Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-24
CONDENSED NEWS,
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


by Telegraph.
Jack McAuliffe has announced offi-
cially that he has retired from the
ring.
Frank Seymour, cashier of the Mer-
chants national bank, was Tuesday
evening named as receiver of the Bank
of Minnesota. An attorney will be
named Wednesday.
j. c. King was lodged in the Harris
Vile (W. Va.) Jail charged with hold
ing up an old soldier at Cairo and rob-
bing him of his pension money. King
escaped from the officers Saturday, but
was recaptured.
The Advance Elevator in East St
Louis was sold Tuesday to Chalbers,
one of the receivers, for 100000 1t is
generally thought that the Advance
Elevator will in time become part of
the Consolidated Elevator Co.
The gunboat Annapolis was launch
ed at Eliza bethport,. n. j., Wednesday
morning at the Crescent ship yard
here. Miss Georgiana Porter, grand
daughter of the late Adm. Porter,
christened the new addition to the
navy.
Des Moines banks have been called
to the aid of numerous country bank
ing customers, who were embarrassed
by the failure OF the National Bank of
Illinois. The Chicago institution had
large number of accounts with Iowa
banks scattered all over the state.
The bark Jamaica was lost off Dos
Rosas Tabasco on the 18th inst. and
all on board, save three men and q
boy, were drowned. The Jamaica was
on her way from Campeche to Vera
Cruz and carried 16 passengers. The
number of the crew is not known.
Edwin J. Smith, individual book-keep-
er of the Bank of Commerce, Buffalo,
n. Y, was arrested on the complaint
of receivers of the bank who charged
him with falsifying the books, effect
ing practical embezzlement of be.
tween $1,000 and $4,000. Smith con-
fessed.
Mill No. 4, of the Southern Pine Co.,
at Nichols, so miles north of Way
cross, Ga, on the Waycross Air Line
railroad is in ashes, having been
burned. Over IT'S employees were de.
pendent on the mill 1t is estimated
that the loss is between $751; and
500, 1000; the insurance probably
amounts to $1,000.
The Weyerhauser Lumber Syndicate
closed a deal Tuesday purchasing
large tracts of pine lands situated in
six or seven counties in northern Wis
consin. The purchase involves $780,.
600. The transfer is one of the largest
and most important known in lumber
circles and involves the fee title tc
nearly 10000 acres of land.
General Manager w. NJ. Greene, ot
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has ap
pointed j. NJ Graham uperintendent
of the Ohio division, vice j. Van Smith
as general superintendent of the trans
Ohio division, with headquarters al
Chicago. j. II. Glover, trainmastcr of
the Ohio division, will succeed Mr.
Graham as superintendent.
A fatal wreck occurred on the Chi
cago IL Northwestern railway at On
tario, Ia, Tuesday afternoon. A mis-
placed switch ran freight train on {
side track and into some box cars
standing there The train was com
pletely wrecked and the property
loss will be large. Fireman Jane:
Tracey, of Clinton, was instantly killed
and Engineer Andrew Sill injured sc
that he will probably die.
Queen Regent Christiana will or
Christmas day sign a decree ordering
the operation of certain reforms in the
island of Porto Rico. Adm. Beranger
minister of marine, denies that the gov
ernment is purchasing war ships. Gen
Azcarrago, minister of war, has rem
dered an account to the queen regent
| of the work which has been done by
the war ministry with n view to tho
arising of possible complications.
Warrants were sworn out before
Justice Hall Tuesday evening for tht
arrest of e. S. Dreyer and Robert Ber
ger, of the banking firm of L. S. Drey
er & Co., Chicago, which failed Mon
| day. The warrants charge the bank
ers with the violation of the banking
laws of Illinois by receiving deposit.
after the institution was insolvcnt, ant
were sworn out by Frank Kennedy, ;
| saloon-keeper on Dearborn street.