Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-21
CONDENSED NEWS
Gpthcred From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gpthcred From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
For the three months of this fiscal
year the receipts from internal revenue
have been S3T, ,794,sS against S37, 7,744,-
479 for the corresponding three months
of 1895.
At the Crystal Palace, London, Mon
day Lytton, the bicyclist, beat the
three, four and five mile records He
rode five miles in nine minutes and
sixteen seconds.
A New York Times special from
Washington says: Gossip states Post
master Wilson for the vacancy created
by the death of Chief Justice Richard
son, of the court of claims.
The first carload of this seasons
crop of California oranges was ship
ped Monday night to Chicago four
weeks earlier than ever before. The
fruit is from the Capuanga Valley.
A dispatch from Rome to the Matin
says that the pope, in response to an
appeal from Mgr. Azarian, Catholic
patriarch of Armenia, has sent a large
sum of money for the relief of the dis
tressed Armenians.
The London Daily News Tuesday
publishes dispatch from Paris saying
that advices received there show that
disorders occurred in Van, Armenia,
on September 23 followed by terrible
massacre. No details are given.
One hundred and siXty-seven Armen-
ians arrived in New York Monday on
the steamship OLDHAM. They had been
collected in Turkey and sailed from
Boulogne, France. They are the first
Of batch of $50 Armenians refugees to
be sent to America.
The London Times, commenting up-
on the state of the wheat market Tues
day, says that the rise in the price of
wheat in America caused some con-
sternation, and when the Amer lean
opening cables were received there
was a scene such as is not usually seen
except in time OF war.
The rapid advance in the price OF
wheat during the past week has caused
the farmers of Western Washington
to rush their grain to market as fast
as the railroads can carry it. Receipts
at Tacoma now average 65 cars day,
with prospects of heavy increase
within the next fortnight.
The New York Herald says Tuesday
morning: The Protestant Episcopal
church of the United States is about to
organize an army of uniformed evan.
gelists, who will be under military dis
| cipline and compete with the Salvation
army and the American Volunteers in
the field of Christian work among the
poor
A receiver has been asked :or the
Blue Island Avenue Building and Loar
association, Chicago the bill charging
that the officers have mismanaged tho
association, that the association is
bankrupt and hopelessly entangled
and that the secretary has not account
ed for a large sum of money paid tc
him by members
The steamer Three Friends arrived
at the st. Johns bar, Jacksonville
Fla, at 5 o'clock Monday evening anc
anchored close to the revenue cutter
Boutwell,. The cutter Morrill,, which
left this port in company with thu
Three Friends last Thursday, has no
4 yet arrived. The captain of the Three
Friends reports that he saw no wreck.
along the coast.
| The Weather.
WAsHIsGros. Oct 20 For Ohio ana Wes
Virginia. Fair Wednesday,: fresh TO high
northwesterly winds aud colder; Temperature,
will fcll about 20 degrees by Wednesday morn.
| ing
For Kentucky-Generally fair Wednesday
decidedly colder Wednesday morning; winds
shifting TO northerly.
For Indiana-Fair Wednesday; cooler 1:
south and central portions; westerly winds