Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-11-16
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
| by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The town board of Cripple Creek,
Col, has removed City Marshal James
Marshall and Deputy Thomas Clark
for malfeasance in office.
Heavy floods have occurred through
out large section of Bosnia and "a
persons are reported to have drowned,
while the damage to property has been
| immense.
A man, supposed to be Geo. Sanger,
of Texas, was found dead in his bed in
a hotel in Baltimore Friday. The gas
was turned on and it is thought to be
a case of suicide.
The report that the Texas and Pa
citic railroad is likely soon to pass
from the control of the Gould interests
into the Rock Island is emphatically
denied.
John Y. Fister, secretary of the New
Jersey state republican committee and
editor of several of the Leslie publica-
tions, died at his home in Newark, N.
j., Friday afternoon, of pneumonia.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Appel Bros,
clothiers, fled trust mortgages for
$50, 900 with the Peninsular Trust COM
pany for the benefit of their creditors,
which are principally Chicago firms.
Serious washouts and lapdslides, oc-
casioned by an unprecedented rise of
the Sllyllomish river, have occurred on
the Great Northern road in the Cas-
cade mountains. Freight and passen-
ger trains can not be moved across the
,foi I'M nj
| A special from Saltillo, Mexico, says
| that John f. McEwits, an Englishman,
while on his way from Escalon station
to Sierra Mojada, was attacked by BAN
dts and killed. He was then robbed
Of $4,000, which he was taking to Sier-
ra Mojada to be used in paying off
miners. The assassination has caused
much excitement.
AS d result of the election w. II.
Bradley has reopened the Mitchell ho-
tel, Tomahawk, Wis, one of the finest
hotels in northern Wisconsin, and will
also start up the Bay mills, running
day and night until spring, in order to
have stock of lumbe to supply the de-
mand, thus giving employment to a
large force of men il the mills and
| woods.
At New York Joaquin Castollo was
arrested Friday afternoon and held in
$2,5 500 bail by Commissioner Shields on
Il charge of having participated in a
Glibustering expedition in Cuba, which
sailed on the steamship Laurada. May
S last. The complaint was made by
Arturo Baldasano Topcte, consul
general Of Spain in the United States.
Castollo is q. physician.
Gen Fitzhugh Lee, consul general
to Cuba, says that he has no aspira tions
for the governorship or other political
preferment in Virginia. The fact is
Gen. Lee is giving his whole attention
to the Cuban complication. This and
the course which this government is
likely to pursue in this important mat.
ter are absorbing his attention to the
exclusion of domestic politics
James A. Welmore, of New York,
private secretary to Logan Carlisle,
chief clerk OF the treasury department,
has been appointed to succeed Judge
Fleming as chief of the law and con,
tract division of the Office of the super
vising architect of the treasury, Judge
Fleming, of Indiana, is the man who
was recently removed from office, pre-
sumably on account of his participa'
tion in the campaign in behalf of free
silver
Indian Kills Two Gamblers.
MEMA, Ark, Nov. 14.-At Halter
Gap, 20 miles south of here, an Indiar
named Porter shot and killed two gam
blers, Swede Johnson and Bob Smith
The gamblers had feeced the Indian