Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-02
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
WEDNESDAY. DEG. 2, ,soe
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

Thursday night.
Articles of agreement have been
signed for wrestling match at Park
ersburg between McInerney and Ran
dali and forfeit of 5000 side posted.
The event will be pulled off in the near
future. The contest will be three best
in FIVE, catch-as catch-can, and the ref
ereee and time keeper will be chosen
from the audience. McInerney has met
and defeated some of the best in this
country and in England where be re-
mained one whole season. He had a
wrestling match early last season at
Sistersville and later at Wheeling. His
opponent in the coming bout is one of
the strongest men that has appeared
on the mat, though his reputation is
only local. He is an oil well driller
and claims the championship of West
Virginia
More than 1000, 600 bushels of coal
was sent out of Pittsburg last Sunday
on the rise in the river caused by the
heavy rains of last week The river
reached the 10 foot mark at Pittsburg
which was amply sufficient to let out
the heaviest craft. The fleet began
passing here Tuesday morning headed
by the big Pittsburg tow boat Coal
City which went down about 3 o'clock.
Among the first boats to go down
were the following: Coal City, Clifton,
Jno F. Walton, Joe. Walton, Resolute,
Volunteer, Percy Kelsey. Cruiser,
Fallie, Twilight. Josh Cook, Jno. A.
Wood, John Moren, and Enterprise.
The jury in the case of Louis w.
Smith ct al VS.. Louise Schlaubach, exc
cutor of the will of Mary Miller, in
which it was sought to set aside the
provisions of the instrument, returned
verdict in favor of the defendant.
ALL mem bers of Harmar Lodge No.
lis 1. o. o. f., are requested to be pres
ent at the regular meeting Thursday
evening, December Sd. Election of
Lodge officers and voting for Grand
Lodge officers. Also other important
business.
The regular meeting of the College
Athletic Association will be held next
Saturday, at which time manager of
the football team for next season will
be elected. The manager will begin at
once TO schedule games for next fall
and prosperous and successful season
is looked forward to.
Col. Van Bukey, of Parkersburg,
who has been i'll for some time, is inn
proved in health, we are pleased to
note, and in few days he will go South
for the winter.
jamie johnson, aged three years,
daughter of William johnson, West
Side, died Tuesday afternoon, Decem'
ber 1st, of membranous Group. Fun
eral from. Willow Spring Chapel Wed,
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
e.. If you want good thing, get Rid
paths History of the World. 1t will
make an elegant and useful Christmas
present to wife, husband or children.
Mrs. d. s. Devin, of Buchanan
Michigan, called here by the death o.
her father, expects to return home
Thursday.
The horse-car track on Fourth
street between Scanned and Putnam
will probably he torn up today to allow
the work of paving to proceed.
The Eclipse football team, of Eas
Liverpool, claims the championship o
the Ohio valley, and is ready and anxi
GUS to defend the honor. They de
feated Wellsburg O., on Thanksgiving
Martins Ferry has strong clever
which disputes the right of the East
Liverpool team to the championship
and has mailed challenge for con
test on the griairon for the champion
ship of the valley.
The Pittsburg News of the 2stl
saws: 1.-Two uew boats were inspected
today. The new Sam Brown was Wis
tied this afternoon by the Government
officials, and granted her first license t.
navigate the waters of the western
1
The Tug No 2, built and owned by
George Clarke, was inspected thi
afternoon. She is a small boat for har
Dor work. A fragment of a wrecked
coalboat has lodged against the chan
mel pier of the Steubenyille bridge an
Captain Christian, of the snagboa
Woodruff, has been notified to remov
it,"
Mr. William and Miss GraceThoma
returned home to Washington, d. c.
Tuesday after visit with relatives il
this city. ~
-Messrs. Buell. and Frye, who ,hav
been with the U. S. surveying corps o
the Ohio river, returned home Tuesday
Mrs. Garrison, an aged lady livin
on Sixth street, is IN a critical cond
ton as the result of broken leg re
ceived by an accidental fall Tuesday
Marietta Lodge No. 81, ]. 0. O. f.
met at their Hail. corner. of Second an
Putnam streets, Monday night an