Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-06-11

Miss Blanche Marshal, of Kansas
City, Mo-, arrived Tuesday evening |
and will be the guest of her cousin,
Mrs. DR.. Willis.
Mrs. j. W. Mckinley, of Washing |
ton City, is the guest of her father, e.
G. Brigham.
-Pnrkersburg papers of Wednesday |
evening contain an account of brutal
assault made by three toughs Of that
city upon Harry Aslett, a Marietta
young man who is crippled. Accord
ing to the Sentinel Aslett was swiped
good and hard" by Art Smoot and
Baker and Catcher Anderson, of the
Parkersburg ball team. He was at
tackled because he had participated in
the unmerciful guyipg the Parkers-
burg cutters received here when they
threw up lost game several days ago.
Richard Fouraker raised disturb
ance last night at the merry -go-round
and was arrested for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. G
"A skin game man who knows his
business got in his work on a crowd of
innocents on Front street Wednesday
night and as result is a hundred or
more dollars ahead. He first worked
the old soap game on several persons
and transferred nice little sum of
money from their pockets to his. He
then moved to another location and
after a crowd had gathered worked Is
or 20 fellows who were looking for
something for nothing snaps in most
artistic manner Requesting the loan
of dollar ito do what he pleased
with" he was promptly handed one by
a stool pigeon, and after lingering it
for awhile returned it to the owner
with another dollar as interest He
then asked for 10 men to loan him
dollar 'to do what he pleased with"
and those anxious to profit by the
scheme before the trap was sprung al
most fell over themselves handing up
the money The fakir quietly put the
money in his pocket, lit a cigar and re-
paired to his hotel
-Harmar lodge No. 115, l. o. o. F.,
will have work in the Initiatory de-
gree tonight.
Mr.. Enoch Summers, manager,
captain and third baseman of the Gal.
lipolis club, has been playing ball for
the last twenty-five years and is forty
two years of age He has been mar
ried three times and as many times di-
vorced, but is not yet daunted by mat
rimonial ventures and is at present
looking for his fourth wife--Sentinel.
-Messrs. o. d. Russell and H. B.
Robertson, of Pomeroy, are in the city
in the interest of the bicycle races tc
be held in that city July 4th.
E G. Mcclure, of Washington, Pa.
is in the city on business.
: Marshal James Parlin was at Park
ersburg Wednesday endeavoring to 10
cate the bicycle stolen recently from
Charles Hoist, this city. He was un
able to get any trace of the machine.
, Prof. nj. K. Andrews will go t,
Beallsville Saturday to address tn,
graduating class of the High School a
, that place.
| Mr.. Chris. Weinstock, an aged gen
= tleman living at Moss Run, thi
S county, fell out of bed few days ag'
and sustained fracture of the hi
joint.
v The petit jury for the May term o
n Common Pleas Court was discharge
o Wednesday.
The members of Elk Eye Encamr
j. ment, l. o. o. F., enjoyed delightful
u banquet Wednesday evening.
J. Mr.. Kent Loomis, the able nigh
|. editor of the Cincinnati Tribune Wi
t continue in that position after the con
). solidation of the Tribune and Con
IS mercial Gazette, which takes plaC
g next Monday. The Tribune plant wi
" be moved to the Commercial Gazett
building.
= Parasols-a beautiful line of cole
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