Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-07
CONDENSED NEWS,
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From ALI Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Mute Wood, the famous trotting
horse sire, died at Highland Farm, Du-
buque, Ia, Friday, aged 26 years.
Central passenger committee roads
were Friday authorized to run home
seekers excursions to soathern terri
tory and all points on the Chesapeake
g. Ohio road.
The federal grand jury which has
been sitting in Chicago for several
weeks is making another attempt to
obtain evidence Of the existence of
beef trust among Armour, Swift, Nor
ris and the Hammond Packing Co.
Supervising Inspector General Du-
mont reports that during last year 221
persons lost their lives on steam ves-
sells out of GOO, 100000 passengers car
ried. This was decrease In a loss of
life of 113 persons from the year be-
fore.
The Arnold copper mine in Kewee-
nav county, Michigan, will resume
operations in few days. The mine
was to have been reopened q year ago,
but threatened business conditions in
duced the owners to delay operations
until more settled times.
The district of Matanzas has given
decision in the case of Oscar Cespedes,
an American, who was captured in the
field and held as prisoner Of war in
San Serverino castle, Matanzas. TIE
court holds that he must be handed
over to military tribunal for trial.
The solicitors of Edward ]. Ivory,
alias Edward Bell, the alleged Irish
American dynamite conspirator, have
obtained a postponemcnt of his trial in
order to enable them to complete their
chain of evidence on behalf of the
prisoner by the arrival of witnesses,
depositions. etc., from New York.
The Antwerp dock laborers, having
manifested their desire to Immediately
go out on strike in sympathy with the
Hamburg strikers, the executive COM
mittee of the London Dockmen's union,
have wired to Antwerp urging the
dock laborers there to remain at work
and assist their Hamburg men with
money rather than to engage in q SYM
pathy strike.
Mime esota will probably realize S10,-
800 by the seizure of so tons of game
by the state game warden, because it
was being illegally shipped from the
state to Boston, New York and Chica-
go. The fines for the illegal trans
portation of the game will amount to
over 0,000. This seizure is said to be
the largest ever made in the United
States
At Sandowne park, London, Satur-
| day the three-year-old hurdle race of
10 sovereigns, two miles, over eight
| flights of hurdles, was won by Mon
tauls, formerly owned by Richard Gro
ller Settee was second and Furze Hill
! formerly the Wick third. The bet
! ting was to against Montauk, 8 to l
against Settee and 70 to l against
Furze Hill.
Early Saturday morning eight cars
of an outbound western freight train
jumped the track at the Kinniclsinnic
railroad bridge, Milwaukee. A
man, who is probably L. w. Ray
mond, of Tracy, Mimi, was instantly
killed, his head being crushed. Letters
on his person contained four notes on
the Tracy national bank for S275. 1t
/ is supposed that he was stealing n ride.
Formal notice was given Friday af-
ternoon in accordance with the law
relating to applications for pardon,
that on December 2s application will
be made to Gov. Upham to grant q
pardon to John B. Koetting, formerly
cashier of the South Side Savings
bank, Milwaukee, Wis, who is now
serving fve-years' sentence in the
state prison at Waupun. There is GER
tain to be strong opposition to the par
don.
Gen. Weyler Makes Money.