va, who went on a strike, have re-
offered.
Lafayette Lane, son of John Lane,
first United States senator from Ore
gon, died at his home in Roscburg,
Ore. He was congressman from Ore
gon ls74-76.
The breaking of an axle Of one of the
cars of an extra freight train near
New Brunswick, N. j., Wednesday
morning, caused disastrous wreck on
the Pennsylvania railroad and cost two
lives.
Receiver Murray, of the Baltimore
s. Ohio Railroad Co., is emphatic in his
denial Of reports circulated in the west
to the effect that the Baltimore S Ohio
is not living up to the joint traffic
agreement but is cutting rates.
The Chinese legation profess ignor-
ance of the report that Mr.. Yang Yu,
the Chinese minister at Washington,
will be transferred to st, Petersburg,
and that he will be succeeded as min
lister at Washington by Wu Ting Fang.
At Columbus, Ca, rabid mule bit
his driver, Joe Wooten, Negro, and
in few minutes the mule died. Tho
Negro became rapidly worse and, al
though the wound has been cauterized,
he developed symptoms of hydrophobia
and is expected to die.
The match between Eddie Connolly,
of st. John, N. B., and Tom Casey, an
English light weight, took place Tues
day night at the Olympic Athletic
club, Birmingham Eng, and resulted
in a victory for Connolly, who defeated
his opponent in the fifth round.
Several of the leading newspapers of
Madrid are very bitter In their crit
icisms of the return of Gen. Weyler to
Havana and declare him to be morally
ruined. All of these papers demand
that Gen. Azcarraga, the present min
lister of war, be sent to Cuba at once to
supersede Gen. Weyler.
The state board of canvassers of New
Jersey met Tuesday and canvassed the
late election returns, showing that the
vote in New Jersey for Mckinley and
Hobart was 221, ,967, and for Bryan and
Sewall 1s3,e7s. The candidates Oh the
other tickets received small votes Nc
Kinley's plurality was S7,6s2.
James O. Watkins, who is said to be
another member of the Valentine-Mc-
Laughlin gang of forgers. was ar
raigned in the New York police court
Tuesday afternoon and remanded. A
detective identified him as q man who
has been working with Valentine,
Bough and Mclaughlin in floating
bogus checks.
Consul Paul Wiesike, writes the de-
partment of state that the president
Of Nicaragua has issued decree sus-
pending for period OF six months, be-
ginning November l, the duty on hog
lardimported into that country. The
duty is suspended in consideration of
scarcity of lard and the high price
charged for it. 3iI g
The barn of w. w. Morton, neigh.
Dor of President p. j. Berckmans, of
the American Neurological society at
Augusta, Ga, burned at midnight.
Loss about S2,5O0aa Fifteen head of
milk cattle, five horses and three mules
burned to crisp. Seven or eight of
the cows were registered stock. Nor
ton recently came to Augusta from
Kentucky.
Hon. Andrew D. White, one OF the
Venezuelan commissioners, who is
now in New York in an interview
with a representative of the United
Associated Presses Tuesday, said that
in the light of the recent diplomatic
correspondence between this country
and Great Britain, he considered peace
as permanently established between
the two nations