Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-26
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

dathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The sum of $4,000 600 in gold was
taken from the New York sub-treasury
Friday in exchange for legal tenders
by Laidlaw & Co., the agents of the
bank of California.
The elevator and rolling mills at
Mokane, Mo-, owned by N. NJ. Vilm 6
Bros, We're destroyed by fire of un-
known origin, The total loss is esti-
mated at $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The etherlands-American Steam
Navigation Co.'s steamer Yaandam,
Capt. Devries, which sailed from New
York October l5, passed the Scilly is
lands Friday and signaled that she was
unmanageable.
The treasury gold reserve declined
Friday to S119, 437, 172. The days with
drawals at New York were 81, 5G5, 500.
No explanation is vouchsafed here for
the heavy Withdrawals, which were
quite unlocked for.
Ex-Gov. James E. Campbell, of Ohio,
arrived Friday at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, and stated that ow-
ing to pressure of business he would
be unable to take the stump for Bryan
in either New York state or Ohio.
Secretary Olney Friday presented to
the president Mautsapha Tahsin Bey,
the newly appointed minister from
Turkey. The minister's speech on
presentation contained only the GUS
tomary good wishes of his imperial
majesty, the sultan.
Wheat opened much lower at the
produce exchange, New York, Satur-
day morning. December, which closed
Friday night at sO]G, opened Saturday
at TX, and May, closed Friday at S31s,
opened Saturday at soA. Lower cables
and free selling were the cause of the
lower prices.
Delegates from Kentucky, Illinois,
Iowa, Ohio and other states attended
the closing meeting of the national
convention of Christian missionary
societies Friday in the Illinois house
of representatives, Springfield. The
attendance was very large and intense
interest was displayed.
The president has appointed Geo. F.
Moore attorney of the United States.
for the middle district of Alabama. He
is at present the assistant district at
torney and takes the place of Senator
Pugh's son-in-law, District Attorney
Clayton, who was retired for mixing
politics with his official duties.
Chase Il. Gavin, secretary of the Chi
cago National Building and Savings
Union, was arrested Friday afternoon
at the instance of the Ann Insurance
Surety Co., of New York, which is ON
his bond. The assistant state auditor
OF Illinois, after three days work on
Cavin's books, pronounced him short
$4,000, and his arrest followed
AT Kansas City Morris Landa, man
ager of the International Export and
Grain Co and ole of the best known
men on the local grain board, was shot
and almost instantly killed Friday
evening by Fred ii. Watt, discharged
book-keeper, in the Office of the com
pany, 6O7 Exchange building. Watts
services were dispensed with by order
of Mr.. Landa Thursday
c. o. Swanson, Scandinavian. who
has been employed by the Canadian
department of the interior to promote
immigration, has been detailed to pro.
ceed to the New England states with
the object of inducing his fellow coun-
trymen to remove from the New Eng
land states to Manitoba. At present
Swanson is visiting the states of Min
nesota and North Dakota.
PARIS, Oct 23.-M. Annie Etienne
Blavier, member of the French senate.
representing the department of Maine-
Et. Loire, is dead. He was so years of
are