Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-31
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Authority has been granted for the
organ zation of the National Bank of
Seneca, Kansas. Capital $50 900.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
town of Stirling, Scotland. the seat of
the palace and parliament house, built
ov James ", the sum of $4,000 for a
public library building
The University of California is to be-
come one of the famous universities of
the world. AT any rate it is to have,
ii designs are carried out, one of the
finest pile of buildings on the globe,
and these brilliant schemes are to be
put into effect at once.
A number of residents of Guanaba-
Goa, including several ladies, who, it is
alleged, are implicated in the introduc-
tion in the island of mira band of
war in American condensed milk cans,
have been arrested aud ordered to the
Casa Recojidas to await trial
Augusta Mack and Martin Thorn,
accused of the murder of William
Guldensuppe, were arraigned to plead
in the court of general sessions Thurs
day. They both entered the plea of
not guilty, and were remanded to the
tom los pending the fixing OF a date for
their trial
Touching the statement that John
L. Waller is going to London to cX-
plot his concession from the Madagas.
can government upon "A decision of the
state department as to its validity, it
is learned that the department has not
up to this time undertaken to pass up'
on the matter.
The Peoria strawboard mill, which
has been running night and day since
it started 4 few months ago after five
year shut down, was forced to close
Thursday morning for lack of coal.
This throws l50 men out of employ
meut and raises the total of those in
idleuess here because of the strike to
l,5oO.
Jacob Gottlieb, OF the Columbia the
ater, San Francisco, knows nothing,
he says, of the combination said tc
have been effected in New York em'
bracing a circuit of theaters from New
York to San Francisco with the Co.
lum bia theater at the San Francisco
Gnu anu w bC hllo" II IAlI BCPA .
| price circuit"
| The President and Mrs. Mckinley
occupy a suite of seven rooms on the
second floor in the southwest corner OF
the Hotel Champlain annex, Platts'
! burgh, " y, connected with the main
builling by corridors The rooms are
the finest in the house and have been
especially finished and furnished in
elegant style and taste.
At meeting of the ambassadors
Thursday the indemnity clause in u
form satisfying the views of Germany
was agreed upon. 1t now awaits the
approval of the respective foreign
officers Another meeting will be
held on Saturday, when SO far as the
ambassadors are concerned the ne
gotiations will be conc.uied.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Panama says: Telegraphic au-
vices from Medellin say that Charles
Radford, of Ala bama, has been tried
on an appeal and found guilty there
of murder in the first degree for kill
ing Charles A Simmonds, prominent
merchant of Cali. Radford will in all
proba bility be sentenced to death.
The New York Herald correspond
ent with the Cuban army writes that
he recently witnessed the blowing up
Of train with body of soliiers
while crossing bridge. This explo-
sion was merely an experiment. From
the insurgents standpoint, it was
highly successful The train was
wrecked and several soldiers were
killed.
The mystery that for nearly year
has clouded the ;ate Of Chas. Wells
and Geo. L. Jones. the two missing
mem uers of the Calvert exploring eX-
pedition in West Australia, Is now
cleared up by advices received from
| Sydney. L. a. Wells, leader of the
search party, recently found the bodies
| o; the twO men near Joanna springs,
| in the heart of desert. The two
men missed the trail in Novemb Der,
| lsgC, and failed to meet the main body
of the expedition. They died of thirs.
aud starvation.