Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-08

local nine the strongest amateur agRrc-
cation they had ever met. They tried
to cancel date with Youngstown and
postpone their games at Wheeling to
allow them to get even today, but
Wheeling would not listen to it and
they will play in that city as per
schedule.
The Parkersburg and Marietta
teams have both disbanded and two
exhibition games have been arranged
for the last of this week, after which
the players will go home for the winter.
The first game will be played at Park
ersburg on Friday for the benefit of
the Parkersburg players, and the Sec
ond at Marietta on Saturday for the
benefit of the Marietta nine. The en-
tire proceeds of the games will go to
the members of the. teams and the
lovers of the national game should turn
out well and give the boys who have
entertained them SO often a substan-
tial lift.
60 to the Bee Hive for your millin-
cry goods.
Says Yesterdays Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune of Engineer Jno. w.
Hill, the man who planned Marietta's s
water works system: Chicago recog~
nizes that Cincinnati has one of the
best civil engineers in the country in
the person of John w. Hill. The
Windy City is having much difficulty
with it's water-works system at present
as the lake, from which it draws its
supply of water, is polluted far enough
out by the sewage to affect the water
which the supply tunnel recently built
there draws in. Monday night Mr..
fill received telegram fIom Mayor
Swift Of Chicago, asking him to come
to that city at once, if possible, to con-
fer with him and the Superintendent
of Water-Works of Chicago on the sub.
ject of improved water works for the
city. Mr.. Hill left yesterday to lend
them his valuable aid and advice in the
matter"
An Athens special says Genera,
c. Fl. Grosyenor arrived home this
morning after making II tour of the
west. He made eight speeches in Iowa
and says Mckinley will carry it by ar
overwhelming majority. He made two
speeches in Chicago to 12, 600 men aut
held his audiences spell-bound for two
hours and thirty minutes.
Big bargains in underwear at tn,
Bee Hive Store.
Miss Myrtle Sibley left Wednesday
afternoon for New York City, whenc'
she sails Saturday for Europe. Sh,
will pursue course of music at Berlin
In New York Miss Sibley will NEE
Mrs. S. NJ. McMillen and son, Francis
who will also go to Berlin for the la'
to study the violin.
| Miss Hotchlsiss, of Cleveland, is eX
pected to arrive IN Marietta today, t.
be one of the wedding guests of Mis-
Jessie Davis.
Misses Rathbone and Riley will
give musicale at the Marietta Gu
rooms Saturday afternoon in honor o
the Misses Hall, of Iowa.
Choral Society rehearsal this eve
ming at o'clock. The copies of tn
oratorio elijah" have arrived, and al
members are requested to attend.
Go to the Bee HIVE for millinery.
Mrs. S. M. Cooke is in Portsmouth
Visiting friends.
Born, Tuesday, October 9th, to Nj
and Mrs. Milton Devol, of Devol
Dam, daughter.
The Steamer Columbia struck
rock near Red House, on the Ohio, Wet
nesday morning and sank immediately
The passengers and crew escaped i
bouts. The sunken steamer was value
at $4,000.
AT Walker, w. Va, the four-yeul
old daughter of John Behn strangle
to death by swallowing bean.
Fine peaches for sale by the baske
! finest in the city. j. F. Gaitret
Union Depot.