Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-12
MARIETTA DAILY LEADER
MONDAY. OCTOBER 2. ,aee
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

stopped Win stone ana RraVel anu one
or two lockages have been made. The
new middle gates will be completed
and put in place in week or ten days
and navigation may then be resumed
between the two rivers.
Three plain drunks were run in by
the police Saturday night and will
answer to the Mayor this morning.
The keystone State passed up with
good, trip at 10 a. m. Sunday and the
Virginia down at midnight.
n-TThere were two, lively scraps on
Front street Saturday evening, one at
Donnelly's restaurant and thea-other
near Weiser's furniture store. In the
latter three or four young men were
opposed to one, with the result that he
got somewhat the worst of it. No ar
rests were made, but all parties are ex-
pected to appear before Mayor Nielsen
helder today.
-Firstbaseman Shires and Catcher
Donahue, of the Marietta baseball
nine, left Saturday for their home at
Springfield,
BY invitation, Judge w. Ii. Leeper
will address the Mckinley Club at
Frost, Athens county, next Wednes-
day evening.
An intoxicated man named Peter
Murray, with scalp wound in the
back of his head, was picked up on
Ohio street by officer Posey Saturday
morning. He claimed to have been
knocked down and robbed Of s2S in the
night, but the police think he fell
against the curbstone while drunk.
Will Nelly, of Parkersburg, spent
Sunday in the city the guest of friends
The Washington G. H. nine and the
Shamrocks, of Cincinnati, are playing
ball for that babys rattle, "the champ
ionship of Ohio" If the Shamrocks
are equal to some Of the Cincinnati tai
ent tried by Marietta during the pas
season the games will be a great exhi
billion of how not to play ball.
Frank Schafer left over the c.
M. this morning, to take a ten days
outing among the hills of Fearing
township.
e. w. Jones left Saturday for Gin
cinnati to resume his duties on th'
government dredgeboat Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Bower, of Dex
ter City. were guests oyer Sunday o
Mr.. and Mrs. W. l. Bower,
The y. & o. r. is making arrange
ments to handle big crowd on DC,
22d, the occasion of the trip to Canton
Large numbers in the west end of tn
, county are preparing to go and tn
I. & o. G. E. will bring them into Ma
rietta on special train.
The Muskingum Farmers Clu
was entertained Saturday by DR.. an
Mrs. Willis, Fourth street. The mex
meeting will be held at the home c
Theo. Devol.
Mrs. f. S. Coleman and daughter
Cosie, left Saturday for Columbus.
I
, John Adams. of Wingett Run, Lndlo,
township, attempted suicide on Thur
day of last week, by cutting her throf
, with a razor. She cut terrible gas
in the throat, but fortunately cut int
r no arteries, hence the attempt did NJ
terminate fatally. The cause of Mr.
Adams's act was insanity. She hs
: been showing signs of derangemer
= for several months past. The lady
70 years of age and has for some tin
been in quite a feeble condition. 1t
thought that she will recover from hi
q self-inficted injury
Positively the last appearance
The Junior Club will meet Oct. 12t
but supper will be late.
William Belts, carpenter wi
came here from GAINESVILLE, was locke
= up by Marshal Parlin Sunday eyenir
on the charge of obtaining money
false pretense. He gave George Bul
n check on the First National Bank f
s5. co. When arrested he acknowledg,
that he had never had any money {
y deposit in that bank. Belts has BET
20 guilty of the same offerse before,
y warrant for his arrest on simil
4. charge having been sent here fro
GAINESVILLE, but he was not arrested
he made good the money secured
that city.
, b & o. S. w. trains were delay,
several hours Sunday evening by
freight wreck at Blanchester.
--Messrs. Thos. Sugden, Bert w
liams, John Steadman and Hen
Strecker will leave this morning +
Dayton, to look after arrangements
: the Sir Knights Of Marietta comman
cry No. 80 during the State Concla
this week. 'll oiA
-Messrs. Walton Parker. j.