Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-25
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
John Chamberlain, of Washington,
died at the Grand Union hotel, Sara
toga, N. Y, at 11:25 o'clock Sunday
night.
rhe president Monday appointed
Levi T. Griffin pension agent at De-
troit, Mich. Mr. Griffin is an ex-mem-
Der of congress of that state, and sue
ceeds Harrison d. Wheeler, deceased.
A dispatch to the London Central
News from Buluwayo confirms the re-
port that the principal Matabele chiefs
have surrendered to the British forces
and it is believed here that the war is
ended.
The Cretan reform committee has is
sued in Berlin report of the massa-
cres in the island of Crete. According
to this report it is estimated that 6,OoO
Christians have been butchered in Crete
since November last.
dispatch from Cum berland, Md,
says: The Bedford Springs, composing
the noted resort at Bedford, Pa, are to
be sold by the sheriff, in consequence
of default of payment of interest and
mortgage of the Anderson heirs for
100000.
At Waldo, Fla, the house of e. Cole
man was burned and two children, a
girl and a boy of ten and two years
of age, were burned to death. The
mother and father went to visit a
neighbor and locked the children in
the house. sa rt
Unable to meet its obligations in the
clearance house Saturday, the Haymar-
ket Produce bank, Chicago, early Mon
day morning, made an assignment to
Chas. L. Boyd. According to the assig-
nee, the liabilities are about 100000
and assets about the same.
Ben Tillet, the English labor agi-
tator who went to Antwerp in connec-
tion with the new International Fed
GRAFTON of Waterside Laborers, and
was arrested Immediately upon his
arrival, has been released from Gus
tody and has returned to London.
The five-story building, Nos. 32s and
$50 East Twenty-sixth street, New
York, occupied by John Matthews,
decorative glass works, and others,
was burned Sunday morning Loss
$4,000. Many workmen are thrown
out of employment. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
Secretary Hoke Smith will sever his
connection with the interior depart
ment on Saturday next, the Goth of Au-
gust. He will devote this week to
clearing up ''odds and ends" and final
ly disposing of such departmental work
as has been prepared under his direc-
tion and is ready for his signature.
The second attempt of E. Z. Ander-
son to cover a mile in one minute on
bicycle paced by locomotive, which
was to have taken place in st. Louis
Sunday, has been postponed till Sep
tember 6. His machine will be geared
to 1870 inches and he confidently ex-
poets to clip the three seconds off his
present record of 1908.
Charles Jenkins, alias John Clare,
one of the most notorious bank and
post office burglars in the country, died
in the Long Island college hospital
Monday morning as the result of a
wound received while attempting To
rob the post Office and general store of
Walker B. Adams. at Bedford Station,
n. Y, last Wednesday night.
Shortly before two o'clock Sunday
morning Thomas Curlin, of Lake Elmo,
Mimi, heard somebody in the front
part Of his building. Selling re-
volver, he rushed out, only to be met
with fusillade of bullets, five of
which passed through his body. He
died instantly. The murderer or mur-
derers failed to get any money and
have not been apprehended.
A special commission has been APP
pointed by the Spanish government to
inquire into the matter of the con-
spiracy aiming at the separation of the
Philippine islands from the kingdom of
Spain, which was recently discovered
at Manila, randi is believed to have
been organized by committee of Phil
liptine refugees in Hong Kong having
lrelations with the Cuban rebels g
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