Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-03
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by Telegraph.
Ferdinand A. Brucker was nomin-
ated for congress by the democrats of
the Eighth Michigan congressional
district.
The Dupont Rouge dock, Havre, with
two warehouses containing cotton
and lard, were burned Tuesday. The
damage is 100000.
At Sanilac Center, Mich, while a
crew were threshing on the farm of
Herbert LOSING, the boiler exploded,
killing three men and severely injur-
ing two others.
Relay riders reached Omaha, Neb.,
at S:45 a. M, 3 hours and 35 minutes
behind schedule time, and made a II
miles in 80 minutes, the fastest on
the relay record, coming into Omaha. q
The turret battleships Navarian and
Imperator Alexander H., the torpedo
cruiser Pocadnik and two torpedo boat
destroyers, all belonging to the Rus
sian Cronstadt squadron, are on their
way to the Mediterranean.
1t was stated at the office of the
Union Trust Co., New York, Tuesday
morning that no funds have yet ar.
rived with which to pay the interest on
the Union Pacific extended eight per
cent. sinking fund bonds due Tuesday.
The 18th annual Toronto industrial
exhibition was inaugurated Tuesday
afternoon, the opening ceremonies be-
ing performed by Hon. A. s. Hardy,
premier of Ontario The exhibition
will last for two weeks and promises
to exceed in every respect all former
exhibitions.
A dispatch from Cumberland, Nd,
says: A thousand barrel day gusher
has been struck near Cairo, w. Va,
one mile from the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, by the Lubrick Oil Co., OF
Cairo. The oil spouted 20 feet above
the top of the derrick. The strike has
caused intense excitement.
The treasury official statement shows
that for August the deficit was SlO,.
139,5so and for the fiscal year to date
S23, los, 739. The receipts for August
were S25, 562, ,096 or SO, 100000 less than
for August, 1895. The expenditures
for August were S35, 7Ol, ,616 or S3,OOO,-
600 more than for August, 1895.
A dispatch from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz., to Harvard observa.
tory, announces the re-discovery by
DIR. Lee, of the companion to Sirius, in
position angle 219 degrees and distance
SO. This companion was first seen by
Alvan Clark in Cam bridgeport with the
telescope he had just completed for the
Chicago observatory in 1859.
A cable message from Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, announces the death in that
city on Monday night of Samuel E.
Bacon, president of the Bacon Manu-.
featuring Co., of Erie, Pa. Mr.. Bacon
was with party of American manu-.
facturers who have been investigating
trade conditions in South America.
His death was caused by gastric fever.
The National Kreigerbund at its
business session in Belleviile, Ill.,,
Tuesday, elected the following officers
President, Fritz Holle, of ST. Louis
vice president, A. Reinmann, of Little
Rock, Ark; secretary, julius Eggers,
of Chicago; treasurer, Louis Ertel, oi
Cincinnati Toledo, o., was chosen as
the next meeting place, the date to be
fixed by the executive committee.
The First national bank, the Oldest
institution of the kind in Beatrice
Neb., and supposed to be one of the
strongest in the state, voluntarily
closed its doors Tuesday afternoon inn
mediately following meeting of the
board of directors The capital stool,
Of the bank is 500, 900, and surplus and
undivided profits $780, The closing
of the bank carries with it the Bea
trice savings bank, state institu
ton.
New Hampshr Democratic Convention
CONCORD, n H., sept 2.-The demo
cratic state convention was called to