Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-31
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of tho Globe b,
Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of tho Globe by
Telegraph.
Joseph Barbot, the French tenor,
died in Paris. He was born in 1924
Halanzier- Dufresnoy, formerly direc-
tor of the Paris opera, is dead. He
was born in 1910.
Hon. Edward Avery, for many years
a prominent democrat in state politics,
died Tuesday morning in Boston.
Isaac Prayer s. Sons, extensive re-
tail dry goods dealers of Parkersburg,
w. Va, have made an assignment As
sets and liabilities are estimated at
s100, 900.
The President Tuesday amended
the civil service rules so as to include
In this service all employees of govern
ment penitentiaries in theUnited States
which are subject to classification.
John Pagan, a wealthy citizen of
Yonkers, N. ", committed suicide
Tuesday morning by shooting him
self. He was a prominent leader of
the prohibition party in West Chester
county.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, the Bankers
Exchange bank suspended payment
Wednesday. 1t is small concern and
its officers claim that they have money
enough to pay every depositor and
stockholder
When the protocol is signed by Sir
Julian Pauncefote and Senior Andrade,
the representatives of Great Britain
and Venezuela, diplomatic relations
haf Nana1nn1n ur,A Grnof p,it In,
will be again resumed.
A special from Galveston, Tex,
states that 1000 or more persons in
that city are suffering from la grippe,
which has been epidemic for nearly
two weeks. Every physician in the
city is overrun with patients, and drug
gists are busy night and day filing
prescriptions
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, has left
Washington for his state to look after
his interests in the coming senatorial
election. An interesting fact connect
ed with the departure of Senator
Dubois is said to be that he will have
the support of the democratic party in
his fight for reelection.
At the state department it is de-
clared that there has been no substan-
tial alteration whatever in the inter-
national aspect of the Cuban question
since President Cleveland wrote his
reference to the matter in his annual
message of December. Z. 1t is believed
the death Of Maceo may have simpli-
fed the problem.
The run on the Farmers and Me-
chanics' bank, at Minneapolis, con-
tinues Wednesday morning. The
bank has taken advantage of
the rule which enables it to de-
mand 60 days notice before paying a
depositor. There is also slight run
on the Henncpin County saving bank.
1t has deposits of 81, 2oO,O
The Commercial bank of Selma, Ala.
IA state institution) failed to open its
doors Wednesday morning and soon
afterwards it was announced that it
had assigned, The local depositors
agreed to an extension, but it is under
stood that several New York banks,
which were creditors in large sums,
would not agree and hence the assign
ment.
ing association Wednesday made ap
plication for the appointment of a re.
ceiver for the Northern Trust Co. o.
Minneapolis, Mimi, alleging that II ;-
insolvent. The matter was put over
until january Z, but the court issued
an order restraining the defendant
from paying out any more money be.
fore that time.
A severe famine is reported from west
ern China. 1t is particularly severe in
the city of Chauntung, in Szecheun
province, where there has been a pro-
longed rain, causing foods which have
spread over vast areas of country, de-
stroying almost the entire rice and
vegetable crops The inhabitants are
dying by scores from starvation, and
to add to the horror of it, large por
ton of the city situated on bluff al
a bend of the Kinsha river was carried
under the flood by a landslide, and
about 5000 of the starving Chinese
were drowned.