Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-29
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Globe by
Telegraph.

Telegraph.
The thermometer was 90 degrees be-
low zero at Washingtonville, N Y,
Monday morning.
The thermometer at Kingston, N.
", stayed TT IA degrees below zero
Monday morning In the Catskill it
ranged from II to 20 below.
A special from San Luis Polosi,
Mex, says: Ignacio Muriel, banker
and business man of this city, is dead.
He leaves an estate valued at 81, ,000,-
900.
Three masked men, armed with re-
volvers, entered the saloon of Mrs.
Mary Bernhardt 131 West Twelfth
street, Chicago, at IL o'clock Sunday
night, and robbed the place of $3.50.
Information was received by the
Wells, Fargo express officials that the
state rangers had captured the rob-
bers who held up the Southern Pacific
passenger train at Comstock, Tex, u
week ago The robbers are in jail at
Del Rio, Tex.
Bank Examiner j. d. Mcdonald took
charge of the Merchants and Planters
bank of Bryan, Tex, which failed to
open Wednesday. Disinterested busi-
ness men who have investigated the
affairs of the bank since, say that it is
solvent and payment will be resumed.
The explosion of a lamp in grocery
store in Johnston, Il. l., at about 6
o'clock Monday morning set fire to the
building in which the store was To-
I +oI IL rai inh
baum and Nellie Kreichbaum, living
in a tenement over the store, were
burned to death.
President Stevenson, his wife
and daughter are in st. Louis, The
family came to attend the wedding
Monday night of the vice-presidents
niece, Miss Julia Scott, to Mr.. Carl
Vrooman. They are the guests of
Lieut.. Charles S. Bromwell at 41o2
Westminster place
Sir John Brown, one of the first in
Great Britain to advocate the plating
of warships with armor, died at
Brighton. He was mayor of Sheffield
from 1862 to 1868, and master cutler
there from 1865 to 1866. He was for
merly proprietor of the Atlas steel and
iron works at Sheffield.
The Atlas National Bank of Chicago
has decided to retire from business,
and the clearing house committee, at
special meeting Sunday night, decided
that the associated banks of the city
would advance the amount needed to
pay its depositors in full. The amount
required is in the neighborhood of
S60O,OOO.
Tramps set fire to the circus train of
Bond Brothers, at Wichita, Kan, and
five animal cars We're completely burn
ed before the fire department could
reach one. a tramp named Archie
Morrison was fatally burned. 1t is
said that the tramps set the cars on fire
before of grievance against the circus
management.
A raid was made by policemen Sun
day night upon q low drinking resort
in East st. Louis near the relay depot.
The tough inmates showed fight and
opened fire. Detective Officer John
Peyton was fatally shot and two others
badly wounded. All but one of the
men escaped and several are known to
be wounded.
A number of Des Moines firms and
banks and institutions in other Iowa
cities have been caught for at least
100000 on the Tacoma, Wash, city
warrants. They proved to be war;
rants which had been paid and re-
deemed once, and reissued by the city
treasurer of Tacoma, and the proceeds
apparently pocketed by him.
Otto Wasmansdorff, of the banking
firm of Wasmandorff & Heiemann, Chi
cago, which failed here last Monday as
a result of the collapse of the National
Bank Of Illinois, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the right temple
with revolver. The constant worry
and mental anxiety OF the past week
consequent upon the failure is believed
to have been the cause.