Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-03-17
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
TUESDAY, MARCH ~, 1895
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

lnSVllle, W. va, WIS III bnc Ci1y oh
legal business Monday.
In police court Monday r.. M.
johnson was fined five dollars and
costs for drunkenness. Pearl Chaplin
was assessed five and costs for fast
driving.
"A 17-year-old boy named Nc
Sweeney was fined one dollar and costs
by Mayor Palmer Monday night for
jumping on moving train.
Oscar Webster, who recently sold
his interest in the Marietta Beverly
packet Sonoma, is comforting with a
number Of boat building ffirms with
view to building a new packetfor the
Muskingum trade
Fire at Coal Run last Saturday de-
stroyed the Martin Newton black.
suith shop in the center of the village,
and also cider mill and several bar
rels of cider stored in the building.
There was no insurance.
Miss Blanche Ditman, the stem
ographer, arrived home today from Ma
rietta where she reported the evidence
in the postoffice case before U. S. Com
missioner Guyton. n.--Parkersburg Sent
incl.
Marshal James Parlin was out yes
terday after being confined to his room
several days with an attack of grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Curtis returned
Monday from Beverly, where they
spent Sunday with Mrs Curtis par
ents, DIR. and Mrs. II. s. Clark.
H. w. Davidson and sister, of Cam
bridge, were in the city Monday.
Attorney c. Heydrick. of Franklin,
Pa, Judge of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, was in the city on bust
ness Monday.
MIR. James M. Hughes arrived with
his wife from Butler, Pa, Monday and
is registered at the Bellevue. The as
sociates of Mr.. Hughes in the company
that will operate the boiler plant will
arrive here today and let the contract
for the erection of the buildings.
Some changes have been made In the
plans and the plant is to be even more
elaborate than yet proposed. The cap
ital stock of the company has been in
creased from the required $50. 900 to
$1,000 900 an electric crane substituted
for the steam crane originally contem-
plated An incandescent lighting dyn-
amo will also be feature of the plant
Died, at her home near Constitu-
tion, Monday, the 10th instant, of con-
sumption, Mrs. M. King.
Frank Ketter, one of James &
Roses very efficient salesman, has
severed his connection with that firm,
and will travel for a Columbu shoe
house.
Mrs. Jessie Wilson, of Pike St.,
this city, is very sick with lung fever,
from which she has been suffering for
about two weeks.
Carl Schaffer has bought the Ket-
ter property on Front street. Consid.
Grafton $500. Ellenwood, Smith &
Leeper negotiated the deal.
Lou Revan left Monday, after a
visit with friends in this city.
H. L. Weis is out Of the city on
business.
Blind Boone, the colored pianist
who is to appear in this city in few
days is getting some fine notices from
the Cincinnati papers. He is an artist
not a freak.
From the Muscatine, Iowa, News
Tribune of the 11th instant we copy
the following local which relates to
the death of former Marietta young
man, Theodore Scott Stewart: "Theo
dore S. Stewart, for many years a
resident of this city, passed away al
2:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon at his
home on East Front street. The de-
ceased had been in his usual health ur
to Thursday night last, when he was
stricken with paralysis and continued
in a comatose condition until he
breathed his last Mr.. Stewart was q
native of Marietta, o., and attained
the age of As years, 7 months and II
days. He was son of one of Musca
tines early business men, William III.
Stewart, and of Cynthia A. Morton
and when seven years of age came
with his parents to Iowa, locating in
Muscatine, and here attended school
afterward entering Fulton college
While there he enlisted when only II
years of age, with the rest of his class
in Co. ID, 140th regiment, of Illinois
Volunteer Infantry. Upon his return
from the battlefields of the south he
entered his fathers store and upor
reaching his majority in 1868 he be
came interested in business with hi
father and eventually succeeded him
He was highly successful, continuing
in business until compelled by failing