Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-23
CONDENSED NEWS,
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph,

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The o0-round bout before the Broad
way Athletic club, New York. between
Bob Armstrong, of Chicago, and Chas.
Stong. of Newark, N. j., was won by
Armstrong IN the nineteenth round.
Two thousand people saw Tommy
Ryan, of Syracuse, the champion well
terweight, whip Billy Mccarthy, of
Australia, in seven rounds, before the
Empire Athletic club, of Buffalo, Mon
day night.
Walbridge & Co.'S hardware and
house furnishing establishment and
the Jewett building, adjoining, at Buff
falo, N. Y, were damaged by fire
Tuesday morning to the extent of
about S150,O0O.
Adm. Bunces flagship, the New
York, with the cruiser Maine and the
tender Fern, left Tompkinsville Mon
day for Fort Monroe, where they will
join the battleship Indiana. The Mas
sachusetts, Texas and Montgomery
will follow before January 1.
The Blue mine, of Negaunes, Mich,
has been sold to Corrigan, Mckinney
& Co., of Cleveland, o. The considera-
tion is not given, but it is understood
to be about $4,000. The property is
capable of heavy production and will
be strongly worked by the purchasers.
The lowest temperature which has
prevailed in the Adirondack region
thus far this winter was recorded
Tuesday morning. At North Creek
the thermometer indicated IA degrees
below zero, at Marion River 23 below,
at Keene Center 0 below, and at
Schroon Lake below.
The National Bank of Illinois which
suspended Monday at Chicago, has two
correspondents in st. Louis, the Me-
chanics bank and the Commercial
bank. Officers of both these banks say
that the st. Louis correspondents owe
the Chicago bank money and will suf-
fer through it's failure.
John Burkhardt and George Reiss,
bricklayers, employed on building in
course of erection at the corner of
Greene and Bleecker street, New York,
were precipitated from the sixth floor
through the building to the cellar,
Tuesday morning, by the collapse of
Reiss fatally injured.
The confirmation of Rt Hon. and
Most Rev. Frederick Temple archbish-
op of Canterbury and primate of all
England, in succession to the late Most
Rev. Edward White Benson, who was
seized with apopleXy during services
in the Hawarden church, on October
II, and died few minutes later took
place in the church of st. Mary LIE Bow
in London Tuesday.
A woman and a man were found in q
room in the Hampton house, Boston,
Tuesday morning with the gas escap-
ing from two burners The woman
was dead and the man unconscious.
He was sent to a hospital and the wom-
ans body taken to an undertalSers.
They registered Monday night as DON
aid Donovan and wife. They are be-
lieved to belong to Concord, n II.
Mrs. Cecile Franklin, proprietor of
one of the most fashionable boarding
houses in st. Louis, died from the eff
fects of cocaine poisoning at the resi-.
dence of DIR. /. n. Love, No. 3642 Lin.
dell Boulevard, at two o'clock Monday
afternoon. Mrs. Franklin had evil
IDENTIFY taken the poison about nine
o'clock Monday morning, but whether
with the intention of ending her life
or simply to alleviate pain is not
known.
The bank of Minnesota, at st. Paul,
VIM. Dawson, president, Robert A.
Smith, vice president, and VIM. Daw-
son, jr., cashier, closed it's doors at II
o'clock Monday morning. Lack of
ready money was the cause. Accord.
ing to the last statement of the Bank
of Minnesota it had paid up capital
of 100000 surplus, 500, 900; undivided
profits, S143, 750; individual deposits,
50, 145, $50; bank deposits, $500, $40, and
loans and discounts, 81, 439, 800.