Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-21
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.


by Telegraph.
The steamship New York, sailing
Saturday for Europe, took 45s,o0o
ounces of silver.
The steamship st. Louis, which ar
rived from Europe Saturday, brought
S665, 900 in gold. Total arrivals to
date, S27, 1896, $50.
The democratic congressional con.
ferees for the Fourteenth Pennsylvania
district have nominated j. f. Klugh,
of Dauphin, for congress.
James Swimmer, full-blood Chero.
kee Indian, and Henry Williams, a
colored youth of is, were hanged at
Talequah, ]. T., for murder.
BY the collision of freight and coal
train ON the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad near Halstead, Pa,
Friday morning. Engineer Coddington,
Of the former train was killed.
The banking house of S. Fl, Watson
& Sons, linton, Ia, established for 40
years, made a general assignment Fri
day afternoon to Mat Gaasch for the
benefit Of their creditors. Liabilities
S25O,O00; assets $350,00O. Depositors
and creditors will be paid in full.
Four mills of the Hazardville Powder
Co., Hazardville, Ct, blew up at 6
o'clock Saturday morning, the shock
being strongly felt for a region of 20
miles about. No one was killed or in
jured SO far as known, as the workmen
had not yet entered the mills. The
explosion was caused by lightning.
Benz Harrison will make some cam
paign speeches in Octob and the fears
of the republican national executive
committeeman at Chicago headquar-
ters were set at rest Friday by the
welcome intelligence. 1t was re-
ceived Friday afternoon in the form
of personal letter from the ex-presi-
dent.
| Richard Cobb, son of eX-Gov. r. W..
Cobb, was shot and probably fatally
wounded. He was walking across a
bridge when he stumbled and dis
charged rifle he was carrying in his
hand. When the gun struck the bridge
it was discharged. the ball passing
through Mr.. Cobb's lungs and ranging
into the shoulder.
The National Bank of Troy, former.
| ly the First national bank, of Troy,
N. V. closed its doors Saturday morn
ing, because of run on the bank, and
is now in charge of United States Bank
Examiner Graham. The bank officers
state that it will be able to pay deposi'
tors in full and from rs to 80 cents on
the dollar to stockholders. The cap.
ital is 100000
A dispatch from Constantinople
states that a number of softas (theo.
logical students) and members of the
young Turkey party had desperate
| fight in Galata on Wednesday. Fif.
| teen of the combatants were killed.
The dispatch adds that many of the
archives of the British embassy have
been placed for safety on the British
guardship on the Bosporus.
Albert George Whitehead, recently
released from Portland prison, arrived
in. New York Friday night on the
Cunard line steamship Lucania, which
reached her dock at 6:45 o'clock Friday
night Gen. James r. O'Be;rne, chair
man of the conference committee,
Whiteheads brother and others who
were permitted to converse with White
head, said that he was sane.
Pratt, Simmons & Krausnick, whole.
sale dealers in millinery at 517 Wash.
ington avenue, st. Louis, made gen.
eral assignment for the benefit of cred
itors to the Mississippi. Valley Trust
company of this city Friday. Mort
cages for Ss5,0 900 were first given to
several preferred creditors. The liza
bilities are $50, 900 and assets 5000, 0OO.
Slow collections in the west and south
and the annoyance of persistent small
creditors forced the assignment